Events

Beckett at the End of the World: an afternoon colloquium

Monday 6 December 2-5pm
Woolley Common Room
Level 4, John Woolley Building A20
Science Road
University of Sydney

Guest speakers
Anthony Uhlmann (UWS)
Paul Sheehan (Macquarie)
Rónán McDonald (UNSW)

This colloquium brings together several outstanding scholars of the younger generation in Beckett Studies. New Zealand and Australia have strong representations in Beckett Studies – the Journal of Beckett Studies is edited from the University of Western Sydney – and this event aims to recognise and build upon these local strengths. The afternoon will entail academic papers as well as a roundtable discussion focussed on potential future collaborations in research, teaching, and in advancing Beckett Studies in Sydney, Australasia and beyond. Links with modernist studies more generally will also be explored. Younger scholars and graduate students are particularly welcome.

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Digital Editing, Digital Humanities symposium

Friday 10 December, 9:30am-5:00pm
Woolley Common Room
Level 4, John Woolley Building A20
Science Road
University of Sydney

Plenary speaker: Professor Bethany Nowviskie, University of Virginia

This event brings together scholars, artists, and archivists working within the digital domain, both in Sydney and further afield. A primary focus of the symposium is to raise awareness of the variety of digital projects currently in progress in the Digital Humanities, and to discuss the kinds of digital resources available to scholars.

The symposium aims to showcase projects across the humanities, and to foster discussion of potential collaboration, funding, and the best use of available and potential resources. Three sessions will follow the plenary:

scholarly editing of medieval and modern literary texts;
projects in the visual arts, Buddhist Studies, history, the culture of robotics;
a roundtable concerning resources on campus, including SETIS, Heurist and Fisher e-Scholarship.

Digital Editing, Digital Humanities will be a free event. Please RSVP for catering purposes. The Symposium will be followed by a dinner locally.

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SLAM Research, Writing and Publishing Forum

Thank you to all who attended the School's Research, Writing and Publishing Forum on Thursday, 23 September. The event was a great success and each of the expert practitioners presented interesting and stimulating points of discussion on the state of academic writing and publishing. Our thanks go to the event's guest speakers, Miriam Cosic (The Australian), Philippa McGuiness (UNSW Press), Professor Meaghan Morris (Gender Studies), Professor Iain McCalman (History), Professor Robert Dixon (Australian Literature) and Professor Paul Giles (English).