HDR 2027 - Information Session
Information session
Join us on the 21st August at 12pm for an informal, online information session where you will hear about the unique features of the HDR programme at the ANU, the research expertise of the scholars on staff, and opportunities afforded to graduate students studying with us. We will also have the…
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…
‘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…
Shameful Material: HIV/AIDS and Shame in North American Gay Short Fiction from the 1980s to 1990s
Lecture/seminar
North American gay short fiction from the 1980s to 1990s offers insight into the underexamined ways that shame is relieved and communicated relationally, within sexual practices, heterosocial friendships, and queer friend groups and literary networks. Authors such as David Leavitt, Stephen Greco,…
'Ut pictura poesis': Text, Image, and Intermediality in Roman Receptions of the Trojan War
Seminar
Roman practices of reading were deeply embedded within a broader culture of viewing. While scholarship has long recognised the close relationship between Roman visual and literary cultures, textual and visual representations of myth are still frequently studied in isolation. This seminar presents…
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…
'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…