Events
Professor Nicholas Jose introduces the Antipodean China Workshop.(opens in a new window)
Recent Events
Another World in This One: Gerald Murnane’s Fiction 7 December 2017
A one day workshop, Another World in This One: Gerald Murnane’s Fiction, will take place in the small Victorian town of Goroke as part of the ‘Dialogues’ theme of the project.
Antipodean China Workshop 23-24 November 2017
An occasion for writers, translators and scholars from China, Australia and elsewhere to reflect together on questions that are central to the Other Worlds research project, namely what presence does China, or Chinese literature, have in the work or imagination of writers in Australia, including Indigenous writers?
The 4th China Australia Literary Forum 7-11 May 2017
The fourth China Australia Literary Forum (CALF) took place in Guangzhou China. It continued a process of literary exchange between Chinese and Australian writers.
Featured Event
2018 Stella Prize winning author Alexis Wright in conversation with publisher and critic Ivor Indyk on 24 October 2014
Seminars
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 and researchers.
Events and symposia
The Writing and Society Research Centre is committed to fostering public discussion around literature and writing more generally. We do this through our public events and symposia. Where possible we seek to extend the life of these events through audio and video documentation that can be accessed on our past events page [insert link] and on the Sydney Consortium website
Under the banner of the Sydney Consortium the Centre has organized events with our consortium partners the Sydney Writers' Festival, State Library of NSW, Australian Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art. The Centre has also presented literary events with the Sydney Festival, Sydney Film Festival, Biennale of Sydney, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney Grammar School, Poet's Union, Casula Powerhouse Arts Centre, Sydney Arab Film Festival and the Blacktown Arts Centre.
Through the Sydney Seminar for the Arts and Philosophy, the Centre presents lectures, discussions and performances related to the philosophical and cognitive understandings of what art can do. We also organise launches and readings to mark new Giramondo releases.
