Shakespeare and the Digital World: When scholarship meets global capitalism
Lecture
Presented by Christie Carson (Royal Holloway) as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series In order to understand the place of the academic in the commercially driven world of digital recording, archiving and dissemination of Shakespeare’s plays in text and performance I put together a volume…
ANU Language Teaching Forum
Lecture
The 2017 ANU Language Teaching Forum will kick-off with a presentation by Dr Yuko Kinoshita. “Case study on the logistics of cross-institutional Japanese language studies: what actually happens and why it matters” This paper investigates university language studies, looking at the impacts of…
'Odyssey 24' with the ANU Centre for Classical Studies
Other
Please join the ANU Centre for Classical Studies as we contribute to the European Festival of Latin and Greek in an international reading of Homer's Odyssey. At 10.00am sharp Paris time on Friday 24 March (that is, 8.00pm Canberra time on Friday, 24 March) an international reading of Homer’s…
Non-Scientists, Con-Scientists and the Rocky Horror Clown Show: Wondrous Science in the Australian Context
Lecture
Presented by Anna-Sophie Jürgens as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Scientists seek to explore how nature works and ask how humanity can best comprehend different aspects of the world. In fictional and cultural contexts, scientists appear as rebels against the status quo and the…
CoEDL Seminar: Social structure and linguistic complexity
Lecture
Presented by the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language There are a number of claims regarding why linguistic complexity varies, for example: i) different types of societal structure (e.g. Wray & Grace, 2007), ii) population size (e.g. Lupyan & Dale, 2010), and iii) the…
Workshop on Minimal English and NSM semantics
Conference
A Workshop on Minimal English and NSM Semantics will be held on Friday and Saturday 17-18 March, 2017 (Baldessin Building, Basham room, E2.03). The Friday sessions have a special focus on healthcare communication; other areas covered include the application of Minimal English to language teaching,…
Tales for All Time: Modern Audience Reception of Homeric Epic
Other
Presented by Karen Possingham (ANU) as part of the Classics Seminar Series The poet we call Homer stands at the intersection of a long oral tradition and the emergence of literacy. The poems associated with his name have exercised a continuing appeal, across time; and yet they can be unsettling,…