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…
Reading Communists: the Literary Histories of Postcolonial Anti-communism
Seminar
All welcome, no registration required. Join in-person or via zoom (details below)In recent years, several strands of postcolonial and world literary studies have seen a welcome turn to the conjuncture of decolonisation and the global Cold War. As Peter Kalliney puts it in The Aesthetic Cold…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - May 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…
Kate Howell (ANU): ‘Buddhist Relic Practice in Gandhāra: A Spatial and Temporal Network’
Seminar
Relic practice has long been identified as the most significant element of Buddhist religious culture in ancient Gandhāra. While scholars have noted the relic cult’s special vitality, its significance has not been subject to critical investigation. Why this lacuna? Earlier Western scholars…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - April 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…
Artefacts Exhibition | October 2024 - March 2025
Exhibition
Artefacts ExhibitionOctober 2024 - March 2025ToursPlease contact ANU Classics Museum at classics.museum@anu.edu.au to organise a tour.The ARTefacts ProjectCo-Curators Dr Georgia Pike-Rowney and Julian LaffanThe ARTefacts Project engages contemporary artists and scholars completing higher…
Dr Edward Armstrong (ANU) 'Ritual and Friendship in the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars'
Seminar
This paper investigates the rhetoric and practice of ritualised friendship in the creation of treaties and alliances during the Atheno-Peloponnesian Wars (431-404 BCE). While modern commentators have shown separate interest in the personal/polis nature of treaties and alliances in Thucydides (e.g.…