Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius
Seminar
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.This talk situates Gerald Murnane’s early fiction within the imaginative structures of terra nullius. While Murnane is typically read for his preoccupation with the correspondence of word and world, I argue that his landscapes are also…
What Shapes Our Understanding of the Past? Deconstructing Settlement and Cultic Models in Early Iron Age Attica
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 3Our understanding of the past is always predicated on previous interpretations of evidence. This talk presents two case studies that demonstrate the importance of evaluating where our interpretations come from. These are the 8th century BC so-called ‘Sacred house’ of the…
Notes towards an Unhomely Australia
Seminar
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.This paper introduces a book I’m planning, a sort of belated ‘sequel’ to the much earlier co-authored Uncanny Australia (1998). My focus is on the so-called 'housing' crisis and I shall argue that even as Australia imagines itself as a…
Research in a Spirit of Play: Ellen Terry and Nellie Melba in Conversation
Seminar
In-person and online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.In 1914 the famous British Shakespeare star, Ellen Terry, lonely and anxious, her health failing, found herself stranded in Australia by the outbreak of the Great War. Fortunately she had a friend in Nellie Melba, who had…
The Politics of Freeing Slaves: Manumission Laws in Early Imperial Rome and China
Seminar
CCS Research Seminar 2During his principate, Augustus promulgated several perplexing laws that seemingly regulated and restricted manumission: Lex Iunia (~17 BCE), Lex Fufia Caninia (2 BCE), Lex Aelia Sentia (4 CE), and Lex Papia Poppaea (9 CE). Literary sources present an…
Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - August 2025
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 include…
In Conversation with Mariana Enriquez
Book launch
Nobel Prize for Literature winner Kazuo Ishiguro recently hailed the Argentinian writer Mariana Enriquez as “the most exciting discovery I’ve made in fiction for some time”. In collaboration with SLLL, the Spanish Studies Program and AILASA (the Association of Iberian and Latin American…