Upcoming events

Carrie Tiffany presents on 'The Novel as Collage'

Date: Fri, 10 Oct 2014
Location: TBA

Carrie Tiffany discusses migration, art and the intertextual in her fiction.

Lloyd Jones presents: 'The Beaded Curtain - A Writer's Approach to Hiroshima'

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014
Location: TBC

Award-winning writer Lloyd Jones reads from and discusses his latest work in-progress.

TRAVERSES: J.M. Coetzee in the World

Date: Tue, 11 - Thu, 13 Nov 2014
Location: University of South Australia

A festschrift to honour the winner of the 2003 Nobel Prize for Literature, J. M. Coetzee

Experimental Writing Symposium, Masterclass and Seminar

Date: Thu, 17 - Fri, 18 Sep 2015
Location: Various locations around Adelaide

Seminar with Kate Lilley and Masterclass with Marion Mary Campbell, 17 Sept. Symposium and Readings Night, 18 Sept.

Reading Group session one: Divine inspiration or craftmanship? Creativity in Aristotle, Plato and Kant

Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015, 1:00 pm - 2:30 pm
Location: Conservatorium Meeting Room, Rm 213, Schulz Building

Is creativity the product of divinely inspired ecstasy or the result of careful craftsmanship directed towards a specific goal? The work of genius or labour?

'I am God': Alexander Scriabin's Piano Sonatas

Date: Sat, 14 Nov 2015, 7:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Elder Hall, the University of Adelaide

Join internationally acclaimed pianists Konstantin Shamray, Stefan Ammer, Ashley Hribar and Mekhla Kumar in a once in a lifetime opportunity to honour the great Russian composer Alexander Scriabin (1872 – 1915) in his 100th year anniversary.

Visions of Precarity: A Seminar with Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt and Luke Harrald

Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2015
Location: Room G03, Napier Building

Associate Professor Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt (Nagoya University) and JMCCCP member Dr Luke Harrald will present a seminar on creative responses to precarity in Japan and Australia.

Seminar with C.A.L -J.M. Coetzee Writing Fellow Cath Kenneally

Date: Fri, 4 Mar 2016, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Room 618, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide

ALL WELCOME. See the Faculty of Arts blog for full details.

Myth Matters: Werewolves, Dogmen and Biopolitics in World Literature

Date: Fri, 11, 2:00 pm - Sat, 19 Mar 2016, 4:30 pm
Location: Room 618, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide

Vin Ordinaire: A masterclass with J.M. Coetzee Writing Fellow Cath Kenneally

Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2016, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Room 618, Napier Building, The University of Adelaide

In this masterclass, J.M. Coetzee Writing Fellow for 2015, Cath Kenneally, will consider her writing as a series of constantly renewed attempts to capture/encapsulate the humdrum, the quotidian and the familiar, using examples of writing by others she admires as a measure. In ‘The Street’, 3: Practical Exercises, Georges Perec, writes: "Do you know how to see what’s worthy of note? … You don’t know how to see. You must set about it more slowly, almost stupidly. Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless." It is this task that endlessly presents itself in the practice of writing, that must always be completed anew. Cath will discuss the poetry of Jenny Bornholdt and Janet Charman, as well as some of her own poems, as examples of writing that take the quotidian and make it tell. Writing about places other than home does not require a new way of seeing or writing, a point Cath will examine with reference to travel poems and prose. Cath will also provide participants with writing prompts, which will offer ways of surprising the everyday into unfamiliarity.

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