Upcoming events
Meet and Greet in China with College of Arts and Social Sciences
Bach in Shiraz at University House
Concert
In this new concert project by the Jazmourian Ensemble, JS Bach's hauntingly beautiful Partita for solo violin in D minor is interspersed with improvisations and compositions by Malek Mohammadi Nejad and Anna McDonald in Iranian musical languageThis is a concert that brings Western classical music…
Connect with CASS in Indonesia
Activity
Thinking about studying in Australia? Meet the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) at The Australian National University while we’re in Indonesia. Come along to speak with our team and find out more about studying at ANU, your chosen program, admissions and what student life is like in…
Connect with CASS in Indonesia
Activity
Thinking about studying in Australia? Meet the College of Arts and Social Sciences (CASS) at The Australian National University while we’re in Indonesia. Come along to speak with our team and find out more about studying at ANU, your chosen program, admissions and what student life is like in…
Making Slow: Textile Craft Timelines in India’s Fashion Industry
Lecture/seminar
The handmade aesthetic of block print textiles is an enduring element in India’s marketplaces even as the craft’s production timelines conflict with fashion industry demands. Making the textiles is characterised as ‘slow’ by both heritage printers in the town of Bagru, Rajasthan and industry buyers…
Art & Design Forum | Freddy Tsimba and Cecilia Järdemar
Seminar
Material Witnesses: Freddy Tsimba in conversation with Cecilia Järdemar Internationally acclaimed Congolese sculptor Freddy Bienvenu Tsimba is known for his powerful works created from found and discarded materials, including bullet casings, keys, spoons and machetes. Born in Kinshasa,…
Stolen heritage: Why giving back colonial loot makes white people so angry
Seminar
Should museums return cultural heritage taken from colonised peoples? This question is usually fought on legal and technical grounds: Do the original owner societies still exist in a form able to reclaim cultural objects? Can present-day conventions be applied retroactively to takings from the…
Holy Ground? A conversation about religion in environmental history
Lecture
The Conversation God, and gods, tend to play a muted role in Australian environmental histories. The diverse religious experiences of First Nations and settler peoples grappling with a land once denounced as the ‘most godless place under heaven’ are yet to be fully explored or historicised.…