The Shadow and the Acolyte: On the Origins of Creative Writing in Australia
Seminar
Late in 1959, an up-and-coming novelist named Thea Astley knocked on the door of Dogwoods, Castle Hill. Her knock was answered by Manoly Lascaris, the lover and lifelong partner of Patrick White, who turned her away. Patrick was already seated at his desk. He would brook no interruption. Irked yet…
Australian Linguistic Society
Conference
The Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) is the national organisation for linguists and linguistics in Australia. Its primary goal is to further interest in and support for linguistics research and teaching in Australia. The annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will be held at the…
In conversation with Mark McGurl
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link.Mark McGurl has spent much of his career posing bold questions. What did it mean, at the beginning of the twentieth century, to reconceptualise the novel as a work…
Voices of Regional Australia workshop
Workshop
Voices of Regional Australia workshopLanguage variation and change in non-urban settings: Honing the conceptual and methodological toolkitIn this one-week seminar series, we delve into issues relevant to the contemporary sociolinguistic study of dialectal variation. We invite local and…
‘So there you are again’: back to Waiting For Godot
Arts & entertainment
Since its first production in French in the tiny Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953, Waiting for Godot has been played all over the world in different languages and in all sorts of venues: not just in theatres, but in prisons and hospitals, war zones and lockdowns. It is a play that…
Book Launch: Iridio Ennui vs The Boltzmann Brains: A novel with equations
Book launch
Iridio Ennui vs The Boltzmann Brains: A novel with equations by Mario Daniel Martín Translated by Kevin Windle, Amalia Milman and Mario Daniel Martín.The book will be launched by Professor Paul Magee. This is the first English translation of the second edition of "La inevitable resurrección de…
Coins of Ancient Greece and Rome: History, Reception, Activation
Symposium
Coins of Ancient Greece and Rome: History, Reception, Activation - An Interdisciplinary Symposium Come join us for a fascinating exploration of ancient coins from Greece and Rome at the AD Hope Conference Room (Room 1.28) and ANU Classics Museum, The Australian National University. This…