Book Launch of ‘Imprisoned in English’ by Anna Wierzbicka
Lecture
Professor Catherine Travis, Head, School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics, invites you to the launch of ‘Imprisoned in English: The Hazards of English as a Default Language’ by Anna Wierzbicka. The book launch will be immediately followed by a reception. All are welcome to attend. Copies…
Domesticating the Foreign: Globalization's Effects on the Place/s of Languages
Lecture
Foreign language education is deeply affected by globalization, destabilizing some of the central ideas that have helped form national languages, and, by contrast, foreign languages. This article traces the economic origins of contemporary globalization and the deep communication effects that arise…
An early presence of Italians in the Australian Film Industry: The Pugliese Family
Lecture
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series. The National Film and Sound Archive’s recent restoration of a number of Giorgio Mangiamele’s key films and their subsequent release on DVD has finally made possible, after decades of neglect, an informed acknowledgement of the pioneering…
Ancient Rome in Silent Cinema
Lecture
Presented as part of the HRC Seminar Series In recent years, Hollywood has released a number of bigbudget films set in antiquity, yet cinema has been fascinated with the ancient world and with Roman history in particular ever since it emerged as a new technology more than one hundred years ago.…
‘I read it where it said this story is based on actual fact’: Gerald Murnane at the Cinema
Lecture
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series. Adrian Martin, one of Australia’s eminent voices in film criticism, once asserted that Philip Tyndall’s Words and Silk was ‘one of my all-time favourite Australian films.’ However, this hybrid documentary, focusing on the writer Gerald…
Reading Communities and the Circulation of Print: Australia, China, and Britain in the 19th Century
Conference
Reading Communities and the Circulation of Print: Australia, China, and Britain in the 19th Century’, an RSHA/CiW (CAP) conference jointly organised by SLLL staff (Julieanne Lamond and Gillian Russell) and the Centre for China in the World. The conference is free and open to the public.…
Garbled voices from the archives: Restoring Aboriginal words and meanings in historical sources
Conference
A workshop presented by the AustKin project. How do we make sense of Aboriginal words recorded in early sources when the language cannot be identified? What if the language is known, but no speakers remain? Our workshop seeks to bring together scholars who routinely work with old sources on…