Past events
Intergenerational consequences of military service: Impacts of the Vietnam War on mental health and relationships of adult offspring
Seminar
The effects of military deployment on the mental health of veterans have been investigated extensively, but relatively few studies had examined how it affects their children. In this study, we investigate the long-term, intergenerational effects of parental deployment by studying mental health and…
PhD Candidates Forum
Other
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences Professor Rae Frances, Deaninvites you to thePhD Candidates Forum Register by 27 October 2017 via EventBrite Frequently Asked Questions What is the PhD Candidates Forum? This is an opportunity for you to meet the new CASS Dean and discuss matters of…
Book launch: Spanish Clitics on the Move, Elisabeth Mayer
Book launch
Please join us in launching Elisabeth Mayer's new book Spanish Clitics on the Move: Variation in Time and Space (De Gruyter Mouton). This volume explores the complex relationship between primary agreement by means of object marking or differential object marking (DOM), and secondary…
Aboriginal History Journal: 40 years of publication
Exhibition
Join past, present and future contributors, readers, friends and editors of Aboriginal History journal to celebrate 40 years of publication. Please register for catering purposes. Speakers include John Maynard, Shino Konishi, Frances Peters-Little, Lyndall Ryan, Jeremy Beckett, Peter Read, Emma…
Film screening - "Feeling Piazzolla"
Other
The Embassy of Argentina and the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies proudly present "Feeling Piazzolla", the first documentary that is entirely dedicated to the legendary Argentine composer and musician Astor Piazzolla dubbed ‘tango revolutionary’. “Feeling Piazzolla”…
The Constitutionality of the Catalan Referendum and the Potential Impact of Secession on the EU
Lecture
The Catalan independence process was first ushered in by the adoption of a Parliamentary resolution in January 2013, asserting the right of self-determination of the Catalan nation. Ever since, the various attempts made by the Catalan authorities towards independence have met fierce resistance…
Struggling for Words in Mao's China: Political Campaign and Literary Exchange in the Hundred Flowers Campaign, 1956-1957
Seminar
How should we understand the relationship between literature and politics of the Mao era? To date, research on this question have been driven by the Party catch-phrase of “literature and art serve politics” 文藝為政治服務 and the underlying assumption that politics and literature are two separable…