The role of health communication in patient safety and quality of care
Webinar/Online
Communication in health care is a major quality and safety issue. Every day in Australian hospitals, miscommunication causes avoidable critical incidents - patients die, are harmed or receive the wrong treatment because of ineffective communication, for example during handovers or diagnosis.…
How Global is Australian Literature in the 21st century? A story of gender, genre and the international literary field
Seminar
How global is Australian literature in the twenty-first century? This large question generates many others, the two most obvious being: What is meant by global? What is meant by Australian literature? These are important but technical, easily answered. The real question is: What might the answer to…
The Shellal Mosaic: Archaeological, Textual and Visual Traditions
Lecture
The Shellal Mosaic is the largest ancient mosaic pavement in Australia. It was uncovered by Australian and New Zealand Service Personnel at Shellal, near Gaza, in 1917, and subsequently removed by Chaplain William Maitland Woods. The largest part of the mosaic is held by the Australian War Memorial…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - Rewriting, Reflecting and Resisting: Gender, Reception and ‘The Drover’s Wife’ Stories
Seminar
Rewriting, Reflecting and Resisting: Gender, Reception and ‘The Drover’s Wife’ Stories Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ has inspired many reinterpretations over the years. The constant (re)reading and (re)writing of the story enable discussions of and debates over gender, race,…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - Bringing the Original into Being by Copying It: On the Retrospective Nature of Poetic Mimesis
Seminar
Bringing the Original into Being by Copying It: On the Retrospective Nature of Poetic Mimesis A long line of commentators (Johnson 1751; Attridge 1982; Ford 2021) have pointed out how little the sounds in any given line of poetry relate to the actual sounds (e.g. the pounding of horses’ hooves)…
The First Person at Work: The Fiction of Helen Garner’s Autobiographical Self
Seminar
Over the course of her long career, Helen Garner has regularly been accused of writing too autobiographically for a novelist; of drawing too readily on her diaries; of lacking a narrative arc in her fiction. This paper turns this accusation on its head to suggest that the first person of Garner’s…
Nero and the Great Fire of Rome A Live 'Emperors of Rome' Podcast
Arts & entertainment
On the night of 18 July, 64 CE, a fire broke out in the Circus Maximus at Rome. The conflagration raged for nine days, destroying or damaging ten of the city’s fourteen regions. Was the fire just a terrible accident? Or was it deliberately lit, either by dissident Christians or by the emperor Nero…