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ANU forum to tackle crisis in Indigenous incarceration
The Australian National University (ANU) will hold a major workshop to address soaring rates of Indigenous incarceration from Monday, bringing together public servants, policy and community organisations. The Broken Justice workshop, organised by the ANU Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy…
Anthropology Vietnam Field School wins $200,000 in New Colombo Plan grants
The ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology has won New Colombo Plan funding to help students take part in the Vietnam Field School. Each year, the field school takes ANU students studying Anthropology or Environmental Science to Vietnam to spend three weeks learning how to conduct…
Talking about ANU gold and silversmithing
Artists who have come through the ANU Gold and Silversmithing Workshop will have a place at the boardroom table in a new Melbourne exhibition. Talking Points, which graces the boardroom table at ANU House in Melbourne, features objects and jewellery made by select students, alumni and visiting…
Prizes and scholarships recognise excellence in Art and Design
Four promising students at the ANU School of Art and Design have been awarded scholarships and prizes at a special reception at the School. Among those awarded was a scholarship honouring the legacy of the late School alumnus Robert Foster. The inaugural recipient, Megan Stewart,…
Multi-ARIA award winning producer joins School of Music
ANU is pleased to announce that multi-ARIA winning record producer and engineer, Mark Opitz, has joined the ANU School of Music as a visiting fellow. Mr Opitz's creativity and production expertise helped to produce some of Australia's most popular albums with bands including Cold Chisel, AC…
Cars, bicycles and the fatal myth of equal reciprocity
By Dr Ashley Carruthers, Lecturer in Anthropology, ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology. Any public conversation about on-road cycling in Australia seems to have only one metaphor for the relationship between drivers and cyclists: equal reciprocity.…
Archaeologists uncover ancient trading network in Vietnam
A team of archaeologists from the ANU School of Archaeology and Anthropology has uncovered a vast trading network which operated in Vietnam from around 4,500 years ago up until around 3,000 years ago. A new study shows a number of settlements along the Mekong Delta region of Southern…