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Events Calendar 2008
Division of Humanities
Ancient History
Asian Studies
Contemporary Music Studies
English
European Languages
Modern History
Politics and International Relations
Division of Humanities http://www.humanities.mq.edu.au/
Co-hosted by the Centre for Middle East and North African Studies and the Innovative Universities European Union Centre: Public Lecture
The nature of contemporary Jihadism: Motivations of suicide bombers
Professor Farhad Khosrokhavar (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
When: Tuesday 2 September, 7pm
Where: Room W5A Theatre I
Bookings essential for planning purposes:
blanche.menadier@humn.mq.edu.au or 9850-7915
Ancient History http://www.anchist.mq.edu.au/
Department of Ancient History: Research Seminars
Recognizing Foreignness: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Greek Loanwords
Mathew Almond
Greeks and Latins on the Isthmus: Recent Investigations into Society and Culture in the Crusader Period in Southern Greece
Prof. Timothy Gregory (Ohio State University)
When: Friday 5 September, 4.00-5.20pm
Where: Room X5B 321
Antony and the ‘Donations’ of Alexandria: Reprehensible Concessions or Laudable Benefactions?
Lauren Horne
What on Earth is a BKT 8.17?
Dr Don Barker
When: Friday 12 September, 4.00-5.20pm
Where: Room X5B 321
A Roman Historian Looks at Revelation
Prof. Denis Saddington (University of the Witwatersrand)
Animal Behaviour in Egyptian Art
Dr Linda Evans
When: Friday 19 September, 4.00-5.20pm
Where: Room X5B 321
Asian Studies http://www.asianlang.mq.edu.au/
Department of Asian Studies: Research Seminars
Phonological acquisition of Mandarin-English simultaneous bilingual children - the case of stop voicing contrasts
Ruying Qi (School of Humanities and Languages & MARCS, University of Western Sydney)
Kimiko Tsukada (Department of Asian Studies, Macquarie University)
Zhu Hua (School of Languages, Linguistics & Culture, Birkbeck,University of London)
When: Friday 5 September, 3.30-4.30pm
Where: Room W6B 218
While most of the previous studies on bilingual acquisition of phonetic features are focused on comparing the development of phonemes that differ substantially in their voice onset time (VOT) characteristics in two languages (e.g. English vs. Spanish), the present study compares two bilingual children's acquisition of similar phonetic features in two languages (English and Mandarin) in order to investigate whether and how bilingual children differentiate the two languages being acquired and at what level.
The production of word-initial phonemes /p t k/ by two Mandarin-English bilingual children, J1 and J2, were compared for the measure of VOT, which resembles each other closely in two languages. The results obtained suggest that the bilingual children acquire phonemes of similar phonetic features differently, lending support to the argument that bilingual children differentiate the acquisition of two languages from very early age.
Department of Asian Studies: Research Seminars
Recreated Pasts - Two Ways of Seeing the Once and Future Tokyo in Yahagi Toshihiko's A Ja Pan! and Saijo Naka's Konparuya Gomesu
Phillip Musgrave (Department of Asian Studies, Macquarie University)
When: Friday 12 September, 2.00-3.00pm
Where: Room W6B 218
This paper deals with two kinds of fantasy works by two very
differing prize winning authors. The works are Yahagi Toshihiko's A Ja Pan!
and Saijo Naka's Konparuya Gomesu. Yahagi Toshihiko was awarded the Bunkamura
Deux Magots Prize in 1998 for A Ja Pan! and Saijo Naka was awarded the Japan
Fantasy Novel Prize in 2005 for Konparuya Gomesu. Neither author is
translated into any European language. The paper compares these two novels
with regard to the treatment of space, both urban and regional and the way
intertextuality, alienation and otherness is treated by the two authors in
terms of setting and to a lesser degree characterization.
The two novels make for a comparison because they both deal with
re-imagined Tokyos. Yahagi's novel is set in an alternative recent past,
Japan at the time of the Showa Emperor's death yet it is a Japan that was
divided in the aftermath of the Second World War. Western Japan is
capitalist and democratic with the emperor living in Kyoto, and Tokyo in
eastern Japan is the capital of a communist Japan. Saijo's novel is set
slightly into the future where Edo has been recreated and is an independent
entity. In selecting these two novels I look at the representation of what
is essentially a recreated Tokyo.
The treatment of space and place names is firstly examined when seen
in the prism of intertextuality. Secondly, the fact that both novels feature
protagonists from outside the world of the novel is examined. The
intertextual role of place names and the role of an outsider as protagonist,
with regard to alienation and otherness in each novel will be compared and
contrasted to examine why an 'other' moving through these fantasy-like urban
spaces of Tokyo is given narrator status in each novel.
Contemporary Music Studies http://www.dcms.mq.edu.au/
English http://www.engl.mq.edu.au/
Copyright Agency Ltd and the English Research Seminars present Gina Mercer.
Intimate In-Fluences: A Poet with a Few Questions about Voice
Gina Mercer
When: Monday 1 September, 1pm
Where: Room W6A 107
As a roving poet, audiences often ask me questions revealing a deep concern about how writers 'find' voice. These can seem naive questions in the wake of postmodernist theories but they recur, which suggests they cannot be dismissed with a simple wave of the theoretically sophisticated hand.
In this paper Gina Mercer will tease out these questions and what might be going on behind them. She will particularly consider how a writer might think about them in the light of Seamus Heaney's exhortation to poets to give the reader 'aural gooseflesh' with every poem or utterance.
Gina is a widely published poet and novelist, and is editor of the literary journal Island magazine. Her books include Parachute Silk, The Ocean in the Kitchen, Handfeeding the Crocodile, Seasoned with Honey, Night Breathing, Janet Frame - Subversive Fictions, and (co-editor) Postgraduate Research Supervision - Transforming (R)Elations.
Gina is Writer-in-Residence with the Department of English with generous support from the Copyright Agency Limited.
For further information contact
Frances Thompson
frances.thompson@hmn.mq.edu.au
or
Jane Messer
jmesser@humn.mq.edu.au
European Languages http://www.eurolang.mq.edu.au/
Modern History http://www.modhist.mq.edu.au/
Department of Modern History: Histories on Wednesday
Convict women and the female factories - exhibiting history.
Carol Liston, (University of Western Sydney)
When: Wednesday 3 September, 12-1.15pm
Where: Room W6A 127
Researching Gallipoli Documents in Turkish Archives: Foreign archival research issues.
Harvey Broadbent, Modern History (Macquarie University)
When: Wednesday 10 September, 12-1.15pm
Where: Room W6A 127
This potpourri of porno, pillage and pretense!: The Orientalist Historical Romance Novel
Hsu-Ming Teo, Modern History (Macquarie University)
When: Wednesday 17 September, 12-1.15pm
Where: Room W6A 127
Politics and International Relations http://www.pol.mq.edu.au/
Presented by the Departments of Sociology & Politics and International Relations: Seminar
Economic and social causes of Jihadism in the Europe and the Middle-East
Professor Farhad Khosrokhavar (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris)
When: Tuesday 2 September, 3pm
Where: Room W6A 107
Afternoon tea to follow
RSVP to: mecentre@humn.mq.edu.au
Department of Politics & International Relations: Staff Student Seminar Series
Climate Change and Strategic Change : Some Implications of Nuclear Winter Redux
Professor Peter King (University of Sydney)
When: Friday 5 September, 3pm
Where: Room W6A 107