Events

Events from 1 August, 2014

• Date
  Time
  Event
• 18th August, 2014
  6:00pm - 7:30pm
  

  Key Texts: Reflections on Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations

• 26th August, 2014
  9:00am - 5:00pm
  

  Human Nature and the Construction of the State: Hobbes and Spinoza Workshop

• 15th September, 2014
  6:00pm - 7:30pm
  

  Key Texts: The Rhetoric of Bach's St Matthew Passion - Text and Performance

Past Events

Dr Sue Woolfe featured on ABC

Dr Sue Woolfe of the Department's Creative Writing program was recently featured on the ABC's Talking Heads show. The interview and transcript can be viewed from the Talking Heads website.

Drawing Out Shakespeare Conference

ANZSA, 17-19 June 2010
Click here for further details.

Historic event

Emeritus Professor Dame Leonie Kramer, Professor of Australian Literature (1968- 1990) and Chancellor of the University (1991-2001), received an Honorary Doctorate of Letters at the University of Sydney graduation ceremony on Wednesday 8 April 2009.

To celebrate this special occasion the English department, which Dame Leonie served for so many years with great distinction, hosted an afternoon tea in her honour.

All four Professors of Australian Literature (Professor G.A. Wilkes, Professor Kramer, Professor Elizabeth Webby, and Professor Robert Dixon) were together at this event and Professor Dixon, the current professor, gave a short address as a tribute to Dame Leonie. Family members, current and past members of staff and postgraduate students also attended.

Sydney's the leading academy for humanities

Kate Grenville, an Honorary Associate and Writer in Residence in the Department of English at the University of Sydney, was named an Honorary Fellow. Full story

Premier's Prize for William Christie

William Christie has won the NSW Premier's Prize for Literary Scholarship for his biography of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, the British Romantic poet, philosopher and political thinker. Full story