"CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Vihanga Perera, Of Undergraduates and Arms: The University at a Time of Terror
Seminar
On the eve of the 1987-90 Marxist uprising in Sri Lanka, universities such as Peradeniya, Kelaniya and Sri Jayewardenepura were dominated by pro-JVP student unions, who exerted ideological dominance. At the heart of the capital, in the University of Colombo, three student groups with conflicting…
"CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Jono Lineen, Perfect Motion: How Walking Makes Us Wiser
Seminar
Since our first ancestor rose up to place one foot in front of another, our desire to walk has produced fundamental changes in our bodies and minds. In Perfect Motion, Jono Lineen investigates that transformation, and why walking has made us more creative, helped us to learn, constructed…
CoEDL Linguistics Seminar : Katerina Naitoro, Going against the trend: Degrammaticalization of reflexes of POc *paka in Southeast Solomonic
Seminar
One of the most important constraints on morphosyntactic change is the unidirectionality of changes seen in grammaticalization (Haspelmath, 2004). The overwhelming tendency for unidirectionality of change from more lexical to more grammatical along the grammaticality cline is undeniable. The claim…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Anne-Mette Bech Albrechtslund, A Balancing Act: Putting Up Bookshelves on a Social Media Platform
Seminar
This talk concerns the interplay between social media and contemporary reading practices as seen from a qualitative, discourse-oriented perspective. The popular social book cataloguing site Goodreads is used as a starting point to examine and discuss the dynamics of a developing digital reading…
Professor Christopher Howgego : Alexandria, Queen of the Mediterranean and the Coinage of Roman Egypt
Lecture
Alexandria was one of the great centres of trade and culture in the Roman world, and yet it was once believed that the coinage produced there for Egypt was derivative and even unintelligent. The lecture draws on extensive work on the Antonine period (AD 138–192) in connection with the Roman…
CoEDL Linguistics Seminar : Nay San, A constraint-based approach to text-setting in Kaytetye
Seminar
Singing is a universal human activity. Across the vast range of song traditions across the world, native speakers have consistent intuitions about how the syllables of a novel line of text should be set to the musical rhythm of their song traditions. The basis for this ability to ‘text-set’ has…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Katie Cox, Superpowered Security: Cruel Optimism in Marvel's Iron Man Films
Seminar
Over the course of the War on Terror, it has become commonplace to note that the United States and allies now exist in a permanent state of emergency, such that once-exceptional security measures are now the norm. Katie draws on the work of Lauren Berlant to argue that national security has become…