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…
CoEDL Linguistics Seminar : Hayden Blain, Interacting with whiteness: Constructing and resisting stereotypes of whiteness in Mandarin interaction
Seminar
Interacting with whiteness: Constructing and resisting stereotypes of whiteness in Mandarin interaction If talk-in-interaction can be assumed to be a (if not the) primordial site of sociality then it stands to reason that talk-in-interaction is also the site where racial and ethnic stereotypes are…
Critical Humanism : Renegotiating the Human
Lecture
What is the history, the present and the future of humanism? Please join us for a lecture series on the challenges of the human condition. Oliver Kozlarek is a renowned academic at the intersection of philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Since 2001, he has been a professor at the…
"CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Derek Allan, The Death of Immortality and the Mystery of Art’s Temporal Transcendence
Seminar
It has long been recognised that great art, whether visual art, literature or music, has a special capacity to “live on” – to endure – long after the moment of its creation. Thus, our world of art today includes, for example, ancient Mesopotamian sculpture, Shakespeare’s plays, and the music of…
Critical Humanism : Anthropology and Humanism in Critical Theory
Lecture
What is the history, the present and the future of humanism? Please join us for a lecture series on the challenges of the human condition. Oliver Kozlarek is a renowned academic at the intersection of philosophy, sociology and cultural studies. Since 2001, he has been a professor at the…