Developing oracy: these words were meant to be
Lecture
Shakespeare’s plays are more often thought of these days as literature than as oral art. As a director of Shakespeare’s plays, I find that modern actors are not up to the task of embodying his words with passion, precision and presence because they lack the skills of “oracy” - the ability to…
Launch of the Austkin Online Database
Lecture
Presented by ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences The Austkin Project on Australian Aboriginal kinship, current Chief Investigators being Patrick McConvell, Harold Koch, Jane Simpson, Ian Keen and Laurent Dousset, has been funded by the Australian Research Council with…
Australian Languages Workshop (ALW) 2016
Conference
Registrations are now open! The Australian Languages Workshop (ALW) is scheduled to take place at the Australian National University and Kioloa, 3–6 March 2016, with sponsorship from the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language. The ANU Canberra campus program on 3-4 March will…
'The books most necessary to know': Rethinking Alfred the Great as Author.
Lecture
Presented by Associate Professor Daniel Anlezark, University of Sydney as part of the ANU Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series For more than a thousand years Alfred the Great, King of Wessex (d. 899), has been considered one of the founders of the English vernacular literary tradition. Alfred…
Athens makes Grecian ground of her Antipodes: Classical Greece in Australian Art and Architecture
Other
The ANU (Canberra) Friends of the Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens warmly invite you to an illustrated lecture by Kathleen Riley. >> Event Poster (382KB) In his 1912 poem ‘The Bush’, Bernard O’Dowd foresaw the future of Australia in terms of its equivalence to Greece in the…
Cultural Difference and Public Debate in Reviews of Anita Heiss’ 'Am I Black Enough for You?'
Lecture
Presented by Imogen Matthew (PhD Candidate in SLLL) as part of the 2016 SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series With head turned down and eyes raised in scepticism, Anita Heiss issues an unmistakeable challenge from the cover of her 2012 memoir: Am I Black Enough for You? (AMIB). The reader, in…
The Republic Strikes Back: Canonicity, Filiation and Fan-fiction in Roman Sequels
Lecture
Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre 2016 Seminar Series The phenomenon of the sequel, in modern literature, film and other media, can be and has been examined through a variety of lenses, including the economic (Castle 1986), the narratological (Genette 1982), the psychological (…