Skip Navigation | ANU Home | Search ANU | Search ARTS | Contact ARTS
The Australian National University
School of Language Studies
ANU College of Arts and Social Sciences
Printer Friendly Version of this Document

School Seminars

(normally 4.00-5.30 pm, Seminar Room W3.03, Baldessin Precinct Building)

 

2005 PROGRAMME

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC ABSTRACT
Thu 7 April Colleeen Chaston

Shape and meaning: images of the urn in Sophokles’ Elektra

Abstract
Mon 11 April Johanna Rendle-Short Asymmetrical use of Address Terms within the Australian Political Interview Abstract
Mon 18 April Karis Muller Reflections on a National Socialist sci fi novel  

Thu 28 April
Daniel Tangri Rhetoric and Tactics in Isaeus VIII Abstract
Thu 5 May Guy Olding Shot from the Canon: Ion of Chios as a Case Study in the Sources, Selection and Survival of Classical Literature  
Mon 2 May Anna Gladkova Sharing the pain of the other: a semantic analysis of some emotion terms in Russian. Abstract
Thu 12 May Doug Kelly The Athenian Expropriation of Samos  
Mon 16 May Anna Wierzbicka The Concept of ‘dialogue’ in cross-linguistic and cross-cultural perspective. Abstract
Wed 18 May Lucy Shorrock

That’s my one! A syntactic analysis of the use of ‘one’ in possessive constructions in Australian English.

 
Thu 19 May Pim Allison Roman Soldiers and Dead Babies in the 2nd century Auxiliary Fort of Ellingen in Germania superior.  
Mon 23 May Clare Tayler-Henry Names and Interaction in Internet Relay Chat.
Abstract
Thu 26 May Naomi Clarke TBA  
Thu 2 June Claire Jamset TBA  
Mon 6 June Kristine Rickard Chinese Lanqi Tones: an acoustic and linguistic-phonetic description of Lanqi citation tones Abstract
Monday 27 June Kevin Windle

‘Unmajestic bombast’: The Brisbane Union of Russian Workers as Shown in a 1919 Play

Abstract
Mon 25 July Roger Hillman Turkish-German Cinema Abstract
Mon 1 August Rosh Ireland Four Vaudevilles, or Who spotted the bed bug? Abstract
Mon 22 August Margaret Simmons Language and Identity: The bilingual setting in Catalonia. Abstract

Mon 29 August

Anna Taitslin The Westerners and Slavophiles and the Great Reforms of 1860. Abstract
Mon 19 September Mónica Aznárez Cognitive Models in Spanish Metalinguistic Phraseology Abstract
Mon 26 September William Steed

The tones of Longquan: implications for the nature of tonetic variation in Southern Wu.

Abstract
Mon 17 October Kirill Nourzhanov Sometimes They Come Back: Representations of Leonid Brezhnev in Russian Popular Culture Abstract
Mon 24 October Peter Brown Radiance. A Black Butterfly sings the Blues. Abstract
Mon 7 November Louise Maurer Imaginative discourses of self and culture in literature and painting: Michel Tournier’s Le Roi des Aulnes and selected works of Anselm Kiefer, Christian Boltanski and Georges Gittoes. Abstract
Mon 14 November Erma Vassiliou Compiling a Medieval Cypriot Grammar. The verbal system(s) in the Assizes, Makhairas and Boustronios; innovative verb forms outside the Greek system. Abstract
Mon 28 November Elisabeth Mayer Syntactic variation in object arguments in Limeño contact varieties. Abstract
Mon 5 December Matthew May

Growth Dynamics in Kazak Agriculture

Abstract
Mon 12 December Chantal Crozet

Teaching Intercultural Competence In Australian Language Classes: Gaps Between Theory, Context And Practice.

Abstract

Links to related seminars:

Centre for Research on Language Change

National Europe Centre