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06
Dec
2012

CASS achieves outstanding ERA results

The College has received an outstanding result in the Commonwealth Government’s major research quality measure - the Excellence in Research for Australia initiative (ERA). These results reinforce the College’s standing as the leading research institution in Australia across Humanities, Arts and…

05
Dec
2012

The National Centre of Biography to launch online edition

The Australian Dictionary of Biography is edited by staff at the National Centre of Biography at ANU. The Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB) is the largest and longest-running collaborative project in the arts and social sciences in Australia. Since it started in 1959, over 4,000 authors…

03
Dec
2012

New book launch: Living with fire

Living with fire, a new book by Dr Christine Hansen and  Professor Tom Griffiths was launched on Friday 23 November 2012 in Steels Creek, Victoria, one of the communities impacted by the Black Saturday bushfires. Titled Living with fire: People, nature and history in Steels Creek (CSIRO…

30
Nov
2012

100 Migratory

The work of Monica L Edmondson, a Swedish artist with a connection to Canberra having studied at the Canberra School of Art at ANU, will be on display at the Embassy of Sweden as part of her 100 MIGRATORY project. Ms Edmonson’s project is an ‘extensive, local and world wide project’ featuring one…

30
Nov
2012

The Politics of Music conference

This week, musicians and scholars from all over Australia and across the world will gather at the ANU School of Music for the 35th Annual Conference on the Musicological Society of Australia on the Politics of Music on 3–5 December. Convened by the Australian Research Council Future Fellow, Dr…

30
Nov
2012

Achievements on show in Graduating Exhibition

Years of hard work for ANU School of Art students will culminate tonight with the opening of the 2012 Graduating Exhibition at The Australian National University. This year’s exhibition features the works of students completing their studies in Bachelor of Visual Arts Honours, Bachelor of…

30
Nov
2012

Percussion spectacular for DRUMatiX anniversary

Canberra's DRUMatiX Percussion group will perform their 15th anniversary concert, The Next Phrase, at the ANU Arts Centre tonight. The concert will revisit some of the group's defining moments, including Nigel Westlake's Kalabash which was premiered by the group in 2004, Steve Reich's Drumming…