Teaching Online: Media Arabic
Lecture
Presented as part of the Language Teaching Forum. Arab Current Affairs and Media Arabic is a third-year course taught for the first time at ANU in second semester 2014. It is the first Arabic course to be offered as part of the CASS Online Languages Project solely using Moodle (Wattle) for content…
A Fused Forensic Text Comparison System Using Lexical Features, Word and Character N-grams: A Likelihood Ratio-based Analysis in Predatory Chatlog Messages
Lecture
Presented as part of the Languages and Linguistics Seminar Series This study investigates the degree that the performance of a likelihood ratio (LR)-based forensic text comparison (FTC) system improves by using logistic-regression fusion on LRs that were separately estimated by three different…
French, German, Italian and Spanish Honours Information Session
Lecture
Dear Students in French, German, Italian and Spanish: Would you like to get information about the new Honours structure in Language Studies? Then please join us on Tuesday 21 October at 4pm for an information session. If you can't make it but want to find out more, please contact the relevant…
Queer Objects: A Symposium with Robyn Wiegman and Annamarie Jagose
Conference
Image from Dreamstate #3, inkjet print, U.K. Frederick (2013) >> Symposium Poster (1.7MB) ‘The rejection of essentialism,’ David Halperin writes in How to be Gay (2012), ‘did not prevent the original founders of queer theory from asking “What do Queers want?”’. In her Object Lessons (2012),…
Looking into the Real World: Likelihood Ratio Variability under Forensically Realistic Conditions
Lecture
Presented as part of the Languages and Linguistics Seminar Series This study sets out to investigate how the speech of a single speaker can vary depending on their interlocutor and apparent emotional status and, consequently, how this affects likelihood ratio (LR)-based forensic voice comparison,…
‘The tumuli in the Troad’ – next in the Classics Seminar Series
Other
The Centre for Classical Studies warmly invites you to attend a talk in its Classics Seminar Series by Prof. Elizabeth Minchin. As usual, after the talk, we shall continue discussion in the ANU Classics Museum. ‘The tumuli in the Troad that are traditionally associated with the heroes of Troy –…
Magisterial Ineptitude: Bad Poetry and Unintended Humour
Lecture
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Few would dispute the claim that William McGonagall’s ‘The Tay Bridge Disaster’ is the best bad poem ever written. Yet who now recalls other examples from the once prolific Railway school of poetry? Who remembers the Dairy poets, in…