'Marlow’s plays & poems are totally vanished’: Charles Lamb’s recuperation of Christopher Marlowe in "Specimens of English Dramatic Poets Who Lived About the Time of Shakespeare" (1808).
Lecture/seminar
In 1804 Charles Lamb wrote to William Wordsworth that old editions of the plays and poems of Christopher Marlowe were now unobtainable: they had ‘totally vanished’1. In his anthology of extracts from the work of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Specimens of English Dramatic Poets (1808), Lamb included…
Super Review of 1001 Nights in the Colony
Lecture/seminar
This seminar will take a different format. The idea behind a super review is to provide HDR students and ECRs with some insights into how a review conversation can be productive and exciting, and leads to stronger work, with the added bonus of making the audience aware of the manuscript, hopefully,…
CHMS HDR Publication Workshop: Publishing in Heritage Studies and Anthropology
Workshop
We are very fortunate to welcome:Laurajane Smith, Editor of the International Journal of Heritage StudiesCaroline Schuster and Catherine J. Frieman, Editors of Current AnthropologyDrawing on their extensive experience as scholars and journal editors, our guests will share practical insights into…
Indigenous Knowledge Educational Workshop 2026: Reciprocity and Exchange
Workshop
Learning with Country, community and each other The 2026 Indigenous Knowledge and Sustainable Development Workshop explored reciprocity and exchange as practices of learning, relationship and responsibility.Reciprocity invites us to think differently about what it means to learn and share…
Wellspring Series 2026: Preserving Australian Modern Dance: Creating a Pedagogy for the Bodenwieser Technique
Performance
In this lecture-demonstration, scholar Wesley Lim and choreographers James Batchelor and Ruth Osborne explore the movement legacy of modern dance pioneer Gertrud Bodenwieser and the lineage of her teaching in Australia.Lim will introduce Bodenwieser’s radical modernist practice, brought to…
From Alexandria to Baghdad via Damascus: Missing Links in the Transmission of Greek Philosophy in Late Antiquity
Seminar
The established narrative of the transmission of Greek philosophy and science in late antiquity leaves a significant gap between the end of the Alexandrian school in the 6th century and its “rediscovery” in 9th-century Baghdad. This so-called ‘Dark Age’ can be illumined by looking at the…
2026 Anthony Forge Memorial Lecture: "Just Sign for Her" - Proprioception and Consent
Lecture
This upcoming lecture is co-sponsored by the ANU Gender Institute and the School of Archaeology and Anthropology and is free to attend. Register your attendance through Humanitix to stay up to date with event information. Originally published on the ANU Gender Institute website.For the renegade…