CoEDL Linguistics Seminar : Megan Wood, Thesis Proposal Review (TPR) seminar
Seminar
Murrinhpatha Language Maintenance and Literacy Education at OLSH Thamarrurr Catholic School, Wadeye The education of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander children in Australia is a highly complex and contentious topic. Western education in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities in…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019 : Jyoti Nandan, Nationalism’s Betrayal of Women: Anita Desai’s Clear Light of Day
Seminar
Nationalism, when ill-conceived, can come at the expense of values held dear among the more emancipated. The specific focus of this paper is Indian Nationalism and its impact on the women of India. The modernity pursued by the Movement emerged not from a questioning of both tradition and change,…
Critical Humanism : From a Critique of Humanism to a Critical Humanism
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: Vihanga Perera, Of Undergraduates and Arms: The University at a Time of Terror
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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
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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…