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Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at ANU ranked amongst world's best
Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at ANU has been recognised amongst the best in the world in the latest QS World University Rankings. Arts and Humanities ranked one in Australia and 13 in the world, and Social Sciences ranked one in Australia and 16 in the world. “I’m delighted to see that…
Setting the stage for Brazil's rise to power
Brazil’s rise onto the world stage and its implications for Latin America and the world will be examined at a two-day conference beginning today. The conference, Regional reactions to the rise of Brazil: Latin America and the shifting sands of global power, will examine what Brazil’s ‘arrival’…
Flint Daggers, Copper Daggers, and Technological Innovation in Late Neolithic Scandinavia
By Dr Catherine Frieman, ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology (as published in the European Journal of Archaeology, September 2012) In films, archaeologists are rapacious treasure hunters, dangerously obsessed with the ancient (and always mystical, dangerous and/or alien) things they…
ANU archaeologist made honourary curator in Vanuatu
The Natural Cultural Council in Vanuatu has honoured, Matthew Spriggs, an ANU archaeologist, by appinting him as an Honourary Curator of Archaeology at the Vanuatu Kaljol Senta. Professor Spriggs was acknowledged as the longest-serving archaeologist in Vanuatu. He started his work on…
Watching the watchers
The steady creep of closed circuit television into our lives is raising big questions about privacy. A seven-year-old girl walks through a heavy wrought-iron gate and the microchip implanted in her jacket conducts an electronic conversation with a hidden receiver. She arrives at a door and places…
ANU guitar students take top two prizes at the Adelaide International Guitar Competition
ANU Guitar students have taken 1st and 2nd prizes at the Adelaide International Guitar Competition at the Adelaide International Guitar Festival 9-12 August 2012. First Prize went to ANU Honours student Andrey Lebedev, which included $10,000 in prize money and a guitar made by revered maker Jim…
Art graduate selected for Primavera exhibition
Benjamin Forster, a graduate from the ANU School of Art, is one of the seven artists selected by the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia's Primavera exhibition this year. The annual exhibition for Australian artists aged 35 years and under covers a wide range of artistic practices and…