2013 Seminars
An archive of Writing and Society seminars from 2013. Click on the seminar title to read an abstract, listen to audio and view images and video of the seminar presentations.
Friday 8 March | Sara Knox (Western Sydney University) | Hilary Mantel and the Historical Novel |
| Wednesday 13 March | Jaap Blonk (visitor, Dutch avant –garde composer & performance poet) | Jaap Blonk on Jaap Blonk |
| Wednesday 20 March | Prof. Will Luers (visitor, Creative Media & Digital Culture Program, Washington State University, Vancouver) | Composing the Narrative Interface |
| Wednesday 27 March 1.30pm - 3.00pm | Gregory O'Brien (visitor – distinguished NZ poet & curator) | |
| Friday 12 April 11.00am - 12.30pm | Matt McGuire (Western Sydney University) | Northern Ireland and Post Conflict Literature |
| Friday 3 May | Prof. Bruno Clément (U Paris) | Teaching Philosophy or Teaching Philosophically |
Friday 10 May | Chris Andrews (Western Sydney University) | "Roberto Bolaño's Overinterpreters"? |
| Thursday 6 June | Hanifa Deen | On the Trail of Taslima |
| Tuesday 23 July | Jane Smiley (visitor, novelist and author from the USA) | The Most Important Question |
| Friday 16 August | Lorraine Sim (Western Sydney University) | 'Extraordinary Actuality': Helen Levitt's Streets |
| Wednesday 28 August | Ketu Katrak (UCI) | Gender and Postcolonialism in Modern African Drama: History on Stage |
| Wednesday 4 September | Meet the Bookwallah writers: Chandrahas Choudhoury, Benjamin Law, Kristy Murray, Annie Zaidi | Bookwallah is a travelling writer's festival that celebrates contemporary India, offering an insider's view of this eastern powerhouse, and an outsider's view as seen through the eyes of visiting writers. |
| Friday 6 September | Ben Etherington and Jarad Zimbler (U Oxford) | Ben Etherington on the Jamaican poet Louise Bennett and Jarad Zimbler discussing his forthcoming book on J.M Coetzee. |
| Friday 11 October | Prof. Ronan MacDonald (UNSW) | Modernism and Irish Literature |
| Friday 1 November | James Gourley (Western Sydney University) | "Time's Chiromancy:" The Shape of Time in Thomas Pynchon |
| Friday 29 November | Ehsan Azari | Desire dispossessed of a desiring subject: Deleuze and Guattari |