Past events
Colombian film screening - CAZANDO LUCIÉRNAGAS / Chasing Fireflies
Other
The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies at ANU and the Embassy of Colombia present the screening: CAZANDO LUCIÉRNAGAS / Chasing Fireflies 6:30pm Thursday 30 March Leonard Huxley Theatre, Lvl 2, Leonard Huxley Bldng #56, Mills Rd, ANU GENRE / GÉNERO …
ANU School of Art & Design Public Lecture: Tony Ayres
Lecture
Tony Ayres is an executive producer, showrunner, writer and director. Tony is the EP of Glitch (winner 2015 AACTA and Logie for Best Drama Series), The Family Law, Wanted, and Nowhere Boys s2 which won the 2015 International Emmy. As well, he has produced Nowhere Boys s1, and Barracuda. He also…
Live reading of Homer’s The Odyssey for Odyssey 24 international performance
Activity
Join the only Australian university – and one of four groups in the southern hemisphere – participating in 'Odyssey 24', an international reading of Homer’s epic 'The Odyssey' across 24 hours, for the European Festival of Latin and Greek. Students from The ANU Centre for Classical Studies will…
CASS Professorial Lecture: Evidence, absence and the beautiful failures of photography
Lecture
Please join us for the College of Arts and Social Sciences Inaugural Professorial Lecture Series. In this lecture we welcome Professor Denise Ferris from the School of Art and Design. While photographs can be documents of reality as images translated from the world, they also carry ideas beyond…
How Teeth Shed Light on Our Evolutionary Past
Seminar
Teeth are some of the best preserved and most commonly-recovered elements in human fossil assemblages, leading to more than a century of comparative studies of tooth size and shape. Dental tissues also preserve remarkably faithful records of their development through time, represented by…
The backward looking curiosity: the history of archaeology and us
Lecture
To understand the history of archaeology is one way to understand ourselves. Brian Fagan explores the history of archaeology from its beginnings in epic searches for fossil ancestors and lost civilizations, to its maturity as a global, multidisciplinary science, with roots in the humanities…
Burial Rites: Mortuary Practices of the Prehistoric Cultures of Coastal Northern Chile
Lecture
Note: This lecture will contain images of human remains The world's oldest artificial mummies are found along the desert coast of Chile. The Chinchorro were hunter/fishers who lived on the coast of northern Chile and southern Peru from 9,000 to 4,000 years ago. During that period they…