Beyond Academia: writing into the public conversation
Lecture
Masterclass with Kim Mahood, H.C. Coombs Fellow in 2014 This three-hour workshop is designed for academics who feel that there is an idea buried in their academic work that deserves exposure outside the confines of the university. It will offer techniques and suggestions for transforming academic…
Unseen City: Travelling Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor
Lecture
Presented as part of the HRC Seminar Series "Unseen City: Travelling Psychoanalysis and the Urban Poor," which is drawn from a multi-disciplinary and collaborative project of the same title, examines the institution of psychoanalysis and its vexed relationship with race and urban poverty, as seen…
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Happy Hour
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Come along and discover “How the Romans nailed it”! Friends and their guests are invited to drinks and finger food in the ANU Classics Museum. The evening will feature presentations on the Museum’s five Roman nails from a hoard discovered at Inchtuthil in Scotland in the 1950s. Derek Abbott, who…
A Note on Suetonius Domitian 3.2
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Presented as part of the Classics Seminar Series When one looks to answer the question of whether Suetonius believed character could change over the lifetime, a difficulty is created by a passage in Domitian 3.2: "but finally he turned the virtues also into vices [uirtutes quoque in uitia deflexit…
'Skeleton, skeleton, where are you going?'
Lecture
Drawing by Boris Tazlitsky in Buchenwald,101 dessins sur Buchenwald Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series ‘Skeleton, skeleton, where are you going?’ Death and the Grotesque in the French-language Poetry Written in Concentration Camps (1943-1945) Adorno’s famous (and often…
Roman Archaeology and the Politics of Power: Varro, Augustus, and the Spolia Opima
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Presented as part of the Classics Seminar Series In 29 BCE, M. Licinius Crassus (cos. ord. 30), proconsul of Macedonia and homonymous grandson of the great dynast of the Late Republic, boldly claimed the right to dedicate the so-called Spolia Opima to Jupiter Feretrius for having slain Deldo, king…
Blindness Visible: Law, Time, and Bruegel's justice
Lecture
Presented as part of the HRC Seminar Series This presentation builds on preliminary work of Professor Des Manderson last year on the developing trope of blind justice in Western law. Bruegel's Justicia appears at first glance to be a spatial representation of law-a snapshot, a mis en…