'Each book, in a word, carries a history': New Insights from First Fleet Association Copies

Lecture/seminar

The First Fleet sailed from England on 13 May 1787, carrying more than 1,500 people. What books they read, owned or carried with them remains a subject of great historical and research value for understanding Early European settlement in Australia. This paper examines surviving books of First Fleet…

Criminality and Femininity: Undoing the Paradox

Lecture/seminar

Women involved in violent crime, both perpetrators and victims, are often vulnerable to forms of representation that distort or overwrite their experiences. Their identities can be reduced to sexist stereotypes, while their bodies are displaced, manipulated and represented in ways that reinforce…

The World Literature Turn in Spanish & Latin American Literature

Symposium

Juan Poblete’s volume New Approaches to Latin American Studies (Routledge 2018) provided an up-to-date snapshot of new and renewed approaches to Latin American Studies framed around the concept of “the turn,” such as: the subalternist turn, decolonial turn, and Indigenous studies turn, to name…

Wellspring Series 2026: Preserving Australian Modern Dance: Creating a Pedagogy for the Bodenwieser Technique

Performance

In this lecture-demonstration, scholar Wesley Lim and choreographers James Batchelor and Ruth Osborne explore the movement legacy of modern dance pioneer Gertrud Bodenwieser and the lineage of her teaching in Australia.Lim will introduce Bodenwieser’s radical modernist practice, brought to…

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 2026The Languages and Cultures Network of Australian Universities (LCNAU) invites proposals for the 2026 National Colloquium, to be held…