Summer of discontent: Does a viable Iraq exist in 2014?
Lecture
Throughout its near century-long existence as a modern state, Iraq has repeatedly undergone forces threatening to undermine its territorial integrity. None, however, have truly shaken the foundations of the state as the events of 10 June 2014 and subsequently. This lecture will explore whether…
Art Forum: Olivia Welch
Lecture
Olivia Welch is a Sydney based emerging curator. She is a founding member of YOLK Collective, a group of six art theorists creating curatorial, editorial and networking opportunities for their peers. Olivia will speak about her experiences as an emerging curator.
Articulate Objects - Janet DeBoos
Exhibition
Janet DeBoos has an intelligent, continually questioning approach to her work, and that combined with her dedication to ceramics and the skills developed through repetition via her much loved domestic ware, results in works of thoughtfulness and substance.
Minds for mental health and wellbeing
Seminar
Minds for Mental Health and Wellbeing: Do you have a mind in need of a "healthy meal"? This seminar will explore Dr Dan Siegel's ideas concerning mental health and wellbeing, including the healthy mind platter. It will provide some useful tips on how to take care of our most valuable organ.
Mnemonics: Ross Byers
Exhibition
Tasmanian artist Ross Byers is resident in the ANU sculpture workshop until the end of August. His focus for the residency relates to a conversation he had in Glasgow with a man who had an impeccable memory.
Voices of authority: Reconstructing the aural experience of trial at the Old Bailey, 1780 -1840
Seminar
In the years following the Gordon Riots in 1780, the courtroom at the Old Bailey in London was rebuilt repeatedly. This rebuilding occurred in dialogue with the evolution of the modern 'adversarial trial', and forms a component of the history of the bureaucratisation and professionalization of…