CALC Seminar Series 2023
Contacts
All seminars are taking place via zoom on Thursday evenings, 4.30 – 6pm
Schedule
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Thursday, 23 February |
Beth Driscoll |
Readers and reading practices |
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Thursday, 1 June |
Rachel Franks |
An Uncommon Hangman |
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Thursday, 24 August 2023 |
Meg Brayshaw |
Literature and coal mining |
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Thursday 21 September 2023 |
John Uhr |
Miles Franklin |
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November 2023 |
Monique Rooney and Paul Genoni |
In conversation: Ruth Park |
Past events
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...
