Tribal Visuality and the Politics of Indigenous Art: 'Mary Sully: Native Modern' Revisited - Allan Martin Lecture
Lecture
In 2024, New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art launched a reclamation of the artistic career of Mary Sully, a reclusive, previously unacknowledged Dakota artist active between the late 1920s and mid-1940s. The processes of conservation, curation, and exhibition revealed new dimensions of the work,…
Art & Design Forum | Dr Suzie Fraser
Art forum
Undertaking art history at the intersection of art and science – challenges and opportunitiesThis presentation explores how and why art/science practices are growing in prominence with an increasing thematic focus on ecology, holistic worldviews, climate and AI in exhibitions and publications since…
The Departed: Italian Migration and the American Mafia
Seminar
Massimo Anelli, Paolo Pinotti and Zachary Porreca documented the transplantation of the Sicilian Mafia to the United States in the 1920s, when a large-scale repression campaign in Italy targeted Mafia strongholds and forced many Mafiosi to migrate, and study the resulting short- and long-term…
Middle East Update No.3: The Strait of Hormuz, Australian Energy Security & Supply Chain Resilience
Panel discussion
With the Strait of Hormuz now a flashpoint in the US/Israel-Iran conflict, global energy markets face unprecedented disruption. What does this mean for Australia's energy security and the resilience of critical supply chains?This panel brings together leading experts on Gulf energy, Indo-Pacific…
Democratic Commitment and the Partisan Cost of Electoral Accountability
Lecture/seminar
Why do electorates often fail to hold transgressing electoral officials accountable? Two leading explanations point to either a lack of democratic commitment or to the partisan costs of acting on such commitments, but rarely separate these mechanisms. Bermond Scoggins and Marc Jacob develop a…
Art & Design Forum | Madeline Hewitson
Art forum
Be Strong and Take Action: The Montefiore Testimonial (1842-3) and Anglo-Jewish Imperial IdentitiesThis talk explores The Montefiore Testimonial (1842-3), a monumental silver sculpture to commemorate Sir Moses Montefiore’s role in securing the release of several Ottoman Syrian Jews falsely accused…
One year into Trump 2.0
Panel discussion
Join us in this discussion to unpack the wild ride of Trump’s second term and what’s next on the political rollercoaster.One year into Donald Trump’s second presidency, The Australian National University will host a timely panel examining what Trump 2.0 means for American democracy and the…