FCM Happy Hour
Activity
The Friends of the ANU Classics Museum invite you to a special event in the museum! A celebration of the 60th anniversary of the museum, and a special welcome to Associate Professor Caillan Davenport as the new Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the ANU. From its modest beginnings in 1962…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - A matrix of becoming: Women’s friendship in 20th century American novels
Seminar
A matrix of becoming: Women’s friendship in 20th century American novels Few women would disagree with the idea that female friendship is—alongside the romantic and familial—one of the social pillars upon which their life is built. Certainly, women’s writing throughout space and time reflects its…
Francophonie Week 2022: Conference "Do you speak regional French?"
Seminar
On the occasion of the Francophonie Week 2022, the Francophonie Committee* is pleased to invite you to an interactive celebration of francophone culture on 16 March 2022, 6-8pm, in the ANU RSSS Auditorium. Organized in partnership with the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at ANU,…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - Smoke and Mirrors: Sex Work and Rithy Panh's Cinematic Image
Seminar
Smoke and Mirrors: Sex Work and Rithy Panh’s Cinematic Image This seminar examines the narrative authority of the sex worker in Rithy Panh’s Un Soir après la guerre (1998) and Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise (2007), two films that counter the discourses surrounding sex work with the…
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Annual General Meeting
Meeting
The Friends of the ANU Classics Museum invite you to the AGM and a lecture by Dr Kathleen Rile "Keeping Ithaca in mind: Home, Homer, and Homecoming" Kathleen Riley’s new book, Imagining Ithaca, explores the idea of nostos (the ancient Greek word for homecoming or return), from the end of the…
Zoom In For a Happy Hour
Other
Zoom link will be circulated on 17 November We had planned to hold a Happy Hour in the museum as our final event for yet another disrupted year. Unfortunately, Covid 19 restrictions within the ANU have made this impossible, so we are inviting you to zoom in for the short talk that was to be…
Meeting the Unknown: a symposium on the work of Amanda Lohrey
Symposium
Register for Session 1 : Thursday 18th NovRegister for Session 2 : Friday 19th Nov ‘It’s a strange relationship you have with a reader. You don’t see them. You don’t know them. It’s kind of like sending out a message in a bottle. And yet somehow, magically, often that bottle comes back…