Dr Fernanda Peñaloza: Bringing Latin American cultural expertise to TV series 'Bump'
Seminar
Seminar: Bringing Latin American cultural expertise to TV series Bump with Dr Fernanda Peñaloza (University of Sydney). Fernanda Peñaloza is Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies and Chair of the Spanish and Latin American Studies Department at the University of Sydney. Prior to…
Peter DeGabriele (Mississippi State University), “Sovereign (Ir)responsibility: Hobbes among the Drones”
Seminar
Please join us for another CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday, 23 May from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Shuttling between analyses of a 2012 series of memes entitled “Texts from Drone” and the philosophy of…
Wellspring Series 2024: Bushfire Stories
Seminar
Bushfire Stories: The Collective Power of Community The Australian Black Summer of 2019-2020 saw devastation on an unimaginable scale and gave rise to stories of intense trauma and loss, but also of communities rallying together to overcome adversity. The voices from some of Australia’s worst…
Jéssica Andrade Tolentino and Thomas Nulley-Valdés, “Navigating Boundaries: Intergenerational dynamics and imaginaries of childhood in Alejandro Zambra’s fictions”
Seminar
Please join us for another CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday, 9 May from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. As part of doctoral research conducted at the Australian National University, this presentation proposes a…
Benengeli 2024 Canberra
Lecture
Welcome to Benengeli 2024! Benengeli 2024, International Week of Literature in Spanish, is a festival to promote literature in Spanish around the globe. The Instituto Cervantes in Sydney, which is participating again in the Benengeli Festival, is hosting the visit of the Spanish author Jordi…
Dr Estelle Strazdins: European Travellers to Greece and the Tomb of the Athenians at Marathon
Seminar
This paper traces the interpretations applied to the mound or soros on the plain of Marathon from the later eighteenth century through the nineteenth century by amateur archaeologists. These interpretations were based on flakes of obsidian found in the soil of the mound that were…
Sophie Tallis (TPR), “Girlhood Bodies on French Screens: From Monstrous Feminine to Liminal Resistance”
Seminar
Please join us for another CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday, 2 May from 1-2pm. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Two unanswered questions remain at the centre of the recent influx of French and francophone films about…