Classics Museum Free Monthly Tour - December 2024
Tour
Monthly tours Join us for a free guided tour of the Classics Museum led by one of our knowledgeable volunteer guides. The museum features examples of ancient art and objects of daily life from Greece and the Roman world, including Egypt and the Near East. The museum's areas of strength include…
Oral Presentation: Early Modern Women's Education and Marginalia, 1520-1700
Seminar
This thesis examines women’s education in sixteenth and seventeenth century England using marginalia as a case study for how educational skills were learned and practiced. By first tracing the development of women’s education across two centuries, using evidence from letters, diary entries,…
The Shadow and the Acolyte: On the Origins of Creative Writing in Australia
Seminar
Late in 1959, an up-and-coming novelist named Thea Astley knocked on the door of Dogwoods, Castle Hill. Her knock was answered by Manoly Lascaris, the lover and lifelong partner of Patrick White, who turned her away. Patrick was already seated at his desk. He would brook no interruption. Irked yet…
Australian Linguistic Society
Conference
The Australian Linguistic Society (ALS) is the national organisation for linguists and linguistics in Australia. Its primary goal is to further interest in and support for linguistics research and teaching in Australia. The annual conference of the Australian Linguistic Society will be held at the…
In conversation with Mark McGurl
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link.Mark McGurl has spent much of his career posing bold questions. What did it mean, at the beginning of the twentieth century, to reconceptualise the novel as a work…
Voices of Regional Australia workshop
Workshop
Voices of Regional Australia workshopLanguage variation and change in non-urban settings: Honing the conceptual and methodological toolkitIn this one-week seminar series, we delve into issues relevant to the contemporary sociolinguistic study of dialectal variation. We invite local and…
‘So there you are again’: back to Waiting For Godot
Arts & entertainment
Since its first production in French in the tiny Théâtre de Babylone in Paris in 1953, Waiting for Godot has been played all over the world in different languages and in all sorts of venues: not just in theatres, but in prisons and hospitals, war zones and lockdowns. It is a play that…