Past events
2022 Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition College Final
Activity
An 80,000 word PhD thesis would take 9 hours to read, they have 3 minutes to present. The ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences PhD students present an elevator pitch of their topic in under three minutes for the 2022 Competition and compete for the three spots (2 winners + 1 People’s choice)…
Special Address by President Zelenskyy
Activity
This is now sold out. Please join the waitlist to be contacted if tickets become available. Hear directly from His Excellency President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, President of Ukraine, in this special virtual event. The ANU Centre for European Studies is honoured…
2022 Anthony Forge Lecture - Geontologies & Four Axioms of Existence, Where to Begin?
Seminar
This lecture asks how anthropology should ground its research agenda in the context of crumbling boundaries between Life and Nonlife and human and the more-than-human worlds, between global climate crisis and distributed climate toxicity, and between Indigenous refusals of western modes of…
Different pasts, better futures? An island perspective on emerging consensus in 'alternative' archaeologies
Lecture
Around the world, archaeological orthodoxies are crumbling, and with them some of the just-so stories about the emergence of human civilizations. Painstakingly gathered evidence has revealed 'hunter-gatherers' coming together in dense settlements and building huge monuments from Turkey to Florida;…
Shanti Shea-An, 'The Painting is Elsewhere'
Seminar
Join us for a presentation by Shanti Shae-An, Doctoral Candidate, School of Art & Design The Painting is Elsewhere: A Practice-led Inquiry into Textuality within Painting Seminar Room 1.29, Level 1, School of Art and Design, 105 Childers St, ANU Those who can't attend in person, can join via…
ANU Queer* Composers Collective Concert
Other
Join us for the ANU Queer* Composers Concert, a celebration of new music, collaboration, and diversity and inclusion! Conceptualised and organised by three School of Music third-year composition students, entry to this event is free and will feature performances by School of Music…
Works that shaped the world: The Gülen Movement – Past, Present and Future
Seminar
The Gülen Movement is one of the world’s largest transnational Islamic organisations. It emerged in the 1960s in Izmir, Turkey, through the efforts of the now retired Imam Fethullah Gülen. Inspired by the theology of Said Nursi, Gülen sought to develop a holistic education program that brought…