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Selected Past Events
Audio and video recordings of our events are available on the events pages linked to below-
Australia India Literatures International Forum
4-6 September 2012. This event brought together leading Australian and Indian writers for a series of public forums and discussions. This event was organised with our partners at the State Library of New South Wales.
Place and Displacement
16 May 2012. This event was organised with our Sydney Consortium partners at the Sydney Writers' Festival. It featured Icelandic poet and author Sjón and Chinese novelist Sheng Keyi.
Marking Time Discussions
Saturday 31 March and Sunday 1 April 2012. To coincide with the Museum of Contemporary Art's reopening exhibition Marking Time the Sydney Consortium and the MCA presented two panel discussions featuring artists from the exhibition and special guest scholars.
Modernism, Intimacy & Emotion
6 - 7 February 2012. Australian Modernist Studies Network Symposium 2012. This conference explored the role of intimacy and emotion in modernist studies.
Rabindranath Tagore's Gora
9 December 2011. A seminar by Writing and Society postdoctoral research fellow Mridula Nath Chakraborty. Her paper ‘Indian’ skin deep: or How the Nation Came Home in Rabindranath Tagore’s Gora’ was recorded by ABC Radio National's Big Ideas.
Struggle Without Hate
21 May 2011. An event organised with consortium partners the Sydney Writers' Festival and featuring Palestinian Doctor Izzeldin Abuelaish.
Spinoza's Atheist God
17 May 2011. An event organised by Writing and Society's Dimitris Vardoulakis and featuring renowned Spinoza scholar Beth Lord. This event was recorded by ABC Radio National's Big Ideas program.
On Knowledge
17 October 2010 — An event with our partners at the State Library of NSW in which scholars and writers from across the humanities discussed knowledge in connection with research, cultural practices and the imagination.
Literary Translation Symposium
1 October – 2 October 2010. This event gathered leading practitioners and theorists of literary translation from Australia and overseas to consider the current state of the field.
