Age of the Supersoldier: Subversive Cyborgs in Iron Man and Avengers: Age of Ultron
Seminar
In 2013, the U.S. military began development of an ‘Iron Man’ suit – a powered, armored exoskeleton – heralding the possibility of technologically enhanced supersoldiers in the not-too-distant future. Despite the political and ethical dangers that supersoldiers pose, this paper proposes that the…
Age of the Supersoldier: Subversive Cyborgs in Iron Man and Avengers: Age of Ultron
Seminar
In 2013, the U.S. military began development of an ‘Iron Man’ suit – a powered, armored exoskeleton – heralding the possibility of technologically enhanced supersoldiers in the not-too-distant future. Despite the political and ethical dangers that supersoldiers pose, this paper proposes that the…
Resyllabification in Spanish and its impact on spoken word boundary detection
Seminar
Spanish exhibits processes of resyllabification that provoke misalignments between word boundaries and syllabic structure. That happens when word-initial vowels are re-grouped with the end of the previous word (e.g. mis amigos ‘my friends’ is syllabified mi.sa.mi.gos). This misalignment poses…
Resyllabification in Spanish and its impact on spoken word boundary detection
Seminar
Spanish exhibits processes of resyllabification that provoke misalignments between word boundaries and syllabic structure. That happens when word-initial vowels are re-grouped with the end of the previous word (e.g. mis amigos ‘my friends’ is syllabified mi.sa.mi.gos). This misalignment poses…
Book Reviewing in the Australian Literary Field
Seminar
Most of the writing about books that is published in Australia takes place outside the academy: more than 3,000 book reviews are published each year in Australian newspapers and magazines. These reviews constitute a sector of the online literary sphere that retains strong links to legacy print…
Analysing the Nightmare: Reflections on Rape Culture in South Africa
Seminar
South Africa has the highest rate of rape in the world. The 2010 statistics list the number as 1 324 reported rapes per million people and then acknowledge that there is a tendency not to report rape, so that the actual figure is probably much higher. In most cases, the perpetrators are men and the…
Heal the self, not the system: sexual violence in the global yoga industry
Seminar
The ascent of the global yoga industry is no doubt in part about women’s reclamation of control over their bodies; yet, it is also a site of rampant and various manifestations of sexual violence. On the one hand, mega-yoga guru Baba Ramdev was instrumental in recriminalizing same-sex sex in India,…