Past events
In search of the shadow fleet: Paraguay’s mau cars and the politics of bottlenecks across the triple-frontier
Seminar
Within the tri-border area between Argentina, Brazil and Paraguay, the city of Ciudad del Este is infamous for stolen cars. Since Ciudad del Este is a crucial bottleneck for contraband in the continent, the saturated car market throws up a series of questions about legitimacy and commercial…
Allan Martin Public Lecture: "Going ballistic": A new history of aggression
Lecture
Aggression is an essentially contested concept. What is meant by “aggression” has changed dramatically over the past two centuries. What ideological, political, and economic forces have produced practices that are categorized as “aggressive” at any period of time and for any particular group?…
Language, contact and the negotiation of identities in the Salvadoran diaspora
Seminar
In this presentation, evaluations about language are discussed by looking closely at the testimonials of Salvadorans in Houston, Texas who openly or tactfully hint that fellow Mexicans tend to judge their speech.
Peter Herbst Seminar - Deep time: on being geologically human
Seminar
If we humans are responsible for inaugurating a new geological age (the Anthropocene), does that have implications for how we think about ourselves? Does it not intensify what Nietzsche saw as the problem of affirming life under the burden of history? David Wood is W. Alton Jones Professor of…
EveryDay Matters | Visiting Artist Kay Lawrence
Exhibition
From within a feminist paradigm, these works investigate the problematic relationship between nature and culture using the body’s liminal positioning between these facets. In all of the works, the materiality and power of bodily experience, and its potentially transformative effect on…
Buscando a Gabo / Finding Gabo
Film
“BUSCANDO A GABO”, (“Finding Gabo”) is a documentary produced by the Colombian film director Luis Fernando Bottia in 2007, as a tribute to the 80th birthday of García Márquez and the forty years of publication of his novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”. The documentary presents a human portrait…
Polemic in Polybius
Seminar
Our free Classics Seminar Series 2015 continues on 30 April. Dr Paul Burton will present ‘Polemic in Polybius' As usual, after the talk discussion will continue over light refreshments in the ANU Classics Museum. All most welcome!