Wellspring Series 2026: Preserving Australian Modern Dance: Creating a Pedagogy for the Bodenwieser Technique
Performance
In this lecture-demonstration, scholar Wesley Lim and choreographers James Batchelor and Ruth Osborne explore the movement legacy of modern dance pioneer Gertrud Bodenwieser and the lineage of her teaching in Australia.Lim will introduce Bodenwieser’s radical modernist practice, brought to…
From Alexandria to Baghdad via Damascus: Missing Links in the Transmission of Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Seminar
The established narrative of the transmission of Greek philosophy and science in late antiquity leaves a significant gap between the end of the Alexandrian school in the 6th century and its “rediscovery” in 9th-century Baghdad. This so-called ‘Dark Age’ can be illumined by looking at the…
Speaking Animals, Talking Books: From Radio Play to Digital Download
Lecture/seminar
Ruth Park’s The Muddleheaded Wombat is widely known today through the illustrated children’s books first published in the 1960s. Wombat first reached Australian children as a broadcast voice in a long-running ABC radio series within the Children’s Session. Written by Park and performed by a…
Honours 2027 - Information Session
Information session
Learn all about the Classical Studies Honours program:why you might want to do an Honours year, what an Honours year entails, how to ensure you are eligible, and the funding opportunities available to help support your Honours year.
HDR 2027 - Information Session
Information session
Join us on the 21st August at 12pm for an informal, online information session where you will hear about the unique features of the HDR programme at the ANU, the research expertise of the scholars on staff, and opportunities afforded to graduate students studying with us. We will also have the…
The World Literature Turn in Spanish & Latin American Literature
Symposium
Juan Poblete’s volume New Approaches to Latin American Studies (Routledge 2018) provided an up-to-date snapshot of new and renewed approaches to Latin American Studies framed around the concept of “the turn,” such as: the subalternist turn, decolonial turn, and Indigenous studies turn, to name…
‘It’s a Fish-eat-Fish World': Mātsya-Nyāya, Anarchical Chaos, and the Social Contract in ancient Brāhmanical India
Seminar
Mātsya-nyāya is a central concept in the political science of ancient Brāhmanical India. When the King fails to protect the Kingdom, chaos ensues, and Mātsya-nyāya – ‘the Guiding Principle (nyāya) of the Fish (mātsya)’ – comes into effect. Without the State to maintain law and order, the stronger…