Past events
Beside Balawan
Exhibition
Works by participants in the 2016 Environment Studio Balawan Elective Reception: 11 August 2016 6:00pm Duration: Friday, August 12, 2016 - 10:30 - Saturday, August 20, 2016 - 17:00 Location: School of Art Foyer Gallery To be opened by Mr John Blay The Bundian Way is an ancient shared history…
Reading Across Borders - Spanish Crime Writer Víctor del Árbol
Lecture
Join us for a conversation with this award-winning author from Barcelona, followed by a Q&A. A public event in English from the Reading Across Borders public lecture series. Lilit Thwaites (La Trobe Univeristy) will lead the conversation with Víctor, and Consuelo Martínez Reyes (Australian…
Ethnic statistics and racial politics in Britain from Enoch Powell to Big Data
Seminar
This paper explores how state statistics in Britain transformed migrants into ethnic categories during the 1960s and 1970s, and who these were powerfully shaped by a series of interventions by Enoch Powell that racialized the children of immigrants from the 'New Commonwealth'. The standardization…
ANU/Canberra Times meet the author event with Ashleigh Wilson
Book launch
Ashleigh Wilson will be in conversation with Sasha Grishin on Wilson's new book, Brett Whiteley: Art, Life and The Other Thing. Written with unprecedented behind-the-scenes access, and handsomely illustrated with classic Whiteley artworks, rare notebook sketches and…
2016 John Passmore Lecture: Changing Visions of an Egalitarian Society
Lecture/seminar
Image: Lamartine in front of the Town Hall of Paris rejects the red flag on 25 February 1848 by Henri Felix Emmanuel Philippoteaux The 2016 John Passmore Lecture for the ANU School of Philosophy By Professor Elizabeth Anderson Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, John Dewey Distinguished University…
John Passmore Lecture: Changing Visions of an Egalitarian Society
Lecture
Professor Elizabeth Anderson Arthur F. Thurnau Professor, John Dewey Distinguished University Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at the University of Michigan Abstract: How should a society of equals be organized? Egalitarians themselves have been divided among three visions:…
ANU in New Zealand
Advisory session
The Australian National University will be in New Zealand from Tuesday 2nd August to Friday 5th August 2016. Come and meet our representatives to chat face-to-face about: Your choice of study options at ANU. Programs and courses available to you. Our admissions process. Our broad range of…