Cuban Women in the Twentieth Century: A Constantly Changing Identity
Lecture
If we take as a reference other Latin American literature and compare it with Cuban literature, it becomes clear that the latter did not have an especially notable narrative development during the 1970s and 1980s, specifically, when considering literature written by women. This could appear as a…
Love’s Intermediary: the Aesthetics of Rousseau’s Amour de Soi (Self-Love)
Lecture
Presented by Monique Rooney as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series ‘Love, like perfectibility, is structured like a figure of speech’ writes Paul de Man in a statement that resembles that of a famous psychoanalyst on the unconscious and language. If de Man’s figural ‘Love’ here echoes Lacan…
ANU Language Teaching Forum: Learning from language apps
Lecture
Presented by Dr Peter Friedlander as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum There are now countless Apps available that promise to make language learning easier. I want to discuss here what makes language learning Apps useful and what are their disadvantages, and what trying to use them can…
Mixed pleasure: A seventeenth-century manuscript and its verse
Lecture
Presented by Janet Hadley-Williams as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series The collection and use of vivid contemporary evidence of all kinds, so much a part of the method and works of the reformer, John Knox, were practices continued by later historians of religious history. One such…
Experimental field work with the Karaja language: investigating deixis, coreference and recursion
Seminar
Presented by Marcus Maia (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro) as part of the Linguistics Seminar Series Syntax is a mental process. Corpora studies can analyze the products of this process to allow preliminary inferences about grammar. However, corpus building in itself is not enough to…
Language rights for indigenous and tribal peoples
Lecture
Round table presented by the School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics, ANU and the Australian National Centre for Latin American Studies (ANCLAS) Indigenous languages across the world continue to have a minoritized status despite efforts from indigenous communities, regional and in some…
Shards of Testimony: Digital Witnessing to Refugee Lives in Detention
Lecture
Presented by Rosanne Kennedy as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper explores two contemporary case studies of digital witnessing based on the experiences of refugees and asylum seekers in the Australian offshore border protection regime. First, The Messenger, a podcast from…