CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Katharina Bonzel 'Criminal Justice: Televisual Policing in the Age of Disillusionment'
Seminar
Criminal Justice: Televisual Policing in the Age of Disillusionment This paper argues that the popular television series The Blacklist (2013-present) marks a turn in “terror TV” (Tasker) towards criminals being the better police as trust in traditional law enforcement evaporates post 9/11. While…
Cultural Resilience, Resurgence and Rimix in the Kimberley and Vanuatu
Seminar
This seminar will bring together a panel of cultural practitioners from the Kimberley and Vanuatu in conversation about their perspectives on, and practices of, cultural resilience, resurgence, inter-cultural collaboration and links to Indigenous sovereignty. Representatives from the Kimberley…
Exhibition Two | 2019 Higher Degree Research Season One
Gallery
Join us for the opening reception of the second exhibition of the 2019 Higher Degree Research Season One in the ANU School of Art & Design Gallery. Lan Nguyen-hoanDoctor of Philosophy Candidate Exhibition dates: 3 - 12 April The School of Art & Design provides a stimulating…
Books that Changed Humanity | The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
Lecture
Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way we understand…
CuSPP Literary Studies Seminar Series 2019: Paul Magee 'Writing is Speaking'
Seminar
Writing is Speaking Why is it that when we read a passage of dense theoretical prose, say in Frederic Jameson, or encounter a “garden path” sentence (e.g. The old man the boat), or just generally want more clarity from the text in front of us, that we slow down and sound the words out? The direct…
Centre for Heritage and Museum Studies - Seminar on Resilience: ‘Children Drowning’: The Violence and Resilience of a Narrative
Seminar
The narrative that asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat should be stopped – and either turned back or imprisoned – in order to ‘prevent children drowning at sea’ is one that has proved resilient in Australian political discourse over the course of the twenty first century. In this paper I…
Jordy Silverstein, ‘“Children Drowning”: the violence and resilience of a narrative’
Seminar
The narrative that asylum seekers coming to Australia by boat should be stopped – and either turned back or imprisoned – in order to ‘prevent children drowning at sea’ is one that has proved resilient in Australian political discourse over the course of the twenty first century. In this paper I…