The School of English, Media Studies and Art History Research Seminars have a long tradition in the School. Academic staff, postgraduate students, and visiting academics are able to present their research to an engaged and interested audience, and to take part in stimulating discussion.
Seminars are generally held on Fridays during semester in room 437 of the Michie Building, from 1:00pm - 2:15pm, on the St Lucia Campus of the University of Queensland, although other times can be arranged in special circumstances. Seminars may be followed by Research News announcements.
Students and staff from other Schools and universities, as well as members of the general public, are welcome. If you would like to be notified about the seminar program by email or if you wish to present a paper in the Semestser 1, 2009 seminar series, please contact Vicky McNicol in the School Office.
NOTE: THE LIST OF CURRENT YEAR SEMINARS IS SUBJECT TO CHANGE AND TOPICS/SPEAKERS SHOULD BE CHECKED CLOSER TO THE DATE OF PRESENTATION.
SEMESTER 2, 2009
Dr Nancy Paxton - 30 October 2009
Censorship, Trauma, and Resilience: Reconsidering Jean Devanny's Novels about Australia
Dr David Pritchard - 23 October 2009
Costing Festivals and War in Democratic Athens: Athenian Funding Priorities Between 430 and 350 BC
Ms Susan Rothnie - 16 October 2009
Unravelling Seventies Art in Australia
Professor Graeme Turner - 09 October 2009
Revenge of the Nerds: Digital Optimism, the 'Produser', and the Politics of Blogging
Ms Emily Wakeling - 25 September 2009
Super Girls: Shôjo Culture in Contemporary Japanese Art
Dr Allison Craven - 18 September 2009
Decorously Dubbed: Period, Region and Voice in The Irishman and Jedda
M. J. Hyland - 11 September 2009 (in association with the Brisbane Writers Festival and the UQ Art Museum)
M. J. Hyland on her new novel, This Is How Note: This seminar will be held at the University Art Museum
Dr Jane E. Hunt - 04 September 2009
Art Worthy of the State: Daphne Mayo and Her Cultural Mission
Dr Richard Smith - 28 August 2009
Actions and Their Vicissitudes: Cinema and the Physiological Tradition
Dr Roger Osborne - 21 August 2009
Preparing for the ‘Digital Deluge’: Aus-e-Lit and the Future of Research in Australian Literary Studies
Dr Alison Scott - 14 August 2009
Luxury in the City: Early Modern London's Decline in Growth
Dr Kerry Heckenberg - 31 July 2009
The King of the Sea and Other Stories of Prehistoric Life at The University of Queensland
SEMESTER 1, 2009
Dr Naomi Stead - 12 June 2009
Writing the City: Collaborative Place-Writing As Feminist Research Method
Professor Bonnie Kime Scott - 29 May 2009
Virginia Woolf, Eco-feminism, and Modernist Uses of Nature
Dr Sally Butler - 22 May 2009
Aboriginal Art & Systems Theory
Dr Melissa Bellanta - 15 May 2009
Rorty 'Ria and Red-Hot Maud: Modernity and Femininity in 1890s Australia
Dr Rob Pensalfini - 08 May 2009
Shakespeare of the Oppressed
Ms Deborah Thomas - 01 May 2009
“No one ever changes”: The Paradox of Multiple Casting in Todd Solondz’s Palindromes (2005)
Dr Rebecca Pelan - 24 April 2009
Stripping the Author Bare: Nikki Gemmell and the Politics of Appropriation
Dr Alice TePunga Somerville - 03 April 2009
Roundtable on Embedding Indigenous Knowledges across Disciplines
Mr John McCulloch - 27 March 2009
Brisbane's Brazen Bawds, Blameless Bastards, Baby-Farming Bints and Benevolent Biddies
Professor Emeritus Ross Humphries - 13 March 2009
Approaches to Writing Science Biography
Dr Ofer Gal - 06 March 2009
Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer
2008 EMSAH Research Seminars
Seminars presented in 2008
2007 EMSAH Research Seminars
Seminars presented in 2007
2006 EMSAH Research Seminars
Seminars presented in 2006