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…
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…
'My study is an archive of my mind': The making of Greg Dening
Seminar
Pacific historian and anthropologist Professor Greg Dening (1931-2008) was a man of many silences. Trawling through the large Dening archive in the State Library of Victoria, I am struck by the silences, the gaps and the stories left untold. In one of Greg’s many metaphors, that of ‘…
The Real and the Created in Ethnographic Film: An Ethnomusicologist’s Perspective
Lecture/seminar
Ethnographic filmmakers often struggle to balance the need to let people speak for themselves with the need to create a coherent presentation through their own creative hand. Ethnographic writers face similar challenges in choosing to approach their subjects through expository versus evocative…