Spanish bestseller crime writer Dolores Redondo at the HRC
Lecture
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…
Language Teaching Forum: Teaching grammar – Why? When? How?
Lecture
Do we need to teach our students grammar? Most of us would say “yes”. But why is teaching grammar necessary? When is the optimal point of teaching grammar? And how do we best go about it? In this talk I will present for discussion some perspectives on these questions from research in language…
Discordant Harmonies: Ovid’s Musomachia (Fasti 5.1-110)
Other
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…
Reader Responses to Indigenous Australian Chick Lit
Lecture
Presented by Imogen Mathew as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper reports on a survey of reader responses to Anita Heiss’ latest novel Tiddas, drawing chiefly on book reviews posted on personal blogs. My primary interest in conducting this research is to understand how…
"Development means eye-red”: Communicating feelings in Glocalised Ghanaian English
Lecture
Presented by Dr Felix Ameka (Leiden University, The Netherlands) as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series An outcome of the spread of English around the world is its adoption by others for communicating local attitudes and values, ways of thinking and feeling. Some of the linguistic…
Suddenness: On the Speed of Poetic Composition
Lecture
Presented by Paul Magee as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series My paper offers some preliminary conclusions from a three year ARC funded discovery project on the topic of poetic judgement. The project involved in‐depth interviews with 80 celebrated Anglophone poets from a range of countries…
‘A striking resemblance’: Portraiture in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Lecture
Presented by ANU's Humanities Research Centre at the National Portrait Gallery In this lecture, Will Christie looks at the role played by the portrait, and by the aesthetics and language of portraiture, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. He examines how Austen exploited the uncertain status of…