Past events
Elly Kent and Caroline Turner: Living art book launch
Seminar
Living art: how Indonesian artists engage with politics, society and history in theory and practice Join us for a talk by Dr Elly Kent and Dr Caroline Turner about their new book. Chaired by Assoc. Prof. Chaitanya Sambrani. Living Art: Indonesian Artists Engage Politics, Society and History is…
Oblique Objects by Timothy Phillips
Exhibition
Oblique Objects explores concealment as a visual and poetic strategy in figurative painting. Drawing on subcultural aesthetic lineages of secrecy and highlighting painting’s capacity for latency, the exhibition enlists a queer opacity as its conceptual modus operandi and consists of a body of…
Shakespeare’s First Folio: from London to Australia, and many points in between.
Lecture
Join the Centre for Early Modern Studies, in partnership with the NLA, for a special lecture from visiting University of Oxford academic Professor Emma Smith, the world's leading Shakespeare scholar. Shakespeare's First Folio is the world's most important secular book. This illustrated lecture…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - August
Tour
Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include domestic items,…
Beyond the Book: Transforming the Early Modern Archive
Conference
You are warmly invited to Beyond the Book: Transforming the Early Modern Archive, a free two-day symposium to be hosted by State Library Victoria, on 10-11 August, 2023. Join digital designers, specialist librarians and early modern scholars to explore how…
18th Latin American Film festival
Other
The Latin American Film Festival (LAFF) is an initative of the Latin American Embassies in Australia to showcase their culture and film industry. The Embassies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Mexico, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay and…
JEBEL KHALID ON THE EUPHRATES: An Afternoon in Honor of Graeme Clarke AO
Conference
The ANU Centre for Classical Studies and the Friends of the Classics Museum invite you to a celebration of the life and work of Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke AO FAHA (1934 – 2023). This event will focus on one of his great achievements, the archaeological excavations of the Hellenistic site of…