ad hominem
Lecture
The Humanities Research Centre and University House are delighted to announce a brand new initiative. 'ad hominem' is a series of quirky, research-led conversations getting at the stories behind the HERDC points. The first event will feature Assa Doron, Kate Flaherty, and Kim Huynh. Come along to…
L1 onto L2 Acquisition: A case of the topic/subjective markers in Japanese and the word order in Spanish
Lecture
The 2016 ANU Language Teaching Forum continues with a presentation by Haruka Woods. This study investigates L1 Spanish speakers’ acquisition of L2 Japanese wa and ga, which are a topic marker and a subject marker respectively, with a particular focus on the influence of Spanish subject-verb (…
Books that Changed Humanity #2: The Communist Manifesto
Lecture
The Communist Manifesto Honorary Associate Professor Rick Kuhn September 9, 2016, 5.30-7.00pm In our second event, Honorary Associate Professor Rick Kuhn (Marxian economist and ANU Adjunct Reader in Sociology) will introduce and discuss The Communist Manifesto, published by Karl Marx and…
Centre for Classical Studies Seminar: Scandal in the House(s) of the Spartan Royal Families
Other
Presented by Terence Ryan (Newcastle) as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series All are welcome to attend this seminar; check back soon for more details. After the talk, informal discussion will continue over light refreshments in the Classics Museum.
SLLL Literary Studies Seminar
Lecture
Presented by Kate Flaherty as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series. On 26 December 1833, the first licenced theatre in New South Wales offered its first Shakespeare play—Colley Cibber’s adaptation of Richard III. The event entailed a riot in which the actor playing Gloucester hurled an…
Putin’s Russia in the Wake of the Cold War
Conference
ANU TO HOST LANDMARK CONFERENCE ON PUTIN’S RUSSIA Leading experts from across the globe are gathering at the Australian National University (ANU) next week for one of the most wide-ranging conferences on post-Soviet Russia since the end of the Cold War. Titled Putin’s Russia in the Wake of the Cold…
Contracts and Promises in Joyce’s Political Journalism and Dubliners
Lecture
Presented by Dr John Attridge (University of New South Wales) as part of the HRC Seminar Series In this paper I want to consider James Joyce’s Dubliners, published in 1914 but written between 1904 and 1907, in the context of nineteenth-century liberalism. In a broad sense, the dominant ideology of…