Past events
2019 Allan Martin Lecture: Trump's Republic: an American History - David Farber
Lecture
Proponents of “American exceptionalism,” from Thomas Jefferson to Dick Cheney, have argued that the United States is an “empire of liberty,” a nation uniquely dedicated “to the preservation and progress of freedom.” Donald Trump, for better and most certainly for worse, has stripped away this sort…
ELEMENTARY PERSIAN II - SHORT COURSE
Continuing education
CAIS is offering a five-week course in Elementary Persian II. Elementary Persian II aims at improving the students’ ability to read, write and speak Modern Standard Persian. They will also have the opportunity to acquire post-elementary conversation skills to interact in routine aspects of everyday…
‘A shock through the system’: Histories of crisis in Australian child refugee policy
Seminar
This paper will explore how ‘crises’ around refugee and asylum-seeking children have been repeatedly produced and mobilised as an art and technique of government in Australia since 2001. Described by policy makers as ‘shocks,’ ‘jolts’ and ‘circuit breakers’, these moments and discourses of crisis…
Kabul 2018: twenty-five responses to 'crisis'
Seminar
Afghanistan is often largely forgotten now that international geo-strategic attention has moved elsewhere, but 2018 saw some of the highest incidences of terror attacks since 2001 in the capital Kabul, a city of up to seven million people. By anyone’s definition that would seem to represent a…
CASS Honours Information Seminar
Information session
An Honours year at ANU can provide you with the skills and preparation to bridge the gap between undergraduate and postdoctoral studies or to secure your dream job. This extra year of full-time study includes coursework, seminars and a research thesis focusing on one of your majors. Our…
Books that Changed Humanity: The History of the Peloponnesian War (Thucydides)
Seminar
Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way we understand ourselves both…
Drill Hall Gallery Friends Night
Other
Elizabeth Cross is better known as an art historian and curator, but she has nurtured her remarkable talent for drawing out of the public eye. her exhibition Arborescent at the Drill Hall Gallery consists of twenty drawings of trees – they are for the most part denuded of foliage and it is their…