Information Session: Honours in English & Drama 2015
Lecture
Are you interested in honours in English & Drama? Or are you studying a major in English, but want to write an honours thesis in Film or Gender Studies? Find out about what’s involved in doing an honours year, entry requirements, course-work, supervision, and why writing a thesis is the…
Women and Politics in France
Lecture
France likes to think of itself as a country that champions liberty. Yet for political and cultural reasons, in comparison with other countries it has been slow to grant political rights to women (women's suffrage, 1944). In spite of affirmative action measures (eg, '…
Australian Premier of “Fermín, Glorias de Tango”
Lecture
The Argentine Embassy in Australia, the Spanish program at ANU, and Tango in the Spring welcome all members of the ANU and ACT communities to attend the Australian premier of “Fermín, glorias de tango”. The film will be shown in Spanish with English subtitles. The premier is free and open to all.…
‘L’image d’une quête’: The Visual Archives of Rithy Panh
Lecture
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper will examine Rithy Panh’s multifaceted project of memorialization, a project which includes documentary films, co-authored narrative texts, and the Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center, which is devoted to recovering and preserving…
The most beautiful church in Christendom: the Hagia Sophia in Istanbul
Other
The ANU (Canberra) Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens warmly invite you to this illustrated lecture Hagia Sophia in Istanbul is one of the greatest architectural monuments in the world. Originally built as the Byzantine Cathedral of Constantinople under Emperor Justinian…
Pausanias and the Staged City of Thebes
Other
Thebes existed in several ways in antiquity. There was a city by that name on the Greek mainland, some hundred miles north-west of Athens. And there was a city by that name whose distinctive walled topography offered to Athenian playwrights a sealed conceptual space in which its ruling dynasty…
‘Dead as earth’: contemporary topicality and myths of origin in King Lear and The Shadow King
Conference
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series. >>Seminar Flyer (147KB) Many meeting places are offered at the intersections of narrative-rich Australian Indigenous culture and the source stories to which Shakespeare gave such durable dramatic identity in his plays. Surprisingly,…