Quality control in online course design and delivery
Lecture
Presented by Nguyen Bui as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum The rapid development of internet, interactive multimedia and educational technologies has revolutionized the educational delivery system to widely reach off-campus populations beyond geographical barriers and time constraints…
Conversations Across the Creek #4
Lecture
Conversations across the Creek 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,…
A New Papyrus of Sophocles
Other
Presented by Prof Patrick Finglass (University of Nottingham) as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series All are welcome to attend this seminar. After the talk, informal discussion will continue over light refreshments in the Classics Museum. This paper investigates the new papyrus…
Under a cloud of narrative: Topic modelling Patrick White
Lecture
Presented as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series Topic modelling is a method from computer science that is increasingly attracting interest from scholars in the humanities. Within literary studies, its applications have so far been concentrated in areas such as the history of literary…
The Power of an Idea: Raskolnikov in Crime and Punishment
Lecture
Presented by Dr Derek Allan as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series Rodion Raskolnikov in Dostoyevsky’s Crime and Punishment is one of the best-known characters in the world of the novel but one who continues to pose interpretive problems. Why exactly does he murder the old pawnbroker…
Spanish Crime Writer Víctor del Árbol in the Humanities Research Centre
Lecture
Join us for a conversation with Víctor del Árbol, award-winning author from Barcelona, followed by a Q&A. A public event in English from the Reading Across Borders public lecture series. Lilit Thwaites (translator) will lead the conversation with Víctor, and Consuelo Martínez Reyes will…
Unsettling the Past: Colonial Environments in Neo‐Victorian Fiction
Lecture
Presented by Jessica Hancock as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Of the surge in popularity and literary reputation of historical fiction in the last few decades, the sub-genre of neo-Victorian fiction has proved one of the most marked trends. Scholarship has productively examined the…