Extinction and the future of sexual difference: from Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein to Julia Leigh’s The Hunter
Lecture
Presented by Russell Smith as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series When, in Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1818), Victor Frankenstein destroys the female companion he has agreed to make for his creature, alarmed by the prospect of the pair propagating a ‘race of devils … who might make the…
'D.H. Lawrence’s Australia: Anxiety at the Edge of Empire' by David Game
Lecture
A Humanities Research Centre Book Launch: 'D.H. Lawrence’s Australia Anxiety at the Edge of Empire' by David Game, Australian National University Professor Paul Eggert will launch the book. The launch will be hosted by Professor Will Christie, Director of the HRC. Kindly RSVP by 31st July 2015…
Emergence of optional accusative case marking in Khoe languages
Lecture
Presented as part of the Centre for Research on Language Change Seminar Series A number of languages of the Khoe family – one of the three genetic lineages comprising southern African Khoisan – show an accusative marker, typically a postposition which in its elsewhere form has the shape (ʔ)à. In…
The cultural semantics of the Japanese keyword "haji" and the difference with the English "shame"
Lecture
An Emotions in Research Seminar presented by Gian Marco Farese The "universality" of emotions remains an open question and is still a source of debate among reserachers from a number of different disciplines. It is often suggested that in spite of the evident cultural differences there are some…
Literature and Justice: The Language of Representation
Lecture
Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series Esteemed by some philosophers as the highest virtue, the delivery of justice demands and rivets attention. And the opposite is true as well: the perceived miscarriage of justice commands attention, sparking outrage and…
Workshop: “Variation and asymmetries in case-marking”
Conference
The workshop aims to bring together linguists working on morphology and syntax in languages with case-marking in order to share ideas on factors contributing to variation in expression of case-marking, asymmetries in case-marking and methods for analysing this variation. …
‘Like a shield laid on the misty sea – an adventure among the similes of the Odyssey’
Other
Presented as part of the Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The Centre for Classical Studies warmly invites you to attend the first 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…