Past events
Milestones in Music: Encountering the world of music
Seminar
ANU School of Music 2014 Public Lecture Series - Milestones in Music Encountering the World of Music: The University’s Widening Acknowledgment of Music beyond the Western Canonic Repertoire There was a time when the ANU School of Music considered only a narrow range of musical genres and…
Domitian and the Jupiter Capitolinus temple: a new reconstruction
Seminar
The free Classics Seminar Series 2015 continues as Dr Lily Withycombe presents a talk about ‘Domitian and the Jupiter Capitolinus temple: a new reconstruction'. As usual, after the talk discussion will continue over light refreshments in the ANU Classics Museum. All most welcome.
ANIP Information Session for Semester 2, 2015
Student advisory session
Are you interested in an internship possibility at Parliament House? ACT Legislative Assembly? Australian Electoral Commission? Embassy of Ecuador? International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance? Delegation of Palestine? Australian Institute for International Affairs? If you would…
National Centre of Biography; Biography Workshop with Estelle Blackburn OAM
Workshop
Estelle Blackburn, author of Broken Lives (1998) and The end of innocence (2007), will speak about her experiences of writing a biography of a serial killer, Eric Edgar Cooke (1931 – 1964). (http://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/cooke-eric-edgar-9817) Cooke, who terrorized 1960s Perth with a series of…
art forum CONVERSATION: Christopher Menz
Lecture
‘Why don’t they just sell off this stuff?’: Decorative Arts and Design in Australian Collections Australia’s rich and diverse public art collections are home to tens of thousands of decorative arts and design objects, from many countries and cultures and spanning several centuries. What do these…
The Confectionery Kings: Robertson, Allen and Hoadley
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series Mainstream Australian historiography tends to regard confectionery as trivial and irrelevant. Yet, in the early to mid-20th century, Australia’s richest entrepreneur and one of the country’s most influential personages was a maker of sweets, Macpherson Robertson (…
European challenges: The Baltic outlook.
Seminar
Latvia is the central country of the Baltic States (between Estonia and Lithuania) and is located in Northern Europe on the east coast of the Baltic Sea. With its history of nearly 100 years as a republic and 25 years since the regaining of independence, with a population of 2 million people and…