Events

Lucia Nguyen, Ben Muir, Grace Roodenrys, James Goh, Bria McCarthy and Laneikka Denne at The Writing Zone launch of Ghost Cities, PARI Gallery, 2022 Credit: Sally Tsoutas, WSU

The Writing and Society Research Centre is committed to fostering public discussion around literature and writing more generally. We do this through our literary events and conferences. Where possible we seek to extend the life of these events through audio and video documentation that can be accessed on our event archive (under reconstruction).

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Seminar Series

The Writing and Society Research Centre runs a series of seminars that occur regularly throughout the year. Seminars are presented by Centre members, visiting scholars and our postgraduate students. Seminars are open to participants from other universities, and interested writers, critics, researchers and readers.

Partnerships

In collaboration with our public engagement partners the Centre has organised events with a diverse range of community and arts sector collaborators including Parramatta Artists’ Studios, City of Parramatta, Blue Mountains Writers’ Festival and Varuna National Writers’ House, Bankstown Poetry Slam, State Library of NSW, Sydney Writers’ Festival, Sydney Film Festival, the Biennale of Sydney, Sydney Arab Film Festival, Art Gallery of NSW, Utp (formerly Urban Theatre Projects), Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, The Finishing School Collective, the Australian Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, among many others.

We also organise launches and readings to mark publications by Giramondo Publishing, Sydney Review of Books and The Writing Zone.

Upcoming Events

'Biology and the Two Cultures'
Jason Tuckwell, Marilyn Stendera and Timothy Jackson

Friday 16 October, 11:30am-12:30pm

Hybrid delivery. In-person attendance at Western Sydney University Parramatta South Campus (cnr of James Ruse Drive and Victoria Road, Rydalmere), Whitlam Institute (Bld EZ, Female Orphan School), Level 1, Geoffrey Robertson Boardroom (rsvp via Humanitix), AND online attendance (register via zoom and a link will be sent to you.

Full details in event flyer.

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'Writing and Society Research Centre - Celebrating 20 Years
Conversations, Literary Readings and Lunch

Join us for a half-day symposium reflecting on the history, achievements and legacies of the Writing and Society Research Centre. Bringing together past and current Centre members, Directors, and postgraduate students alongside authors from our creative communities, the symposium will celebrate the evolving role the Centre has played in shaping the literary, scholarly and cultural ecologies of Western Sydney, and in forging links among national and international writers and researchers.

Friday 20 November, 9:30am - 1:00pm
PHIVE (Parramatta Library), Civic Gallery, Level 4

RSVP via Humanitix. Full details in event flyer.