Past events
Canberra MBA and Postgrad Expo
Advisory session
ANU is one of the world's leading universities and Australia's best for graduate employability* Discover the exciting range of professionally focused postgraduate degrees available for study at the ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences and see where a postgraduate qualification can take…
What's in a Language?
Activity
This event gives year 10 students from the ACT the opportunity to come onto campus to get an engaging, interactive and first-hand taste of university language studies. The day will feature both short presentations from our leading experts in languages and interactive language activities. The full…
Palestine today: Citizen or exile?
Lecture
In her latest book, 'Return: A Palestinian Memoir', Dr Ghada Karmi has written a passionate exploration of belonging. Having grown up in Britain following exile from Palestine in 1948, doctor, author and academic Ghada Karmi returns to her homeland eager to help with the peace process and the…
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.