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 |