Carmen Aguirre: memoirs of a revolutionary daughter
Lecture
Public lecture presented by the ANU Gender Institute, the ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (Reading Across Borders series), and The High Commission of Canada. Carmen Aguirre is a Vancouver-based multi-award winning theatre artist, actor, director, and author. Born in Chile,…
Topics in Epistemology: Pre-conference presentations
Lecture
Two SLLL students of Anna Wierzbicka's (Dominie Dessaix, Honours, and Gian Marco Farecse, PhD) will be presenting at the 'International Ethno-Epistemology Conference' to be held in Japan in June, where Cliff Goddard will be a keynote speaker. As preparation for this conference, they will be giving…
Palmyra
Other
The ANU Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens in conjunction with the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum warmly invite you to a lecture by Dr Ross Burns entitled 'Palmyra'. Refreshments afterwards in the ANU Classics Museum. Palmyra has just been retaken by the Syrian army…
SLLL Celebration of Student Achievements
Meeting
The ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics (SLLL) will acknowledge the 2015 outstanding academic performance of our students with this celebration. The event will be held on Wednesday, May 11th, beginning at 5:30pm with drinks and Italian delicacies. From 6:00pm, invited students will…
The Kayan of Sarawak, Borneo: Perceptions of Language and Identity
Lecture
Who are the Kayan and what is their language? Many studies have suggested that language constitutes one of many cultural markers for identity. Studies in sociolinguistics and academic discourse on language loss and endangerment for example, have generally claimed that language and identity are…
'Repaying the debts of the dead': Kinship, microfinance, and mortuary practice on the Paraguayan frontier
Lecture
Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series Microcredit loans—most famously systems of group-based borrowing—are a key tool in global economic development frameworks. Building outward from microcredit programs in Paraguay I explore the discontinuous materialities of both kin…
Literature in the Global Context
Conference
Literary studies are being transformed by the emerging disciplinary field of World Literature. Yet the world of literature is by no means self-evident. Issues of language and culture, national and global identity, originality and translation raise as many questions as they answer. What is the world…