TOTEM I: trauma, materiality, and me
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Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series The story of my grandfather’s involvement as test subject in the British Government’s nuclear testing program in South Australia provokes my creative enquiry into trauma, embodiment, and materiality. Confronting the events of Operation Totem…
Info Session: Language Assistants Program in Spain 2017-2018
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Would you like to live and teach in Spain? Language Assistants Program in Spain 2017-18 Information session: Wednesday 19 October, 3-4pm, Baldession Bldg Room W3.03 The Language and Culture Assistants Program is an initiative of the Spanish Ministry of Education. Its main objective is to…
Scotland and Translation of the Classics: The Case of Gavin Douglas’ Aeneid
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series My seminar will provide a brief overview of my new research project, Scotland and Translation of the Classics, which focuses upon two key periods of cultural renaissance in Scotland—the sixteenth century and the post-devolution era…
Ad Hominem with Simone Dennis, Katie Sutton, Robert Wellington
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The second 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…
Securing the Future, Multilingualism as a Social Resource
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Join us for a public lecture on multilingualism, which will be concluding the Symposium on bilingualism and multilingualism in education in the Oceania-Pacific region. Professor Joseph Lo Bianco will argue that to truly ‘secure’ the future is to re-think all the assumptions we have inherited, one…
Books That Changed Humanity #3: On the Origin of Species
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Presented by the Humanities Research Centre as part of the Books that Changed Humanity: A Book Club with a Difference In our third event, Professor Iain McCalman (Professorial Research Fellow at the University of Sydney; Director of the HRC from 1995-2002) will introduce and discuss On the Origin…
Bwénaado: An ethnolexicological study of a culturally salient word in Cèmuhi (New Caledonia)
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Presented as part of the Linguistics Seminar Series Ever since people have come together in communities, they have felt the need to regulate and control their relationships with members of opposing groups. One way of building and maintaining a harmonious society is by sharing wealth. New Caledonia…