All events
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...
13
Oct
2022
Louis Klee "Australian Poets in the Countries of Others"
When Australians travel overseas, they cross—in the words of an economist—‘into statistical anonymity’. The figures are speculative, but for more than two...
08
Sep
2022
Andrew Nette Book Launch
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Please join us for the book launch of Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback, the first book-...
24
Aug
2022
Book Launch of "Lohrey" by Julieanne Lamond
A guide to the world of Amanda Lohrey's fiction, and a meditation on what her writing has to say about contemporary life and how we live it.
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