Making Memories
Lecture
HRC Seminar Series 2016 Making Memories: Performing Research on Henry V in Australia (1916-2016) How is performance research best articulated?Does live presentation afford the researcher opportunities that are commonly untapped?How is research a kind of performance? When…
Books That Changed Humanity #4: The Iliad
Other
Books that Changed Humanity is a book club with a difference. Each month, the Humanities Research Centre hosts an expert from one of a variety of disciplines, who will introduce and lead the discussion of a major historical text. All of these texts, which are drawn from a variety of cultural…
Revisiting information management in intransitive subjects
Lecture
CoEDL-ANU Linguistics Seminar In his seminal work on Preferred Argument Structure (PAS), Du Bois (1987, 2003a,b) develops the hypothesis that ergative alignment in grammar arises from considerations of processing referent introduction in discourse, a task regarded as cognitively specifically…
The ghosts of vitalism in contemporary Frankenstein films
Lecture
Presented as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series Vitalism - the notion of a distinct life force - is usually regarded as an obsolete and discredited theory. In 1818, however, vitalism was the official doctrine of the Royal College of Surgeons, and Mary and Percy Shelley's physician…
The Rote-Uab Meto Subgroup of Western Timor
Lecture
Presented by Owen Edwards as part of the ANU Centre for Research on Language Change seminar series An examination of the historical phonology of the languages of Rote and Uab Meto reveals at least two strata of vocabulary, each attesting regular sound correspondences. A top-down approach to the…
Horror, Epic and Early Cinema in Siouxsie and the Banshees’ Voyeuristic Peepshow
Lecture
Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series Drawing on research to be published in a forthcoming 33⅓ Series book, this paper considers some of the cinematic influence imbued in post-punk band Siouxsie and the Banshees’ ninth studio album Peepshow. Throughout the record,…
Ad Hominem #3: Sam Bennett, Brad Tucker, and Grant Walton
Lecture
The third event in the newest Humanities Research Centre series, Ad Hominem. An ad hominem argument interrogates not the argument itself, but the person advancing it. With this series, we take up that idea in a more positive way –– 'ad hominem' is a series of quirky, research-led…