HONEST HISTORY: Language, Australian Soldiers, and the First World War
Lecture
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,…
Polyphony and performance: integrating the theatre into cinema’s modernity
Lecture
Presented by Dr Victoria Duckett, University of Melbourne, as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series. My research explores film’s nascent relationship to the late nineteenth century stage. It argues that the emergence of digital culture has seen a focus on the technological rather…
Law in the Flesh: A Genealogy of the Political Unconscious with Specific Reference to Joshua Oppenheimer's 'The Act of Killing’
Lecture
Presented by Prof Richard Sherwin, New York Law School, as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series. A proper respect for civil order does not mandate the elision of political violence; indeed, it requires that we look for it, at the beginning of state sovereignty. Forgetfulness, or…
Semantic Symposium: The Make-up of the Human Person in Cross-Linguistics Perspective
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Law and the Visual: Transitions and Transformations
Conference
What are you doing Monday July 7 and Tuesday July 8? The Wimbledon men’s single final? – record it. The FIFA World Cup semi-final? – watch it later. Forget London. Forget Rio. The only place to be is Canberra. It’s not on television. It’s not on video. Live and in person, for two…
Romance Languages in the Antipodes (RomLA)
Lecture
Problems with the Appropriation of French Object Clitics in L2A: a Perceptual and Articulatory Analysis Although research has clearly demonstrated the existence of the various difficulties associated with acquiring French accusative clitics, the actual source of these difficulties has not yet…
Intersecting subgroups in Indo-European: An application of Historical Glottometry
Lecture
Presented as part of the Language Change Seminar Series Speaker Mr Siva Kalyan Abstract A central tenet of the Comparative Method is the principle of subgrouping by shared innovations. If two or more languages have a set of shared developments which are not found elsewhere in the family, then it is…