Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - July 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
International Symposium on Cultural Pragmatics and Migration Linguistics
Symposium
Hosted by Zhengdao Ye (SLLL, Australian National University) and Carsten Levisen (Roskilde U. & Aarhus Institute of Advanced Studies) this international symposium on migration linguistics, takes a meaning-centered approach to the interplay of language, culture and human migration. Drawing…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - June 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
'The Maids' by Jean Genet, translated by Martin Cramp
Panel discussion
Two sisters, Solange and Claire, are maids to their wealthy, glamorous mistress in a big city apartment. When their Madame is out they pass time in her luxurious bedroom in an obsessive game of roleplaying ‘servant and mistress’ blurring reality and fantasy. Acting out the power structures which…
Professor Daryn Lehoux (Queen’s University): ‘Corruption, Correction, and Data Protection in Ancient Scientific Texts’
Seminar
Greek and Latin authors were acutely aware of the problems of knowledge transmission. Not only could manuscripts become corrupted, as we know all too well today, or falsely attributed to some more famous author, but also incorrect claims could creep into a tradition of knowledge-making all too…
Wellspring Series 2025: Gender, Age and The Stage
Panel discussion
Gender, Age and The StagePresented in association with The Street Theatre, SLLL & ANU Gender Institute Why are there so few female theatre directors? Playwrights? Conductors? Why do women in the performing arts become invisible at 40? Can understanding the past help us move…
Odysseus on Film: Pasolini's 'The Return' (2024) - Panel Discussion and Screening
Panel discussion
PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH THE EMBASSY OF ITALY, THE ANU FILM GROUP, AND THE FRIENDS OF THE ANU CLASSICS MUSEUMThe ANU Classics Museum invite you to a reception and panel discussion in the ANU Classics Museum (6-7pm), followed by a FREE screening of ‘The Return’ (2024) (7.30-9.30pm) in the…