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Film poster for Brazen Hussies featuring a woman, yellow background and women's protestors, with pink and purple protest graphics

Brazen Hussies documentary film poster, and cover image, Unfinished Revolution by Virginia Haussegger, 2025 (detail)

Brazen Hussies: Then and now
02 Oct 2025 | 6:00pm - 8:30pm

Reflect on the women's liberation movement of the 1970s and examine what feminist activism looks like today. 

*Tickets to attend in-person have sold out*

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Talking Paterson, Talking Dolls with ANU School of Cybernetics
09 Oct 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

**Due to unforeseen circumstances this event was cancelled.**

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Cancelled
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1789 Map of the Malabar Coast

Dalrymple Charts of the Malabar Coast

Mapping the Unknown: Cartographers' strategies for navigating uncertainty
14 Oct 2025 | 6:00pm - 7:00pm

Exploring early modern maps with cartographic historian, Chet Van Duzer.

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event-image-shakespeare2-2025

A. de Paszthory, Portrait of Nellie Stewart as Rosalind in As You Like It, oil on canvas, 1904, https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn3022148; Broadside advertising George Musgrove’s As You Like It, Princess Theatre, Melbourne, Melbourne: Troedel, 1903, https://nla.gov.au/nla.cat-vn107848

Shakespeare on the move: Gold rush to Great War
18 Nov 2025 | 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Join us for the third illustrated Shakespeare lecture and discover the objects and stories that reveal how Shakespeare made landfall in Australia.  

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