2021 Seminars

Room To Listen Online Program 2021

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Date Speakers Title
12 March Dr Lorraine Sim (WSRC) 'Happy Modernisms'
26 March Dr Miro Bilbrough In the Time of the Manaroans: Miro Bilbrough in conversation with Kate Fagan
9 April Dr Asrid Lorange (UNSW) & Dr Andrew Brooks (UNSW) 'Against Work, Towards Study'
23 April

Emily Rytmeister, Ramona Kennedy and Enrico Scotece (WSU HDRs)

chaired by Hart Cohen & Rachel Morley

'Auto/ethnography as Method'
7 May

Greg Hughes, Dan Johnston, Leo Robba, Katrina Sandbach (WSU, Design)

chaired by Alison Gill & James Gourley

'Writing Design: Intersections in Practice-Led Research, Creativity, Sustainability and Planetary Health'
21 May

SRB & non/fictionLab at RMIT University: Eugen Bacon, Tamryn Bennett, David Carlin & Julienne van Loon

chaired by Catriona Menzies-Pike, Editor, SRB

'On Literary Value'
13 August Felicity Castagna, Sheila Ngoc Pham, Marian Abboud, Emma Saunders Beyond Artistic Borders: Cross-artform collaboration and its potential to foster new audiences and innovative practices for writers and storytellers
27 August Gretchen Shirm, Jenn Webb, Michael Richardson 'Intimate Attachments' - Testimony, Literature & Writing
17 September Jazz Money, Roanna Gonsalves & Yves Rees
facilitated by prof. Fiona Probyn-Rapsey
Writing Gender:
The Writing and Society Research Centre are delighted to be partnering with the Sydney Review of Books and the Gender UNLIMITED* team at Western in co-hosting an online public seminar and HDR workshop to explore the role of critical and creative writing in generating new knowledge and understanding around gender. This dual event will bring together Humanities and Arts practitioners into national conversations over advancing gender equity in the Higher Education sector.
1 October Jazz Money, Ellen van Neerven & Alison Whittaker Radical Joy: Hope and Resistance in Contemporary Indigenous Poetry
15 October Madeleine Gray, Ali Jane Smith and Cher Tan
chaired by SRB Editor Catriona Menzies-Pike
What is an Emerging Critic?
Celebrating 5 years of the SRB-CA Emerging Critics Fellowships
5 November Tegan Daylight Bennett and Adele Dumont 'The Art of Reading'
3 December with producers Sienna Brown & Ben Etherington, hosted by Brent Clough 'Caribbean Convicts in Australia': documentary podcast launch
10 December Chris O'Doherty (AKA Reg Mombassa)
Leo Robba
'Painting Outside the Lines': Chris O'Doherty in conversation with Leo Robba
10 December WSU Undergraduate Writers' Group Project: Shobna Arumugam, Ashley Duke, Jerome Gardiner, Anastasia King, Geneva Valek

Hosted by Helen Koukoutsis
Launch of Hatch: An Anthology of Undergraduate Creative Writing

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