Past events
Webinar: Remote study at ANU
Webinar/Online
In this webinar, you will have the opportunity to hear from our Associate Dean of Education, Dr Geoff Hinchcliffe, about how our students have been able to continue their high quality ANU education while participating remotely. Dr Hinchcliffe will be joined by two of our international students who…
Webinar: Master of Contemporary Practices in Art and Design
Webinar/Online
The Master of Contemporary Practices in Art and Design is an exciting new program at the ANU. It is aimed at artists and designers who have an ambitious, independent creative practice and through incorporating research methodologies, will expand their skills and knowledge. This webinar will tell…
Books that Changed Humanity: Sophie Cottin's Claire D'Albe
Lecture
In the period 1816-20, Claire d’Albe was in fact the best selling novel in France, followed closely by Cottin's Élisabeth ou les Exilés de Sibérie (1806). Despite her being amongst the most popular authors of the early nineteenth century, Sophie Cottin is now largely forgotten. Yet, does an author…
Works that Shaped the World: William Wordsworth (1770-1850)
Lecture
“MR WORDSWORTH’S genius is a pure emanation of the Spirit of the Age”, wrote the critic and journalist, William Hazlitt: “It is one of the innovations of the time. It partakes of, and is carried along with, the revolutionary movement of our age”. William Wordsworth has gone down in literary history…
HMI Data, AI & Society Seminar 09 ‘Incorporating Fairness in Two-Sided Online Platforms’
Seminar
‘Incorporating Fairness in Two-Sided Online Platforms’ In this paper, Abhijnan discusses how algorithmic decision making is increasingly being used to assist or replace human decision making in domains with high societal impact, such as banking (estimating creditworthiness), recruiting (ranking…
A Literary Career with Jeanne Ryckmans
Other
Join us for an intimate conversation with CASS alumna Jeanne Ryckmans (BA '89) followed by an audience Q&A. Jeanne, who is currently Artistic Director of the Canberra Writers Festival, has had an impressive and diverse career in publishing and media. She has spent two decades in…
Conversations across the Creek: Decolonizing the University
Seminar
Arguing that the institution of the university has been broadly complicit with colonialism, the call to “decolonize” universities and academic practices has been heard across the world, from Cape Town to Oxford to Canberra. But what exactly does it mean to “decolonize” the university or to “…