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,…
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…