[csaa-forum] CCLCS RESEARCH SEMINAR PROGRAM: Semester 1, 2009

[Andrew Milner]

Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Monash University, Melbourne

RESEARCH SEMINARS, FIRST SEMESTER 2009

3.00-5.00 pm, Room W710, Menzies Building, Clayton Campus.

Wednesday March 4

CHANGING THE CLIMATE: THE POLITICS OF DYSTOPIA
Andrew Milner

Andrew Milner is Professor and Deputy Director of the Centre. His recent
publications include Re-Imagining Cultural Studies (2002), Contemporary 
Cultural Theory (2002) and Literature, Culture and Society (2005). His 
Tenses of Imagination is currently in press with Peter Lang.

Wednesday March 18

ETERNAL FEASTING IN THE HALLS OF IMMORTALITY: WESTERN LIGHT AND ECOCIDE
Geoff Berry

Geoff Berry is a PhD student in Comparative Literature, working on a
thesis tentatively entitled Under the Utopian Dominion of Light: an
Ecocritical Mythography. He is editor in chief of Colloquy.

Wednesday April 8

‘COME FORTH INTO THE LIGHT OF THINGS’: MATERIAL SPIRIT AND NEGATIVE
ECOPOETICS
Kate Rigby

Kate Rigby is Associate Professor in Comparative Literature. Her
publications include Out of the Shadows: Contemporary German Feminist
Theory (1996), Transgressions of the Feminine (1996) and Topographies of 
the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism (2004).

Wednesday April 22

CERTITUDE AND LINGUISTIC PLAY IN CHINESE CRITICAL INQUIRY
Gloria Davies

Gloria Davies is Associate Professor in Chinese. Her publications
include Voicing Concerns (2001), Globalization in the Asian Region 
(2004), Worrying About China: The Language of Chinese Critical Inquiry 
(2007) and Profiles in Courage (2008).

Wednesday May 13

FUTURE NARRATIVE: INTERACTIVITY, COMPUTER GAMES AND THE AUTHORSHIP OF
FANTASY
Chris Worth

Chris Worth is Director of the Centre. His publications include
Postmodern Conditions (1990), Discourse and Difference (1990) and
Literature and Opposition (1994).

Wednesday May 27

SOMETHING’S MISSING: JOHN BANVILLE’S WARY AESTHETICISM
Matthew Ryan

Matthew Ryan lectures in Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.
His publications include Imagining the Future (2006) and Demanding
the Impossible (2008). He is an editor of Arena Magazine.




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Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
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Monash University
Victoria 3800
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