Book Launch: Iridio Ennui vs The Boltzmann Brains: A novel with equations
Book launch
Iridio Ennui vs The Boltzmann Brains: A novel with equations by Mario Daniel Martín Translated by Kevin Windle, Amalia Milman and Mario Daniel Martín.The book will be launched by Professor Paul Magee. This is the first English translation of the second edition of "La inevitable resurrección de…
Coins of Ancient Greece and Rome: History, Reception, Activation
Symposium
Coins of Ancient Greece and Rome: History, Reception, Activation - An Interdisciplinary Symposium Come join us for a fascinating exploration of ancient coins from Greece and Rome at the AD Hope Conference Room (Room 1.28) and ANU Classics Museum, The Australian National University. This…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - November 2024
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 Project: Artists’ Talks and Reception
Exhibition
Please join the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum for talks by the artists participating in the current ARTefacts Project exhibition, on display October 2024 – March 2025. The ARTefacts Project engages contemporary artists and ANU postgraduates in the creation of new works that respond to the…
Liquid Antiquities, Liquid Mobilities
Symposium
What would happen … if antiquity, no longer carved stone, turned liquid? This provocation issued by Brooke Holmes almost a decade ago is an invitation to defamiliarize our vision(s) of the past, to imagine it not as a fragmentary solid object patiently awaiting reassembly, but as a mobile liquid…
Dr Daniel Hanigan (Trinity College, Cambridge)- ‘Counter-Mapping Empire: Dionysius of Byzantium in the Thracian Bosporus’
Seminar
The rhetoric of global territorial conquest was central to the propaganda of the early Roman Empire. Augustus and his successors frequently presented themselves in Virgilian terms as masters of an “empire without end” (imperium sine fine) bounded only by the impassable waters of Ocean. This was,…
Jemima McPhee (Australian National University)- ‘Fire, earth and astrologia: writing science under Augustan stars’
Seminar
What makes Roman science ‘Roman’? How did the Romans investigate natural phenomena? And how did changing institutions influence scientific discourse? Contemporary ancient science scholarship focuses on positioning science in the wider ancient world and investigating how social, cultural, and…