‘It’s a Fish-eat-Fish World': Mātsya-Nyāya, Anarchical Chaos, and the Social Contract in ancient Brāhmanical India
Seminar
Mātsya-nyāya is a central concept in the political science of ancient Brāhmanical India. When the King fails to protect the Kingdom, chaos ensues, and Mātsya-nyāya – ‘the Guiding Principle (nyāya) of the Fish (mātsya)’ – comes into effect. Without the State to maintain law and order, the stronger…
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…
HDR 2027 - Information Session
Information session
Run by the staff of the Centre for Classical Studies for all interested graduate students.Details to be announced
Honours 2027 - Information Session
Information session
Learn all about the Classical Studies Honours program:why you might want to do an Honours year, what an Honours year entails, how to ensure you are eligible, and the funding opportunities available to help support your Honours year.
From Alexandria to Baghdad via Damascus: Missing Links in the Transmission of Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Seminar
The established narrative of the transmission of Greek philosophy and science in late antiquity leaves a significant gap between the end of the Alexandrian school in the 6th century and its “rediscovery” in 9th-century Baghdad. This so-called ‘Dark Age’ can be illumined by looking at the…
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…
More than Bare Bones: Reconstructing the Lives of Egypt's Silent Majority. A Paleodemographic Framework for Ancient Egypt
Seminar
Ancient Egypt has left one of the richest archaeological records of the ancient world, yet the lives of most Egyptians remain surprisingly difficult to reconstruct. While thousands of non-royal skeletons have been excavated over the past century, the data is dispersed across excavation reports,…