Decolonial Gazing and Hermeneutic Resistance: Black German Challenges to White German Cultural Hegemony in the Museum
Seminar
This work in progress essay highlights the ways that Black Europeans, in this case in the German context, challenge universalizing notions of cultural heritage to highlight decolonial possibilities and interrogate the collection, display, and spectatorship of museum objects in majority-white…
The flexibility of acoustic boundaries in multilingual speech
Seminar
When multilingual speakers are using two or three languages itis not surprising that their linguistic systems interact. In terms of theirsound systems, the phonological representations of each language aresimultaneously activated, creating competition between languages. In thesecommunicative…
The Lifecycle of Writing Subjects: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Large Language Models
Seminar
This paper uncovers the “realities” of AI with an emphasis on the machine learning technologies that drive the new surveillance economy and its characteristic structures, social relations, and onto-epistemological conditions of possibility. I dwell on large language models (LLMs) because these…
La langue de Molière: Reza’s Art
Arts & entertainment
Hear acclaimed French playwright, screenwriter and novelist Yasmina Reza’s words as originally penned in selected extracts from Art read in French, presented in partnership with Alliance Française Canberra and the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics. Featuring readers Emmanuelle…
Andrew Nette Book Launch
Book launch
Follow the registration link for Zoom details Please join us for the book launch of Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback, the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications! Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - The Pleasure of Self-Erasure
Seminar
The Pleasure Of Self-Erasure: Catherine Malabou, (Sexual) Anarchy And Agnès Varda’s Sans Toi Ni Loi (1985) Adventures and solitude of a young vagabond (neither withdrawn nor talkative), told by those who had crossed her path, that winter in the South of France. But can one render silence, or…
Book Launch of "Lohrey" by Julieanne Lamond
Book launch
A guide to the world of Amanda Lohrey's fiction, and a meditation on what her writing has to say about contemporary life and how we live it. About this event You are cordially invited to join us for the launch of Lohrey, by Julieanne Lamond, published by Melbourne…