Human Communication
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How does human language work? How did Homer’s Iliad become the poem we know today? What do the creative arts reveal about society? In this video, La Trobe’s human communication researchers explain how they are tackling these and other questions.
Interviewees:
- Professor Chris Mackie, researching Homer's work the Iliad and the Odyssey.
- Professor Susan Thomas, researching colonial literatures, post-colonial literatures, women's writing and feminist theory.
- Professor Peta Tait, researching the theatre and performance.
- Dr Birgit Hellwig, researching and preserving marginalised languages.
