Form-Meaning Relations in Developing Linguistic Knowledge and Language Use
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Presented by the ARC Centre for Excellence for the Dynamics of Language The talk concerns the development of the relations between linguistic forms and discursive functions in the usage of children from pre-school across adolescence. A range of linguistic systems (prepositions, verb semantics…
The Lyric in Victorian Memory: Mnemonic Nostalgia in Rossetti and Housman
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Presented by Veronica Alfano as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series Lyric poems, unlike canonical Victorian literary novels, resist the teleological drive of plot and vainly pursue stasis and atemporality. Brevity and patterns of formal repetition, which disrupt a poem’s capacity for…
Conversations Across the Creek
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Sullivan’s Creek flows through our national university, separating disciplines: sciences on one bank, humanities and social sciences on the other. Or so it would seem. Join us for the second Conversations event, where four exciting scholars 'cross the creek', communicating their latest research to…
Sacred Sites and Mundane Matters
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Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series. Change affects cityscapes and structures and shapes the histories and meanings that individuals seek within them. The displacement of Mizrahim (‘Arabic Jews’) has meant that the urban landscapes of their original hometowns are peppered with…
Linguistics Seminar presented by Prof Christoph Harbsmeier
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The talk will provide a historical description of two databases that I have built up over the last 35 years and open up for discussion of the methodologies employed. First, there is MAID (Mandarin Audio Idiolect Dictionary), a 1500 hour audio-dictionary of the idiolect of a Manchu speaker of…
Performing 1971: Dorothy Hewett’s The Chapel Perilous
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Presented by Assoc Prof Nicole Moore (UNSW) as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series In a preface to the first published edition of Dorothy Hewett’s The Chapel Perilous, she notes of its heroine: “For many young women Sally Banner is the first modern liberated feminist in our…
An Essay in Historical Conceptual Ethnography: Greek, Latin, and Chinese in a Global Comparative Context
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Presented by Prof Christoph Harbsmeier (University of Oslo) as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series This lecture will compare some basic classical Chinese and classical Greek as well as Latin cultural keywords and basic concepts. On this basis I shall attempt a historico-…