History in Public: Manning Clark Centenary, 1915 - 2015
Seminar
This year sees the centenary of the birth of Charles Manning Hope Clark (born 3 March 1915), Professor of History at Canberra University College and later the Australian National University, from 1949 to 1974. Manning Clark was one of the university’s most distinguished academics: a gifted…
Roque Dalton, ¡Fusilemos La Noche! (Let's shoot the night)
Film
The Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies and the El Salvador Australia Friendship Association present: ROQUE DALTON, ¡FUSILEMOS LA NOCHE! (LET'S SHOOT THE NIGHT) Directed by Tina Leisch 6.30pm for 7pm screening, Friday 27th February Haydon Allen Lecture Theatre (The Tank), ANU…
Children and the future in Virgil’s Aeneid
Seminar
The Friends of the ANU Classics Museum invite you to a talk by Dr Anne Rogerson, Charles Tesoriero Lecturer in Latin, University of Sydney. Virgil’s Aeneid is an epic about a journey towards a glorious future. Telling the story of a hero’s long travels from the smoking ruins of Troy in quest of a…
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…