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SYMPOSIUM: Creative Writing and its Contexts: Symposium for Dennis Haskell

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Creative Writing and its Contexts: Symposium for Dennis Haskell : To be held 17-18 February, 2011, to honour the many-sided achievements of Dennis Haskell, poet, editor, scholar, teacher and administrator Other events...
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The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Westerly Centre are to honour the work of Winthrop Professor Dennis Haskell with a symposium entitled 'Creative Writing and its Contexts'.

The Symposium will be opened at 5 pm on Thursday February 17 by the Vice-Chancellor of UWA, Professor Alan Robson. Professor Shirley Geok-Lin Lim, from the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara, will give a keynote address. ‘Sound and Sensibility: English Aesthetics and Minority American Identities’, explores issues to do with the ways American writers from other than Anglophone heritages deal in their writing with the physical, linguistic and emotional challenges of conflicted identities. Shirley Lim is the author of numerous scholarly works as well as a novel, books of short fiction and poetry. Her memoir, Among the White Moon Faces: An Asian American Memoir of Homelands (1996) is perhaps her best known book in Australia. A new collection of poetry is about to be published. Readings by visiting and local poets will follow. Among them are Irish poet Tony Curtis, a winner of the Irish National Poetry Prize and author of seven poetry collections, the latest of which is The Well in the Rain; Andrew Taylor, author of seventeen books of poetry, the latest of which is The Unhaunting and John Kinsella, poet, novelist, critic and journal editor, author of more than thirty books. A celebratory function will then be held from 7.30 to 9.30. On Friday, February 18, there will be a full day of papers and readings, organised around the areas of interest to the symposium, which broadly reflect the areas in which Dennis Haskell has worked. They are Australian Literary Studies; Poetry and Poetics; Creative Writing, Theory and Practice and Australia and Asia. The opening address on this day will be given by Professor Bruce Bennett, Emeritus Professor in the School of Humanities at ADFA, formerly from UWA, who will speak on the ‘Civilising Value of the Humanities’. The registration form for the symposium is available on the Westerly Centre website, and more information about the programme will appear: http://www.westerlycentre.uwa.edu.au/

We look forward to seeing many of you at this event.
Location UWA University Club and other selected venus (tba)
Contact Megan O'Connor <[email protected]> : 6488-2063
URL http://www.westerlycentre.uwa.edu.au/
Start Thu, 17 Feb 2011 17:00
End Fri, 18 Feb 2011 17:00
RSVP RSVP is required.
Submitted by Megan O'Connor <[email protected]>
Last Updated Fri, 11 May 2012 16:14
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