Past events
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…
ANU Aboriginal heritage trail guided tour
Activity
APOLOGIES BUT THIS EVENT HAS NOW SOLD OUT Help us launch the new Acton Aboriginal Heritage Trail, with a guided tour of the campus. Supported by an ACT Heritage Grant, this new trail explores the Aboriginal significance of the University site. Hear first-hand the importance of Sullivan’s Creek,…
Culture & Infrastructure: New Ethnographic Projects in Indonesia & Beyond
Conference
Ahmad Sadali, Gunungan Emas (The Golden Mountain), 1980. Oil, wood, canvas. Infrastructures are essential to the everyday workings of contemporary societies in Asia and the Pacific and to their articulation with globalizing forces. Yet most analyses overlook the profoundly cultural…
Social patterns of mortality: A window on the world we live in
Lecture
Mortality is a social phenomenon, a measure and reflection of the deaths, and survival, of millions of people. Over the past 200 years or so, mortality has dramatically declined, probably for the first time in human history. The historical experience has been varied, with, in some cases, 50…