Cambodia’s “Wandering Souls”: Migratory Labour and the Promise of Connection
Seminar
In this essay I explore the intersecting themes of gender, labour and migration in Rithy Panh’s documentary film, La Terre des âmes errantes (2000), which follows the migrant workers who laid Cambodia’s fibre optic cables in the late 1990s. Evocative of the Khmer Rouge forced displacement and…
Communication in Health Care and the Impact of COVID-19
Webinar/Online
Skilled communication is critical for delivering safe, effective care. Yet perhaps at no other time in our living memories has communication in healthcare been so important yet so challenging. In this period of uncertainty due to an unprecedented global pandemic, consistent and effective public…
Effective Communication saves lives: The work of the ANU Institute for Communication in Health Care (ICH)
Webinar/Online
Join a panel of experts from across ANU to find out how we are addressing communication issues in health care. In Australia alone it is estimated that 500,000 people per year are harmed by the hospitals they go to for help, that is, they suffer from an avoidable or preventable critical…
Society for the History of Linguistics in the Pacific, 7th Conference
Conference
Due to the situation with coronavirus and uncertainties regarding international travel in the next few months the SHLP 2020 committee has regretfully decided that the best course of action is to postpone the conference. This decision is also partly influenced by the decision at ANU to postpone…
Kaja-warnu-jangka Screening + Q&A
Webinar/Online
We would like to invite you to join us for the SLLL-CoEDL online film screening of Kaja-warnu-jangka ‘From the bush’ on Friday, June 12, 3pm, details below. The new film Kaja-warnu-jangka ‘From the bush’ is a unique biographical tribute to two…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2020: Monique Rooney, Ottessa Moshfegh's novel My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Seminar
Tracing Visible Falls in Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018) In Ottessa Moshfegh’s My Year of Rest and Relaxation (2018), the unnamed narrator decides to hibernate in her New York City apartment for a year, inducing and extending sleep through excessive use of prescription…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2020: Annelise Roberts, Atomic totem: the poetics of nuclear testing in Australia
Seminar
Atomic totem: the poetics of nuclear testing in Australia British nuclear testing in Australia has been poorly publicly memorialised. This is in spite of the significant risks the program posed to public safety and the remarkably “dangerous” and “deceitful” behaviour of the Menzies government and…