Thursday 14th - Friday 15th of January, 2010

Australian Literature at the University of Sydney is proud to host Reading Across the
Pacific: Australian-United States Intellectual Histories.

This symposium will examine the concrete interaction of the two nations, paying particular
attention to the practice of reading, tracing various networks, interactions and crossings
that have characterized Australian-United States relationships and literary encounters.

Keynote Speakers:
Lawrence Buell (Harvard)
Paul Giles (Challis Professor, University of Sydney)

Other speakers will include:
David Carter, Marilyn Lake, Robert Dixon, Nicholas Birns, Ken Stewart, Fiona Morrisson,
Bruce Bennett, Elizabeth Webby and Paul Kane.

This conference will take place in the Darlington Centre, 174 City Road. [map ref R15]

For more registration details visit:
http://conferences.arts.usyd.edu.au/index.php?cf=26

Posted: Thursday, 20 August 2009

The David Harold Tribe Fiction Award is a major new prize for short fiction and was run for the first time in 2009 through the Department of English. There was a strong field of 187 entries.

David Tribe is a philanthropist who has led a diverse and creative life. Born in Sydney, he lived for many years in the UK where he was a leading figure in liberal and creative arts movements during the seminal period of the 1960s and early ‘70s. He was chair of the Humanist Action Group, President of the National Secular Society, editor of the Freethinker, and a member of the National Council for Civil Liberties. He is the author of a dozen books on an astonishing range of subjects, from censorship, humanist ethics and free thought, to poetry, Shakespeare and the role of religion and ethics in education. Many of these books were published during his time in London.

Since returning to Australia, David has continued to work for secularist and humanist causes. In 2005 he approached the University of Sydney with a bequest that established the David Harold Tribe Awards, a suite of awards to encourage excellence in the fields of poetry, fiction, philosophy, sculpture and music. In 2008 the inaugural David Harold Tribe Poetry Award was presented to John Bennett for his poem, ‘Kitchen Music’.

On 11 November 2009 the department had the pleasure of presenting the inaugural David Harold Tribe Fiction Award to Patrick Mountford for his short story Theobald, Tailor

There were two highly commended entrants:
Mark MacLean for Untenthenherenye? Where do you come from?
and
Jennifer Mills for The jungle will swallow anything.

The winning entry will be published in Southerly.

Posted: Wednesday, 18 November 2009

Saturday 22nd - Sunday 23rd of August, 2009
Together with the Centre for Continuing Education the School of Letters, Art & Media is proud to present the second Classic European Film Festival for 2009.

Eight legendary European films screened across two days and live panel discussion after each film with panelists from industry and academia.

The line up of films across two days include:

Saturday 22nd August 2009

Hiroshima Mon Amour
(France 1959 d: Alain Resnais)

The Fireman’s Ball
(Czechoslovakia 1967 d: Milos Forman)

Z
(Greece 1969 d: Constantin Costa-Gavras)

Death in Venice
(Italy 1971 d: Luchino Visconti)

Sunday 23rd August 2009

The Passenger
(Italy 1975 d: Michelangelo Antonioni)

Lost Honour of Katherina Blum
(Germany 1975 d: Volker Schlondorff / Margarethe von Trotta)

Babette's Feast
(Denmark 1987 d: Gabriel Axel)

Raising Ravens
(Spain 1976 d: Carlos Saura)

Films will be projected on a high-definition DVD system, with particularly noteworthy sound in a theatre on campus.

$50 Adult | $25 Student Concession per day

Get your tickets: Day 1 | Day 2

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Posted: Saturday, 25 July 2009

All semester
All staff and students are welcome to attend the free film screenings during semester on campus in the Old Geology Lecture Theatre, located in Edgeworth David Building [Map]. The films included in the schedule are part of the teaching syllabus of units across the school.

Check out the Film on the Big Screen schedule from semester 1 to see what you can expect in semester 2, starting on the 27th of July 2009.

Follow us on Twitter for up to the minute updates regarding Film Studies and screenings.

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Posted: Saturday, 25 July 2009

Thursday 16th of July, 2009
Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building [Map]
Science Road The University of Sydney Admission: Free
6.00 for 6.30pm – Drinks
Professor Kevin Hart will speak on ‘Only This: Reading Robert Gray’

How does one read Robert Gray’s poetry and prose? In answering this question, Kevin Hart seeks to emphasise the singularity and immanence in the work.
A graduate of the Australian National University and the University of Melbourne, the poet and academic
Kevin Hart is currently Edwin B. Kyle Professor of Christian Studies in the Department of Religious Studies at the
University of Virginia. His books include The Trespass of the Sign: Deconstruction, Theology and
Philosophy (1986) and The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred (2004).
The poet Robert Gray’s memoir, The Land I Came Through Last, was published by Giramondo Press in 2008.

Download the flyer

Enquiries: Professor Robert Dixon
Tel.: (02) 9036 7231

Posted: Monday, 29 June 2009

Monday 6th - Tuesday 7th of July, 2009
The Third Annual Conference of the Australasian Association for Literature on ‘Literature and Politics’ will be held at the University of Sydney.

Keynote Speakers:
Professor Steven Connor (Birkbeck College, University of London)
Professor Gail Jones (University of Western Sydney)
Professor Kiarina Kordela (Macalester College, USA)
Professor Andrew Milner (Monash)

International participants include:
Dr Jasbir Jain (Rajasthan), Professor Peter Kuch (Otago), Dr Andrew Yerkes (Nanyang, Singapore)

Local speakers include: Associate Professor Will Christie, Dr Huw Griffiths, Dr Peter Marks, Dr Angie Dunstan, Dr Marise Williams
Sam Dickson, Jenn Martin, Stefan Solomon, Mark Stevens, Lindsay Tuggle

The conference will take place in the John Woolley Building, located between Manning & Science Roads. [Map]

For more registration details visit: http://www.aal.asn.au/conference/2009/index.shtml

Posted: Monday, 29 June 2009

There is a new online applications system for Special Consideration, Special Arrangements or Extensions on Written Work for undergraduate and postgraduate students in this department.

Click here for more information.

Posted: Friday, 8 May 2009