Quasi-Factives and Cognitive Efficiency
Seminar
Presented as part of the ANU Linguistics Seminar Series We begin by describing a sub-class of non-factive sentences containing factive verbs. In particular, we focus on sentences such as ‘Rob has not realized that Obama is in jail’ which we call ‘quasi-factives’. To explain the jargon, the verb ‘…
Filling in the ‘blank page’ of literary history: What were women fighting for in WWII Japan through their poetry?
Seminar
Presented by Rina Kikuchi as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series When compared, women’s poetry (as well as women’s writing in general) during the war-time Japan (1941-45) seems to be shockingly different before and after WWII. Their strong belief in feminism and modernism seems to have…
ANU Language Teaching Forum
Lecture
Presented by Gabriele Schmidt as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum The ANU Language Teaching Forum provides a discussion platform for language teachers and researchers across ANU colleges. It also welcomes language educators from outside the university such as secondary school teachers and…
Book launch of 'Decentring France: Multilingualism and Power in Contemporary French Cinema' by Gemma King
Book launch
In a world defined by the flow of people, goods and cultures, many contemporary French films explore the multicultural nature of today's France through language. From rival lingua francas such as English to socio-politically marginalised languages such as Arabic or Kurdish, multilingual characters…
Turns and Gaze: Interactive foundations of Z, a 1st generation (Mayan?) sign language
Seminar
Presented as part of the ANU Linguistics Seminar Series The natural emergence of language can be observed most prominently in the spontaneous and interactive creation of family and village sign systems These arise in contexts where a sufficient number of deaf children and their caregivers are able…
Winckelmann and the appreciation of Greek vases
Other
Presented by Prof Amy Smith as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series When the Prussian scholar Johann Joachim Winckelmann—widely acclaimed as the founder of the academic studies of Classical Archaeology, Art History and much else—ventured to Rome in 1755, few knew or cared…
Reading Greek Vases: The case of Leto with Apollo and Artemis in Attic vase‐painting of the fifth century BC
Other
Presented by Dr Lavinia Foukara as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series Representations of Apollo, Leto and Artemis engaged in the performance of a libation in Attic vase paintings of the fifth century B.C. is the subject of the present paper. Previous studies focused mainly on…