The Australasian Book Society: Making a Literary Working Class During the Cultural Cold War
Seminar
For access to the Zoom ID and Password for this seminar, please send an email enquiry to : monique.rooney@anu.edu.au “To encourage mass participation in and responsibility for the publication of progressive Australian literature” was one of the masthead aims of the Australasian Book…
2021 SLLL HDR Conference
Conference
The SLLL HDR Convenors are pleased to invite you to the 2021 HDR Conference to be held on 3 - 5 November via Zoom. All are welcome and encouraged to attend to support and celebrate the research of our PhD and MPhil candidates. Registration Zoom link for all presentations: https://…
'Believe in Me' Talk and Q&A with Lucy Neave and Kathryn Hind
Seminar
Lucy Neave will give a short talk about the forces that shaped the writing of her novel, Believe in Me (UQP, 2021), followed by a Q&A with Kathryn Hind. Lucy Neave is the author of the novels Believe in Me (2021) and Who We Were (2013), a Griffith Review…
Francis Steegmuller’s Pyjamas: reticence, intimacy and becoming a biographer
Seminar
For access to the Zoom ID and Password for this seminar, please send an email enquiry to : monique.rooney@anu.edu.au This paper looks back on the process of writing Shirley Hazzard’s authorised biography. It considers a biographer’s interest in and access to the (open) secrets of a…
Form Clay to Screen Tablet
Lecture
A Review of Language Scripts used in Ancient and Modern Lebanon This presentation journeys through ancient Lebanon until the modern day to understand its written languages. Attention is given to mixed language forms where the script of a dominant language is used to represent a local variety. The…
Remembering Xerxes’ invasion of Greece
Lecture
Zoom details will be sent the day before to those who provide their email address to classicsfriends@outlook.com In 2021 we mark 2,500 years since the Persian king Xerxes invaded Greece in 480 BC. That year saw famous battles at Thermopylai, Artemision and Salamis. (For the maths, remember…
Helen Garner, Joseph Steinberg
Seminar
Please contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au to obtain zoom link and password. On the 14th of December 1972, a schoolteacher named Helen Garner found herself fired. Summoned to the Victorian Education Department and admonished by the Deputy Director of Secondary education, she was sacked on the spot…