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26
Mar
2015

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…

26
Mar
2015

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.

26
Mar
2015

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…

26
Mar
2015

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…

25
Mar
2015

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…

25
Mar
2015

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 (…

24
Mar
2015

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…