Past events
I hope you get this: Raquel Ormella
Exhibition
I hope you get this: Raquel Ormella A NETS Victoria and Shepparton Art Museum touring exhibition I hope you get this: Raquel Ormella brings together a selection of new and recent work by one of Australia’s leading contemporary artists. The exhibition includes a wide variety of media, and…
Arborescent: Drawings by Elizabeth Cross
Exhibition
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. This exhibition consists of twenty drawings of trees – they are for the most part denuded of foliage and it is their nervy, sinuous, gesticulating grace…
Works That Shaped The World 2019: The (Lost) Works of Pythagoras
Lecture
The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Centre present Works That Shaped The World; a series of talks exploring humankind's great achievements and astonishing creations. Marking the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing in 1969, the inaugural 2019 series explores the…
Conversations Across the Creek | Indigenous Australian Genomics and Pharmacogenetics: Health, Privacy and Relevance
Seminar
Conversations Across the Creek is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Research School of Chemistry (RSC) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the aim of stimulating and…
On Biography
Seminar
With an ear for story and talent for a good yarn FitzSimons’ particular brand brings stories to life so that we are not merely sitting around the campfire listening to a tale but are in the trenches feeling the fear, deadly bullets so close as to sound like fast moving mosquito. What did they do…
ANU African Studies Reading Group - Elections & Gender in Kenya
Seminar
The ANU African Studies Reading Group focuses on elections and gender in Kenya this month, welcoming Dr. Christina Kenny from the University of New England. Dr Kenny will lead a discussion based on several of her publications, "’She Grows to be Just a Woman, not a Leader’: Gendered Citizenship and…
Modern Britain in Crisis
Seminar
This paper provides an overview of my current research project- a book-length study of modern Britain in crisis. The paper begins with a brief definition of the term crisis. It then presents the argument that Britain has suffered from a chronic and interlinked set of crises – political, socio-…