Notes towards an Unhomely Australia
Seminar
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.This paper introduces a book I’m planning, a sort of belated ‘sequel’ to the much earlier co-authored Uncanny Australia (1998). My focus is on the so-called 'housing' crisis and I shall argue that even as Australia imagines itself as a…
Research in a Spirit of Play: Ellen Terry and Nellie Melba in Conversation
Seminar
In-person and online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.In 1914 the famous British Shakespeare star, Ellen Terry, lonely and anxious, her health failing, found herself stranded in Australia by the outbreak of the Great War. Fortunately she had a friend in Nellie Melba, who had…
The Politics of Freeing Slaves: Manumission Laws in Early Imperial Rome and China
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 2During his principate, Augustus promulgated several perplexing laws that seemingly regulated and restricted manumission: Lex Iunia (~17 BCE), Lex Fufia Caninia (2 BCE), Lex Aelia Sentia (4 CE), and Lex Papia Poppaea (9 CE). Literary sources present an…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - August 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
In Conversation with Mariana Enriquez
Book launch
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Kazuo Ishiguro recently hailed the Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez as “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time”. In collaboration with SLLL, the Spanish Studies Program and AILASA (the Association of Iberian and Latin American…
Wet and Wild: Justice and Ecology in Ancient Flood Narratives?
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 1 The destruction of most of humanity in ancient Flood narratives has understandably led to dominantly anthropocentric approaches in their intertextual analyses. This paper considers the significant yet overlooked role of animals and the environment in these ancient…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - July 2025
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…