Past events
DAY OF THE DEAD FIESTA
Entertainment
The 5th annual DAY OF THE DEAD FIESTA hosted by Los Chavos! Day of the Dead Fiesta Saturday November 5th 3pm - 11:30pm Ainslie Arts Centre, Elouera Street, Braddon Tickets available now (EventBrite) A community celebration of Afro-Latin music and culture with live bands + interstate guests, DJs,…
CAR Seminar series - Tropical Forest Foragers and Rice Farmers: the Borneo case, Historical Perspectives, and Suggestions about Prehistory
Lecture
Dr. Bernard Sellato Tropical Forest Foragers and Rice Farmers: the Borneo case, Historical Perspectives, and Suggestions about Prehistory. Nomadic hunter-gatherers, Punan and Penan, live/d in small scattered bands in Borneo’s tropical forests. Contrasting with others regions, these forests offer…
Blood Oil - Professor Leif Wenar
Lecture
Natural resources are the biggest source of unaccountable power in the world. Autocrats like Putin and the Saudis spend oil money on weapons and repression. ISIS and the Congo’s militias spend resource money on atrocities and ammunition. For decades resource-fueled…
International Education Agents - Training Webinar
Workshop
Missed our International Agent Webinar? You can still log on and view our training webinar on programs offered by the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences. During this session you will discover the exciting range of undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences…
Public Knowledge Symposium: Generating and Assessing Research with Impact
Symposium
Understanding research impact is now a priority for scholars in Australian universities, since the Australian Research Council is now committed to assessing the effects of university research in the pubic arena. What will the assessment of research impact look like? And how might researchers…
Book launch: Medievalist Comics and the American Century
Book launch
The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, the period Republican Party Presidential nominee Donald Trump refers to when he talks about making "America great again". This era is defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the value of…
CAR Seminar series - Fieldnotes and the Easter Island Statue Project (EISP)
Lecture
Katherine Routledge’s Fieldnotes and the Easter Island Statue Project (EISP): The Importance of Reconstructing Excavations and Recovering Records. Early Easter Island reconnaissance and surface survey by several individuals or institutions was undertaken without the benefit of modern methods but,…