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Changing of the guard
Stepping into Gordon Bull’s office you’d be forgiven for thinking you’d walked into a library or a gallery. His personal art collection lines the office walls and rows of books and exhibition catalogues tell the story of a career that has spanned several decades and more recently seven years as…
Exhibition: Unsafe Havens
Hazaras in Afghanistan When: Tuesday 18 - Friday 28 JuneWhere: ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, Ellery Crescent Abdul Karim Hekmat, Out of School, 2010, photograph, 87 x 113 cm Unsafe Havens is Abdul Hekmat’s documentation of his journey to his homeland, Afghanistan after…
Deep History and Compulsive Hoarding
Professor Daniel Lord Smail is looking into the past to understand our present day obsession with things “It seems silly to write history as if it started 200 or even 600 years ago.” Visiting Professor Daniel Lord Smail takes a longer term view of human history, that really we should…
PhD candidate earns top award at conference
Melissa Jogie, a PhD candidate from the Centre for European Studies, has been awarded the Best Conference Presentation at the University of Hong Kong's 13th Annual Research Postgraduate Conference. At the conference, Melissa spoke about her PhD research which investigates how secondary school…
Nonverbal cues exhibition
When: Tuesday 4 June - Saturday 15 JuneWhere: ANU School of Art Foyer Gallery, Ellery Crescent Michele Marti is a Furniture Designer/Maker from Oakland Ca, Who studied at California College of the Arts. Furniture is a cradle for the body, and this interaction between the body and furniture is…
First novel packed with political intrigue, science and love
Creative Writing lecturer Lucy Neave has published her first novel, Who We Were. The book tells the story of two newly married scientists who move from Melbourne to New York during the 1950s when the Cold War is in full swing. In New York, they become fast friends with an ex-Communist and his…
Student to represent Australia at international summit
First year student Linda Ma has been selected to represent Australia at an international summit in Russia with a focus on improving the lives of young women. Linda, who is studying towards a Bachelor of Philosophy (Honours) majoring in Development Studies, will attend The G(irls) 20 Summit in…