The Tank Steam Press: Cultural Sustainability and the Urban Waterscape in Christina Stead’s Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934)
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Presented by Meg Brayshaw as part of the 2016 SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series In Seven Poor Men of Sydney (1934), Christina Stead evokes the city’s colonial past in her naming of the Tank Stream Press, the novel’s central location. The fresh water Tank Stream assured the colony’s survival in…
Information Session: Language Assistants Program in Spain 2016-1017
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WOULD YOU LIKE TO LIVE AND TEACH IN SPAIN? Language Assistants Program in Spain 2016-2017 The Language and Culture Assistants Program is an initiative of the Spanish Ministry of Education. The Program is primarily devoted to providing scholarships for Australian university students –majoring in any…
Eminent Victorians, Post Victorians and post Post Victorians
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Presented as part of the 2016 Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series What was an ‘eminent Victorian; what was a Post-Victorian; and what – if anything – a ‘post Post-Victorian’? Taking a couple of minor literary encounters as my starting point, and focussing on Bloomsbury writers and some of…
Enduring Coleridge: The Functions of Comparison, Judgement & Interpretation
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Presented as part of the SLLL 2016 Literary Studies Seminar Series In my thesis I investigate the Coleridgean concept of friendship as ‘multeity’. The first chapter opens with a treatment of two of Coleridge’s finest ‘Friendly’ poems, ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ and ‘Frost at Midnight’.…
Book Launch: 'Art and Human Rights: Contemporary Asian Contexts'
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Book launch presented by the Humanities Research Centre (ANU School of Literature, Languages and Linguistics) in association with the Centre for Art History and Art Theory (ANU School of Art) and the Centre for Creative and Cultural Research (Faculty of Arts and Design, University of Canberra)…
2016 Hispanic Film Festival Presents 'The Cinema Hold Up'
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The ANU School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, in collaboration with Pragda’s Spanish Film Club Series, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, and SPAIN Arts & Culture, is celebrating its first Hispanic Film Festival in 2016. The series is free and open to the public…
But let us hasten on to Rome! Charles Nicholson in Italy 1857-58 and the collection that became a museum
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Presented by the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Sir Charles Nicholson, Australia’s first Baronet, and a founding father of the University of Sydney, travelled in England, Egypt and Italy in the 1850s. The lecture places Nicholson’s travels in Italy in historical context and looks at the…