SLLL HDR Conference 2018
Conference
The SLLL HDR Convenors are pleased to invite you to the 2018 HDR Conference to be held on 5 October 2018 in the Baldessin Precinct building. All CASS/CAP HDR staff, students and the wider ANU HDR community are welcome. SLLL HDR Conference Program (74KB PDF) SLLL HDR Conference…
Etched in Bone: A film by Martin Thomas and Beatrice Bijon
Other
Red Lily Productions invite you and your guest to the launch of Etched in Bone , a film by Martin Thomas and Beatrice Bijon. RSVP by 27 September to etchedinbone.themovie@gmail.com
Denis Villeneuve’s multilingual cinema: Decentring space, time and language in Arrival
Seminar
With dialogue in Arabic, English, Finnish, French, Hungarian, Japanese, Mandarin, Norwegian, Russian, Somali, Spanish and even extraterrestrial languages, Québécois filmmaker Denis Villeneuve’s cinema revolves around language. From 2010’s trilingual Incendies to 2017’s heptalingual Blade Runner…
Frankenstein 2018: Two Hundred Years of Monsters
Conference
A conference in celebration of Mary Shelley’s novel and its monstrous progeny in literature, film and popular culture.
Broken Bodies, Remade Wholes: Unwind as Frankenstein Retold and Reversed
Seminar
New technologies create new opportunities for anxiety, and using human body parts to create life is a special kind of horrifying fictional procedure. At first glance, Unwind by Neal Shusterman and Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein approach this concept in inverted ways. In Frankenstein, a ‘monster’ is…
Creating A Place Among the Anthropo-scenes
Seminar
For Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, the world is in the grip of a ‘Great Derangement’: human inaction in the knowledge of great, avoidable danger. This 'danger' manifests in several forms, but I am interested in the changes to environment and climate. To engage effectively with these, environmental and…
Creating A Place Among the Anthropo-scenes
Seminar
For Indian writer Amitav Ghosh, the world is in the grip of a ‘Great Derangement’: human inaction in the knowledge of great, avoidable danger. This 'danger' manifests in several forms, but I am interested in the changes to environment and climate. To engage effectively with these, environmental and…