Dates-as-data for inscriptions: using summed probability analysis with Latin epigraphic databases to investigate population changes in the Roman Empire
Seminar
Since the 1980s, archaeologists have used Summed Probability Analysis (SPA) of radiocarbon dates to reconstruct demographic trends. This ‘dates as data’ approach assumes that radiocarbon dates represent occupation events, and that large enough datasets of dates can be used as a proxy for population…
Prof Mariano Siskind: On loss and melancholia
Seminar
Seminar on loss and melancholia with Prof Mariano Siskind (Harvard University) RSHA visitor Prof Mariano Siskind will be running a seminar for HDRs, Early- and Mid-Career Researchers in the humanities and the arts. We will be reading and discussing: “One Art,” by Elizabeth Bishop…
Dr Fernanda Peñaloza: Bringing Latin American cultural expertise to TV series 'Bump'
Seminar
Seminar: Bringing Latin American cultural expertise to TV series Bump with Dr Fernanda Peñaloza (University of Sydney). Fernanda Peñaloza is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Chair of the Spanish and Latin American Studies Department at the University of Sydney. Prior to…
Peter DeGabriele (Mississippi State University), “Sovereign (Ir)responsibility: Hobbes among the Drones”
Seminar
Please join us for another CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday, 23 May from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Shuttling between analyses of a 2012 series of memes entitled “Texts from Drone” and the philosophy of…
Wellspring Series 2024: Bushfire Stories
Seminar
Bushfire Stories: The Collective Power of Community The Australian Black Summer of 2019-2020 saw devastation on an unimaginable scale and gave rise to stories of intense trauma and loss, but also of communities rallying together to overcome adversity. The voices from some of Australia’s worst…
Jéssica Andrade Tolentino and Thomas Nulley-Valdés, “Navigating Boundaries: Intergenerational dynamics and imaginaries of childhood in Alejandro Zambra’s fictions”
Seminar
Please join us for another CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday, 9 May from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. As part of doctoral research conducted at the Australian National University, this presentation proposes a…
Benengeli 2024 Canberra
Lecture
Welcome to Benengeli 2024! Benengeli 2024, International Week of Literature in Spanish, is a festival to promote literature in Spanish around the globe. The Instituto Cervantes in Sydney, which is participating again in the Benengeli Festival, is hosting the visit of the Spanish author Jordi…