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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
Notes towards an Unhomely Australia
Ken Gelder, University of Melbourne
Online via Zoom, please contact Monique Rooney for the link.This paper introduces a book I’m planning, a sort of belated ‘sequel’ to the much earlier…
The Shadow and the Acolyte: On the Origins of Creative Writing in Australia
Dr Joseph Steinberg
Late in 1959, an up-and-coming novelist named Thea Astley knocked on the door of Dogwoods, Castle Hill. Her knock was answered by Manoly Lascaris,…
In conversation with Mark McGurl
Joseph Steinberg, Mark McGurl
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…