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

Wednesday, 28th of October 2009
6.30pm – 8.30pm

MARGINS
Forward by Craig Silvey

The Sydney University Anthology 2009 - MARGINS features writing by students from the Masters of Publishing, Department of Media and Communications.

Join the staff and students in launching the book on Wednesday 28th of October from 6:30pm

Venue: Co-op Bookshop - University of Sydney
Sydney Uni Sport & Aquatic Centre
Cnr Codrington Street & Darlington Road
RSVP: marginsrsvp@gmail.com
Proudly supported by Sydney University Press and the Co-op Bookshop

Posted: Friday, 16 October 2009

Friday, 30th of October 2009

SLAM staff and research students are invited to the Annual SLAM Research Day for 2009.

The theme for this year is “The Collaborative Research Experience”, and will feature presentations from researchers working in all the School’s Departments, as well as advice on funding collaborations and collaborative research technologies from experts across the University.

For catering purposes please RSVP (details below) before Friday 23rd October. I hope that many of you will be able to attend.
Please contact me with any questions or comments and to RSVP on 9036 6108 or tim.cahill@usyd.edu.au.

Posted: Friday, 16 October 2009

Saturday 10th - Sunday 11th of October, 2009.

The 3rd Annual International Free Linguistics Conference shall be held at The University of Sydney, Camperdown Campus.

The aim of this conference is to provide scholars, researchers, postgraduate and undergraduate students with current research issues from all fields of linguistics & TESOL an open and widely accessible forum.

The main feature that distinguishes this conference is its focus on freedom:

* freedom from linguistic subfield divisions;
* freedom from an established and rigid theme for presentations, and;
* freedom from fees.

Featured focus speakers:

* Luciana de Oliveira (Purdue University, United States) (abstract);
* Diana Eades (University of New England, Australia) (abstract);
* William A. Foley (University of Sydney, Australia) (abstract);
* Enric Llurda (Universitat de Lleida, Spain) (abstract);
* Christian M.I.M. Matthiessen (Hong Kong Polytechnic University);
* Jonathan Webster (City University of Hong Kong).

Visit: http://www.freelinguistics.org/ for registration details.

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Posted: Saturday, 25 July 2009

6.00pm Tuesday 25 August 2009
Mills Lecture Theatre 209, RC Mills Bldg, Fisher Rd, University of Sydney
Free, all welcome

By examining the wider erotic sense of cooking utensils and of preparing a feast in early modern culture, this lecture contrib-utes to rethinking both the phallic model of masculinity and the way in which we investigate the meaning of images.

Pat Simons is currently Associate Professor in History of Art at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, but she previously
taught at the Universities of Melbourne and Monash and at the Power Institute. A specialist in Italian Renaissance visual
culture, her publications have treated such issues as patronage, the portraiture of women, the construction of masculinity,
anatomical “secrets,” and the visibility of same-sex eroticism. Her most recent articles are on the sexuality of the figure of
Hercules, the multivalence of pissing putti, and the representation of bathing women. The lecture draws from her forthcom-
ing book Semen-otics: Embodied Masculinity in PreModern Europe.

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Posted: Wednesday, 12 August 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

Thursday 6th of August, 2009
Dr Louise Marshall, Senior Lecturer in the Department of Art History & Film Studies will lecture on Bodies and buboes: The cult of St Roch in Renaissance Italy.

5:00pm for 5:30pm
Woolley Common Room, John Woolley Building [Map]

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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.

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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

Tuesday 30th of June, 2009
6.00pm refreshments 6.30pm lecture: Schaeffer Fine Arts Library/Mills Lecture Theatre, RC Mills Bldg, Cnr Fisher Rd & Physics Rd, University of Sydney
Cost: Alumni $20 . Friends $25 . Students $10
Bookings essential: Tel: 9351 6908 Email: power.institute@arts.usyd.edu.au RSVP by 29 June.

The new National Portrait Gallery was an opportunity to look across the history of portraiture in Australia, to identify those artists who have made the greatest contributions to the genre. Taking in the histories of sculpture, drawing, print-making, photography and painting, this talk will look at the way in which the National Portrait Gallery has created a new framework for our appreciation of Australian portrait traditions.

Andrew Sayers is Director of the National Portrait Gallery, Canberra. He was appointed to the position in 1998. After studying at the University of Sydney, he began his career at the Art Gallery of New South Wales before moving to Newcastle Region Art Gallery as Assistant Director. Previous to his appointment at the National Portrait Gallery he was Assistant Director (Collections) at the National Gallery of Australia.

Andrew has been responsible for several exhibitions of Australian art, particularly in the areas of drawing and portraiture. He has written extensively and is the author of Aboriginal Artists of the Nineteenth Century (Oxford University Press 1994) and Oxford History of Art: Australian Art (Oxford University Press, 2001).

(Photo by Elizabeth Hawkes)

Tuesday, 30th June 2009
6.00pm refreshments 6.30pm lecture: Schaeffer Fine Arts Library/Mills Lecture Theatre, RC Mills Bldg, Cnr Fisher Rd & Physics Rd, University of Sydney
Cost: Alumni $20 . Friends $25 . Students $10
Bookings essential: Tel: 9351 6908 Email: RSVP by 29 June.
This event is hosted by the Power Institute Alumni & Friends Association.

Posted: Monday, 29 June 2009

Monday 29th of June, 2009
1.00pm Mills Lecture Theatre
RC Mills Building, Cnr Fisher Rd & Physics Rd, University of Sydney
Cost: free, all welcome

Tim Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the University
of Sydney. His most recent work centres on the role which Elizabethan playwrights played, through their play texts, in and the organisation of performances in the public playhouses. Current projects include Elizabethan and 16th century Italian performance processes;
and performance implications of Elizabethan stage directions.

In the 1630s the noted Czech panoramist Wenzel Hollar climbed the tower of Southwark Cathedral
to do some preparatory drawings or sketches for his engraved panorama of London. In one of
them he accidentally captured the second Globe playhouse in the middle distance, and as one of
the few representations of the Elizabethan/Jacobean public playhouses it has attracted the
attention of theatre historians. Some believe it is a topographic drawing for which Hollar employed
a gridded glass or Cigoli frame. My work indicates instead that it is a sketch, but a nevertheless
extraordinarily accurate one—so accurate that it is even possible to intuit the underlying structure
of the building. At issue methodologically is the ‘reading’ for a particular scholarly agenda of visual
representations made for a quite different agenda, and I will tease out these issues by describing a
CAD project by which we have speculatively reconstructed the building we believe Hollar sketched.
Tim Fitzpatrick is Associate Professor in the Department of Performance Studies at the University
of Sydney. He is also currently Head of the School of Letters, Art and Media, but continues to
teach and conduct research. His most recent work centres on the role which Elizabethan
playwrights played, through their play texts, in and the organisation of performances in the public
playhouses. Current projects include Elizabethan and 16th century Italian performance processes;
and performance implications of Elizabethan stage directions.

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Posted: Monday, 29 June 2009