2012 Seminars
2012 Seminar Program
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| Friday 9 March | Anna Gibbs | Writing’s New Materialisms, or, (Post)conceptual Writing as Material Thinking: an essay on practice |
| Friday 16 March | Gail Jones | Sensational Politics: Walter Benjamin, Lola Ridge, and the affected body of modernism |
| Friday 30 March | Steven Connor | Modernism, Writing and Number |
| Friday 13 April | Ivor Indyk | Provincialism and Encyclopaedism |
| Friday 4 May | Ihab Hassan (visitor) | The Humanities Ascending: Or What’s In It for You |
| Friday 25 May | Postgraduate Seminar Papers | Martin Edmond on ‘The Buried Village’ and Tom Lee on ‘A Poetics of the Naughty’ |
| Wednesday 30 May | Sagar Dan (visitor) | Australian Aboriginal Literature: Transnational Subjectivities in India |
| Friday 15 June | Catherine Rey | Milan Kundera: At home in exile or in search of the idyllic language |
| Friday 6 July | Megan Jones | Township Textualities |
| Friday 3 August | Michael Hofmann | On Poetry and Translation |
| Friday 10 August | Ben Etherington | Literary Primitivism |
| Friday 17 August | Christine Wertheim | On auto-bio-graphics: conceiving of bodies through image-ing tongues |
| Wednesday 22 August | Jan Wagner | Poetry Reading and Talk |
| Wednesday 29 August | Gerry Carruthers | Civilized & Primitive: the paradox of English literature beyond Britain |
| Friday 7 September | David Walker | Writing History in the Form of Memoir |
| Friday 28 September | Postgraduate Seminar Papers | Rory Dufficy and Sarah Gilbert |
| Friday 12 October | Magdalena Zolkos | Jean Améry and the Jewish Tradition of Conscious Pariahdom |
| Friday 19 October | Patricia Plumer | Romantic representations of Constantinople |
| Friday 9 November | Mridula Nath Chakraborty | Revolutionary Reprise: Some Notes from Egypt circa 1956 in Waguih Ghali's novel Beer in the Snooker Club (1964) |
| Friday 16 November | Helen Groth | Projections of Alice: Anachronistic Reading and the Temporality of Mediation |
| Friday 23 November | Post Graduate Seminar Papers | Annee Lawrence |
| Friday 7 December | Matt McGuire | Scottish Crime Fiction |