How to Do Things with Anglobalisation: Towards Linguistic Justice
Lecture
Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series This talk will examine the consequences of living in the age of ‘Anglobalisation’ for philosophy and the world at large. Central to this is the problem that English linguistic hegemony can serve, on the one hand, as a potentially…
The Innumerable Voices of our Sharing: Jean-Luc Nancy, Literature, and the Theological Turn
Lecture
Presented as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series The turn to religion that has been occurring within the humanities since the second half of the 20th century has reignited the age-old debate over the relationship between secular discourse and theological transcendence. Phenomenology…
On Vegemite and Greek Tragedy: Translating the Chorus
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Presented by the Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Greek tragedy remains one of the most popular cultural productions of ancient Greece yet also one of the strangest. Moreover, the tragic chorus is both the strangest and the most important single element of tragedy. In this talk, Dr Perris…
Photography as a Global Language: How a Photograph from Wagga Wagga Changed British Law
Lecture
Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series The celebrated Tichborne legal affair (1867-1874) centered on a butcher from Wagga who claimed to be the long-lost baronet, heir to an English estate. His trial in London to claim his inheritance became the longest legal…
Write Time (or 'Getting ready to write time')
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Please join us at Write Time (or 'Getting ready to write time'). This time the focus will be on whether it is a good idea to write 500 words a day even if you feel as if you don’t have anything to say. Write Time is designed for all language and linguistics thesis-writing students from…
Getting Away to Europe to Write - British novelist and historian Lesley Chamberlain
Lecture
Presented by the Humanities Research Centre British novelist and historian of ideas Lesley Chamberlain will talk about the European events and ideas that have shaped her writing. Her books have thematized Nietzsche (Nietzsche in Turin 1996) , Freud (The Secret Artist 2000), and Russian Utopianism…
Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 'The Yellow Wallpaper': A Protest against the Cultural Construction of Femininity
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Presented by Jyoti Nandan as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper analyses Charlotte Gilman’s short story ‘The Yellow Wallpaper’, drawing on feminist theories of the body that state that the body both reflects and resists gendered norms and that bodily conditions such as…