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Thursday 17 May
5:30 PM - 6:30 PM
Who tells the story of a country? What story does a country’s national literature tell about its people and its identity? Is there such a thing as Australian literature at all?
Australians are striding the global stage with unprecedented confidence in all manner of fields. But if university syllabuses are any indication, it seems that when it comes to Australian literature, the cultural cringe is alive and well.
With major universities offering only the bare minimum in courses on Australian writing and its authors, the Wheeler Centre is filling the breach. Australian Literature 101 is the university education in Australian literature you never had.
In this major new weekly series hosted by Ramona Koval, running in parallel with the university calendar, contemporary writers speak on seminal Australian texts, giving context, sharing their responses and exploring each work’s status as a classic of Australian literature. Join us to be part of a brand new assessment of our national literature.
This week, we look at That Deadman Dance by Kim Scott.
Featuring
Philip Morrissey
Philip Morrissey is the Academic Coordinator of Australian Indigenous Studies in the Faculty of Arts at the University of Melbourne.
In that role, he developed the University of Melbourne’s first Australian Indigenous Studies major and Honours program. He is currently leading a team which is developing a coursework Masters of Indigenous Policy and Development.
He is co-convenor of The Kim Scott Colloquium that will be held at the University of Melbourne in August 2012. He is also the co-editor of Aesopic Voices: Re-framing Truth Through Concealed Ways of Presentation in the 20th and 21st Centuries, published in 2011.
Ramona Koval
Ramona Koval is a writer who has worked as a journalist and broadcaster. Her most recent books are A Letter to Layla: Travels to our Deep Past and Near Future, Bloodhound: Searching For My Father, and ...