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.
The conversation will focus on Ned’s work on the Australian author Jackie French.
Thursday 22 August — TBC
Thursday 20 September 2024
Sir Roland Wilson Building 2.02 Theatrette & Online
Pulitzer Prize winning US poet Rae Armantrout in conversation with Australian poet Kate Lilley.
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
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...
