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…
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.