Sicily: The Levant’s foothold in Italy
Seminar
While the eastern part of Sicily was thickly settled by Greeks in the 8th century BCE, the west was in Phoenician hands, with cities at Mozia, Palermo and Solunto. People from the Levant had already been visiting the island in the Bronze Age, when their principal destination seems to have been the…
Australian Literature in the Shadow of the Colonial Patriarchy
Conference
Australian Literature in the Shadow of the Colonial Patriarchy Monday 24 October & Tuesday 25 October Sessions held at the RSSS Auditorium, ANU and Online. Access the program
“You’re too smart to be a publicist”: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity
Seminar
The representation of publicists in popular culture appears to have a direct relationship with the ways in which publishing sector publicity staff are perceived by their colleagues and peers, which in turn has a distinct knock-on effect on work practices and labour conditions. In this seminar, we…
Language Revitalization and Cultural Activism: The Afro-Bolivian Spanish Case
Seminar
During the past two decades, some Afro-Hispanic languages have slowly entered the process of official recognition in Latin America (Dijkhoff & Pereira 2010; Lipski 2010). Recent publications on Afro-Bolivian Spanish (Lipski 2008, Sessarego 2011, 2014, 2021)have triggered an important process of…
Louis Klee "Australian Poets in the Countries of Others"
Seminar
When Australians travel overseas, they cross—in the words of an economist—‘into statistical anonymity’. The figures are speculative, but for more than two decades demographers have estimated that, ‘[o]n any given day, there are approximately one million Australians outside Australia’. Though mostly…
Some thoughts on the present state of the French novel
Seminar
With nearly 600 new novels published every year, to talk of recurrent themes or preoccupations in recent years is at best hazardous if not a waste of time. There is the usual cry that the vast sprawling novels of the nineteenth century and the masterpieces of the twentieth requiring the reader’s…