SLLL Annual HDR Conference
Conference
The Higher Degree Research (HDR) cohort in the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics is vibrant and interdisciplinary. With sixty candidates at all stages of candidature, HDRs are major research contributors across SLLL’s full breadth of humanistic and social scientific expertise.…
Multilingual Mosaic
Other
Are you curious about where studying Languages can take you?Join us for a fun session at the ANU, where you’ll discover how learning languages opens doors to exciting opportunities in Australia and beyond. You’ll meet our team, hear about our courses, and find out how you could study or work…
Life Narrative Studies
Seminar
Life narrative studies is a broad term used to reflect the interrogation and analysis of practices of self-representation. Such practices include textual (life writing, memoir, auto/biography, diary), digital (websites, blogs, social media), material (visual art, quilting), and performative…
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…
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…
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…
Pathways in Linguistics | Panel Discussion
Panel discussion
Join us for a panel discussion of career journeys, career advice, and best ways to prepare for the job market. The panel includes linguistics graduates who are currently working in different fields, drawing on the knowledge and skills that they obtained during their degree.SpeakersKyla Quinn: Data…