It’s Impossible
Lecture
Presented by Monique Rooney as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series Juan Antonia Bayona’s The Impossible (2012) melodramatises the trauma and turmoil experienced by five survivors of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami: María Belón, her husband Enrique Álvarez and their three sons, Lucas, Simón…
Experience the Iliad: An Evening with William Zappa
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The ANU Classical Society presents William Zappa’s Iliad–the second instalment! >> Event Flyer (273KB) Early in 2015 the ANU Classical Society organized a very successful evening featuring the Australian actor, playwright and director, William Zappa, who introduced a large audience to his…
Envisioning the world: history, literature and the Fulbright
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Jointly hosted by the Humanities Research Centre and the Fulbright Commission, this public lecture will feature Dr Kotlowksi and Dr Ratti explaining how their research projects were boosted by the Fulbright scholarships. Dr Dean Kotlowski will discuss how the commission helped him place…
Elders, Elderspeak, and the Third Ear
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series The memory-loss and non-communication of advanced old age challenge literary and visual representation. The 'third ear' (Theodor Reik) offers a non-intrusive means to access experience that necessarily remains obscure. Ishiguro's…
Thebes on stage and on site: tragedy, reenactment, and textual topographies
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Thebes was the paradigmatic city of Greek tragedy. Its distinctive walled topography offered a sealed conceptual space in which its ruling dynasty played itself out to destruction. Thebes was also a concrete place, a city with its own particular history. This paper looks at the ways that the visual…
Book Club at SLLL
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Our pilot book club at SLLL will give students the opportunity to discuss books published in various languages so that you can venture on to read in your language of study or in English and exchange observations within a plurilingual environment. Of course, interesting issues regarding translation…
Snudging Cheapskates and Magnificent Profusion: The Conceptual Baggage of ‘Mean’ and ‘Generous’
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Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series Money, apparently, makes the world go round. The contemporary world is full of activities, actions and talk that relates to money. Whether we are trying to secure, save or spend it, money occupies a significant social, cultural and…