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.
James Batchelor, Confirmation of Candidature, “Passion in Waves: A Renewed Pedagogy of Expressionist Dance”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar online on Thursday 14 May from 5-6. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. Abstract: This presentation by choreographer James Batchelor explores how the pedagogical legacy of modern dance pioneer Gertrud Bodenwieser (1890–1959) can be renewed in contemporary practice. From Vienna to Australia, … Continue reading
Danielle Clarke, University College Dublin, “Accounting for Time in Early Modern Women’s Life Writings”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar (Co-hosted with CEMS) in person (ADH Conference Room) and online on Thursday 19 March from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. This talk traces the connections between the increasingly prevalent practice of account-keeping and the use of time and numbers in … Continue reading
Phoebe Chen (Exit seminar), “Shakespeare’s Terrible Neutrality”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (ADH Conference Room) and online on Thursday 5 March from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. ABSTRACT: This thesis explores what I term Shakespeare’s terrible neutrality, a comprehensive and impartial stance that pervades his complete works. Drawing on a … Continue reading
Yahia Ma, “Translating Queer Desires: Chinese-Language Queer Literature and English Translation”
Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 19 Feb from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Wesley.Lim@anu.edu.au for the link. AbstractSince the 1990s, tongzhi/queer literature in mainland China and Taiwan has flourished amid neoliberalism, queer movements, and the introduction of Western queer theory, exposing … Continue reading
Fabricio Tocco, ‘Thrilling Gringos: Americans, Europeans and the Secret Liaisons between Latin America and the Thriller’
Image Credit: Costa-Gavras, Missing (1982). Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 23 October from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Thomas.Nulley-Valdes@anu.edu.au for the link. ABSTRACT: The secret liaisons between Latin America and the thriller are older than they seem. Following the southbound journey of gringos—Early Modern Southern European … Continue reading
Elizabeth Keen, “Desperately mortal in the moated grange: a cosmological view of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure”
Image credit: Image of the world, theatre of the world: Creation, from Hartmann Schedel, Das Buch der Croniken (Nuremberg 1493). Paris, BnF, Rés. G. 505. Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 9 October from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Thomas.Nulley-Valdes@anu.edu.au for the link. ABSTRACT: … Continue reading
Chris Danta, “Dear AI Reader: Nonhuman Perspective and Evolutionary Thinking in the Human-Machine Relation”
Image Credit: Bronwyn Schuster, Montecristo Magazine. Please join us for a CuSPP Seminar in person (BPB W3.03) and online on Thursday 25 September from 1-2. Please refer to the CuSPP email or email Thomas.Nulley-Valdes@anu.edu.au for the link. ABSTRACT: Many writers figure machines in evolutionary terms, as living and evolving organisms. The American science fiction writer … Continue reading
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