Past events
Antikythera-Aegila: Ancient naval base and pirates' lair
Lecture
Join archaeologist Aris Georgios Tsaravopoulos discuss the excavations his team performs on the fortified island of Antikytheria, Greece. He'll talk about island's role as a Persian naval base, pirates' lair and the 'Antikytera shipwreck' in the vortex of the Roman-Cretan war. Aris was a chemcial…
Magna Carta: How relevant to Australia and Human Rights?
Lecture
Alice Tay Lecture in Law and Human Rights To commemorate the sealing of Magna Carta 800 years ago, Professor Gillian Triggs, President of the Australian Human Rights Commission, will address the state of human rights in Australia. This lecture will be chaired by Dr Helen Watchirs OAM, ACT Advocate…
Fonds Pacifique Water Governance project: participatory methods training workshop
Workshop
A one-day methods training workshop will be held in ANU Centre for European Studies on the 9th of June 2015. The workshop will introduce a range of participatory tools and how they can be used by people involved in water governance and natural resources management including government officials…
The Montage of McOndo
Seminar
Presented as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series Alberto Fuguet and Sergio Gómez, the editors of McOndo (1996), a Pan-Hispanic short-story anthology, challenged Magic Realism’s largely illegitimate stronghold over the representation of Latin America and posited their own McOndo, the…
From hummingbirds to shiraz: Paraguayan literature from an Australian perspective
Lecture
Australia has a presence in Paraguayan history and culture. Australian Utopia-seekers founded two colonies in Paraguay at the end of the nineteenth century. One of their descendants became Paraguay's outstanding anthropologist. Drawing upon these connections, this lecture establishes unexpected…
‘The man who isn’t there’: André Gide as travel companion in Robert Dessaix’s Arabesques
Seminar
Presented as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper looks at the characterisation of André Gide as travel companion in Robert Dessaix’s 2008 text Arabesques. The Australian writer journeys around North Africa and Europe in the footsteps of—but also, crucially, accompanied…
2/2015: Visual Arts Graduate Season | EXHIBITION ONE
Exhibition
Reception: 03 June 2015 6:00pm Cathy Franzi | Doctor of Philosophy | Ceramics Ian Jones | Doctor of Philosophy | Art History and Art Theory This series of exhibitions brings together the work of students completing their studies in the Graduate research program at the ANU School of Art. The work…