Postcolonial Theory and Its Contemporary Challenges
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series Abstract This lecture will address three main challenges that postcolonial thinking faces in the Anglo-American academy: ideological fragmentation of academic Marxism,an international phenomenon, with analogues and collaborators in…
Museums, human rights and memory: a transnational and comparative case study
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Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series. This thesis deals with the display of historical memories in contemporary human rights museums. It aims to explore how conflicted pasts are being framed through the lens of human rights, using four institutions from around the world as case…
John Le Carre and Edward Snowden: Facts and Fictions in the World of Contemporary Espionage
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series. John le Carre’s novels have been acclaimed as among the finest spy fiction ever written, blurring the boundaries between literary and popular works. Both as a writer and a public intellectual, he has also been an influential…
Making ethnographic data more accessible through information architecture
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This presentation by Meghan McGrath, Indiana University, will also include a bonus unveiling of AustKin interface and interactive homemade chocolate chip cookies. How can ethnographic collections be successfully shared with a public audience online? Learn how information architecture and HCI (human…
Finding the Fourth Dimension: Learning through Practice in the Arts and Humanities
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This workshop for lecturers and researchers with Dr Bridget Escolme is jointly presented by the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions, the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics and the ANU Research School of Humanities and the Arts. Would you…
The Event Panorama: Linking SVCs in White Hmong
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Serial verb constructions (SVCs) are well known to function in many languages to increase the detail and complexity of the clause. Typical SVC functions include adding arguments, providing aspectual and deictic information, and conveying resultative and causative meanings. In addition to extending…
HONEST HISTORY: Language, Australian Soldiers, and the First World War
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HONEST HISTORY: Supporting balanced and honest history Language, Australian Soldiers, and the First World War During the First World War, Australian soldiers, in cultivating the identity of the larrikin digger, often celebrated the distinctive ‘Aussie slanguage’ that marked their informality,…