Past events
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…
How to represent spoken language in written form: Analysing conversational data from James Joyce to Southern Papua New Guinea
Seminar
Professor Gast will deal with the variation of human language along two dimensions, the medium (spoken vs. written)and the level of distance or proximity between the interlocutors (from local to global). The main focus of the talk will be on matters of methodology, i.e. the question of how the…
Visiting Artist Showcase: Heike Brachlow and JP Vilkman
Exhibition
A joint exhibition that showcases the talent of two visiting artists to the ANU School of Art: Heike Brachlow (Germany) currently in the Glass Workshop, and JP Vilkman (Finland) who recently visited the Furniture Workshop.
Evidence based policy: The value of longitudinal studies and administrative data linkage
Lecture
Britain is unique in the world in having a portfolio of national birth cohort studies that follow individuals from birth through childhood and into adult life. These studies, the first of which was established in 1946, have already been instrumental in providing evidence relevant to a wide range…
Hindi Express: phones, tablets and notebooks in class
Seminar
Presented as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum The Language Teaching Forum aims to provide a discussion platform for language teachers and researchers across ANU colleges. Its main objective is to enhance the exchange of research and new approaches in language education. The forum is open…
Measuring internal migration around the world
Seminar
Migration shapes human settlement and plays an essential role in human development, but while progress has been made in measuring international migration, internal migration statistics (movements within countries) remain poorly developed. This paper reports results from the IMAGE project (…