The place for readers in Italian language teaching and learning
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The 2016 ANU Language Teaching Forum continues with a presentation by Julie Docker on the topic of 'Teaching Italian with Readers'. In almost all textbooks there is no overall theme linking speaking, including functional – notional items, listening, comprehension, grammar, reading and…
Workshop: Research Practices for Creative Arts PhD students and Academics
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What are the challenges and opportunities of moving from professional practice to practice research? How might you negotiate the different priorities that are sometimes involved in ensuring the work suits both the demands of the industry and the higher education sector? What are the different…
Book Launch: From St Petersburg to Port Jackson: Russian Travellers’ Tales of Australia 1807-1912
Lecture
Sheila Fitzpatrick, Professor of History at the University of Sydney, Distinguished Service Professor Emerita of the University of Chicago, will launch a new book: Kevin Windle, Elena Govor, Alexander Massov, From St Petersburg to Port Jackson: Russian Travellers’ Tales of Australia 1807-1912 (…
Variation in Matukar Panau Kinship Nomenclature
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Presented as part of the Linguistics Seminar Series Nomenclatures for kinship systems are not stable. As societies evolve, so do their conceptions of relationships and the consequent words for those relationships. Periods of change lead to variation in nomenclature. Changes may come about through…
Conversations Across the Creek: Evolution
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Conversations is an initiative by the Humanities Research Centre (HRC) and the Australian National Centre for the Public Awareness of Science (CPAS) to provide a space for continuing dialogue among scientists, social scientists, and humanities scholars. Meetings are held monthly, with the aim of…
Literature and Politics: A Public Talk by H.C. Coombs Fellow Amanda Lohrey
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Public Talk Chaired by Lucy Neave H.C. Coombs Fellow Amanda Lohrey will talk about whether fiction can make an effective political intervention. If the novel comes after the event and is a chronicle of, or argument with, a political event, does that mean that fiction is unable to shape such…
"Britannia Secunda ad finem Terrae" Roman Life at the Edge of the World
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Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The wild north of Britain was never really settled by the Roman Empire. Britannia Secunda was a military zone throughout the Roman occupation. So when the administration of Britannia began to break down, it started in the north.…