Past events
Fixing the System - a conversation
Lecture
Dr Chris Wallace and Prof. Anne Tiernan, in conversation with Katharine Murphy, discuss Griffith Review #51: Fixing the System, about how although Australia has never been richer and its people better educated, many perceive that its systems and institutions are broken. Presented by Griffith…
Eat, drink and be literary with Anna Funder
Lecture
Anna Funder is one of Australia's most acclaimed and awarded writers. Her 2012 debut novel All That I Am won the Miles Franklin Prize and many others including the Indie Book of the Year and the Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Book of the Year. Based on real people and events,…
Metropolis and memory: Constructing cosmopolitanisms in Lisa Lang’s Utopian Man (2010)
Seminar
Presented as part of the 2016 SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper examines Lisa Lang’s award-winning Australian novel Utopian Man (2010), which reimagines E.W. Cole and his famous Book Arcade in Melbourne in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Running in its central Melbourne…
The Gaza freedom flotillas: Sailboats, lawsuits and struggle for justice in Palestine
Lecture
Ann Wright will discuss Gaza and the 2015 Gaza Freedom Flotilla, the 2016 Women's Boat to Gaza, and the two lawsuits in US courts concerning the 2010 Gaza Flotilla. She also will address the effects of the Israeli military's attacks on Gaza in 2014 and 2009 through discussion of Dr Mads Gilbert's…
Travels into America’s Nature and History
Seminar
Presented by the ANU School of History, this seminar by environmental historian of the United States, Christof Mauch, introduces his project ‘Travels into America’s Nature and History’, which focuses on ten different places in the United States. Mauch zooms in and out of these places and…
Vice-Chancellor's College Visiting Artist Fellows Scheme (VCCAFS)
Entertainment
Reception: 16 February 2016 6:00pm Duration: Wednesday, February 17, 2016 - 12:00 - Saturday, February 27, 2016 - 17:00 Location: School of Art Main Gallery To be opened by Professor Brian P Schmidt AC, ANU Vice-Chancellor Supported by funding from the Vice-Chancellor, this innovative five year…
1/2016: Visual Arts Graduate Season
Entertainment
Exhibition One Reception: 12 February 2016 6:00pm Duration: Saturday, February 13, 2016 - 12:00 - Friday, February 26, 2016 - 17:00 Location: School of Art Main Gallery Kevin Malloy | Painting | Doctor of Philosophy I consider representational painting to be a visual and material dialectic. The…