“We murder to dissect”: Culture Through Crime Fiction in L2 Classroom
Lecture
Presented as part of the Language Teaching Forum No RSVP necessary. Since its inception, the detective genre has crossed borders and languages and everywhere it has gone it has been appropriated and rewritten to fit local concerns and taboos. In this journey across cultures and languages the crime…
Artworks at the Australian National University
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series >> Seminar Flyer (96KB) The University House design and precinct, incorporating a site specific sculpture established a showpiece for Australia’s new national university. By design, it was to be the ‘Australian university in…
Intercultural language teaching and learning: Rethinking language, culture and learning in the language classroom
Lecture
Presented as part of the Language Teaching Forum. The need for language programs to attend to the development of intercultural understanding and intercultural communication has long been a commonplace in language education. Recent thinking in language education has argued that language education…
Supplying water to an unstable city: Pompeii before the eruption
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Pompeii's extensive lead pipe distribution system brought running water to more than 40 street-side fountains, multiple bathing complexes and nearly 10% of the city’s houses. But Pompeii’s precarious location on Mt Vesuvius presented the planners with many problems, particularly when the ground…
Contaminating the Digital: Action & Perception in Henry James and Alfred Hitchcock
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series >> Seminar Flyer This seminar discusses how by contaminating their respective audience's view of action with epistemological and psychological issues James and Hitchcock interrupt and slow down the plot of either the…
Linguists in the education space
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Presented as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum. At so many levels, schooling in Australia could benefit from linguistically informed advice, particularly where education is delivered in linguistically complex contexts. The question is whether linguists are prepared for the nature of the very…
Cultural Infrastructure, Creative Networks and the Cinema
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series >> Seminar Flyer The Humanities Research Centre was established in 1972 as a national and international centre for excellence in the Humanities and a catalyst for innovative Humanities scholarship and research within the…