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2012 Seminars
2012 Seminar Program
After the seminar has passed you can click on the title of the seminar to read an abstract, listen to audio and view images and video of the seminar presentations.
All seminars are from 11.00 am - 12.30 pm and in room 3.G.55 on the Bankstown Campus unless otherwise indicated.
| Friday 9 March | Anna Gibbs | Writing’s New Materialisms, or, (Post)conceptual Writing as Material Thinking: an essay on practice |
| Friday 16 March | Gail Jones | Sensational Politics: Walter Benjamin, Lola Ridge, and the affected body of modernism |
| Friday 30 March | Steven Connor | Modernism, Writing and Number |
| Friday 13 April | Ivor Indyk | |
| Friday 4 May | Ihab Hassan (visitor) | The Humanities Ascending: Or What’s In It for You |
| Friday 25 May | Postgraduate Seminar Papers | Martin Edmond on ‘The Buried Village’ and Tom Lee on ‘A Poetics of the Naughty’ |
| Wednesday 30 May 2pm -3.30pm | Sagar Dan (visitor) | Australian Aboriginal Literature: Transnational Subjectivities in India |
| Friday 15 June | Catherine Rey | Milan Kundera: At home in exile or |
| Friday 6 July | Megan Jones | Township Textualities |
| Friday 3 August | Michael Hofmann | On Poetry and Translation |
| Friday 10 August | Ben Etherington | Literary Primitivism |
| Friday 17 August | Christine Wertheim | On auto-bio-graphics: conceiving of bodies through image-ing tongues |
| Wednesday 22 August 11am-12:30pm | Jan Wagner | Poetry Reading and Talk |
| Wednesday 29 August 11am-12:30pm | Gerry Carruthers | Civilized & Primitive: the paradox of English literature beyond Britain |
| Friday 7 September | David Walker | Writing History in the Form of Memoir |
| Friday 28 September | Postgraduate Seminar Papers | Rory Dufficy and Sarah Gilbert |
| Friday 12 October | Magdalena Zolkos | Jean Améry and the Jewish Tradition of Conscious Pariahdom |
| Friday 19 October | Patricia Plumer | Romantic representations of Constantinople |
| Friday 9 November | Mridula Nath Chakraborty | Revolutionary Reprise: Some Notes from Egypt circa 1956 in Waguih Ghali's novel Beer in the Snooker Club (1964) |
| Friday 16 November | Helen Groth | Projections of Alice: Anachronistic Reading and the Temporality of Mediation |
| Friday 23 November | Post Graduate Seminar Papers | Annee Lawrence |
| Friday 7 December | Matt McGuire | Scottish Crime Fiction |
