Gail Jones - The Death of Noah Glass
Other
Gail Jones’s mesmerising new novel tells a story about parents and children, and explores the overlapping patterns that life makes. In The Death of Noah Glass, art historian Noah Glass, having just returned from a trip to Sicily, is discovered floating face down in the swimming pool at his…
The Roman-fleuve and the Rebirth of the Author
Seminar
Loosely comparable to earlier multi-volume works such as Balzac’s Comédie humaine and Zola’s Les Rougon-Macquart, the roman-fleuve was one of the most prominent if short-lived literary trends in early twentieth-century France. These cyclical novels drew together a vast set of influences, from…
The Chinese Film Market and Hollywood, Or, How China is Remaking the Global Film Industry
Seminar
Nobody can deny how significant the Chinese film market is in the global film industries today. Most industry experts and market analysts now safely predict that the size of the Chinese film market will surpass North America in 2019. Moreover, high‐quality Asian local products, …
Making Sense of Melancholy in Feminist and Queer Cultural Studies
Seminar
There is a lot of interesting work on the subject of melancholy. Within feminist and queer cultural studies, however, this topic is under-developed. This is despite an explosion of discourse on the subject of 'abject' mood within the same field. How do we 'make sense' of melancholy in this context…
Uncovering the True History of Australian Literature
Lecture
Newspapers were the main sources of fiction, international and local, in Australia in the nineteenth century. But the lack of records of this fiction and the enormous size of the newspaper archive have left us with very little understanding of the types of stories published, where they came from…
International Symposium on Communication in Health Care (ISCH) 2018
Symposium
The Institute for Communication in Health Care holds an annual International Symposium in order to bring healthcare professionals, clinicians, linguists, communication scholars, educators and researchers together for an inspiring event to share their ideas,…
2017 Australian Society for French Studies Conference
Conference
Australian Society for French Studies Conference 2017: Truth and Representation The Australian National University, 13-15 December Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Nicki Hitchcott, University of St Andrews Dr Chris Watkin, Monash University Conference Program and Abstracts (287KB PDF…