Events
The RSHA hosts regular events including conferences, public lectures and forums. The RSHA's constituent schools and centres also host regular events.
See School of Music concert series and School of Art exhibitions and events.
Upcoming RSHA events
ANU Sculpture alumni Making Tracks
Exhibition
Making Tracks is a new exhibition at the ANU School of Art that showcases 25 years of ANU Sculpture Workshop alumni.
The show, which opened Friday 10 May, is part of the 2013 Canberra Centenary celebrations. It features seventeen School of Art graduates.
European Words Reinvented
Public Lecture
Word meanings do not emerge in a vacuum. They are revealing of speakers’ value systems and the sociopolitical logics under which they emerged. Colonial European languages, such as English, French, Dutch, Spanish and Portuguese, and to a lesser extent German and Danish have left a decisive mark on the world’s languages. Yet sometimes the meaning of European words have been reinvented outside of the European context, most dramatically so in creole-speaking communities.
The print collections of the AWM and Imperial War Museum: Examining the relationship between collection and institution
Seminar
As national institutions, war museums in Australian and the United Kingdom display collections with a view to presenting national histories of these countries at war to a general public. However, their art collections contain pieces that are varied in subject matter and sometimes controversial or contradictory with the museum’s stance on history and conflict.
Speaker: Alexandra Walton, PhD Candidate RSHA
Orientation in Viewing: The Art of Caspar David Friedrich
Public Lecture
The ANU School of Art is proud to present in collaboration with the National Gallery of Australia and the Power Institute for Art and Visual Culture, University of Sydney, a public lecture by Michael Fried
Orientation in Viewing: The Art of Caspar David Friedrich
In this lecture Michael Fried will offer a reading of Friedrich’s art in the light of considerations of orientation as stated by the philosopher Immanuel Kant in his 1886 essay “What is Orientation in Thinking?”
'Shaping the Future': AIATSIS National Native Title Conference
Conference
In 2013 the Annual National Native Title Conference will be convened by the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) and the Central Land Council (CLC) on the traditional landsof Lhere Artepe the traditional owners of the Alice Springs area.
The Native Title Conference is an opportunity for people to come together and engage in debate, including native title holders and claimants, traditional owners, native title representative bodies and service agencies, the Federal Court, National Native Title Tribunal, Commonwealth and State government agencies, academics, consultants and industry representatives.
A Cornucopia of Publications - 5-book launch in Classics and Ancient History
Launch
The Acting Head of the ANU’s School of Cultural Inquiry, Associate Professor Rosanne Kennedy, is delighted to invite you to the launch by the National Librarian, Ms Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, of five publications by Classicists on the ANU campus in the period 2012–2013.
Refreshments will be served.
Enquiries: Fiona Sweet Formiatti at fiona.sweet-formiatti@anu.edu.au
Eating Green: Lifestyle Choices and Political Identity in the French and British Green Parties
Public Lecture
Green parties emerged on the European political scene in the 1980s and quickly asserted their determination to do politics “differently”. They affirmed their originality through their desire to be consistent and insisted that their lifestyle was intimately associated with their political commitment.
Indigenous Issues: Past, Present and Future
PD Course
Purpose
This Freilich Foundation Biennial Winter School is a professional development course for those school teachers and other professionals working in Australian schools who wish to further broaden their understanding of issues that confront our understanding of Indigenous Australia. This winter school will explore the past (facts and myths), and question how it continues to shape the present, and the future both in negative and positive ways.
Keynote speakers
Professor Jon Altman, Centre for Aboriginal Economic Policy Research, ANU
Professor William Gammage, Humanities Research Centre, ANU
Professor Desmond Manderson, Australian Research Council Future Fellow, ANU
Professor Nicolas Peterson, School of Archaeology and Anthropology, ANU
Professor Peter Read, Australian Research Council Professorial Fellow, University of Sydney
Broadside Ballads and Tactical Publics: ‘The Lady and the Blackmoor,’ 1570-1789
Seminar
Humanities Research Centre Work in Progress seminar presented by Professor Patricia Fumerton, Department of English University of California, Santa Barbara.
Details of future HRC WIP Seminars is here.
Childhoods in South Asia: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives
Conference
Childhoods in South Asia: Contemporary and Historical Perspectives provides an interdisciplinary platform for scholars and NGO representatives who work in the areas of childhood and education in South Asia. In response to adult speculation and debates around political, social and economic development, we invite critical interrogation of changing conceptions of childhood.
While there is increasing theoretical and development interest in children in South Asia, children’s experiences and perspectives are still underrepresented in political, social and economic debate. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to foreground children’s experiences in light of changing conceptual discourses of childhood in historical and contemporary South Asia. While acknowledging the ways children are situated within structures of power, the conference will focus on South Asian children’s stories and agency.
