The Early Soviet Critique of Indo-European Philology and the Rise of Post-Colonial Theory
Lecture
Presented by Prof Craig Brandist as part of the Humanities Research Centre Seminar Series. >> Seminar Flyer Much contemporary postcolonial theory has constructed a mythology of its own origins based on a caricature of the Enlightenment and of Marxism in particular, while incorporating aspects…
Text, Context, Hypertext, Intertext
Lecture
Presented as part of the SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series Text, Context, Hypertext, Intertext: The Literary Text as Networked Object, OR: How To Read a Meta-Ish Crack Crossover Between the Wodehouseverse and, Among Other Things, Greek Mythology The text—the object of our activity as readers…
Welcome Morning Tea
Meeting
WELCOME MORNING TEA 11am – 12.30pm, Thursday 2 April 2015, HRC Conference Room, First floor, A.D. Hope Building 14, Australian National University A special morning tea to welcome all SLLL graduate students commencing or continuing in 2015 Staff, students, visitors,…
Reading Across Borders: Marion Halligan with ANU Emeritus Fellow Colin Steele
Lecture
Marion Halligan, much loved Canberra author and three-time winner of the ACT Book of the Year Award, will read from her new novel, Goodbye Sweetheart, and will talk about her writing with Colin Steele, Emeritus Fellow at the Australian National University and longtime book reviewer for The…
Domitian and the Jupiter Capitolinus temple: a new reconstruction
Lecture
Our free Classics Seminar Series 2015 continues on 26 March. Dr Lily Withycombe will present ‘Domitian and the Jupiter Capitolinus temple: a new reconstruction' As usual, after the talk discussion will continue over light refreshments in the ANU Classics Museum. All most welcome!…
Sex and Work: A Double Edged Approach to Charles Bukowksi's Post Office
Lecture
Presented as part of the Literary Studies Seminar Series. Tedi Bills will speak about "Sex and Work: A Double Edged Approach to Charles Bukowksi's Post Office". Bearded, bedraggled, and almost inevitably drunk, Charles Bukowski openly and actively cultivated an ‘outsider’ identity in the public…
How to represent spoken language in written form: Analysing conversational data from James Joyce to Southern Papua New Guinea
Lecture
Presented as part of the HRC Seminar Series >> View Flyer This talk will deal with the variation of human language along two dimensions, the medium (spoken vs. written) and the level of distance or proximity between the interlocutors (from local to global). The main focus of the talk…