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The School of Humanities is one of four Schools in the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Adelaide. The movement from Departments to Schools came as part of a restructure in 2003. The School of Humanities comprises the disciplines listed below:
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Item Metadata only 2008, annee utopique : Fourier et son heritage(Monash Univ, 2008) Fornasiero, F.Item Restricted 206(Penumbric Speculative Fiction Magazine, 2021) Hooton, M.This short story imagines the ghost of a famous American stuntman haunting a child, who in turn enlists a Korean neighbour to help exorcise the spirit. A connection is made between the offending spectre and American atrocities during the Korean War.Item Metadata only 25 février 1830. La première d’Hernani(Les Arènes, 2016) Fornasiero, F.; Jeanneney, J.; Guérout, J.Item Metadata only 3D information visualisation: an historical perspective(IEEE, 2005) Wyeld, Theodor G.; International Conference on Information Visualisation (9th : 2005 : London, England); School of Humanities : MediaThe use of 3D visualisation of digital information is a recent phenomenon. It relies on users understanding 3D perspectival spaces. Questions about the universal access of such spaces has been debated since its inception in the European Renaissance. Perspective has since become a strong cultural influence in Western visual communication. Perspective imaging assists the process of experimenting by the sketching or modelling of ideas. In particular, the recent 3D modelling of an essentially non-dimensional Cyberspace raises questions of how we think about information in general. While alternate methods clearly exist they are rarely explored within the 3D paradigm (such as Chinese isometry). This paper seeks to generate further discussion on the historical background of perspective and its role in underpinning this emergent field.Item Metadata only 3D remote design collaboration: a pedagogical case study of the cross-cultural issues raised(IEEE, 2007) Wyeld, Theodor G.; Teng-Wen Chang; Prasolova-Forland, Ekaterina; International Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design (11th : 2007 : Melbourne, Vic.); CSCWD 2007; School of Humanities : MediaMuch architectural design work increasingly addresses an international audience. But many designers continue to work in isolation. In practice, however, their work includes international collaboration. This requires cross-cultural understandings with their co-collaborators. There are few opportunities for this to occur in a pedagogical setting. The 3D co-located laboratory (3DCollab) described in this paper was used as a cross-cultural exchange platform to address the need for design students to practice collaborating remotely. What the 3DCollab did was to facilitate cross-cultural exchange in a fun and informative environment where learning was constructed and played out in a 3D virtual environment (3DVE). The project involved students across three cooperating institutions: The University of Queensland (Australia); the National Yunlin University of Science and Technology (Taiwan); and, the Norwegian University of Science and Technology Trondheim (Norway). It builds on previous exercises conducted by the authors. As far as the authors of this paper are aware this is the first e-learning application to focus on cross-cultural understanding in a 3DVE.Item Metadata only The 3DCVE as a cross-cultural classroom(2006) Prasolova-Forland, Ekaterina; Wyeld, Theodor G.; Chang, T.-W.; Game/Set/Match. Conference (2006 : Delft, Berlageweg, Holland); School of Humanities : MediaItem Metadata only A 'Homeric' hymn to Stalin: performing safe criticism in ancient Greek?(Oxford University Press (OUP), 2014) Baltussen, J.N.This article offers an analysis of an unusual ‘Hymn to Stalin’, written in Homeric Greek, but found in a twentieth-century Czech novel. The examination of the style and context of the Ode reveals the allusive use of language, which illustrates how veiled criticism in a fictional account can inform us about historical events, even if it has an autobiographical origin. The analysis shows how the author, the Czech Václav Pinkava (pseudonym Jan Křesadlo), skilfully appropriates the hymnal style of both Stalinist and ancient Greek precedents, and argues that the use of Homeric vocabulary ingeniously transfers shades of meaning from the original Homeric context into the modern context (‘cracking the code’). The elaborate framing of the poem (authored by the protagonist in the novel, which is published under a pseudonym) also contributes to the overall impression that Pinkava used this format both as a send-up of the Stalinist literature of praise and as an example of ‘safe criticism’ or ‘Aesopian language’ — the subversive strategy of criticizing an oppressive regime by way of a cleverly constructed literary work for a knowing reader.Item Restricted A bark worse than his bite? Diogenes the Cynic and the politics of tolerance in Athens(University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015) Baltussen, H.; Baltussen, H.; Davis, P.Item Metadata only A case of peripheral vision: early Spanish and French perceptions of the British colony at Port Jackson(University of Adelaide Press, 2013) West-Sooby, J.; West Sooby, J.Item Metadata only A clever little country?