Upcoming events
Melita Dahl | Deadpan artefacts: creative experiments with facial expression recognition in photographic portraiture
Gallery
Over the past three decades, photography has evolved from its traditional role as an indexical imprint of the world into a fluid, computational space shaped by digital transformation. Within this context, the photographic portrait both as a historical art form and a site for computer vision offers…
Material Causality: A Practice-Led Inquiry into the Aleatory Operations of Concrete | Ren Gregorčič
Gallery
Concrete is among the most widely used materials on Earth, second only to water in global consumption. It forms footpaths, bridges, building foundations, dam walls, and the hydrological networks that span a continuum from everyday surfaces to continental-scale infrastructure. Operating across…
Capturing and tracking population and health events in the Agincourt Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance System: a demographic and geographic research platform in rural South Africa.
Seminar
Health and Socio-Demographic Surveillance (HDSS) systems are a response to low levels of vital event registration in areas where data for health planning is critically scarce. HDSS aim to provide high quality longitudinal data on population dynamics of health and social transitions to inform policy…
Book Launch. ‘The Chosen Race: Troubling Whiteness in Victorian Painting’ (University of California Press) by Keren Hammerschlag
Book launch
SpeakersProf Ari Heinrich (Director of the Gallery at the Australian Centre on China in the World), Dr Maddie Hewitson (University of Birmingham), and Dr Keren Hammerschlag (Director, Centre for Art History and Art Theory, ANU)About the Book From the Realist canvases of the Pre-…
Beyond the Fatal Shore: Former Convict Departures from the Australian Colonies
Lecture/seminar
Of the 168,000 convicts transported to Australia between 1788 and 1868, approximately five per cent—some 8,000—left the colonies. Prevailing accounts suggest that most convicts remained because Australia was attractive or because leaving was prohibitively costly. Given this, the thesis asks: What…
Authoritarian Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro… and now Delcy Rodríguez
Lecture/seminar
This presentation first introduces the book Authoritarianism Consolidation in Times of Crisis: Venezuela under Nicolás Maduro, edited by John Polga-Hecimovich and Raúl Sánchez Urribarrí. Published in April 2025, the book adopts a comparative perspective, focusing on how authoritarian…
Relationality, Movement and Transnationality in Biographies across PNG and Australia: Stories through Nahau and Wesley Rooney
Seminar
It seems straightforward: for years now, I’ve been saying that I’m working on Papua New Guinean politician Nahau Rooney’s biography. But really, I’ve been trying to make sense of telling a story that moves across epistemic spheres and transnationally across PNG and Australia. I experience movement…