What's in a language?
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Presented by ANU College of Arts & Social Sciences and ANU College of Asia & the Pacific An opportunity for high school (years 9-12) students to visit Australia's #1 university for modern languages* Bring along your students to experience learning languages at ANU.…
Repetition in Homeric epic--cognitive and linguistic perspectives’
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Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The Centre for Classical Studies warmly invites you to attend the next talk in our Seminar Series for Semester 2. After the talk in the Milgate Room, we shall continue discussion in the ANU Classics Museum over light refreshments…
Small Towns, Big Dreams: America through High School Sports Films
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Presented by Katharina Bonzel as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series From the national pastime of baseball to the gridiron field of football and the barn door hoops of basketball – sports as represented by Hollywood are integral to small town communities. Taking the American Dream as a…
Position Doubtful – a work in progress
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A public lecture presented by Kim Mahood and chaired by Professor Helen Ennis, Director, SOA Centre for Art History and Art Theory as part of the SLLL Reading Across Borders Series Through the vehicle of her decades-long relationship to a remote tract of desert in north-west Australia, and the…
Currency of a Different Species: The Political Economy of Glory in Eighteenth-Century France
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series What is it with the French and glory? How is it possible that Napoléon could believe that he could found a true political legitimacy upon it? From the very foundation of the French monarchy, glory was always a fundamental value.…
Repertoire as Intertext: The Review, Shakespeare, and Celebrity in the Case of Cathcart vs. Brooke (1855)
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Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar by Kate Flaherty In 1855 a sensational contractual dispute between actor Fanny Cathcart and actor manager Gustavas Vaughan Brooke hit the Melbourne press. After playing opposite Brooke during the first six months of his Australia tour, Cathcart took…
Spanish bestseller crime writer Dolores Redondo at the HRC
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Join us for a book presentation and Q&A with the author who is taking Europe by storm. A public event in English from the Reading Across Borders public lecture series. Lilit Thwaites (translator) will lead the discussion with Dolores, and Consuelo Martínez will interpret for the author. To be…