(Unversity of Queensland, 2005) Griffiths, O.; Lealand, G.; Griffiths, Mary; Lealand, G.Item Metadata only A coffee with Ken: Ken Bolton's Adelaide(University of Adelaide Press, 2013) Jones, J.; Butterss, P.Item Metadata only A colonial wordsmith: George Isaacs in Adelaide, 1860-1870(University of Adelaide Press, 2013) Black, A.; Butterss, P.Item Metadata only "A Companion to Chaucer," edited by Peter Brown.(AUMLA, 2005) Burton, T.The article reviews the book "A Companion to Chaucer," edited by Peter Brown.Item Metadata only A comparison of traditional Kaurna kinship patterns with those used in contemporary Nunga English(Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies, 2012) Amery, R.; Buckskin, V.The Kaurna people were the first South Australians to bear the brunt of the effects of colonisation. Even as early as 1850, the Kaurna language was said to be ‘extinct’, though it was probably still spoken as an everyday language up until the 1860s. Ivaritji, the so-called ‘last speaker’, died in 1929. Nonetheless, we still see enduring patterns of kinship categorisation and associated behaviours that clearly have their roots in Kaurna culture, or at least local Aboriginal cultures, persisting to the present day. This paper sets out to document those enduring patterns, as well as the re-introduction of kin terms and accompanying knowledge of Kaurna kinship associated with Kaurna language reclamation efforts. A great many Kaurna kinship terms were documented in the 1840s and a few in the early twentieth century, though many of these were under-defined and poorly described. Comparative linguistics has assisted in making sense of the historical record, though many uncertainties remain.Item Metadata only A Conceptual Analysis of the virtual African Diaspora Project(Centre for Black Studies Research, The, 2007) Anyanwu, J.; Everett, A.; Wallace, A.Item Metadata only A Connectionist theory of phenomenal experience(CAMBRIDGE UNIV PRESS, 1999) O'Brien, G.; Opie, J.When cognitive scientists apply computational theory to the problem of phenomenal consciousness, as many have been doing recently, there are two fundamentally distinct approaches available. Consciousness is to be explained either in terms of the nature of the representational vehicles the brain deploys or in terms of the computational processes defined over these vehicles. We call versions of these two approaches vehicle and process theories of consciousness, respectively. However, although there may be space for vehicle theories of consciousness in cognitive science, they are relatively rare. This is because of the influence exerted, on the one hand, by a large body of research that purports to show that the explicit representation of information in the brain and conscious experience are dissociable, and on the other, by the classical computational theory of mind--the theory that takes human cognition to be a species of symbol manipulation. Two recent developments in cognitive science combine to suggest that a reappraisal of this situation is in order. First, a number of theorists have recently been highly critical of the experimental methodologies used in the dissociation studies--so critical, in fact, that it is no longer reasonable to assume that the dissociability of conscious experience and explicit representation has been adequately demonstrated. Second, classicism, as a theory of human cognition, is no longer as dominant in cognitive science as it once was. It now has a lively competitor in the form of connectionism; and connectionism, unlike classicism, does have the computational resources to support a robust vehicle theory of consciousness. In this target article we develop and defend this connectionist vehicle theory of consciousness. It takes the form of the following simple empirical hypothesis: phenomenal experience consists of the explicit representation of information in neurally realized parallel distributed processing (PDP) networks. This hypothesis leads us to reassess some common wisdom about consciousness, but, we argue, in fruitful and ultimately plausible ways.Item Metadata only A cordial encounter? The meeting of Matthew Flinders and Nicolas Baudin (8-9 April, 1802)(George Rude Society, 2005) Fornasiero, F.; West-Sooby, J.The 1802 encounter between Nicolas Baudin and Matthew Flinders has now entered Australian folklore. Most commentators concur that the famous meeting was conducted in a spirit of scientific cooperation that transcended the national rivalries of the day. Yet certain discrepancies between the accounts of the two captains are difficult to explain. These have generally been attributed to communication difficulties between the French navigator and his English-speaking counterpart. This assumption, however, is far from self-evident. We have thus chosen to canvass the full range of possible explanations for the conflicting accounts of that meeting, including the hypothesis that Flinders, who is generally considered a reliable witness, may indeed have misrepresented his encounter with Baudin. What emerges from this analysis is a picture of a meeting that was far less altruistic than is commonly believed—a meeting characterized, contrary to the legend, by the persistent undercurrent of political and personal motives.Item Metadata only A critique of Langsam's The 'Theory of Appearing Defended'(Kluwer Academic Publ, 2003) Djukic, D.; Popescu, V.Item Metadata only A Defense of Cartesian Materialism(PHILOSOPHY PHENOMENOLOGICAL RES, 1999) O'Brien, G.; Opie, J.Item Metadata only A democratic moment or more of the same? New literary magazines in Australia, 2005-2012(Monash University Publishing, 2013) Edmonds, P.; Stinson, E.