2018 Seminars
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All seminars are are on Parramatta South campus, Female Orphan School conf. room 1, EZ.G.23, 1pm - 3.00pm unless otherwise indicated.
| Date | Speakers | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 9 March |
Peter Boyle, Emily Stewart and Jason Tuckwell Facilitated by Kate Fagan | "The Untold Story that Tells Itself": Talking Poetics |
| 23 March | Meg Samuelson (U Adelaide) Ben Etherington (WSU) Anthony Uhlmann (WSU) | ‘Ideas of the South (Other Worlds Project)’ |
| 11 April | Margaret Busby (distinguished visitor) | |
| 27 April | Anne Jamison (WSU) Lorraine Sim (WSU) Ben Etherington (WSU) | New staff publications – 3 WSRC members give short papers about their recent book publications. |
| 4 May | Louise D’Arcens (Macq U) Mark Byron (U Syd) | From Medieval to Modern & Modern to Medieval |
| 18 May | Suzie Gibson (CSU) Chris Fleming (WSU) Alex Ling (WSU) | Special panel on Conspiracy and Scandal: ‘The Unbridled Enthusiasm of Conspiracy Theories’ ‘This Time It’s Impersonal: Trying to Explain the World’ ‘The Malice of a Good Thing’: Contemporary Scandal and the Creation of Controversy |
| 1 June | Claire Keegan (distinguished visitor) | Award winning, Irish short story author Claire Keegan talks about, and reads from her work. |
| 15 June | Jeff Powell (WSU, Hawkesbury Institute For The Environment), Ben Denham (WSU), Andrew Francis (WSU, Centre For Research In Mathematics) | Forms of Relation in Art, Biology and Mathematics |
| 17 August | Stuart Cooke (Griffith U), Alys Moody (Macquarie U), Bonaventure Muzigirwa Munganga (UNSW) | Transculturalism and Translocalism in the South |
31 August 1-3pm | Mariana Dimópulos (visiting Argentinian writer) EA.G.03, Australia-China Institute for Arts and Culture, Parramatta South Campus | Writer in residence with the ARC 'Other Worlds' project. Reading and Q&A. |
| 14 September | Chair: Felicity Castagna | The Finishing School: Young women writers from Western Sydney will present readings from new works of fiction |
| 21 September | Alice Te Punga Somerville (U Waikato, NZ) Ross Gibson (UNSW) Liz Machon (UNSW) Chair: Samantha Trayhurn | Islands of the South |
| 5 October | Helen Basides (WSU) Anne Jamison (chair) | 'Ann Radcliffe and the renegotiation of gratitude' |
| 26 October | Chris Andrews (WSRC) Valentina Gossetti (U New England) | Making Senses: special panel on translation |
| 30 November | Peta Mitchell (QUT) James Gourley (WSU) | Contagion |