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…
Reading Across Borders: Luke Stegemann on 'The Beautiful Obscure'
Lecture
Join us for a conversation with Luke Stegemann about his recently published book The Beautiful Obscure. Consuelo Martínez Reyes will lead the conversation with Luke, which will be followed by a Q&A. This book conversation is free and open to the public. For centuries a…
Prophetic dreams and how to bring down an emperor in Maximus the Confessor
Other
Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series Maximus the Confessor (c. 580‐662) considered dreams to be involuntary. He used this position to defend himself against the charge of treason at his trial in Constantinople in 655. The charge was based on an allegation that…
v. Revisited: Harrison, Rimbaud, and the Communards
Seminar
Presented as part of the SLLL Thursday Lunchtime Seminar (TLS) series Tony Harrison (1937 ‐ ) is one of England’s greatest political poets, elegists, and verse dramatists of the 20th and 21st centuries, and the stature of his contribution to literature has been recognised by the canonisation of his…
Anita Heiss Rewrites the Public Intellectual for 21st Century Australia
Seminar
Presented by Imogen Mathew as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Aboriginal intellectual interventions in contemporary Australia come in many shapes and sizes, from the @IndigenousX twitter account to Stan Grant’s 2015 IQ2 Racism address. My research gives one account of how these…