Where Are We? Visual Cultures of Place-making in Precarious Age: A two day Colloquium.
Conference
Presented by the Humanities Research Centre Photograph courtesy Rusty Stewart ‘To imagine other places that are sustainable, we need to know what our imagination is like…’ (Paul Carter, Ground Truthing: Explorations in a Creative Region, 2010) In recent years a conjunction of technological, social…
Trying to do it Better: Teaching Ancient Greek and Latin at the ANU
Lecture
Presented as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum This panel will present and discuss the challenges and pedagogical approaches to teaching Ancient Greek and Latin at ANU. Professor Minchin will talk about the organization of the Classics program for teaching ancient languages, its advantages…
Exploring Human Emotions from a Non-Anglo-Centric and Non-Chronocentric Perspective
Lecture
Emotions in Research Seminar In this talk, I will present a methodology which makes it possible to explore human emotions from a non-Anglocentric and non-chronocentric perspective. I will start by analysing one sentence from Kay Redfield Jamieson’s book An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and…
Tools for Success: HDR Professionalization Workshop
Lecture
This workshop series is designed to offer valuable training for your graduate degree and beyond. The workshops will speak to key components of the profession, including developing and writing the thesis, conferencing, and surviving the PhD. The aim is to provide you with a background in planning,…
An Artistic Anthropology? Beginning with Reverie
Lecture
Presented as part of the HRC Seminar Series >>Seminar Flyer (150KB) In this talk I will use examples of crossings between art and anthropology to tease out moments in both disciplines when my ways of relating to others (human and non-human) coalesced into something the psychoanalyst W. Bion…
The Significance of the Palaestra at Hellenistic Jebel Khalid on the Euphrates in North Syria
Other
The Centre for Classical Studies warmly invites you to attend the the Classics Seminar Series to be held in Semester 2. After the talk in G41, we shall continue discussion in the ANU Classics Museum over light refreshments. Why did every Greek polis aspire to have a gymnasium of its own, an…
Finnegans Wake as Thought with the Mouth
Lecture
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series In 2010, Houyhnhnm Press published a new edition of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake, featuring over 9,000 emendations, some fourteen per page. Prior to then—though known to be badly in need of repair since the 1950s—the Wake had never even been…