Using media as a catalyst for Semai language and culture maintenance in an Orang Asli village in Peninsular Malaysia
Lecture
Presented as part of the SLLL Linguistics Seminar Series. Please join us for drinks and nibbles after the presentation. Abstract Building on earlier digital media and literacy projects with Indigenous Australian youth, in this seminar I discuss how a Semai language and culture maintenance project…
Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Happy Hour
Lecture
We invite you to join us in the Museum for our last event of the year. The attached flyer has details of the Friends Happy Hour, our final event for 2014, to be held on Friday 14th November, at 6pm. We hope many of you will be able to attend and enjoy the programme in this popular early evening…
The gift of Participatory Action Research: Algonquian Dictionaries and Linguistic Atlas
Lecture
In this talk, I reflect on my journey as a linguist exploring new methodologies when working with speakers of endangered languages in the era of digital technologies. I also present some specific language documentation questions that have puzzled me for the last 14 years and I show that adopting a…
What’s in a Clitic?
Lecture
Presented by Romance Linguistics in the Antiopodes (RomLA) Spanish clitics are special clitics (Zwicky 1977). They have been analysed as agreement markers (Jaeggli 1982, Suñer 1988), stem-level inflectional affixes morphologically attached to the verb (Andrews 1990, Spencer & Luís 2012), and…
Public Lectures and the Birth of English
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IDEAS, information, and critical opinions were the social currency of the expanding public sphere of the eighteenth century and by the time of the Romantic period the combined activities of a multitude of public lecturers, covering every topic from insects to angels, amounted to an…
'Humanities: Prospects and Priorities' - Postgraduate Masterclass
Lecture
Presented by visiting Professor Will Christie (University of Sydney), this masterclass is an opportunity to reflect on successful research in the humanities. It will bring together HDR students at all stages of candidature to share their individual research and to discuss: the nature of PhD…
Homeric hospitality – ξεινήιον (guest-gift) exchange
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The e Centre for Classical Studies warmly invites you to attend the last in its Classics Seminar Series for 2014. After the talk we shall continue discussion in the ANU Classics Museum over light refreshments. ‘I look at the role of the ξεινήιον (guest-gift) in creating the ritualized…