All events
21
Nov
2024
In conversation with Mark McGurl
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link.Mark McGurl has spent much of...
19
Sep
2024
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation
Join us for a session with poet Rae Armantrout as she explores the relationship between poetry and...
12
Sep
2024
In conversation with Kate Lilley
Join us for a very special event, a dialogue between Pulitzer Prize winning US poet Rae Armantrout and major Australian poet Kate Lilley, where they will...
28
Mar
2024
Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link.
From the radical politics...
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...
