2015 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 13 March | Dimitris Vardoulakis (WSRC, Philosophy@Western Sydney University) | Freedom from the the Free Will: On Kafka's Laughter |
| Friday 27 March 11am- 12.30pm | Postgrads: Pip Smith, Claire Corbett & Holly Isemonger | Readings & discussion of creative work in progress, plus a critical paper by Pip Smith |
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Friday 17 April 11am- 12.30pm | John Mateer (visitor) | Writer, curator and poet John Mateer discusses his recent art/historical project The Quiet Slave: a history in eight episodes in the context of his on-going interest in the nexus between scriptural traditions and migrations, voluntary and forced, in the Indian Ocean region. |
| Friday 24 April 10am- 12.00pm & 1.00pm -3.00pm | Postgrad Practical workshops | Supervisory relationship & feedback – Rachel Morley Scholarship & technology – Sara Knox & others |
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Friday 1 May 11am- 12.30pm | Anthony Uhlmann (WRSC) | 'The eyes of the mind': ratio and art in Spinoza and Swift |
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Friday 8 May 11am- 12.30pm | Jennifer Wawrzinek (Freie Universität Berlin) | Dorothy Wordsworth's Glittering Sheep: The Grasmere Journal |
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Friday 15 May 11am- 12.30pm | Lesley Chamberlain (SWF visitor) | Who's Talking? Autobiography, Subjectivity and Other Hurdles |
Friday 29 May 11am- 12.30pm | Postgrad seminar papers | Jen Craig and Jason Tuckwell |
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Friday 19 June 11am- 12.30pm | Matt McGuire (WSRC) | Seamus Heaney: the Irish Tragedian? |
| Friday 26 June 11am- 12.30pm | Postgrad presentations | Mohammed Ahmad and Natalie Day |
| Friday 31 July 11am- 12.30pm | Postgrad seminar papers | Luke Beesley, Fiona Wright, Murray Robertson |
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Friday 14 August 11am- 12.30pm | Gail Jones (WSRC) | "I am Chinese" : of bodies and walls, of boundaries and their dissolution |
| Friday 28 August 10am- 12.00pm & 1.00pm -3.00pm | Postgrad Practical workshops | Creative Writing – Gail Jones Practices of Research – Matt McGuire |
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Friday 4 September 11am- 12.30pm | Ann Collett (UOW) | Not Nightingale nor Skylark but Yard Fowl: Olive Senior's Language of Common Woman |
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Friday 11 September 11am- 12:30pm | Michael Richardson (Western Sydney University) | Criticism Beyond Judgment: Reading, Writing and the Affective Turn |
| Friday 25 September 11am- 12.30pm | Postgrad presentations | Isabelle Li and Luke Carman |
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Friday 16 October 11am- 12.30pm | Michael Farrell (poet) | Australian post-settlement poetics |
| Friday 30 October 10am- 12.00pm & 1.00pm -3.00pm | Postgrad Practical workshops | Tone, Style & Content – Chris Andrews Career outcomes & professional development – Rachel Morley |