Iconic songs - performance & book launch
Performance
In an absolutely unmissable session, singers Neil Murray and Shane Howard describe the amazing process of committing these songs to a series of newly published books. The musicians will perform, describe their experiences and underline the massive cultural significance of the iconic songs they…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Exploring International Disability Culture: A fictocritical/performative approach to visiting Australia
Seminar
In this presentation, Petra Kuppers will share some of her current work-in-progress. The material develops through practice-led research in creative/critical methodologies, in particular Petra's exploration of fictocritical approaches, a newly energetic genre in Australia. The body of work she is…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Beckett, Sterne and the novel of sensibility
Seminar
This paper presents a chapter from a work in progress provisionally titled ‘All I Am Is Feeling’: Sentiment and Sensibility in Samuel Beckett’s Post-War Writing. It seeks to establish the eighteenth-century ‘novel of sensibility’, in particular the work of Laurence Sterne, as a frame of reference…
Eric Rolls Memorial Lecture - Fire in 1788: the closest ally
Lecture
please be seated by 6 pm no charge for admission refreshments served 7.15 pm to 8.15pm bookings essential for catering fellow@watermarkliterarysociety.asn.au Eric Rolls had a country mind and a country eye. He knew the bush as a great teacher, and he was forever alert…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - Monstrous Images of Women in Singapore Cinema, and Other Aspects of Contemporary Patriarchy in the Global City
Seminar
The work that’s in progress is a book manuscript on aspects of contemporary patriarchy in Singapore, including its authoritarian ‘strong state’ model of development, feminist and gay activism within a very limited civil society, race and gender stereotypes in popular media, and the shifting…
Work-in-Progress Seminar - The mantra of certainty. Native title, resource companies, and negotiating agreements.
Seminar
I’ve called this seminar ‘the mantra of certainty’, to reflect the way in which the demand for certainty, and its constant reiteration, dominated the campaign of the mining industry in the 1993 debate over the Commonwealth’s Native Title Bill and continues to be an industry delusion. In this…
Friday Forum - Flexibly digital
Seminar
A special forum held in conjunction with the National Centre of Biography's Life of Information symposium. The thick, descriptive data of humanities research and the strict categorization of digital databases are not natural partners. Current developments in data representation…