Practices of Contemporary Readers: Aesthetics, Morality, Self-Care
Seminar
How can we understand the practices of everyday readers in the twenty-first century? In this paper, I present a dynamic theoretical model of contemporary reading based on qualitative research with readers, in order to drive forward debates about the significance of recreational reading. I argue…
Corpus Linguistics Workshop by Lancaster University’s Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS)
Workshop
This free workshop, arranged jointly by the Australian National University and Lancaster University’s Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, offers a series of sessions on topics in corpus linguistics and the application of corpus techniques in discourse studies and the study of health(…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - February
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…
Classics: Considering the Critique
Lecture
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum invite you to an end of year happy hour and talk Classics: Considering the Critique Presented by Dr Gwendolyn Gray Jamieson Followed by a special announcement and celebration to honour a generous gift to the Museum by Emeritus Professor Graeme Clarke This talk…
The Bride Flights. Women, Migration and the History of Australia
Seminar
The Bride Flights. Women, migration and the history of Australia. Documentary screening and Q&A with director Dr Natalia Ortiz (UNSW) As part of an agreement between the Spanish and Australian governments, known as Plan Martha, a number of single Spanish women migrated to Australia in the…
Re-examining peripheral structures: theoretical and empirical perspectives on linguistic ‘(un)productivity’
Workshop
The purpose of this workshop is to critically examine the notion of ‘(un)productivity’, a fundamental concept in linguistic study. It will do so from the perspective of previously under-studied, peripheral structures across typologically different languages and with a particular focus on form,…
The company words keep: studying semantic change in Portuguese and Spanish
Seminar
In recent years, researchers investigating changes in word meaning have employed computational methods to identify instances of change and to trace patterns of semantic shifts over time (Hamilton et al. 2016, Rodda et al.2017; see Tang 2018, Tahmasebi et al. 2018 for overviews). This vein of…