Book Launch: Dancing with the Modernist City (2024) by Dr. Wesley Lim
Book launch
Please join us for the book launch of Dr. Wesley Lim's new book Dancing with the Modernist City (2024). He will be in conversation with Dr. Meindert Peters (Oxford), a fellow collaborator and dance scholar. As the 20th century dawned, authors, artists, and filmmakers flocked to cities like Paris…
Tyla Cascaes(University of Queensland) - 'Roman Empress Meets Modern Temptress: Cinema’s Fascination with Rome’s Leading Ladies'
Seminar
Roman Empress Meets Modern Temptress: Cinema’s Fascination with Rome’s Leading Ladies From its conception, cinema has been captivated by the morally corrupt and corrupting women of ancient Rome – especially Messalina, Agrippina the Younger, and Poppaea Sabina. In the midst of the political shift…
Sofya Gollan (TPR), “Silencing Deaf Stories: Hearing Portrayals of Deafness and the use of Sign Language on Contemporary Screens”
Seminar
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (ADH Conference room) and online on Thursday, 18 July from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. The aim of my creative practice-based research is to explore how aesthetics of silence as used by…
Wellspring Series 2024: We've Been Here: A Meditation on Italian Folk Queerness
Performance
We've Been Here: A Meditation on Italian Folk Queerness For many LGBTQ+ people, we are led to believe that our history began with the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969. In fact, people of various genders and sexual orientations have existed forever all around the world. As a queer and trans Italian…
The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age: Ned Curthoys and Joseph Steinberg in conversation
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link. The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age: Ned Curthoys and Joseph Steinberg in conversation The opening gambit of Ned Curthoys' The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal…
Dates-as-data for inscriptions: using summed probability analysis with Latin epigraphic databases to investigate population changes in the Roman Empire
Seminar
Since the 1980s, archaeologists have used Summed Probability Analysis (SPA) of radiocarbon dates to reconstruct demographic trends. This ‘dates as data’ approach assumes that radiocarbon dates represent occupation events, and that large enough datasets of dates can be used as a proxy for population…
Prof Mariano Siskind: On loss and melancholia
Seminar
Seminar on loss and melancholia with Prof Mariano Siskind (Harvard University) RSHA visitor Prof Mariano Siskind will be running a seminar for HDRs, Early- and Mid-Career Researchers in the humanities and the arts. We will be reading and discussing: “One Art,” by Elizabeth Bishop…