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Apr
2017

ANU School of Art & Design Ruby Ball

Entertainment

This is no April Fools: the ANU School of Art and Design is celebrating our 40th Anniversary and for that, we need to party!  Whether you know it as Canberra School of Art, Canberra Institute of the Arts, National Institute of the Arts, or ANU School of Art & Design, your favourite art…

30
Mar
2017

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        …

30
Mar
2017

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…

24
Mar
2017

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…

22
Mar
2017

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…

16
Mar
2017

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…

15
Mar
2017

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…