Professor Will Christie presents: ‘A striking resemblance’: Portraiture in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
Lecture
In this lecture, Will Christie looks at the role played by the portrait, and by the aesthetics and language of portraiture, in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice. He examines how Austen exploited the uncertain status of portrait painting in the 18th century and the ambiguity of ‘ideal imitation’ as…
Envisioning the world: history, literature and the Fulbright
Lecture
Jointly hosted by the Humanities Research Centre and the Fulbright Commission, this public lecture will feature Dr Kotlowksi and Dr Ratti explaining how their research projects were boosted by the Fulbright scholarships. Dr Dean Kotlowski will discuss how the commission helped him place…
HRC Seminar Series 2015 - Professor Mary Jacobus, University of Cambridge, 28 July 2015
Seminar
In this seminar Mary Jacobus will discuss Ishiguro's recent novel about memory loss, ‘The Buried Giant,’ seen through the lens of British Object relations psychoanalysis, will be paired with 'the third eye' of Paddy Summerfield's decade-long photographic essay, ‘Mother and Father.’ Biography…
HRC Seminar Series 2015 - Dr Oisín Keohane, University of Toronto - Tues 26 May 2015
Seminar
Dr Keohane will examine the consequences of living in the age of ‘Anglobalisation’ for philosophy and the world at large. Central to this is the problem that English linguistic hegemony can serve, on the one hand, as a potentially useful vehicle for the universal diffusion of philosophical…
Getting Away to Europe to Write - British novelist and historian Lesley Chamberlain
Seminar
British novelist and historian of ideas Lesley Chamberlain will talk about the European events and ideas that have shaped her writing. Her books have thematized Nietzsche (Nietzsche in Turin 1996) , Freud (The Secret Artist 2000), and Russian Utopianism and spirituality (Motherland 2004), while the…
HRC Seminar Series 2015 - Professor Carmel O'Shannessy, University of Michigan
Seminar
In this case study Professor O'Shannessy shows that a community’s response to global pressure can be one of dynamic creativity. One small Warlpiri community in the Northern Territory has reacted creatively to global pressure from English by incorporating elements of Warlpiri and varieties of…
2015 HRC Annual Theme - Global Languages
Conference
The history of the world is characterized by great diversity in languages and societies as small groups split off and develop their own ways of talking and interacting. This diversity has been periodically checked by the rise of larger societies and economies, created by empires, evangelism and the…