Tina Dixson (TPR): What does it mean to be a queer refugee woman?
Seminar
What does it mean to be a queer refugee woman? Collective self‐discovery of lived experiences through trauma and agency Queer refugees occupy a marginal space within refugee narratives. They appear to be more tolerable for the hosting country as their queerness signifies modernity, yet they are…
Conversation with French Journalist and Author Annick Cojean
Book launch
Annick Cojean is one of France's most widely revered journalists. Senior reporter for French daily newspaper Le Monde since 1981, she published an interview of Lady Diana Spencer and numerous description of famous personnalities that let her known from the public. Her international reportings about…
Jane Scott, Lost Amazon of the Strand
Seminar
In February 1817 Jane Scott's gothic melodrama Camilla the Amazon was staged, at her own theatre in London's Strand, the Sans Pareil, a house that four years later became the Adelphi, and is still in business. In the same year, the other Jane - Jane Austen - published her comically gothic work,…
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.…