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School Seminars

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

 

2006 PROGRAMME

 

DATE SPEAKER TOPIC ABSTRACT
Mon 27 February Kevin Windle Orpheus Down Under: A. N. Tolstoi and the Australian career of Captain Zuzenko. Abstract
Mon 6 March Anna Wierzbicka A Conceptual Basis for Intercultural Pragmatics and World-wide Understanding
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Mon 13 March Josephine Caffery Factors That Enhance Or Constrain Language Work By Indigenous Language Researchers. Abstract
Tue 18 April Kirill Nourzhanov Dr Frankenstein of the North Caucasus? President Putin’s Chechen policy and the dilemmas of power in the region. Abstract
Mon 29 May Carolina Holtheuer Errors and corrections in the acquisition of Spanish verbs Ser and Estar. Abstract
Mon 5 June Robert Miller Russia and Europe: the evolution of Russian foreign policy from Gorbachev to Putin Abstract
Mon 24 July Gabriella Imposti (University of Bologna) The reception of Thomas Moore in Russia during the Romantic Age. Abstract
Mon 21 August Blandine Guillot The role of "representations" in the "didactics" of writing: an exploration of first and second language models in the teaching of written French in an Australian university Abstract
Mon 23 October Rowena Dickins Morrison Changing constellations of ‘nation’ and ‘identity’ in the written press of New Caledonia (1975-2005) – a work in progress.
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Mon 30 October Kevin Windle

Russia in 1908: the view from Manila. Teodoro Kalaw's "Hacia la tierra del Zar"

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Mon 6 November Anna Gladkova Cultural semantics of ‘pretending’ in Russian and English Abstract
Mon 13 November Harold Koch

Reconstructing Aboriginal placenames in the Canberra region.

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Mon 20 November Erma Vassiliou - **POSTPONED** Aspects of language change in Post-Medieval French: evidence through the texts of a rare 16th century document Abstract
Mon 27 November Elisabeth Mayer Syntactic variation in object arguments in Limeño contact varieties Abstract
Mon 4 December Anna Taitslin

Alexander Chayanov’s peasant utopia as the Narodnik alternative to Bolshevik collectivism.

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Mon 11 December Shannon Clark “And how did that leave you feeling”: Talk about feelings as a relevant topic in psychotherapy Abstract

 

Links to related seminars:

Centre for Research on Language Change

National Europe Centre