Past events
Modelling the figure: five decades of French sculpture
Lecture
Lucina Ward, Curator, International Painting and Sculpture at the NGA, gives a free talk exploring representations of the figure by Rodin, Bourdelle, Lachaise and Maillol from the 1880s to 1940s. Following the program crêpes and mulled wine will be served in Gandel Hall. Program will…
Repetition in Homeric epic: cognitive and linguistic perspectives
Seminar
The Centre for Classical Studies warmly invites you to attend the next talk in our Seminar Series for Semester 2. After the talk in the Milgate Room, we shall continue discussion in the ANU Classics Museum over light refreshments. ‘Why are there so many instances - and so many varieties – of…
ANIP Information Session
Advisory session
ANIP 2016 Information Session If you would like to find out more about developing your academic and career skills through a professional experience in a workplace, the Australian National Internships Program (ANIP) will be holding an information session where you can talk to staff.
Currency of a different species: The political economy of glory in Eighteenth-Century France
Seminar
What is it with the French and glory? How is it possible that Napoléon could believe that he could found his political legitimacy upon it? Robert Morrissey will discuss the concept of glory and how the French used it to bridge the revolutionary division between the Old Regime and the new Republic.
Mingus, Monk & More: Friends of the School of Music fund-raising jazz concert
Entertainment
Bookings are now open for the Friends of the School of Music fund-raising jazz concert, Mingus, Monk & More. The format will be similar to last year, with a cabaret feel and cash bar in the room. There will be tables at the front for the first 30-35 bookings, with numbered allocated seating…
Lunchbox: David Worrall
Entertainment
A wonderful way to spend your lunchtime break, don’t miss our FREE Lunchbox performances in Semester Two! Thursday, 27 August features a special performance with our Distinguished Artist in Residence for 2015 - Dr David Worrall. David Worrall (b. 1954, Australia) is Adjunct Senior Research…
Repertoire as intertext: The review, Shakespeare, and celebrity in the case of Cathcart vs. Brooke (1855)
Seminar
Presented as part of the SLLL LSSS seminar series. In 1855 a sensational contractual dispute between actor Fanny Cathcart and actor manager Gustavas Vaughan Brooke hit the Melbourne press. After playing opposite Brooke during the first six months of his Australia tour, Cathcart took up an offer…