The Humanities Research Centre at ANU in association with the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne, and the Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU present:

Pierre Ryckmans (Simon Leys, 1935-2014), Humanities and the Migrant Scholar

Pierre Ryckmans is one of the most esteemed intellectuals to have worked in Australia. His many writings as an art historian, essayist, literary critic, novelist, translator and political analyst address Francophone and Anglophone readers, connecting them to Sinophone and other worlds.

This two-day event will host a range of speakers from Australia and abroad who will consider Ryckmans’ striking intellectual mobility across languages and cultures.

The first gathering of its kind, the workshop will explore the life and work of Pierre Ryckmans, with a focus on his achievements as a writer, translator, artist and committed humanist, and his varied contributions to intellectual debates in Australia and beyond.

Organising committee: Susette Cooke (University of Sydney), Anne McLaren (University of Melbourne), Claire Roberts (University of Melbourne), Yujie Zhu (Australian National University)

Date and location
The workshop will be held in person on the lands of the Ngunnawal and Ngambri peoples at the Australian National University campus.
(The Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW), Building #188, Fellows Lane)
Thursday November 24 - Friday November 25, 2022

Program
Please see attached Program document (PDF) below

Register here

For more information please contact:
Claire Roberts, Associate Professor, Art History and Curatorship, School of Culture and Communication, University of Melbourne and 2022 Visiting Fellow, HRC, ANU claire.roberts@unimelb.edu.au