Friends of the ANU Classics Museum Annual General Meeting
Meeting
The Friends of the ANU Classics Museum invite you to the AGM and a lecture by Dr Kathleen Rile "Keeping Ithaca in mind: Home, Homer, and Homecoming" Kathleen Riley’s new book, Imagining Ithaca, explores the idea of nostos (the ancient Greek word for homecoming or return), from the end of the…
Zoom In For a Happy Hour
Other
Zoom link will be circulated on 17 November We had planned to hold a Happy Hour in the museum as our final event for yet another disrupted year. Unfortunately, Covid 19 restrictions within the ANU have made this impossible, so we are inviting you to zoom in for the short talk that was to be…
Meeting the Unknown: a symposium on the work of Amanda Lohrey
Symposium
Register for Session 1 : Thursday 18th NovRegister for Session 2 : Friday 19th Nov ‘It’s a strange relationship you have with a reader. You don’t see them. You don’t know them. It’s kind of like sending out a message in a bottle. And yet somehow, magically, often that bottle comes back…
The Australasian Book Society: Making a Literary Working Class During the Cultural Cold War
Seminar
For access to the Zoom ID and Password for this seminar, please send an email enquiry to : monique.rooney@anu.edu.au “To encourage mass participation in and responsibility for the publication of progressive Australian literature” was one of the masthead aims of the Australasian Book…
2021 SLLL HDR Conference
Conference
The SLLL HDR Convenors are pleased to invite you to the 2021 HDR Conference to be held on 3 - 5 November via Zoom. All are welcome and encouraged to attend to support and celebrate the research of our PhD and MPhil candidates. Registration Zoom link for all presentations: https://…
'Believe in Me' Talk and Q&A with Lucy Neave and Kathryn Hind
Seminar
Lucy Neave will give a short talk about the forces that shaped the writing of her novel, Believe in Me (UQP, 2021), followed by a Q&A with Kathryn Hind. Lucy Neave is the author of the novels Believe in Me (2021) and Who We Were (2013), a Griffith Review…
Francis Steegmuller’s Pyjamas: reticence, intimacy and becoming a biographer
Seminar
For access to the Zoom ID and Password for this seminar, please send an email enquiry to : monique.rooney@anu.edu.au This paper looks back on the process of writing Shirley Hazzard’s authorised biography. It considers a biographer’s interest in and access to the (open) secrets of a…