Hwaet! A meeting to solve an ancient riddle
Lecture
Join the Anglo-Saxon Reading Group for this special meeting to decipher a 1000-year old Anglo-Saxon text and solve its riddle. (No Anglo-Saxon knowledge required!) Interested attendees should get in touch with Dr Cynthia Allen at Cynthia.Allen@anu.edu.au to request a copy of the riddle…
ANU Language Teaching Forum
Lecture
'Variations on cultural themes: creating multi-level resources for the adult learner' Presented by Gabrielle Quadraccia 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…
Information Session: Applying for Non-ARC Grants
Seminar
Professors Jacqueline Lo, Frank Bongiorno and Diana Slade will share suggestions for writing successful applications for category 2 and 3 grants, and will talk about how they initiated and built relationships with grant partners. Dr John Shellard will discuss how the university can support…
Meta-categories: cross-disciplinary, cross-cultural and cross-temporal perspectives workshop
Conference
Hosted by ANU, Centre for Digital Humanities Research, ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Languages, School of Literature, Language & Linguistics, Humanities Research Centre and the Research School of Humanities and the Arts. This two-day international workshop involves…
Diffusion & Change in Lexical Semantics Workshop
Workshop
Diffusion & Change in Lexical Semantics Workshop, 5-6 July 2017, ANU The theory and method of dealing with change in lexical semantics has been neglected in linguistics and anthropology. This workshop will contribute to righting this situation by: Assessing recent contributions advancing…
Book launch of 'Text and the Material World: Essays in Honour of Graeme Clarke'
Other
Hosted by the ANU Centre for Classical Studies and the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum As a scholar, with more than 50 years of productive research behind him, Graeme Clarke has achieved international distinction in two fields: in early Christian studies (through his work on Minucius Felix and…
Dynamics of Placement and Displacement in Doris Pilkington’s Under the Wintamarra Tree. Once a ‘Subaltern’, Always a ‘Subaltern’?
Lecture
Presented by Lindiane Viera as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Doris Pilkington’s Under the Wintamarra Tree (2002) is a sequel to Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence (1996), in which we are presented with a story in a confessional tone that reveals the adventures of three indigenous girls (…