Past events
Conversations across the creek #2
Other
Sullivan's Creek flows through our national university, separating disciplines: sciences on one bank, humanities and social sciences on the other. Or so it would seem. Join us for the second Conversations, where four exciting scholars 'cross the creek', communicating their latest research to peers…
Islam and violent jihad: Western policy responses
Lecture/seminar
Presented by ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences and ANU College of Asia & the Pacific Emerging from the failure of certain states in the Middle East, such as Syria, Iraq, Libya and Yemen, renewed authoritarian entrenchment after the disappointments of the Arab Spring…
Art Forum: Heidi Lefebvre
Lecture
Heidi Lefebvre is an alumni of the School of Art, Printmedia and Drawing workshop. Her artistic practice centres around drawing, through which she explores comedy and unexpected narratives. Heidi has exhibited widely, been on residencies and has a CV. She has sold her drawings for actual money.…
The Middle East: an arena of turbulent change and transition
Lecture/seminar
The 2011 “Arab Spring” defied dominant Western and theoretical assumptions that the Arab Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is incapable of achieving political change through popular uprisings. The case of Tunisia with its pro-democratic trajectory, as shaky as it…
ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Sarah Ferguson
Book launch
Australians came to the ABC's 2015 TV series The Killing Season in their droves, their fascination with the Rudd-Gillard struggle as unfinished as the saga itself. This book takes readers behind the scenes with new on-the-record material and telling insights into the…
DEADPAN
Exhibition
Heidi Lefebvre Reception: 29 April 2016 10:00am Duration: Tuesday, April 19, 2016 - 10:30 - Saturday, April 30, 2016 - 17:00 Deadpan is an exhibition of drawings responding to humanities absurd notions of self- importance. The seriousness of our destructive influence on the world and our adherence…
Book launch: Experiments in self-determination
Book launch
Outstations, which dramatically increased in numbers in the 1970s, are small, decentralised and relatively permanent communities of kin established by Aboriginal people on land that has social, cultural or economic significance to them. In 2015 they yet again came under attack, this time as an…