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…
FCM Happy Hour
Activity
The Friends of the ANU Classics Museum invite you to a special event in the museum! A celebration of the 60th anniversary of the museum, and a special welcome to Associate Professor Caillan Davenport as the new Head of the Centre for Classical Studies at the ANU. From its modest beginnings in 1962…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - A matrix of becoming: Women’s friendship in 20th century American novels
Seminar
A matrix of becoming: Women’s friendship in 20th century American novels Few women would disagree with the idea that female friendship is—alongside the romantic and familial—one of the social pillars upon which their life is built. Certainly, women’s writing throughout space and time reflects its…
Francophonie Week 2022: Conference "Do you speak regional French?"
Seminar
On the occasion of the Francophonie Week 2022, the Francophonie Committee* is pleased to invite you to an interactive celebration of francophone culture on 16 March 2022, 6-8pm, in the ANU RSSS Auditorium. Organized in partnership with the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics at ANU,…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - Smoke and Mirrors: Sex Work and Rithy Panh's Cinematic Image
Seminar
Smoke and Mirrors: Sex Work and Rithy Panh’s Cinematic Image This seminar examines the narrative authority of the sex worker in Rithy Panh’s Un Soir après la guerre (1998) and Le Papier ne peut pas envelopper la braise (2007), two films that counter the discourses surrounding sex work with the…