“You’re too smart to be a publicist”: Perceptions, expectations and the labour of book publicity
Seminar
The representation of publicists in popular culture appears to have a direct relationship with the ways in which publishing sector publicity staff are perceived by their colleagues and peers, which in turn has a distinct knock-on effect on work practices and labour conditions. In this seminar, we…
Louis Klee "Australian Poets in the Countries of Others"
Seminar
When Australians travel overseas, they cross—in the words of an economist—‘into statistical anonymity’. The figures are speculative, but for more than two decades demographers have estimated that, ‘[o]n any given day, there are approximately one million Australians outside Australia’. Though mostly…
Andrew Nette Book Launch
Book launch
Follow the registration link for Zoom details Please join us for the book launch of Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian Paperback, the first book-length study of Sydney-based Horwitz Publications! Horwitz Publications, Pulp Fiction and the Rise of the Australian…
Book Launch of "Lohrey" by Julieanne Lamond
Book launch
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. About this event You are cordially invited to join us for the launch of Lohrey, by Julieanne Lamond, published by Melbourne…
Ekphrasis and ethical self-reflexivity in contemporary Australian poetry
Seminar
Please register for this event to recieve Zoom details Many poets have treated ekphrasis as an opportunity for reflection on their own artistic practice: they examine the capacities and limits of their own form by comparing it to another. This self-reflection involves ethical as well as aesthetic…
‘Meaning, for me, is connection’: Merve Emre and Joseph Steinberg on Gerald Murnane
Seminar
Please note, you must pre-register for this online webinar. Gerald Murnane’s meticulously self-curated 'Chronological Archive' – as distinct from his ‘Literary Archive’ and ‘Antipodean Archive’, both of which he likewise compiled – fills no fewer than ‘twenty-one of the twenty-four drawers in six…
How Global is Australian Literature in the 21st century? A story of gender, genre and the international literary field
Seminar
How global is Australian literature in the twenty-first century? This large question generates many others, the two most obvious being: What is meant by global? What is meant by Australian literature? These are important but technical, easily answered. The real question is: What might the answer to…