Monday ~ 29 June, 9:00 PM US Eastern / Tuesday ~ 30 June, 11:00 AM Australian Eastern DESCRIPTION: This panel explores how literary genres represent and constitute different types of individual and collective subjectivities in Asian Australian literature. We build on recent work in critical genre studies that considers genre not as a strict category… Continue reading #6. Genre and Subjectivity in Asian Australian Literature
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#5. Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing on War
Thursday ~ 25 June, 8:30 PM US Eastern / Friday ~ 26 June, 10:30 AM Australian Eastern DESCRIPTION: Contemporary Australian women’s war fiction is iconoclastic in its impetus to decode long histories of silence and marginalisation. Both papers in this panel approach the topic of war from new and often-neglected perspectives: the one, from that… Continue reading #5. Contemporary Australian Women’s Writing on War
#4. Reading for Connection: Approaches to Literatures from the Asia-Pacific
Monday ~ 22 June, 8:00 PM US Eastern / Tuesday ~ 23 June, 10:00 AM Australian Eastern DESCRIPTION: The panel centers Asia-Pacific literary geographies, specifically networks and modes of solidarity found across the diverse locations of the region. The two speakers of the panel, who completed their doctoral degrees from the same university based in… Continue reading #4. Reading for Connection: Approaches to Literatures from the Asia-Pacific
#3. The Romantic Frontier in Australia and the United States: Reflections and Receptions
Thursday ~ 18 June, 7:00 PM US Eastern / Friday ~ 19 June, 9:00 AM Australian Eastern DESCRIPTION: In this panel, we compare how Australian and American Romantic writers figured the frontier in their work. The Early Nineteenth Century was a period of great and terrible expansion in both Australia and the United States, as… Continue reading #3. The Romantic Frontier in Australia and the United States: Reflections and Receptions
#2. Imperfect Literacy and Authorial Resistance: Writing and Censorship in Australian Literary History
Tuesday ~ 16 June, 7:00 PM US Eastern / Wednesday ~ 17 June, 9:00 AM Australian Eastern DESCRIPTION: This seminar examines Australia’s emergence as a writing society and the cultural and political stakes of literacy, authorship, and censorship from the nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. Martyn Lyons challenges inflated claims about early Australian… Continue reading #2. Imperfect Literacy and Authorial Resistance: Writing and Censorship in Australian Literary History
#1. “This I Call My Oyster Delusion”: Janette Turner Hospital Thirty Years On
Friday ~ 12 June, 8:00 AM US Eastern / 10:00 PM Australian Eastern DESCRIPTION: This year marks the thirtieth anniversary of Janette Turner Hospital’s novel Oyster, arguably her finest work written at the height of her prominence. A Queenslander who became a distinctly transnational writer, Hospital was, throughout the late 1990s and early 2000s, an… Continue reading #1. “This I Call My Oyster Delusion”: Janette Turner Hospital Thirty Years On