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…
The role of health communication in patient safety and quality of care
Webinar/Online
Communication in health care is a major quality and safety issue. Every day in Australian hospitals, miscommunication causes avoidable critical incidents - patients die, are harmed or receive the wrong treatment because of ineffective communication, for example during handovers or diagnosis.…
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…
The Shellal Mosaic: Archaeological, Textual and Visual Traditions
Lecture
The Shellal Mosaic is the largest ancient mosaic pavement in Australia. It was uncovered by Australian and New Zealand Service Personnel at Shellal, near Gaza, in 1917, and subsequently removed by Chaplain William Maitland Woods. The largest part of the mosaic is held by the Australian War Memorial…
CuSPP Seminar Series 2022 - Rewriting, Reflecting and Resisting: Gender, Reception and ‘The Drover’s Wife’ Stories
Seminar
Rewriting, Reflecting and Resisting: Gender, Reception and ‘The Drover’s Wife’ Stories Henry Lawson’s 1892 short story ‘The Drover’s Wife’ has inspired many reinterpretations over the years. The constant (re)reading and (re)writing of the story enable discussions of and debates over gender, race,…