2016 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 4 March | Linda Gregerson (visitor) | 'The Craft of Poetry' esteemed American poet and critic Linda Gregerson discusses the craft of poetry with Writing & Society HDR candidate Kate Middleton. Linda reads from her most recent poetry collection Prodigal: New and Selected Poems, followed by a Q&A. |
Friday 1 April 11am- 12:30pm | Ben Denham (WSRC) | 'An Ethics of Diversity: art, ayahuasca and microbial life' |
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Friday 15 April 11am- 12:30pm | Anne Jamison (WSRC), Simon Burrows & Jason Ensor (WSU) | Digital Literary Studies panel discussion |
| Friday 13 May | Rory Dufficy | 'An Epoch of Possibility: On the Theory of the Avant-Garde' |
Friday 3 June 11am- 12:30pm | Paul Magee (U of Canberra) | '"And we do not Know Exactly What we are Going to Say until we have Said It": Interview Data on how Poems are Made' |
Friday 24 June | Postgraduate seminar papers | Peter Boyle, Amanda Tink, Rebecca Law |
11 -13 July | AAL Conference, hosted by WSRC | Conference theme: Literature and Technology |
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Friday 12 August 11am - 12:30pm | Sascha Morrell (UNE) | 'Working with zombies, from Haiti to Wall Street' |
Friday 9 September | Kate Fagan (WSRC) | 'The Poetics of Ali Cobby Eckermann and Natalie Harkin' |
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Friday 23 September 11am- 12:30pm | Postgrad seminar papers | Adam Daniel, Geoff Munns and Yvonne Edgren |
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Friday 30 September 11am- 1:00pm | Michael Mohammed Ahmad and Ellen van Neerven | 'Black & Lebo' Readings from new creative work and Q&A session |
| Friday 7 October 11am-12:30pm | Hamish Ford (U Newcastle) and Anthony Caffy (visiting Erasmus Scholar) | 'Music and Modernity in Ingmar Bergman's films' |
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Friday 14 October 11am- 12:30pm | Helen Koukoutsis (WSRC) | Re-imagining the Afterlife: Emily Dickinson and the Cultural Conversation of Alternative Faiths |
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Friday 21 October 11am- 12:30pm | Ben Etherington (WSRC) | 'On World Literature as an Ideal Concept' |
| Friday 4 November | Sean Pryor (UNSW) | 'Ideal Poetry' |
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Friday 25 November 11am- 12:30pm | Postgraduate seminar papers | Katie Sutherland and Natalie Conyer |
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Friday 2 December 11am- 12:30pm | Chris Conti (WSRC) t.b.c. | Australian Gothic and the Historical Frontier Romance |