Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Tuesday
March 6
12.30-1.30 |
Dr Michael Jacklin,
Research Fellow, English, UOW |
Stolen Life and Re/covered Narrative: Life writing as spirit bundle |
Friday
March 23
12.30-1.30 |
Professor Ouyang Yu,
Professor of English and Creative Writing, Wuhan University, China
|
Against Autobiography: towards a self-fictionalisation |
Tuesday
April 3
12.30-1.30 |
Dr Anne Lear
Senior Lecturer, English,
UOW |
"Dear Diary…": God as confidant in the Memoirs of Lady Elizabeth Delaval |
Friday
April 20
2-3pm |
Dr Dorothy Jones
Senior Hon Fellow, English, UOW |
Cooking the books: Culinary memoirs |
Tuesday
May 1
12.30-1.30 |
Dr Sharon Clarke
Associate Director (Academic)
Boston University, Sydney |
What I learned from writing a literary biography and what I might do differently next time: from Sumner Locke Elliott to George Whitfield Cook. |
Tuesday
May 15
12:30 -1:30 |
Dr Susan Cochrane,
Post-Doctoral Fellow,
University of Queensland |
A Black and White Family Album
|
Tuesday
May 29
12:30 - 1:30 |
Dr Ernie Blackmore
Woolyungah Indigenous Centre, UOW |
A different form of speech: writers speaking out |
Friday
June 15
2-3pm |
Dr Guy Davidson
Lecturer, English, UOW |
Commodity, Narrative, and Sexuality in the Writing of Jane DeLynn. |
July 9
3-4pm |
Professor Una Chaudhuri
Chair of English and Drama
New York University |
Special Event 1
The Critical Animal: Performing the Non-Human in a time of Crisis |
Friday
July 20
3-4:30pm |
Dr Mary Besemeres
Australia Research Institute
Curtin University, and
Dr Anne Collett, Associate Professor, English, UOW |
Special Event 2
'Wrong about Japan? Representations of culture in recent 'Anglo' travel memoirs'
|
Date |
Speaker |
Topic |
Tuesday
July 31
12.30-1.30 |
Dr Denise Russell
Hon Fellow, Philosophy, UOW |
Speaking beyond the borders: sea gypsies, sharks and the viability of cultures without citizenship |
Friday
August 17
2-3pm |
Dr Tony Simoes da Silva
English Programme, UOW
|
Redeeming Self: the Business of Whiteness in Post-Apartheid South Africa |
Tuesday
August 28
12.30-1.30 |
Megan Brown
PhD Canditate, English Programme
|
Flânerie and Marvellous Melbourne
|
Friday
September 14
2-3pm |
Dr Debra Dudek
English Programme, UOW
|
Faceless Governments and Absent Parents: an Analysis of Dystopian Australian Texts. |
Tuesday
October 2nd
12:30-1:30pm |
Dr Louise D'Arcens
English Programme, UOW |
"Nee en Ytale": Christine de Pizan as Medieval Migrant |
Friday
October 12
2-3pm |
Dr Georgine Clarsen
Lecturer, History, UOW |
Doing/Publishing Transnational Histories |
Tuesday
October 23
12.30-1.30 |
Dr Mary Zournazi
Lecturer, CCS, UOW |
Peace, Justice and the Ethical Imagination |
Friday
November 9
2-3pm |
Dr. Goldie Osuri
Dept. of Critical and Cultural Studies, Macquarie University
|
Necropolitical Complicities: The Transnational Somatechnics of Saddam Hussein |
TBA |
TBA |
Special Event 3 |
