Contemporary Craft for Experimental Archaeology: Understanding Metalsmithing in Bronze Age Crete
Seminar
In the ANU Classics Museum, parked conspicuously in a case of Bronze Age artefacts, is a large copper vase—a modern vessel modelled after a Minoan bronze hydria in the collection of the Chania Archaeological Museum in Crete, hammered into shape with stone and wooden tools. The copper hydria is not…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - April
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…
Women in the Ancient World: Goddesses, Empresses and everyday life in the ANU Classics Museum
Workshop
Professional learning event for teachers in the ACT and region, presented by staff of the ANU Centre for Classical Studies.Please note this is a paid event Join staff of the ANU Centre for Classical Studies for a bespoke tour and presentation in the ANU Classics Museum, exploring the lives of…
Research ethics (Online)
Workshop
Learn about the importance of research ethics and the role of the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research. Gain a thorough understanding of ethics protocols and review, participant information sheets and consent forms and the use of data and the importance of privacy and…
From alienation to inclusive learner community: Lessons from multiethnic bilingual education classrooms
Seminar
The Sri Lankan public education system is highly segregated along language, ethnicity and religion primarily due to the medium of instruction. In this presentation, I discuss how social milieu in limitedly available multiethnic Bilingual Education classrooms (English and Mother tongue –…
Chios: Island and polis in the Archaic and Classical periods
Seminar
Epichoric histories aim to interpret localised phenomena and ask questions about specific places or people rather than establish generalised trends. Epichoric histories include studies of regions such as Phokis (McInerney 1999) or Laconia (Cartledge 2002), individual poleis such as Corinth (Salmon…
The birth of a new word/concept in Awiakay cosmology
Seminar
How and why do new words and concepts enter a language? What are the socio-cultural processes behind it? I will try to illuminate the answers to these questions by providing the ethnographic and historical background to one such case in the Awiakay language. After years of waiting for and praying…