Past events
2016 Hispanic Film Festival Presents 'La Yuma'
Entertainment
The ANU School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, in collaboration with Pragda’s Spanish Film Club Series, The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sports of Spain, and SPAIN Arts & Culture, is celebrating its first Hispanic Film Festival in 2016. The series is free and open to the…
Jewish and Israeli life today in Germany
Lecture/seminar
ldad Beck is the Berlin-based correspondent of the Israeli daily “Yedioth Ahronoth.” He has been covering Germany, Central Europe and the EU since 2002. He is one of the rare Israeli journalists who reported from countries such as Iran, Syria, Iraq, Lebanon and Afghanistan about major events in…
Zoffany’s daughter; a biographical fragment
Seminar
My subject is a microhistory – that is, a small story with potentially large meanings. In mid-1825 Cecilia Zoffany, daughter of the illustrious painter Johann Zoffany, a woman of ‘rank and fashion’ and reputed to be a great beauty, arrived with two of her children on the island of Guernsey. For…
ANU/The Canberra Times meet the author event with Stan Grant
Book launch
Stan Grant will discuss his new book, Talking To My Country, a powerful and personal meditation on race, culture and national identity. Grant says, "This is the story of my country; this is the story I am now drawn to tell. Black Australia is a foreign place and…
Fixing the System - a conversation
Lecture
Dr Chris Wallace and Prof. Anne Tiernan, in conversation with Katharine Murphy, discuss Griffith Review #51: Fixing the System, about how although Australia has never been richer and its people better educated, many perceive that its systems and institutions are broken. Presented by Griffith…
Eat, drink and be literary with Anna Funder
Lecture
Anna Funder is one of Australia's most acclaimed and awarded writers. Her 2012 debut novel All That I Am won the Miles Franklin Prize and many others including the Indie Book of the Year and the Australian Book Industry Award (ABIA) Book of the Year. Based on real people and events,…
Metropolis and memory: Constructing cosmopolitanisms in Lisa Lang’s Utopian Man (2010)
Seminar
Presented as part of the 2016 SLLL Literary Studies Seminar Series This paper examines Lisa Lang’s award-winning Australian novel Utopian Man (2010), which reimagines E.W. Cole and his famous Book Arcade in Melbourne in the last decades of the nineteenth century. Running in its central Melbourne…