Homer and the Epic Tradition : Homer Seminar X
Seminar
This tenth iteration of the Homer Seminar is intended to give Australasian scholars-especially (but not only) postgraduates and early-career researchers--interested in the epic traditions of the ancient Greek and Roman world, and even beyond, an opportunity to test out ideas, methodologies, and…
CoEDL Linguistics Seminar : Meredith Osmond, Concepts of seasonal time in Proto Oceanic
Seminar
Time is an abstract concept, evident to people the world over in three astronomical cycles, the daily, the monthly lunar and the annual. They are expressed in western terms by various countable named entities, days of the week, month of the year, numbered years. In fact it is difficult for…
CoEDL Linguistics Seminar : Kimiya Akita, A Study of Japanese rhythm in Forensic Voice Comparison: An Application of the Free Software Toolkit 'Julius'
Seminar
Abstract: This is a preliminary study on the usefulness of rhythmic information as forensic voice comparison features in Japanese. In this study, we focus on phoneme and syllable duration and their average power as the rhythmic features. Two different segmentation schemes are employed in this study…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Christina Neuwirth, Quantitative Evidence of Gender Inequality in Contemporary Scottish Publishing
Seminar
The UK publishing industry has an equality problem. Much recent research has evidenced systemic gender, ethnicity and class bias (‘In Full Colour: Cultural Diversity in Publishing Today’ 2004; Squires 2017; Ledbury Emerging Poetry Critics, n.d.; Ramdarshan Bold 2018; Brook, O’Brien, and Taylor 2018…
HDR Workshop : Working with Historical Sources on Gender and Sexuality
Workshop
ANU School of Literature, Languages & Linguistics presents a 1.5-hour HDR workshop on “Working with Historical Sources on Gender and Sexuality” with visiting scholar Associate Professor Katerina Liskova from Masaryk University in the Czech Republic. Associate Professor Liskova is at ANU for two…
CoEDL Linguistics Seminar : Katerina Naitoro, Causative constructions in Southeast Solomonic from a typological perspective
Seminar
Causative constructions in Southeast Solomonic from a typological perspective Southeast Solomonic languages, a primary subgroup of the Oceanic family, have several types of causative constructions. Like other Oceanic languages they make use of verbal morphology inherited from the ancestor Proto…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Kateřina Lišková, Sexual Liberation, Socialist Style: Intimate Life and Expertise in Communist Czechoslovakia
Seminar
While the usual account places sexual liberation to 1960s West, I will argue for an earlier and systemic sexual liberation that took place in the 1950s in one of the countries of the Cold War East. I will show how important aspects of sexuality were freed already during the first postwar decade in…