HRC Seminar Series 2016, Associate Professor Nicole Moore, UNSW
Seminar
In a preface to the first published edition of The Chapel Perilous, Australian writer Dorothy Hewett’s best-known play, she notes of its heroine: “For many young women Sally Banner is the first modern liberated feminist in our literature: I believe this is an historical and literary accident” (…
Homer and the Epic Tradition (Homer Seminar VIII)
Conference
Since 2001 Professor Elizabeth Minchin has convened this biennial seminar at the Australian National University, aiming to give scholars interested in the epic tradition in the ancient Greek and Roman world - especially (but not only) postgraduates and early-career researchers - an opportunity to…
HRC Seminar Series - Assist Professor Alexandra King, SUNY Buffalo State University
Seminar
The division between high- and lowbrow art is pervasive, even if we don’t always use such outmoded terms. In this talk, Alexandra King will present a couple of worries about the distinction, one historical and one political. She will argue that the…
RESEARCH ASSESSMENT & THE HUMANITIES, Featuring Professor Malcolm Gillies AM FAHA
Lecture
About Malcolm Gillies: A musician and linguist by education, Professor Malcolm Gillies AM FAHA is a former Deputy Vice Chancellor (Education) at ANU, and most recently, Vice-Chancellor of London Metropolitan University, from which he retired last year. From 1998 to 2001 he was President of the…
Spanish bestseller crime writer Dolores Redondo at the HRC
Other
About The Invisible Guardian The naked body of a teenage girl is found on the banks of the River Baztán. Less than 24 hours after this discovery, a link is made to the murder of another girl the month before. Is this the work of a ritualistic killer or of the Invisible Guardian, the Basajaun, a…