Humanities

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National funding awarded for new OLT project: A national language studies portal for Australian universities

14 May 2014

The Languages and Cultures Network for Australian Universities (LCNAU) has announced the awarding of funding by the Office for Learning …

Vice-Chancellor Professor Bruce Dowton escorts the Prime Minister of Croatia, Mr Zoran Milanović, and his wife Mrs Sanja Musić Milanović across campus. Credit: Effy Alexakis

Croatian Prime Minister Mr Zoran Milanović witnesses signing of agreement to support Croatian Studies at Macquarie University

11 March 2014

Macquarie University was pleased to welcome Croatian Prime Minister Mr Zoran Milanović to campus on Monday 10 March, as he …

Professor John Simons and Mr Peter N Varghese AO. Photo credit: Iain Brew

Australian soft power challenges addressed by DFAT Secretary at Bruce Allen Memorial Lecture

23 October 2013

The 2013 Bruce Allen Memorial lecture, hosted by Macquarie University’s Faculty of Arts and Soft Power Advocacy and Research Centre …

Through Destroy the Joint and other examples, the paper explores the possibility of studying the ‘geography’ of feminist thought on the internet.

Destroying the joint and dying of shame? New research explores feminist revitalisation in social media and beyond

23 August 2013

A new paper in Geographic Research examines the revitalisation of interest in feminist thought in Australia and around the world, …

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Youth and higher education: where to from here?

23 July 2013

A new symposium on Wednesday 24 July will see researchers and policymakers exploring the effect of government policies on Australian …

Dr Nicolas Bullot

Art versus Science no more?

24 March 2013

In a new article published in the April issue of the journal Behavioral and Brain Sciences, philosopher Nicolas Bullot from …

There are 700 local variations of this tale. The illustration of the good sister being showered with gold comes from the Grimm Bros version of the tale. It is by Dutch artist Rie Cramer and comes from an edition of the tales published in 1927.

Researchers look at how the transmission of a folktale illustrates connections between human genetic and cultural information

6 February 2013

Folktales share some important similarities with genes. Like genes, folktales are often inherited from parents and change a little bit …

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