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…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - The Very Idea of Art
Seminar
The Very Idea of Art Donald Preziosi, an influential modern voice in art history, argues that his discipline has proved ‘particularly effective in naturalizing and validating the very idea of art as a “universal” human phenomenon’. If this claim is true, it would mean, in my view, that art history…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - Unstable Ground: Tracing a Gothic Lineage in Maggie O’Farrell’s Fiction
Seminar
Unstable Ground: Tracing a Gothic Lineage in Maggie O’Farrell’s Fiction Since her debut in 2000, British author Maggie O’Farrell has published eight novels and one memoir, achieving consistent commercial success and several major awards, culminating in the 2020 Women’s Prize for Fiction. Despite…
Symposium on Languages and Linguistics in honour of Jane Simpson
Symposium
This symposium consists of 2 days of talks that reflect the cohesion and range of Professor Jane Simpson's research and applied research interests. They centre around Australian languages, and related to those, the areas of historical linguistics, morphosyntax, semantics, the lexicon, and language…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - Not Above Your Gods: Editing and publishing history in post-WWII Australia
Seminar
Not Above Your Gods: Editing and publishing history in post-WWII Australia While many scholars acknowledge that a book’s passage to publication is managed, aided and afforded by the labour of many people, in most literary scholarship such labour is ignored – perpetuating what Jack Stillinger calls…
‘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…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - When Tomorrow Comes: Melancholia for the Vietnamese Socialist Utopia in Đặng Nhật Minh’s 1980s Films
Seminar
When Tomorrow Comes: Melancholia for the Vietnamese Socialist Utopia in Đặng Nhật Minh’s 1980s Films Vietnamese auteur Đặng Nhật Minh is highly regarded both inside and outside of the country for his poetic films and skilful negotiations with the censors at the Ministry of Culture. This paper…