All events
14
Dec
2023
Catherine Vidler’s Selected Visual Poems: A Book Launch and Memorial Seminar
Catherine Vidler’s Selected Visual Poems: A Book Launch and Memorial Seminar:
Catherine Vidler (1973-2023) was one of Australia’s foremost visual and lyric...
21
Sep
2023
Postcolonialism in Australian Literature: The Case of Miles Franklin (1879-1954)
This seminar brings together postcolonial literary theory and contemporary political theory. Students of Australian politics tend to separate political and...
24
Aug
2023
Dymphna Cusack’s resourceful melodrama: Carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Southern Steel (1953)
In a 1992 review of Abdelrahmen Munif’s Cities of Salt, Amitav Ghosh coined the term ‘petrofiction’ and pointed towards the invisibility of fossil fuels in...
01
Jun
2023
In conversation: Rachel Franks on An Uncommon Hangman
Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences as easily as they...
23
Feb
2023
Practices of Contemporary Readers: Aesthetics, Morality, Self-Care
How can we understand the practices of everyday readers in the twenty-first century? In this paper, I present a dynamic theoretical model of contemporary...
24
Oct
2022
Australian Literature in the Shadow of the Colonial Patriarchy
Australian Literature in the Shadow of the Colonial Patriarchy
Monday 24 October & Tuesday 25 October
Sessions held at the RSSS Auditorium, ANU and...
20
Oct
2022
“You’re too smart to be a publicist”: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity
The representation of publicists in popular culture appears to have a direct relationship with the ways in which publishing sector publicity staff are...
