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…
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
Seminar
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…