[csaa-forum] SASS Annual Public Lecture at SCU: Professor Anna Gibbs, Monday Oct 24, 12-2 NSW time

Elizabeth Stephens Elizabeth.Stephens at scu.edu.au
Fri Oct 7 11:32:06 ACST 2016


Colleagues in Southern Queensland and Northern NSW may be interested in this event.



The School of Arts and Social Sciences at Southern Cross University is delighted to announce that the inaugural SASS Annual Public Lecture will be presented by Professor Anna Gibbs (Western Sydney University).


The lecture will be held Monday 24 October from 12-2pm, NSW time, in the following venues:


Lismore SCU R1.06, with video links to

Gold Coast SCU B6.25

Coffs Harbour SCU VR11


Abstract

"Undoing Things With Words: Fictocriticism and the Futures of Writing"

If the hyphen attempts to join the 'ficto' with the 'critical' it also inevitably severs them and holds them apart. In this tense and quivering gap between them arises the possibility of a writing otherwise: a writing in which the confident authority of argument gives way to hesitation and doubt, and the house of fiction begins to fall apart. Here place is displaced; setting becomes unstable; site gives way to constantly shifting situation. We are in the middle of something, immersed in the materiality of writing as doing and making, a thinking taking shape in action, and then shifting that shape again at the very moment it forms. It is in this process that writing takes place.


About the Presenter

Professor Anna Gibbs (School of Humanities and Communication Arts, Western Sydney University) is a practitioner and theorist of fictocriticism and publishes across textual, media and cultural studies, focusing on affect theory, mimetic communication, corporeality, feminism, new materialism, and experimental/conceptual writing. Professor Gibbs is a member of the Writing and Society Research Centre, the Digital Humanities Research Group and the Longford Project artists' group, and has received funding from the ARC and Australia Council as well as a Bundanon residency.


The lecture will be followed by a reception.


All welcome, but as places are limited, please RSVP to: elizabeth.stephens at scu.edu.au.


We look forward to seeing you at this exciting event.


Best wishes,

Elizabeth



Elizabeth Stephens
Associate Professor in Cultural Studies
Deputy Head of School (Research)
School of Arts and Social Sciences
Southern Cross University
PO Box 157
Lismore NSW 2480 Australia
Email: elizabeth.stephens at scu.edu.au
Phone: +61 2 6626 9331
Academia page: https://scu.au.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens<https://scu-au.academia.edu/ElizabethStephens>

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