“After the Empire”: Haunting and Nostalgia in the Postcolonial Spectropolis
Lecture
Presented by Anuparna Mukherjee as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series My paper delves into the question whether the grotesque and the fantastic can work concurrently with mainstream historiography to interpret a postcolonial city through the affective windows of nostalgia and trauma. It is…
ANU Language Teaching Forum
Lecture
Developing an educational toy for Japanese language: Fostering analytical skills through grammar acquisition This paper reports on a unique cross-disciplinary collaboration project between researchers in Japanese language education and in Industrial Design. The project developed an educational…
Theoclymenos, the "overlooked" Homeric refugee
Other
Presented as part of the ANU Centre for Classical Studies seminar series. Scholars have traditionally given short shrift to the suppliant seer Theoclymenos and his initial appearance in the 'Odyssey', in which he seeks refuge with Odysseus’ son Telemachos (15.223–286, 508–546). Theoclymenos is…
Writers and Their Work in the Fiction of Linda Lê
Lecture
Presented by Jack Yeager (Louisiana State University) as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Historically, novelists from former French colonies who write in French have come under special scrutiny. Some have been accused outright of plagiarism; in at least one case, such an accusation…
Un cinéma sans image: The lost history of Cambodian film
Lecture
Presented by Dr Leslie Barnes as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Davy Chou’s Le Sommeil d’or (2011) is the first attempt to recount the forgotten history of the Cambodian film industry, a rich and storied archive that all but disappeared with the Khmer Rouge victory in 1975. To make the…
Variation in passing for a native speaker: accentedness in non-native speakers of English in production and perception
Seminar
Presented by Ksenia Gnevsheva as part of the Linguistics Seminar Series This talk will discuss a study of sociolinguistic variation in second language speakers of English in New Zealand and focus on second language speakers’ variation in ‘passing for a native speaker’, that is, being…
The Phallus or the Cane? Re-reading the monstrous in Teen Wolf through disability and queer theory
Lecture
Presented by Tania Evans as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series The growing body of academic scholarship on werewolves has often focused upon gender but rarely has it considered how sexuality and disability are reflected in lycanthropic narratives. Yet the werewolf can be read through these…