Dr Estelle Strazdins: European Travellers to Greece and the Tomb of the Athenians at Marathon
Seminar
This paper traces the interpretations applied to the mound or soros on the plain of Marathon from the later eighteenth century through the nineteenth century by amateur archaeologists. These interpretations were based on flakes of obsidian found in the soil of the mound that were…
Sophie Tallis (TPR), “Girlhood Bodies on French Screens: From Monstrous Feminine to Liminal Resistance”
Seminar
Please join us for another CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday, 2 May from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Two unanswered questions remain at the centre of the recent influx of French and francophone films about…
Evaluating workplace relationships in the Homeric Iliad: bringing together digital approaches and social and cognitive theory
Seminar
In this paper I bring together a cluster of verbal behaviours in the Homeric Iliad, a recent psychological study of four interrelated modes of communication in the workplace (the Responsibility Exchange Theory), and DICES, the Digital Initiative for Classics: Epic Speeches. I draw on the DICES…
Zach Karpinellison (Exit Seminar), “Versions & The NFSA“
Seminar
Please join us for the next event where Zach Karpinellison will present his Exit Seminar “Versions & The NFSA“ on Wednesday, 24 April from 5:30-6:30pm in person (BPB W3.03) and via Zoom. What version of Starstruck have you seen? Do you remember the cut of Bliss where Harry…
Wellspring Series 2024: Memory in the City
Seminar
Memory in the City Cities are not only brick and mortar. In cities, cultures converge, interact, flourish, and sometimes clash violently. Cities hold the key to restoring and making whole the fractures and silences of our collective memory and identity, shaping how we see ourselves and, with it,…
Alex Grigor (ANU) - ‘Achilles in Rome: Exploring 1st century CE Roman Representations of the Hero’
Seminar
In the century following the publication of Virgil’s Aeneid, there ensued a proliferation of literary and artistic works centred around the Trojan War and its heroic figures in Rome. As it currently stands, the ways in which Romans viewed heroism in response to the Aeneid, which set forth Aeneas as…
Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link. From the radical politics and poetic experimentalism of Kargun (1980) to the complex poetics of address in Harvest Lingo (2022), Wakka Wakka poet Lionel Fogarty…