Laurent-Frédéric Bollée on 'Terra Australis' and More
Lecture
Presented by ANU's French Language and Culture Program On Tuesday 12 May French writer and journalist Laurent-Frédéric Bollée will talk about his (2013) comic book novel Terra Australis (and more generally about his/French views of the Pacific). This talk will be in French and is…
Celebrating 50 years of the HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship
Lecture
For half a century, the HC Coombs Creative Arts Fellowship has helped ANU establish itself as an international hub for artists, writers, composers, musicians and visitors from all types of creative arenas. The Fellowship connects practising leaders in their fields to ANU students and…
Interlocutor-based style-shifting and identity construction - some observations from ‘ethnolect’ Dutch
Lecture
Presented as part of the Linguistics Seminar Series There is an increasing interest within the wider linguistic community for language variation related to social structure in small, non-WEIRD speech communities and languages. For various reasons, using classic variationist sociolinguistic methods…
Book Launch: 'Home After Dark' by Dr Kavita Ivy Nandan
Conference
The Humanities Research Centre, The Australian National University, cordially invites you to the launch of Dr Kavita Nandan's novel Home After Dark. Launched by Professor Jacqueline Lo, Director of the Centre for European Studies and Associate Dean (International) ANU College of Arts and Social…
Before the grimoire: Ritual authority & scribal practice in the Greek magical papyri
Other
Presented as part of the ANU Centre for Classical Studies Seminar Series The mystical power of the book as object derives from the value we assign to knowledge; certain books may have a talismanic function in that power is ascribed to the word in its physical form. As Caliban points out, the book,…
Truth, Trauma, Treachery: Plagiarism and the Rights of Fiction in Contemporary France
Lecture
Presented by Dr Leslie Barnes as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper examines questions of truth and ownership in relation to fiction and autofiction through a study of a recent plagiarism scandal involving two French authors, Camille Laurens and Marie Darrieussecq. In 2007…
Is bilingualism an advantage for cognitive control? Evidence from the Simon Task
Conference
Presented as part of the ANU Language Teaching Forum Several studies point to the idea that being proficient in more than one language leads to positive cognitive gains, namely in attentional control and conflict monitoring (Barac & Bialystok, 2012; Bialystok, 2006; among many others). Such…