CALC Seminar Series
Contacts
CALC Seminar Series 2024 Schedule
CALC seminar seriess are organised by ANU Centre for Australian Literary Cultures. Image by Tabs Fakier.
All seminars are taking place via zoom on Thursday evenings, 4.30 – 6pm.
Thursday 28 March
Philip Morrissey, Dashiell Moore, Philip Mead, Peter Minter, and Tyne Daile Sumner on "Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics"
Thursday 27 June
Australian scholar Ned Curthoys, author of The Buildungsroman in a Genocidal Age, in conversation with Joseph Steinberg.
Thursday 22 August
TBC
Thursday 12 September 2024
Thursday 19 September 2024
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation
Thursday 22 November
US scholar Mark McGurl, author of The Program Era: Postwar Fiction and the Rise of Creative Writing (2009) and Everything and Less: The Novel in the Age of Amazon (2021), in conversation with Joseph Steinberg.
Past events
In conversation with Mark McGurl
21 Nov 2024
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...Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation
19 Sep 2024
Eco-Crisis Poetry: Rae Armantrout in Conversation Join us for a session with poet Rae Armantrout as she explores the relationship between poetry and...In conversation with Kate Lilley
12 Sep 2024
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...The Bildungsroman in a Genocidal Age: Ned Curthoys and Joseph Steinberg in conversation
27 Jun 2024
This seminar will be held on Zoom. Please contact the seminar convenor Monique Rooney Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for the Zoom link. The Bildungsroman in a...Lionel Fogarty in Poetry and Politics
28 Mar 2024
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...Catherine Vidler’s Selected Visual Poems: A Book Launch and Memorial Seminar
14 Dec 2023
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...Postcolonialism in Australian Literature: The Case of Miles Franklin (1879-1954)
21 Sep 2023
This seminar brings together postcolonial literary theory and contemporary political theory. Students of Australian politics tend to separate political and...Dymphna Cusack’s resourceful melodrama: Carbon capitalism and the fossil unconscious in Southern Steel (1953)
24 Aug 2023
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...In conversation: Rachel Franks on An Uncommon Hangman
1 Jun 2023
Executioners were once a critical component of the justice system in New South Wales. In an era when judges handed down death sentences as easily as they...
