ANU Language Teaching Forum
Lecture
Using Technology to teach Translation Case Studies in Chinese/English Presented by Shengyu Fan and Grazia Scotellaro as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum This presentation will report on a recent project undertaken by Dr. Shengyu Fan and Grazia Scotellaro to introduce the use of apps…
Literary Studies Seminar with Jyoti Nandan
Seminar
Patrick White – A Misogynist? (With special focus on The Twyborn Affair) Patrick White has been called a misogynist. My paper discusses to what extent this is the case. There is no denying that White’s male characters are drawn in much greater depth and more empathetically than his female…
Achilles and Scamander go to school (Proclus in Plat. Tim. 19 d-e)
Other
Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series “It is not difficult to say that Achilles came out armed in some such fashion as this, and did some such deeds as this, but to supplement this with an explanation of what words he might say if caught in the river is no longer…
Translating Science Popularization in the Eighteenth Century: The Role of Women in the Transmission of Scientific Knowledge
Seminar
Presented by the ANU Humanities Research Centre The subject of this paper is women’s popularisation of scientific texts in the eighteenth century. Starting from an analysis of the remarkable surge in female writing in Britain in the second half of the eighteenth century, the article attempts to…
Book launch of 'What Christians Believe: The Story of God and People'
Book launch
Anna Wierzbicka’s new book What Christians Believe: The Story of God and People was published in July 2017 by Znak in Cracow, Poland, in Polish. An expanded English version is to be published by Oxford University Press in 2018. The book, with full colour illustrations from Christian art over the…
Queer Objects and Intermedial Timepieces: Reading S-Town (2017)
Seminar
Presented by Monique Rooney as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper takes as its queer object a serialised podcast. With its story about John B. McLemore, a clockmaker from Woodstock, Alabama, S-Town is a blockbuster success from the producers of Serial (2014-2016) and This…
Training Language Experts in Translation in a Transferability Perspective
Seminar
ANU Language Teaching Forum In recent years, there has been an unprecedented reappraisal of the role of translation in Foreign Language Teaching and Learning. Underpinning this reappraisal are largely the beliefs that languages are more easily learnt in association with one’s mother tongue…