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Selected Past Events
Modernism, Intimacy & Emotion
6 - 7 February 2012. Australian Modernist Studies Network Symposium 2012. Since the special Critical Inquiry issue on 'Intimacy' edited by Lauren Berlant in 1998, there has been an increasing interest in the relationship between emotion and the aesthetic. This conference explores 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. This event's page contains links to listen to, or download an audio file of Mridula's paper.
Writers and Writing in the New Media Culture
22 November 2011. A one day seminar and workshop featuring author and artist Mark Amerika discussing ideas from his recent publication remixthebook and a practical workshop in new media writing with eminent digital and hypermedia poet and artist Jason Nelson.
China Australia Literary Forum
29 August – 2 September 2011. Ten prominent Chinese writers visited Sydney for in-depth discussions with Australian authors, and those involved in the translation and reception of their works, as part of a China Australia Literary Forum hosted by the Writing and Society Research Centre.
Spinoza's Atheist God
17 May 2011. An event organized 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. Audio of the event is available for listening and download.
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. Audio recordings of this event are available for download.
Being Bengali International Collaborations Workshop
20 August 2010. The workshop provided historical and contemporary understandings of Bengaliness that further research into the crisis of identity-politics of this eclectic ethno-linguistic category.
