Mapping Australian English: Reported, Recognised, and Perceived Regional Variation
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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…
Homer Goes to Hollywood: The Odyssey in Film
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In this presentation Prof Purves will touch on a number of adaptations and influences of the Odyssey in film, from Méliès’ Ulysses and the Giant Polyphemus (1905), to Mario Camerini’s Ulysses (1954, starring Kirk Douglas), Jean-Luc Godard’s Contempt (1963), Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: a Space Odyssey (…
Homer and the Epic Tradition (Homer Seminar VIII)
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A Conference in Honour of Professor Elizabeth Minchin Monday 7 December and Tuesday 8 December 2015 This seminar, to be held at The Australian National University, Canberra, is intended to give scholars interested in the epic tradition in the ancient Greek and Roman world - especially (but not…
Sydney Speaks Project Workshop, with talks by Barbara Horvath and Gregory Guy
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THURSDAY 26 NOV 4.30-6pm Sydney Speaks Project Presented by Catherine Travis & Katrina Hayes (Australian National University and the ARC Centre for Excellence of the Dynamics of Language) The Sydney Speaks project seeks to document and explore Australian English as spoken in Sydney,…
‘Strange attr‐actors on the early modern stage’
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Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series by renowned Shakespeare scholar Ros King Critics have always found it conceptually difficult to understand the effects on early modern audiences of the use of boy actors. Thirty years ago, under the influence of the acres of anti-theatrical…
Book Launch: Southern Anthropology: A History of Fison and Howitt's Kamilaroi and Kurnai
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To be introduced by Associate Professor Bronwen Douglas and launched by Professor Nicolas Peterson Using a cross-disciplinary analysis, Southern Anthropology explores the research, writing and reception of Fison and Howitt’s ground-breaking Kamilaroi and Kurnai, from an historical and…
Upcoming Seminars: Centre for Research into Language Change and COEDL
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On Wednesday 18 November 2015, The Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language together with the Centre for Research into Language Change will be hosting two seminar presentations from Jessica Ivani (University of Pavia and MPI Jena) and Uta Reinöhl (University of…