Past events
Art forum- visiting artist: Dana Chodzko
Lecture
Dana Chodzko is an international artist living in the high desert of Abiquiu, New Mexico. Her work manifests as visual language in interdisciplinary media. Ideas are conveyed through symbolic forms and words, reflecting society, politics, culture, philosophy, and the environment. Chodzko’s mixed…
How a photograph from Wagga changed British law
Seminar
The Humanities Research Centre presents a free public seminar on the celebrated Tichborne legal affair (1867-1874). The case centred on a butcher from Wagga Wagga, Australia, who claimed to be the long-lost baronet, heir to an English estate. His trial in London to claim his inheritance…
Understanding the Euro crisis: the new economic governance of the Eurozone
Seminar
The EU and its system of economic governance has changed between 2010 and 2015. Since the beginning of the crisis a comprehensive revision and extension of the Stability and Growth Pact has been introduced. On the international level the Euro-Plus Pact and the Fiscal Compact Treaty were adopted…
The desert and the aea
Exhibition
The desert and the sea: The point between two places In New Mexico where the earth meets the sky, the horizon gracefully reclines and the earth pulls like a magnet. My memory of the sea presses me to the sand - extraordinary, ordinary rocks, each its own strong character. The arc of a wave…
CASS Malaysia Alumni Engagement
Alumni engagement
The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) is proud of our relationships and connections with key partners in Malaysia. We are keen to strengthen links with our alumni in Malaysia and to highlight developments in our research and education programs. Engaging with our Alumni is the…
Getting away to Europe to write
Seminar
British novelist and historian of ideas Lesley Chamberlain will talk about the European events and ideas that have shaped her writing. Her books have thematized Nietzsche (Nietzsche in Turin 1996) , Freud (The Secret Artist 2000), and Russian Utopianism and spirituality (Motherland 2004), while…
Faculty & friends: Vienna after Mozart
Concert
Historical keyboard specialist Dr Erin Helyard showcases the music of Viennese composers active in the wake of Mozart’s death in the 1790s. Made immediately famous by his grieving - but financially canny - widow Costanza, the dead composer loomed large in Vienna’s musical landscape. Composers…