COEDL Summer School 2018
Workshop
Summer School 2018 Date: 26 - 30 November 2018 Venue: Australian National University, Canberra The Centre’s annual Summer School is a flagship educational event on Australia’s linguistics calendar. Over the course of five days, we bring together leading national and…
Australian National Dictionary Centre 30th Anniversary
Other
All former colleagues, associates, and friends of the Australian National Dictionary Centre are invited to a celebratory morning tea for the Centre's 30th anniversary. For more information RSVP Amanda Laugesen: Amanda.Laugesen@anu.edu.au
Beyond Words? Trauma in Literature from the Concentration Camps
Seminar
Cathy Caruth’s studies on trauma and literature, especially her seminal 1996 work, Unclaimed Experience, laid much of the groundwork of literary trauma theory. Caruth labelled trauma ‘the unexperienced event’. Direct knowledge of the traumatic experience, according to Caruth, is impossible; the ‘…
The dead pan: Nathanael West’s unfunny jokes and modernist anti‐sentimentalism
Seminar
Though Nathanael West’s novels are often read in terms of an ancient and revered mode of misanthropic humour—satire—in this paper I want to draw on recent work that seeks to situate his work in relation to distinctly modern comic modes—slapstick, burlesque, black humour, and especially, dead pan.…
The dead pan: Nathanael West’s unfunny jokes and modernist anti‐sentimentalism
Seminar
Though Nathanael West’s novels are often read in terms of an ancient and revered mode of misanthropic humour—satire—in this paper I want to draw on recent work that seeks to situate his work in relation to distinctly modern comic modes—slapstick, burlesque, black humour, and especially, dead pan…
Online Archives and Digital Resources: A thousand years of networks
Seminar
As part of the “Settimana della lingua italiana”, Dr Josh Brown will give a lecture on October 17 at 4pm entitled “Online archives and digital resources: A thousand years of networks”.
Only Mediate: The Mere Interest of Interbrow in Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret (2011) and Howards End (2017)
Seminar
‘Only connect’ functions both as the epigraph to E. M. Forster’s Howards End (1910) and as the central character Margaret Schlegel’s exhortation to her husband, capitalist entrepreneur Henry Wilcox. With her exasperated ‘only connect’, Margaret means for Henry to recognise that his refusal of…