Give the Black Girl the Remote: Decolonising and Depatriarchalising Technology in Black Panther
Seminar
In Ryan Coogler’s 2018 film, Black Panther, the small African kingdom of Wakanda is situated on a huge vein of vibranium, the strongest and most versatile (fictional) material in the universe. Vibranium is the source of the Wakandans’ technological enhancements, including a force-field around their…
Symposium "Cultures of Sexual Assault"
Symposium
While questions of sexual harassment, assault and violation have a long and widespread history, in 2017 they exploded with new energy. Under the sign of the Twitter hashtag #MeToo, narratives of sexually-based injury began to captivate the U.S. media landscape. The hashtag quickly spread well…
TRANSLATION MASTERCLASS
Other
Translating texts and speech Who’s speaking to whom? Traditionally, translators tended to be trained to translate the written word, leaving the spoken word to interpreters. Inevitably the different contexts they worked in developed an entirely different skill set for interpreters and translators.…
Creating and Translating Worldviews
Seminar
Writers create worlds. This session will raise the question of what translators do when they translate authors. What worldviews are they translating when they translate the words and worlds of authors? What role does language play in shaping the meanings of those worldviews and the meanings they…
Celebrating the work of Luise Hercus: a memorial colloquium
Other
Luise Hercus AM, FAHA (1926-2018) was one of the great linguists of Australia. This colloquium brings together her colleagues from many disciplines, linguistics, ethnography, history, music and Asian Studies to honour her work. Trained in Romance philology and in Sanskrit and Middle…
Writing and Political Change
Seminar
In an era in which protestors against Donald Trump dress as characters from a Margaret Atwood novel, literature suddenly seems more implicated than ever before in the political process. But how effective is literature in effecting, or preparing for, political change? Can contemporary writing have…
Writing Sex and Gender
Seminar
In the era of #MeToo and the same sex marriage plebiscite, how has writing on gender, sex, and sexual orientation changed? How do sexism and racism interact, and what are their effects on emerging and established writers from different communities? What can contemporary writers do to address…