Past events
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,…
Reading Between the Lines: Katherine Routledge’s Field Notes and Rapanui Identity
Lecture
The 2016 Jack Golson Lecture Presented by the School of Archaeology & Anthropology The impressive ensemble of monolithic stone sculpture and megalithic architecture on Rapa Nui (Easter Island) constitutes a unique coastal landscape. As central places and integral features…
San Lazaro
Entertainment
A heavy night of Latin vibes as Melbourne's San Lazaro launch their album "La Despedida" SATURDAY 22nd OCTOBER @ 8pm at the ANU Bar It's a tropical night. You hear the sound of congas and bongos, brass sections and chorus vocals. It's a toe-tapping hip-rolling mambo and that cowbell is ringing…
CAR Seminar series
Lecture
A Country for Old Men: Lifeways of the last Neanderthals and first AMH in the Southeastern Prepyrenees (Lleida, Spain). The how, the where and the when of Neanderthals’ demise and AMH’s appearance in the archaeological record of Southern Europe is a hot topic in Palaeolithic and…
Literature and Politics: A Public Lecture by H C Coombs Fellow Amanda Lohrey
Lecture
H.C. Coombs Fellow Amanda Lohrey will talk about whether fiction can make an effective political intervention. If the novel comes after the event and is a chronicle of, or argument with, a political event, does that mean that fiction is unable to shape such occurrences? Could fiction have a…