2014 Seminars
After the seminar has passed you can click on the seminar title to read an abstract, listen to audio and view images and video of the seminar presentations.
All seminars are in room 3.G.55 on the Bankstown Campus unless otherwise indicated.
Friday 7 March 11.00am - 12.30pm | Chris Fleming (WSRC) | "Cabal of Babylonian Aliens Behind JFK Assassination!" Writing Conspiracy, Explaining the World |
| Friday 14 March 11.00am - 12.30pm | Stephen Knight (UMelb) | Criminographical Criticism: From the Corpus of Crime Fiction to the Body of the Text |
| Friday 28 March 11am- 12.30pm | Victor Li (University of Toronto) Postgraduate seminar presentations | Frames of Globalization, or Making the World Disappear |
| Friday 4 April 11am- 12.30pm | Sabrina Achilles (WSRC) | Bergson's notion of intuition as method and Deleuze and Guattari's concept, schizoanalysis, in relation to literature and ethics |
| Friday 11 April 11.00am - 12.30pm | Ivor Indyk (WSRC) | Gerald Murnane & the Provincial Imagination |
| Friday 2 May 11.00am - 12.30pm | Joseph Hughes (UMelb) | History of the Novel |
| Friday 9 May 11.00am - 12.30pm | Ali Cobby Eckermann (visitor) | 'My Basket is Heavy with History' |
Friday 23 May 11.00am - 12.30pm | Jacques Roubaud (visitor) | What is Oulipo? |
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Friday 30 May 11am- 12.30pm | Postgraduate seminar presentations | |
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Tuesday 6 June 11.00am - 12.30pm | Matt McGuire (WSRC) | The Northern Irish Troubles and Modern Memory: Remembering and Forgetting in Glenn Patterson's That Which Was (2005) |
| Friday 20 June 11.00am - 12.30pm | Chris Conti (WSRC) | "In the dim void": metaphysical horror in Samuel Beckett |
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Wed 9 July 9.30am - 12.30pm | Lyn Hejinian (visitor) | Poetry symposium |
| Wed 23 – Fri 25 July | Conference, UWS Parramatta | Cormac McCarthy: Borders and Landscapes International Conference |
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Friday 15 August 11am- 12.30pm | Postgraduate seminar presentations | |
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Friday 22 August 11am- 12.30pm | Milena Ilisevic (visitor) | Serbian Contemporary Literature: the Bible and negative utopias of Borislav Pekic in the light of theory of intertextuality |
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Friday 5 September 11am- 12.30pm | Prof. Hazel Smith (WSRC) | Musico-literary miscegenations: the relationship of words and music in new media writing |
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Friday 12 September 11am- 12.30pm | Kate Fagan (WSRC) | Thinking with Things: Object Habitats and Relational Aesthetics in the Poetry of Pam Brown and Astrid Lorange |
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Friday 19 September 11.00am -12.30pm | Graham Holderness | Graham Holderness on 'The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy' |
| Wed 1 & Thurs 2 October | 2 day symposium | Literature, Truth and Transitional Justice |
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Friday 10 October 11am- 12:30pm | Saskia Beudel (visitor) | 'Gallant desert flora': Olive Pink's Australian Arid Regions Flora Reserve |
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Friday 24 October 11am- 12:30pm | Alexis Wright (WSRC) | Alexis Wright in conversation with Ivor Indyk |
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Friday 31 October 11am- 12:30pm | Tom Lee (UWS) | Modern maladaptations: the question of death |
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Friday 7 November 11am- 12.30pm | Alexander Howard (visitor) | Charles Henri Ford and the Camping of Modernism |
| Friday 21 November | James Gourley et al. (all day symposium) | Modernist Time(s) symposium |
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Friday 28 November 11am- 12.30pm | Postgraduate seminar presentations |