The dead pan: Nathanael West’s unfunny jokes and modernist anti‐sentimentalism
Seminar
Though Nathanael West’s novels are often read in terms of an ancient and revered mode of misanthropic humour—satire—in this paper I want to draw on recent work that seeks to situate his work in relation to distinctly modern comic modes—slapstick, burlesque, black humour, and especially, dead pan.…
The dead pan: Nathanael West’s unfunny jokes and modernist anti‐sentimentalism
Seminar
Though Nathanael West’s novels are often read in terms of an ancient and revered mode of misanthropic humour—satire—in this paper I want to draw on recent work that seeks to situate his work in relation to distinctly modern comic modes—slapstick, burlesque, black humour, and especially, dead pan…
Online Archives and Digital Resources: A thousand years of networks
Seminar
As part of the “Settimana della lingua italiana”, Dr Josh Brown will give a lecture on October 17 at 4pm entitled “Online archives and digital resources: A thousand years of networks”.
Public Lecture: Dr Jane Cook
Lecture
Art, Science, and the Subtleties of Making“It is human nature to put things and experiences into categories to aid our understanding of the Cosmos and our place therein. But deep discoveries and inventions often are born from new approaches to sorting Nature’s complexity: new boxes, new senses, new…
The Aboriginal Memorial 30th Anniversary Annual Lecture + Symposium
Symposium
The Aboriginal Memorial was conceived by Djon Mundine, First Nations’ curator, artist and then Art Adviser at Ramingining, Central Arnhem Land in 1987. One of the nation’s most significant conceptual works of art it was created by 43 artists, both male and female, from Ramingining and its surrounds…
Only Mediate: The Mere Interest of Interbrow in Kenneth Lonergan’s Margaret (2011) and Howards End (2017)
Seminar
‘Only connect’ functions both as the epigraph to E. M. Forster’s Howards End (1910) and as the central character Margaret Schlegel’s exhortation to her husband, capitalist entrepreneur Henry Wilcox. With her exasperated ‘only connect’, Margaret means for Henry to recognise that his refusal of…
Etched in Bone: A film by Martin Thomas and Beatrice Bijon
Other
Red Lily Productions invite you and your guest to the launch of Etched in Bone , a film by Martin Thomas and Beatrice Bijon. RSVP by 27 September to etchedinbone.themovie@gmail.com