Hey all you Sydney people
Posted on | February 28, 2006 |
Do you know about this? Gone to one? Any good?
Interesting…
A reminder that the next seminars in the “Writing Out” series, on Friday March 3rd and 17th in Sydney, are free of charge and open to all.
The seminars will be held in the Woolley Common Room, Level 4 John Woolley Building, Science Road, University of Sydney, from 10.00 am to 12.30pm.
WRITING OUT is a new form of intensive training for academic researchers early in their careers. Part of the Humanities Writing Project 2006 events program, these seminars and masterclasses will help participants acquire the skills to write accessibly for non-experts.
Presenters in the series include writers Drusilla Modjeska, Amanda Lohrey, Anna Funder and Catherine Cole, as well as literary editors and publishers Peter Rose (Editor, Australian Book Review), Chris Feik (Editor, Quarterly Essay), and Jason Steger (Literary Editor, The Age).
RIHSS at the University of Sydney is one of the principal partners in the project. It is hosting the Sydney events in the series, which will also be travelling to Melbourne, Canberra, Adelaide, Perth, Armidale, Wollongong and Newcastle.
(A campus map and more information about the Humanities Writing Project available here).
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See http://www.humanitieswritingproject.net.au for more details about this ARC-funded project.
There’s a Vegas event as well, this Saturday:
PUBLIC FORUM
Between history and fiction
MASTER CLASS
Finding your writing voice
Graduate Studies Centre
Queensland College of Art, South Bank
Saturday 18 March, 2006
This forum and masterclass event, sponsored by the Humanities Writing Project and the Centre for Public Culture and Ideas, sets out to debate the relationship between narrative history and fiction, and to consider the ways writers creatively negotiate or ignore the seeming divide between the two.
A morning panel with guest speakers will be followed by an afternoon masterclass for postgraduate studentsand early career academics working between history and fiction in new and innovative humanities projects.
Guest speakers will include the authors of the recent Is History Fiction?,Ann Curthoys and John Docker, who will lead the afternoon masterclass.
Is History Fiction? (UNSW Press, 2005) explores in fresh and innovative ways the perennial question, What is History? How can we in the present know the past? In a wonderful journey that starts with the classical Greeks and travels through the centuries to more recent forms of history that are framed by Marxism, postmodernism and feminism, John Docker and Ann Curthoys find that history has a double character. It is both a rigorous scrutiny of sources, and, because it presents the results of its enquiries as narrative, it is part of a literary world too. Such doubleness is the secret of history’s fascination as an always changing, inventive endeavour.Yet it also explains why history has been a source of sometimes bitter disputes.
Both events are free and the forum is open to the public. For more information visit the CPCI website -
http://www.griffith.edu.au/centre/cpci/