Upcoming events

CASS International Agents Webinars 2026
Painting Itself 绘画本身
Gallery
Officially launched by Magda Keaney, Head Curator, International Art at National Gallery of Australia.Curated by Jonathan Nichols the exhibition explores a horizontal culture in painting, where fundamental ideas about its history and vitality – long the influence of European and American…
Sign on Screen Film Festival
Festival
The full program and tickets are now available for the Sign on Screen Film Festival, taking place at the National Film and Sound Archive from 6pm Friday May 22 - 5pm Sunday May 24 2026. All events are Auslan <> English interpreted, all screenings are captioned with hearing loop…
Sign on Screen Festival
Festival
Join us for the Sign On Screen Film Festival, a collaboration between the Australian National University, Deaf Connect, the Australian Research Council, and the NFSA.Sign on Screen is an Australian Research Council-funded project about the representation of sign languages on cinema, television and…
Human Instruments: Sensory Science and the Exclusions of Perceptibility
Lecture/seminar
In this paper, Dr Ella Butler analyses how perceptibility is organised as a social process in a scientific experimental setting. Specifically, she details how an American sensory science lab conducts a form of test called descriptive analysis which aims to transduce the sensory experience of a…
Jazz & Contemporary Ensembles Concerts - Session 1
Concert
Join ANU School of Music students for a Jazz & Contemporary ensembles concert.This concert highlights both time-tested jazz standards and original compositions by jazz staff and student composers and presents them within a range of musical styles and performance ensembles from intimate vocal…
Jazz & Contemporary Ensembles Concerts - session 2
Concert
Join ANU School of Music students for a Jazz & Contemporary ensembles concert.This concert highlights both time-tested jazz standards and original compositions by jazz staff and student composers and presents them within a range of musical styles and performance ensembles from intimate vocal…
Beyond Sheilaspeak: Recovering the hidden histories of women and slang and colloquial language in Australia
Lecture/seminar
Women are notably absent from the national story of Australian English, as well as from the broader history of the use of language by Australians, including slang and colloquial language. The national narrative, especially when it comes to Australians’ use of language, has been largely a masculine…






