2023 Seminars

Date Speakers Title
24 March Rosamund Bartlett Reading Russian Literature in a Time of War: Chekhov & Tolstoy
21 April Vivian Pham and Kim Pham, in conversation with Felicity Castagna On Adaptation: from the page to the stage and screen (and back again)
5 May Tegan Bennett Daylight, in conversation with Felicity Castagna Book Launch: Royals by Tegan Bennett Daylight
9 June James Gourley Care-ful Place-making as Care for Country in Western Sydney and its Literatures
21 July Catriona Menzies-Pike Literary Journals in Australia - now and into the future
4 August Louis Klee, Lachlan Brown, Lynda Ng What is the Australian Novel? Launch seminar for the Cambridge Companion to the Australian Novel (2023)
25 August Jumana Bayeh Sectarianism and the Nation in Arab Diaspora Literature
8 September Jeanine Leane, Astrid Lorange, Evelyn Araluen, Quah Ee Ling, Roanna Gonsalves (facilitator) Writing Gender #3
18 September feature poet: Melanie Mununggurr Bankstown Poetry Slam
6 October Felicity Castagna, Josh Harle, Quah Ee Ling, Fiona Murphy, Bilal Hafda Testing Grounds
20 October Melissa Lucashenko on Edenglassie in conversation event with Associate Professor Sandra Phillips
27 October Graham Akhurst on Borderland in conversation event with Associate Professor Ben Etherington

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