Welcome to CuSPP! This network brings together researchers, scholars, and writers working in and beyond the Australian National University in Canberra in cultures of screen, performance, and print. CuSPP encompasses literary and screen studies, cultural history, theatre and performance studies, digital cultures and humanities, book history and reception studies. It explores relationships across time and place, from the ancient world to the present day. On this website you will find information about our upcoming events, which we hope you will find of interest.
ANZAC Day: ‘Arthur Streeton, the art of war’ poetry reading
This ANZAC Day, the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra is hosting a collaboration with the ANU Theatre Society and the Australian War Memorial: Arthur Streeton: The art of war poetry reading (Wednesday April 25, 11:00am – 12:00pm) A recital of Australian poetry and illuminating letters written by Arthur Streeton during his time as an official war artist in … Continue reading
Leslie Barnes on Nicolas Kristof as Global Saviour
Join us for next week’s CuSPP seminar: Live-Tweeting and Distant Suffering: Nicholas Kristof as Global Saviour Thursday 26 April, 1pm, Milgate Room, AD Hope Bldg, SLLL In his foreword to Somaly Mam’s The Road of Lost Innocence, Nicholas Kristof celebrates the Cambodian sex-trafficking survivor for embodying “the resilience, courage, and nobility of the human spirit.” … Continue reading
Call for Submissions: The Cinema of Rithy Panh
The Cinema of Rithy Panh (tentative title) Rithy Panh¹s cinematic project offers a sustained meditation on genocide, with nearly every one of his films addressing to some degree the horror that befell his native Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. At the same time, his examination of the Cambodian genocide is not limited to its attendant … Continue reading
CFP: The Bildungsroman, form and transformations
The Bildungsroman: form and transformations http://bildungsroman.org A conference hosted by the Novel Network at the University of Sydney, 22-25 November 2018 This conference will explore the past and present condition of the Bildungsroman, with its myriad transformations and diversifications not only in the novel proper but also in memoir, film and long-form television. It will bring … Continue reading
Millicent Weber on digital publishing and audiobooks
Please join us for next week’s CuSPP seminar: Digital Publishing Collectives and Public Domain Audiobooks Thursday 19 April, 1pm, Milgate Room, AD Hope Bldg, SLLL Cooperative digital publishing enterprises enrich the public domain and model productive collaborative practices in an increasingly hostile online world. This talk examines one of these enterprises, Librivox, whose volunteers create free … Continue reading
Kate Flaherty at the HRC: Is Shakespeare a Book?
Please join us for Kate Flaherty’s Books That Changed Humanity talk this week: Is Shakespeare a Book? Friday 6 April, 5.30 – 7pm, Theatrette, Sir Roland Wilson Building. Register here. In early April of 2016 a multitude of international news outlets reported the ‘discovery’ of a copy of Shakespeare’s First Folio in a stately home on … Continue reading
Gemma King at the French Film Festival
The 2018 Canberra French Film Festival closes tomorrow, Wednesday March 28, but there are still plenty of films to see. Listen to Gemma King speaking on 2CC radio about the festival, stereotypes about French cinema, and how French films are actually far more diverse than you might expect: Head to affrenchfilmfestival.org or Palace Electric cinemas for … Continue reading
