Past events
William Zappa’s Iliad–the second instalment!
Activity
Early in 2015 the ANU Classical Society organized a very successful evening featuring the Australian actor, playwright and director, William Zappa, who introduced a large audience to his work-in-progress: an adaptation of the Iliad that lends itself to performance—and that brings a poetic rhythm…
Envisioning the world: history, literature and the Fulbright
Lecture/seminar
Jointly hosted by the Humanities Research Centre and the Fulbright Commission, this public lecture will feature Dr Kotlowksi and Dr Ratti explaining how their research projects were boosted by the Fulbright scholarships. Dr Dean Kotlowski will discuss how the commission helped him place…
Mozart in three cities: concert two
Entertainment
Join us for the second instalment of the popular University House series co-presented by the ANU School of Music. Dr. Erin Helyard and Skye McIntosh showcase the beautiful and rare instruments of the ANU's Historical Keyboard Collection through featuring violin and fortepiano music centred around…
A post-industrial mindscape? Industrial heritage in the Ruhr and regional identity
Seminar
The representation of regional identity in Germany’s Ruhr region is predominantly based on industrial heritage. Since the 1960s, in the course of its ongoing transition from heavy industry to a post-industrial landscape, the Ruhr has experienced a movement to preserve the historical objects…
In a wider focus
Entertainment
Reception: 29 July 2015 6:00pm My art is characterised. I pictorially pose the viewer with a list of unanswered questions (or at least the possibility of questions) and yet find the viewer poses their own. The world I point to is one that speaks of my Chinese origins and my current home in…
Faculty & friends: Erin Helyard plays Clementi
Entertainment
Dr. Helyard performs one of Clementi's greatest late masterpieces, his Op. 50 No. 3, subtitled "DIdone Abbandonata"; this may well be a reference to Metastasio’s libretto of that name, set by a number of eighteenth-century composers. This is the story, set here by Clementi without words, of Dido…
Palestinian statehood and going to the ICC
Lecture
The Palestinian decision to go before the International Criminal Court and charge Israel with war crimes has implications that go beyond Palestine-Israel conflict. The decision to bring Israel before the ICC brings to the forefront the question whether or not international criminal law will be…