Art Forum: Paola Di Trocchio
Seminar
The Fashion World of Jean Paul Gaultier: From the Sidewalk to the Catwalk, currently on show at the National Gallery of Victoria, features more than 140 superbly crafted garments in addition to photographs, sketches, stage costumes, excerpts from runway shows, film, television, concerts and…
Queer objects: A symposium with Robyn Wiegman and Annamarie Jagos
Symposium
SYMPOSIUM Queer objects: A symposium with Robyn Wiegman and Annamarie Jagos Thursday, 16 October 2014 - Friday, 17 October 2014 Conference Room, Level 1, A D Hope Bldg 14, ANU 'The rejection of essentialism,' David Halperin writes in How to be Gay (2012), 'did not prevent the…
Analogues of antiquity: World cultures, Ancient Greek music, and comparative anthropologies, 1500-1800
Lecture
When early modern Europeans encountered and described peoples around the world, they frequently invoked cultures of antiquity – especially Greece – as a touchstone for comparison. Some of these comparisons have been interpreted as forms of empathetic ethnography, since they used intercultural…
2014 Latin American and the Shifting Sands of Global Power Conference
Conference
Latin America and the Asia-Pacific have rediscovered each other. In the wake of the global financial crisis, both regions have thrived while traditional economic centres have struggled.
Reflections on Indigenous Nationhood in Four Countries
Seminar
CAEPR Seminar Series This paper reflects on three aspects of the current political situation of Indigenous peoples in the so-called CANZUS countries (Canada, Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, and the United States). It suggests first that there is a shift underway in all four…
Artworks at The Australian National University
Seminar
The University House design and precinct, incorporating a site specific sculpture established a showpiece for Australia's new national university. By design, it was to be the 'Australian university in an Australian setting'.
FINALS - 2nd Australian International Chopin Piano Competition
Concert
The Second Australian International Chopin Piano Competition will be held at the ANU School of Music from 15-21 September 2014. Sunday 21 September is the final day of the competition and will feature two major events; Competition Finals & Prizewinners Concert