This study reads Vikram Seth’s From Heaven Lake: Travels through Sinkiang and Tibet (1983) as a counter-orientalist travel narrative that destabilizes the conventions of Western writing genre. Conventional writing, postcolonial scholars such Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha others claim, functioned mostly colonial or orientalist discourse by being involved in producing knowledge about Orient for dom...

The discourse about Orientalism, first mentioned by Edward Said has as long history and changed over time drawing from discoursesin different fields. In this paper, Denis Villeneuves cinematic adaptation of Dune in 2021 was analysed through the lens Orientalism identity construction self other. Firstly, main orientalist themes that were identified before other scholars have been discussed. Seco...

We present a method for generating a video of a talking face. The method takes as inputs: (i) still images of the target face, and (ii) an audio speech segment; and outputs a video of the target face lip synched with the audio. The method runs in real time and is applicable to faces and audio not seen at training time. To achieve this we propose an encoder-decoder CNN model that uses a joint em...

Freud wrote over three and a half million words. He was a master of style and presentation and had something worthwhile to say on every page. Frequently he was magnificent, as for example in his First Introductory Lectures, but it would be expecting too much of anyone to suppose that in such a large volume of writing he would always be clear. Moreover, he was introducing new and difficult conce...

On the most prominent account, understanding what was said is propositional knowledge of what was said. I defend an alternative on which understanding is a distinctive form of engagement with what was said. The knowledge account has been supported by its capacity to explain testimonial knowledge transmission. I argue that my account provides a superior explanation.

This talk will focus on our recent work in the identification of related documents from different corpora or discipline areas. The purpose of this work is to help a researcher or program manager to identify fruitful cross-disciplinary research areas. The talk will discuss some preliminary results that have been obtained using a small Science News (around 1200 articles) dataset. The work is pred...