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…
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…