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Room To Listen Online Program
We are delighted to announce that the Writing and Society Research Centre seminar series is moving online from May.
Our special series will be called Room to Listen, and will be dedicated to three important facets of our shared scholarly life: listening to work by leading authors and artists; exchanging research among colleagues (including visiting guests from here and abroad); and supporting our terrific HDR students to present work in a supportive forum. Room to Listen will run fortnightly across May and June, and into Spring as needed. All events will be held for an hour on alternate Friday mornings by Zoom, following the pattern of our previous seminar series. All listeners are welcome to join.
We are honoured that our program begins on Friday 8 May from 11am-12pm with a virtual visit from eminent Narungga poet and artist Dr Natalie Harkin (Flinders University), who is a leading Australian scholar in the field of archival poetics.
Please RSVP to S.Gapps@westernsydney.edu.au to be sent the zoom meeting details.
| Date | Speakers | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 8 May | Dr Natalie Harkin (Flinders U) | Archival Poetics |
| 22 May | Professor Anthony Uhlmann (WSRC) (opens in a new window) | Virginia Woolf’s The Waves, Desire & Ethology (opens in a new window) |
| 5 June | Dr Sarah Gilbert & Jane Scerri (WSRC HDRs) | 'Victoria Ocampo and the National Identity Essay: Reading Argentine Womanhood, Nationhood and Country in D.H. Lawrence’s Kangaroo' and 'The Power and the Passion: Representation of single motherhood in contemporary Australian literature' |
| 12 June | Special panel discussion with: Kate Fagan, Catriona Menzies-Pike, Katrina Sandbach, Raaza Jamshed Butt, Rachel Morley Chair: Anne Jamison | Researcher, Writer, Mother: How to Survive Working from Home |
| 19 June | Samantha Trayhurn & Jake Goetz (WSRC HDRs) | Contemporary Environmental Literatures: Recent Thinking in EcoCriticism |
| 31 July | Michael Farrell, with Ivor Indyk and Kate Fagan | Reading Michael Farrell's Family Trees |
| 28 August | Tobias Jochum (visiting scholar, John F. Kennedy Institute, Berlin) | ‘Our Curse and Our Mirror’: Ungrievable lives & Unframed Crime Scenes in Roberto Bolaño's 2666 chaired by Chris Andrews |
| 11 September | Jaya Savige (New College of the Humanities, London) | Jaya Savige on Change Machine (UQP 2020), reading and discussion with Kate Fagan and Ben Etherington |
| 18 September | Yumna Kassab (Giramondo author) | Yumna Kassab on The House of Youssef - Reading and discussion with Ivor Indyk |
| 25 September | Helen Koukoutsis (WSRC) | 'From Inside The Desk Drawer: “Mother's Sonnet” and other poems', (with Anne Jamison - chair) |
| 30 October | Ben Etherington (WSRC) | 'Verse Minstrelsy and the Beginnings of Creole Poetry in Print in the Caribbean' |
| 13 November | WestWords/WSRC Western Sydney Writers-in-Residence: Kavita Bedford and Rawah Arja | Readings and conversations |
| 27 November | The Writing Zone - project writers panel | "Sky Conversations" -featuring readings from new talent from Western Sydney |
