CoEDL Linguistics Seminar : Hedvig Skirgård, Language Diversification in Remote Oceania
Seminar
Why are there so many languages in some parts of the world and so few in others? In this talk, I will suggest some answers to this question as it pertains to Remote Oceania. Vanuatu and Samoa were settled at comparable dates by people sharing a common cultural ancestry, yet Vanuatu sports…
CoEDL Linguistics Seminar : Judith Irvine, After Shaka: IsiZulu language in ideology and social history
Seminar
IsiZulu, a major language of South Africa, is not a static monolith, except as some people’s ideologies of language have so imagined it. This presentation traces some major historical events and changes, starting in the early nineteenth century, that have affected Zulu ways of speaking and in which…
The Greek of Leon’s Nightmarish Lead Amulet, and Leaders and Leadership in New Kingdom Egypt: Evidence from Private Texts
Seminar
The seminar will feature two speakers from Macquarie University discussing their recent research. Christopher Haddad will discuss the approach to deciphering an apotropaic amuletic text concerned with warding off evil spirits, rediscovered by Macquarie University’s Museum of Ancient Cultures in…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Gabrielle Carey, Katherine Mansfield's Cousin: the most famous Australian novelist you've never heard of
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Elizabeth von Arnim was born Mary Beauchamp in Kirribilli in 1866. At 24 became a Prussian countess and moved to Pomerania where she 'somewhat mutinously' bore five children while secretly writing under a pen name. Always able to recognise literary talent, von Arnim employed E.M. Forster and Hugo…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Beate Langenbruch, A Walk through the Garden: Green Treasures in Old French Literature
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Vegetal enclosure inviting to meditation, idyllic framework for political reflection or locus amoenus for lover’s rendez-vous in Old French poetry and romance: the garden reveals its high and flexible potential in Medieval literature. Do we remember that the epic Song of Roland (ca. 1100) settles…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Tania Evans, Fucking with Fangs: Monstrous queer male mothers, affect, and online fan reception
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Toxic masculinity is recognised by psychologists and academics as a gender role that is dangerous for men as well as women, one which leads men to experience high rates of suicide, violence, and substance abuse. At the same time, popular culture is recognised as a site where identity, including…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Luisa Moore, Textual Critique Through the Artist’s Eye: John Austen’s ‘Hamlet’
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Textual Critique Through the Artist’s Eye: John Austen’s ‘Hamlet’ Through the Artist’s Eye: John Austen’s Hamlet explores the way in which the visual art can subtly reflect unique and partially transgressive interpretations of characters’ implied interiority in Shakespeare. It takes taking John…