Past events
Reading across borders: Michelle de Kretser
Seminar
Michelle de Kretser, winner of the Miles Franklin Award in 2013, will read from her new novella, Springtime, and will talk about her writing with Dr Julieanne Lamond, an expert in Australian literature. Springtime: A Ghost Story, has been described by James Bradley as a ‘thrilling sublimation of…
National Centre of Biography; Biography Workshop
Workshop
Chatter Box: A fast-thinking, fast-speaking, life-writing workshop. Welcome back for another year! To kick-start 2015 and an exciting programme of forthcoming events and speakers at the NCB, the Biography Workshop is getting off to a lively start. We invite you to join us for a workshop…
1/2015 | Exhibition Two
Exhibition
Reception: 06 March 2015 6:00pm Lynne Flemons Master of Philosophy Printmedia and Drawing Phenomenology and cross-cultural mapping are two key concepts helpful in understanding the different ways the Australian landscape has been interpreted in recent decades and I have drawn upon them…
Rethinking Australia's 1980s
Seminar
School of History Seminar Series The journalist and historian Paul Kelly characterised Australia’s 1980s as "the end of certainty" but in some recent Australian political discourse, the decade has taken on many of the features of a golden age. Associate Professor Frank Bongiorno has written a…
The Vice-Chancellor’s College Artist Fellows Scheme
Exhibition
Reception: 10 February 2015 6:00pm To be opened by Professor Ian Young Vice-Chancellor and President, The Australian National University The Vice-Chancellor’s College Artist Fellows Scheme (VCCAFS) is an exciting initiative developed by The Australian National University to encourage and…
Indigenous Issues in Canada: How our History Shapes the Debate about the Future
Lecture
Canada Australia Public Policy Initiative Public Lecture Michael Wernick is the Deputy Clerk of the Privy Council and Associate Secretary to the Cabinet. He served as Deputy Minister of Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada (AANDC) between 2006 and 2014. Since 2006 Mr. Wernick has…
TÁNGALO
Concert
Tángalo returns to Canberra with Duo Ramirez Satorre. Direct from Buenos Aires. The fiery nightlife of Buenos Aires is coming to Canberra as Tángalo and Duo-Ramirez Satorre combine forces at a series of special events this February. Duo Ramirez-Satorre are masters of their craft, capturing the…