Lydia Cabrera: Ethnography and Forbidden Desires
Lecture
Presented by Dr Mabel Cuesta (University of Houston) as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Lydia Cabrera (1899-1991), the most important ethnographer and folk writer in the Cuban archive, was an exile in the United States for the last thirty years of her life –previously she lived in Paris…
ANU Languages Showcase
Advisory session
The ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences and the ANU College of Asia & the Pacific will present the annual ANU Languages Showcase on Wednesday, 31 May 2017 from 10am to 3pm. This event gives students in Years 9-12 from the ACT and surrounding regions the…
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum: Annual Winter Dinner
Other
Limited places, so please phone the restaurant on 6257 2718 for reservations and payment by Friday, 19 May. Seating allocation will be made by a committee member at tables of 8; so please list names of guests for whom you are booking, and indicate if you wish to be seated with other Friends. Teatro…
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…