Evaluating workplace relationships in the Homeric Iliad: bringing together digital approaches and social and cognitive theory
Seminar
In this paper I bring together a cluster of verbal behaviours in the Homeric Iliad, a recent psychological study of four interrelated modes of communication in the workplace (the Responsibility Exchange Theory), and DICES, the Digital Initiative for Classics: Epic Speeches. I draw on the DICES…
Zach Karpinellison (Exit Seminar), “Versions & The NFSA“
Seminar
Please join us for the next event where Zach Karpinellison will present his Exit Seminar “Versions & The NFSA“ on Wednesday, 24 April from 5:30-6:30pm in person (BPB W3.03) and via Zoom. What version of Starstruck have you seen? Do you remember the cut of Bliss where Harry…
Wellspring Series 2024: Memory in the City
Seminar
Memory in the City Cities are not only brick and mortar. In cities, cultures converge, interact, flourish, and sometimes clash violently. Cities hold the key to restoring and making whole the fractures and silences of our collective memory and identity, shaping how we see ourselves and, with it,…
Alex Grigor (ANU) - ‘Achilles in Rome: Exploring 1st century CE Roman Representations of the Hero’
Seminar
In the century following the publication of Virgil’s Aeneid, there ensued a proliferation of literary and artistic works centred around the Trojan War and its heroic figures in Rome. As it currently stands, the ways in which Romans viewed heroism in response to the Aeneid, which set forth Aeneas as…
Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics
Seminar
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link. From the radical politics and poetic experimentalism of Kargun (1980) to the complex poetics of address in Harvest Lingo (2022), Wakka Wakka poet Lionel Fogarty…
Associate Professor Catherine Frieman (ANU) - Resisting romanisation: Cornish kinship and connectivity at the edge of Empire
Seminar
With the Roman invasion of Britain in the first centuries AD, we see a clear transformation in settlement patterns, social practices, artefact forms and economic structures. In Cornwall – Britain’s southwestern-most peninsula – things look a little different. Although the landscape was transformed…
Francophone screening of short films
Other
This year, to celebrate the richness of the Francophonie and the French language, various OIF member embassies invite you to an exceptional evening of screenings of French-language short films. Let us take you on a cinematic journey to the heart of the Francophonie's diversity, with a selection of…