7@11: Storytelling home and away: nation community and diaspora (the Filipino perspective) Dr Trevor Hogan in dialogue with Merlinda Bobis and Carlos Celdran. Recorded at Castlemaine State Festival, on Thursday 23rd of March. What is the relationship between writing and performance and does this change according to audience and site? This session is a conversation…
South African author Ivan Vladislavic talks to thesis eleven director Peter Beilharz. Ivan Vladislavic is the leading South African writer of urban fiction. His work combines irony, humour, engagement and detachment, the insight and wisdom of the flaneur in this new and different environment. His recent works include Double Negative (2011); A Labour of Moles…
What is remembered when the bombing of Hiroshima is remembered? Keith Tester, University of Hull introduced by Peter Beilharz @ La Trobe University According to Gunther Anders, the bombing of Hiroshima signified the dawning of the age of the Inverted Utopia – utopians, he said imagine what they cannot achieve, but now we are…
