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Semester 2, 2025
The Centre for Australian Literary Cultures (CALC) hosts monthly seminars via Zoom, typically on Thursdays 4pm - 5.30pm** AEST/AEDT
Please contact Monique.Rooney@anu.edu.au for zoom links.
**Please note: Jack Quirk’s seminar will be held at 9am EDT (USA) to accommodate his time zone.
Thursday 28 August
Ken Gelder (University of Melbourne)
'Notes Towards an Unhomely Australia'
Thursday 11 September**
Jack Quirk (Brown University, USA)
On Gerald Murnane
Thursday 23 October
Alexis Harley (La Trobe University)
'Snakes'
Thursday 6 November
Monique Rooney (ANU)
Springtime, with Fences: Ruth Park’s Teenage Years and the Emergence of a Writer (1930–1937)
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Past Events
Springtime, with Fences: Ruth Park’s Teenage Years and the Emergence of a Writer (1930–1937)
Dr Monique Rooney, ANU
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.“The Three Wise Men of Gotham loved the springtime so greatly they could not bear to see…
Snakes
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.In May 1770, Joseph Banks described sea snakes near the coast of ‘New South Wales’ as ‘…
Gerald Murnane's Terra Nullius
Jack Quirk, Brown University
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.This talk situates Gerald Murnane’s early fiction within the imaginative structures of…