Wellspring Series 2026: Singing the News in Early Colonial Australia
Activity
Singing the News in Early Colonial Australia revives a centuries-old tradition of singing ballads as a form of news transmission. Associate Professor Una McIlvenna and PhD Candidate Madeline Sargeant will trace the journey of news ballads from European streets and marketplaces, via convict and…
Perceptual Novum: Sensory Storytelling in South Korean Science Fiction
Lecture/seminar
A distinctive feature of twenty-first century feminist South Korean science fiction is that the novum, the strange newness that sets the text’s story world apart from the reader’s empirical reality, often relates to sensory perception. Literary theorist Darko Suvin famously defines science fiction…
Translating Greek in Māori-language theatre from Homer’s Odyssey to Euripides’ Bacchae
Seminar
This talk addresses interactions between Classics, theatre, and te reo Māori, the indigenous Polynesian language of Aotearoa New Zealand. The principal focus will be two quite different works:Hemi Kelly’s Ngā Whakamāoritanga, a Māori translation of Brian Friel’s play Translations published in 2022…
Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) Colloquium 2026
LCNAU Colloquium 2026Languages at the Crossroads: Imagining Futures, Bridging DividesAustralian National University, Ngunnawal and Ngambri Country23–25 November 2026 Early-Bird Registration Now Open!The Languages and Cultures Network of Australian Universities (LCNAU) invites proposals for the…
Upcoming IC4CH Symposium: Bridging Traditions, Building Futures: Connecting Health Communication Research Across Asia-Pacific and Other Contexts
Symposium
The Centre for the Humanities and Medicine at the University of Hong Kong is proud to host the 2026 International Consortium for Healthcare Communication (IC4CH) Symposium. The event brings together world-leading academics from institutions across Australia, Singapore, South Africa, the United…