Repatriation and After? Challenges and Potentials
Seminar
Repatriation and After? Challenges and Potentials European museum and university collections (including botanical gardens) have large stocks of cultural objects and human remains whose origins are problematic because they were inappropriately or illegally trafficked and inherited, mainly in the…
Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson in revolutionary Samoa, 1888-1894
Seminar
Robert Louis and Fanny Stevenson in revolutionary Samoa, 1888-1894 Robert Louis Stevenson gives us an eye-witness account of the workings of German colonialism in the Pacific in a series of letters to The Times and in A footnote to history: eight years of trouble in Samoa (1892), writings which…
Activism & Literature Book Club - 'In the Shadow of the Palms'
Webinar/Online
The ANU Public Culture Network would like to invite you to a new initiative – an online monthly book club focused on discussing literature about social and political activism and protest. To join, please register here Discussion is casual and regular attendance is not required.…
History for Health: Pasts Repairing Futures
Seminar
History for Health: Pasts Repairing Futures There is increasing recognition that the visual and performative Arts can have positive therapeutic value. Similarly, reading has also been acknowledged as having important calming and healing functions. Yet, despite a growing awareness of the importance…
Queer Displacements: Leadership, Partnership & Belonging – discussion panel and book launch
Panel discussion
Date: February 16, 2023 6pm – 7:30pmVenue: RSSS Auditorium The panel will feature a discussion by Renee Dixson (the chair of the Forcibly Displaced People Network), Prof. Churnjeet Mahn and Marianna Polevikova (Chair of Ukrainian LGBTIQ+ NGO For Equal Rights). Marianna Polevikova has…
Border-Crossing Queers: Writing and Researching Journeys of Resistance
Workshop
Border-Crossing Queers: Writing and Researching Journeys of Resistance A workshop with Prof. Churnjeet Mahn, University of Strathclyde Glasgow Date: February 15, 2023 2pm – 4pmVenue: Lectorial 1 (1.21) in RSSS Who should attend: academics at all stages of their career, graduate students and…
ANU Sculpture Walk - Guided Tour November
Tour
Join us for a guided walking tour of the ANU Sculpture Walk. The tour is led by HRC’s Emeritus Professor David Williams, whose esteemed career included, amongst other things, being Director of the ANU School of Art from 1985 to 2006. Tours commence from the Sir Roland…