Past events
Noted Festival: Cold Like Concrete
Exhibition
Cold Like Concrete Reception: 15 March 2016 6:00pm Duration: Wednesday, March 16, 2016 - 10:30 - Sunday, March 20, 2016 - 17:00 Location: School of Art, Foyer Gallery The rhythms of poetry, narrative-based construction and oblique autobiography (the literary word) – labours to distort the visual…
New Encounters international conference
Conference
Image: en:Nambassa Trust and Peter Terry/Wikimedia Commons www.nambassa.com New Encounters is an upcoming international conference at the National Museum of Australia. It explores how Indigenous communities and museums around the world are re-thinking their relationships with…
An Iranian perspective on resolving crisis in the Middle East
Lecture/seminar
WE REGRET THAT THIS EVENT IS NOW FULLY BOOKED AND WE ARE UNABLE TO TAKE ANY FURTHER BOOKINGS. Iran is playing an increasingly important role in combating terrorism and working for peace and security in the Middle East. In his only public address in Canberra, Iran's Foreign Minister, Mohammad…
Russia's stand off with the West: Cold War versus now
Lecture/seminar
Paul Dibb will draw on his 20 year experience in the Cold War in Australia’s intelligence and academic communities as an expert on the Soviet Union. He will compare the points of acute tension then and now in relationships between the Soviet Union/Russia and the West, focusing on such issues as:…
Harry Rigby Seminar Series. How does the current Russian Standoff with the West compare with the Cold War in the 1970s and in the 1980s?
Lecture
Paul Dibb is Emeritus Professor of strategic studies in the ANU College of Asia and the Pacific, where he was Head of the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre from 1991 to 2004. During the Cold War, as Head of the National Assessments Staff in the 1970s, he was responsible for drafting Australia’…
Fulbright Seminar: American Indians in the American Cultural Imagination
Seminar
The Australian Centre for Indigenous History and ANU School of History present a special Fulbright seminar by Professor Philip Deloria. Americans are often willing to concede a debt to African American cultural traditions in music, dance, language, foodways. Less visible have been the ways that…
Exploring fertility of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians
Seminar
The number of Australians identifying as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples (Indigenous) has increased substantially over the most recent censuses, exceeding intercensal population estimates. Among the contributors to the unexpected population growth is relatively high fertility rates…