Language, Contact, And The Negotiation Of Identities In The Salvadoran Diaspora
Lecture
Presented as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series Dialect contact has been explained from two different, yet related, approaches. One side has stressed the effect of the contact on the systemic configuration, often focusing on the changes that characteristic features and patterns…
Write Time (or 'Getting ready to write time')
Lecture
Please join us at Write Time (or 'Getting ready to write time'). Write Time is designed for all language and linguistics thesis-writing students from CASS and CAP – PhD, Masters and Honours students. Write Time is student-run, with students taking it in turns each week to be the time-keeper.…
Polemic in Polybius
Other
We warmly invite you to the next talk in our 2015 Classics Seminar Series. After the talk, informal discussion will continue over light refreshments in the ANU Classics Museum. ‘Polybius (c. 200-118 BC), author of the 40-book Histories documenting Rome’s rise to world power, is a notoriously…
Real Virtualities and the Undead Genre: The Novel in Our Time
Lecture
Presented by Assoc Prof Debjani Ganguly as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series The death knell of the novel has been sounded often enough in our hypervisual era. In this talk I suggest that far from being dead, the contemporary novel abstracts the phenomenology of the spectatorship and…
The Inaugural Book Launch of the French Research Cluster
Lecture
The French Research Cluster (FRC) launches publications by Leslie Barnes, Knox Peden and Glenn Roe This inaugural launch will serve to introduce the FRC to the wider community of ANU scholars and Canberrans interested and invested in French culture. The French Research Cluster (FRC) was established…
Inked In: The Feminist Politics of Tattooing in Sarah Hall’s "The Electric Michelangelo"
Lecture
Presented as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series 2015 This paper evaluates neo-Victorian fiction’s attempt to redress historical silences toward non-normative models of femininity through a case study of Sarah Hall’s The Electric Michelangelo (2004). Hall’s novel follows Grace, a…
The Expressions for ‘translate’ and ‘interpret’ in the European Languages (Work in Progress)
Lecture
Presented as part of the Language Change Seminar Series The words for ‘translate’ and ‘interpret’ are interesting in two respects: They show how concepts are formed They demonstrate paths of cultural influence in Europe Not all European languages distinguish the two concepts. The Romance…