Metropolis and Memory: Constructing Cosmopolitanisms in Lisa Lang’s Utopian Man (2010)
Lecture
Presented as part of the 2016 SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper examines Lisa Lang’s award-winning Australian novel Utopian Man (2010), which reimagines E.W. Cole and his famous Book Arcade in Melbourne in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Running in its central Melbourne…
Launch of 2016 Hispanic Film Festival
Performance
With more than 400 million native speakers around the world, Spanish stands second in the world’s most spoken languages. Backing such a strong position come unimaginable cinematic experiences. Come know the new wave of cinema from Latin America and Spain, on us! The ANU School of Literature,…
2016 Commencement Address
Lecture
Everyone is invited to attend the 2016 Commencement Address with Vice-Chancellor Professor Brian Schmidt AC and special guests including: Lieutenant General David Morrison AO, BA '79*, (Rtd), 2016 Australian of the Year, Former Chief of the Army Professor Mick Dodson AO,…
Generating a Future Vision? The Dynamic Features of the Ideal and Ought-to L2 Selves of Saudi ESP and EGP Learners at Public Universities in Saudi Arabia
Lecture
Thesis Proposal Review Seminar (TPR) In Saudi Arabia, English is currently the only compulsory foreign language taught in public schools – from grade 4 to grade 12 – and universities (Al-Seghayer, 2015; Faruk, 2014). However, although English is taught for nine years in public schools, most Saudis…
Wellsprings Forum Dialogue 2016
Conference
The Wellsprings Forum dialogue will feature sociolinguists Peter Trudgill and James Stanford. They will be held at ANU during the mornings of the first week of February (1-5), and will include public lectures, commentary and discussion on the theme: ‘What is different about the…
Language Contact Myths
Lecture
Language contact is a mechanism of language change, yet the study of bilingual speech labors under beliefs that though widely held are still to be verified. Their persistence is linked to the tolerance for isolated counter-examples as a surrogate for proof and the paucity of systematic quantitative…
Mapping Australian English: Reported, Recognised, and Perceived Regional Variation
Lecture
This thesis looks at folk perceptions, reported usage, and dialect recognition of regional variation in Australian English. Australian English is a variety of English that has been regarded as having very limited forms of regional variation (Bernard 1970). Bryant (1992) was the first to explore…