To Live as a Photograph
Lecture
Presented as part of the HRC Seminar Series Speaker Joseph Slaughter is currently a Visiting Fellow in the Humanities Research Centre at ANU. He is an associate professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University, where he teaches and in the fields of postcolonial literature and…
‘Eroticized benevolence’ and the sentimental encounter in Sterne and Beckett
Lecture
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Taking its cue from Christopher Nagle’s analysis, through the lens of queer theory, of the ‘eroticized benevolence’ at the heart of the eighteenth century literature of sensibility, this paper reads alongside each other two ‘sentimental…
Phylogenetics meets the Comparative Method: Australian Kinship
Lecture
Language Change Seminar Presented by Assoc Prof Claire Bowern, Yale University "I present recent work surveying the use of phylogenetic trait analysis to reconstruct closed class vocabulary systems, and compare the results to those achieved with the comparative method. Small, semi-closed vocabulary…
An Outsider in Colonial New South Wales: The Ambivalent Position of a French Aristocrat, Francis Nicolas Rossi
Lecture
Literary Studies Seminar Series This PhD thesis examines the life Francis Nicolas Rossi, a senior government official in early New South Wales, born French, of a noble Corsican family, who served the British Crown for more than 40 years before retiring to his country home in Goulburn. Rossi had a…
13th Australian Languages Workshop
Other
Workshop overview The 13th annual Australian Languages Workshop (ALW) will be hosted by the Australian National University at its Kioloa Coastal Campus, with joint support from the School of Culture, History and Language (CAP) and the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (CASS). The…
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum AGM
Other
A short AGM will be followed by a talk by Professor Chris Mackie, Professor of Greek Studies at La Trobe University, on a topic yet to be advised.
Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages: Launch and public lecture
Lecture
The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages (LAAL) (http://laal.cdu.edu.au)/ will be launched by The Honorable Sharman Stone, Member for Murray. Dr Stone was deputy chair of the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs which in 2012 produced the…