‘Getting Up and Moving Around’: Affective Viewing in the Documentary Art of Kutlağ Ataman and William Kentridge
Lecture
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series In New Philosophy for New Media Mark Hansen reconsiders Henri Bergson’s theory of perception as a way into under-standing the viewing of images as an embodied act, noting that for Bergson ‘motion functions as the concrete trigger of affection…
The Value of the Humanities: A Two Day Colloquium
Conference
Presented by the Humanities Research Centre, this two-day colloquium will discuss the current state of global humanities through the question of value. Rather than simply defending the humanities against the perceived onslaught of a bureaucratic instrumentalism or praising the humanities for…
Languages encroaching from the desert in northern Australia
Lecture
Presented as part of the Lanugage Change Seminar Series Abstract I have drawn a distinction between two kinds of language spread, upstream and downstream. Because this metaphor has been misinterpreted, I now refer to these respectively as skirting and encroaching. Encroaching spread is where people…
Conceptual Writing: Poetry as Information Art
Lecture
Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series. “Conceptual writing” began in the mid-1990s as a small, coterie-based North American literary movement. In the decades since it has become an international phenomenon, with analogues and collaborators in Australia, the United…
Love, Death and Science: Problematising Scientific Collecting and Dissection in Rifling Paradise and Love and the Platypus
Lecture
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Abstract The Victorian era was an age of scientific discovery. A number of modern novels set in the Victorian era reflect this, engaging with the morally problematic aspects of scientific collections and collecting. Two recent novels, Jem…
Launch of Four Books - Centre for Classical Studies
Other
In 2013 the Centre for Classical Studies (then the Classics & Ancient History Progam) launched five publications by Classicists on the ANU campus in 2012–2013. The Head of ANU’s School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, Professor Catherine Travis, is delighted to invite you to the launch…
Persian Language Online - Obstacles and Opportunities
Lecture
Presented as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum. In 2013, the Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies (CAIS) began an ambitious project to teach Persian and Arabic online. The first course offering was Introductory Persian A in Semester 1, 2014; Introductory Persian B and an advanced course in…