Upcoming events

Tjungu Pakani (Together We Rise)

Date: Wed, 8 Aug - Sun, 23 Sep 2018
Location: Ayers House, 288 North Terrace, Adelaide SA 5000

Soundstream and the JMCCCP are proud to present Tjungu Pakani (Together We Rise), a series of events celebrating Titjikala culture through art and music. Join the Titjikala Women's Choir (NT) as they share their unique artistic and musical practice in art and music workshops, culminating in a wonderful concert and month-long exhibition held at Ayers House Museum.

Raining Poetry in Adelaide Launch

Date: Wed, 5 Sep 2018, 12:00 am
Location: Wheatsheaf Hotel, 39 George Street, Thebarton

Led by University of Adelaide postgraduate students under the auspices of the JMCCCP, Raining Poetry in Adelaide aims to brighten up gloomy days by bringing poetry to the city streets. Poems are stenciled onto footpaths in invisible paint only to magically appear when it rains. Join us for the launch of this exciting event, presented in collaboration with No Wave, at 7pm on the 5th of September at the Wheatsheaf Hotel. The launch will feature readings by the poets involved and a map with the locations of the poems will be revealed. To see photos, updates and more, visit the Facebook page.

Music & Text: A Symposium

Date: Fri, 14 Sep 2018, 1:30 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus

How do we transpose narrative forms into musical ones and vice-versa? What similarities and differences are there between the two art forms? Join celebrated concert pianist and memoirist Dr Anna Goldsworthy (Adelaide), literary scholar, classical singer and Jane Austen expert Dr Gillian Dooley (Flinders), and modernist and African literatures expert A/Prof Brian Macaskill (John Carroll University) for a fascinating discussion about how art forms transform and influence one another. In case you missed it, download our recording to hear the presentations and discussion.

Seminar with A/Prof Hermann Wittenberg

Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2018, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus

Curator of the 'J.M. Coetzee: Photographs from Boyhood' exhibition A/Prof Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape) will give a seminar titled "Against World Literature: Photography and History in Life & Times of Michael K.' This paper will reread J.M. Coetzee's lauded novel Life & Times of Michael K as a text that is grounded in South Africa by exploring its links to photography and the story of Northern Cape farm labourer, Jan Pieriga. To register for this event, please email the centre.

J.M. Coetzee: Photographs from Boyhood

Date: Fri, 9 Nov 2018, 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Location: Ira Raymond Room, Level 3 Hub Central, The University of Adelaide, North Terrace Campus

Join us on the 9th November for the launch of an unique exhibition showcasing Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee’s youthful foray into photography, when he attempted to capture ‘the moment when truth revealed itself’. Offering intriguing glimpses of Coetzee’s childhood in Cape Town in the mid-1950s, these images demonstrate how deeply photography shaped his creative development. The exhibition will be launched by curator A/Prof Hermann Wittenberg (University of the Western Cape) with a special reading by J.M. Coetzee. To register for this free event, visit the eventbrite site.

Masterclass & Seminar with Sisonke Msimang

Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2018, 2:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Location: 108 Napier Building, University of Adelaide

Celebrated writer Sisonke Msimang, author of Always Another Country: A Memoir of Exile and Home, will be giving a masterclass on 'Writing Lives', as well as a seminar on her most recent works. In the masterclass, Msimang will lead a discussion on the practice of life writing through reflections on her recent memoir of exile and home and her forthcoming biography of Winnie Mandela. To register and to obtain preparatory readings for these exciting events, please email the centre. These events are presented with the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice and the Department of English & Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.

2018 Peggy Glanville-Hicks Address

Date: Mon, 26 Nov 2018, 12:00 am
Location: Madley Rehearsal Space, Elder Conservatorium of Music, Adelaide

Composer and sound artist Professor Cat Hope (Head of the Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music, Monash University) will examine the current situation for music creators in Australia by bringing together some current debates and proposing appropriate actions to improve inclusion and opportunity for all people. For the second year in a row, the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is proud to be supporting the Adelaide iteration of this important national forum for contemporary music discourse, presented by the New Music Network and the University of Adelaide. To register for this free event, please visit the eventbrite site.

Public Lecture with Michael Taussig

Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2019, 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Location: G04 Napier Building, University of Adelaide

In his free public lecture chaired by esteemed professor Stephen Muecke, acclaimed anthropologist Professor Michael Taussig will attempt to figure out the mastery of non-mastery. He will pause on Marcel Proust’s alignment of the mimesis between wasp and orchid as consonant with that of the sexual encounter between a baron and a tailor—prelude to his thoughts on inter-species sex, shamanism, and paramilitary massacres as copies chasing copies. Through these pauses, Michael will speculate on the fate of the mimetic faculty in relation to global meltdown and metamorphic sublimity.

Masterclass with Michael Taussig

Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2019, 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Location: 108 Napier Building, University of Adelaide

Following on from his free public lecture join renowned anthropologist Professor Michael Taussig as he attempts to figure out the mastery of non-mastery. He will pause on Marcel Proust’s alignment of the mimesis between wasp and orchid as consonant with that of the sexual encounter between a baron and a tailor—prelude to his thoughts on inter-species sex, shamanism, and paramilitary massacres as copies chasing copies. Through these pauses, Michael will speculate on the fate of the mimetic faculty in relation to global meltdown and metamorphic sublimity.

In Conversation with Elleke Boehme

Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2019, 3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Location: 618 Napier Building, The University of Adelaide

Professor Elleke Boehmer will discuss her latest book with Gillian Dooley as part of a seminar that we are co-hosting with the Department of English and Creative Writing.

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