Seminar | Between Hospitality and Asylum: Stranger as victim and agent – suppliant and guest
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Exceptional are the policies and the negotiations that accompany the political and moral dilemmas of how to address the stranger at the threshold. Some 3000 years ago the measure of society was encapsulated in what happened at the moment of reaching across that liminal space. The positioning…
Books that Changed Humanity: The King James Bible
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Books that Changed Humanity is an initiative of the Humanities Research Centre, based at the Australian National University. The HRC invites experts to introduce and lead discussion of major texts from a variety of cultural traditions, all of which have informed the way we understand…
A Christmas Carol
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In our fifth and final event for 2016, Associate Professor Jenny Gribble will introduce and discuss A Christmas Carol, written by Charles Dickens in 1843. Known formally as A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, Dickens' novella tells the story of the peevish miser…
RESEARCH ASSESSMENT & THE HUMANITIES, Featuring Professor Malcolm Gillies AM FAHA
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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…
Professor Will Christie presents: ‘A striking resemblance’: Portraiture in Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice
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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…