Structure and Persuasion in Suetonius’ Caesars
Other
Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series At the sentence level Suetonius often appears to be neutral, but I argue here that the persuasive force of Suetonius’ text in the arrangement of his material creates a portrait that is absolutely not neutral. As David Wardle put…
Frankenstein in the Automatic Factory
Seminar
Presented by Russell Smith as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series On 4 November 1818, some eight months after the anonymous publication of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Dr Andrew Ure performed a series of galvanic experiments at Glasgow University on the body of Matthew Clydesdale, hanged…
Reading Across Borders: Gabi Martínez on 'In the Land of Giants'
Lecture
Join the Humanities Research Centre for a conversation with Gabi Martínez and his recently translated book In the Land of Giants [Solo para gigantes]. High up in the Hindu Kush, between the ancient pagan Kalash people and the new medievalists of the Taliban, a charismatic young Spaniard, Jordi…
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)
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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…