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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The ‘First Fridays’ series of Gender and Sexuality Studies Postgraduate Workshops and Public Seminars continues on Friday, May 3, at Deakin Downtown (at 727 Collins St, near Southern Cross
Station).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The <a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/postgraduate-masterclass-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Postgraduate
Workshop</span></a> will run 2-330pm, followed by the <a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/seminar-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Public Seminar</span></a><u> </u>at 4pm. ‘First Fridays’ are free
and open to people interested in the work, although bookings are required for both the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/first-fridays-deakin-gss-seminar-series-lgbt-conversion-therapy-sex-religion-and-human-rights-tickets-56393182527" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Seminar</span></a> and
the <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/first-fridays-deakin-gss-postgraduate-workshop-working-with-indigenous-epistemologies-with-lisa-tickets-56381776411" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Workshop</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">We are thrilled to present two exciting presentations in May: Lisa Samuels will present a Public Seminar on
<span style="letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white">'Transgenre in <i>Tomorrowland</i>'</span>, and
<span style="letter-spacing:.4pt;background:white">Lyn McCredden</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="color:black">will present a Postgraduate Workshop on ‘What is the Sacred?’<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">Please see below for further information on the presentations:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><i><span style="color:black;background:white">2-330pm, </span>
</i></b><b><i><span style="color:black">What is the Sacred? <o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black;background:white">A Postgraduate Workshop
</span></b><b><span style="color:black">with Lyn McCredden<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">In early 2019, a handful of Victorian state members of parliament called for a removal of “The Lord’s Prayer” from their daily commencement rituals. In the name of a
secular and multicultural society, some MPs are calling for a replacement of the prayer with either silence, or an alternating of prayers from different faiths represented in the society. At the same time, a few conservative members of the parliament have
been “refusing to stand for the Indigenous ‘Acknowledgement of Country’”(<i>The Age</i>). Australian culture is in the grip of great change: we are asking what the past means, who is responsible for past acts of violence and brutality, and how will a vision
of justice emerge amongst us - politically? legally? spiritually?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">In my research across the past twenty years, I have been developing understandings of “the sacred” in Australian literature and popular culture. In this paper, part
of an essay written for the forthcoming Routledge Anthology <i>New Directions in Australian Literary Studies</i>, I will argue that one issue in Australian culture can be seen as core to future individual and communal health. What might it mean in the wider
conversations around Australia’s history and future self-understandings, that many Indigenous people (though certainly not all) <i>do</i> work and live with concepts of <i>sacredness. </i>At the same time, many non-Indigenous Australians have not been able
or willing to address this challenging category, let alone the multiplicity of beliefs and sacred practices existing in Australia today? While Australia is often simply designated <i>secular </i>(as if “Australia” could be such a monolithic entity), this description
neglects the diverse and increasingly influential aspects of Indigenous sacredness, as much as it turns awkwardly away from the many religious or spiritually searching writings of Indigenous, Christian, Jewish, Buddhist, Muslim and other traditions, which
Australia has produced across the last century.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">About the Speaker</span></b><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Lyn McCredden is Professor of Literary Studies at Deakin University. She is the author of numerous volumes of literary criticism, including <i>James McAuley </i>(1992), <i>Bridgings:
Reading Australian Women’s Poetry </i>(with Rose Lucas, 1996), <i>Intimate Horizons: the Postcolonial Sacred in Australian Literature </i>(with Frances Devlin Glass and Bill Ashcroft, 2009), and <i>The Fiction of Tim Winton: Earthed and Sacred </i>(2017).
She has written on Indigenous Australian literature by authors Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Tony Birch, Lisa Bellear, Sam Wagan Watson; and on feminist writers such as Virginia Woolf, Julia Kristeva, Luce Irigaray, Ania Walwicz, Pam Brown. She is a poet, with one volume
entitled <i>Wanting Only </i>(Ginninderra Press, 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><i><span style="color:black">4-5pm, Transgenre in Tommorowland<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><b><span style="color:black">A</span></b><b><span style="color:black"> seminar by </span></b><b><span style="color:black">Lisa Samuels<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm;margin-bottom:.0001pt;background:white"><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">This talk-performance discusses the androgynous or gender neutral figurations of Eula and the gender work of Fasti and
Manda in my book<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tomorrowland</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>(Shearsman 2009), with reference to the subsequent CD versions (2012, Lisa Samuels words and music, recording and mixing
by Tim Page) and the art film version of the book (2017, directed by Wes Tank). I'm interested in the fact that 'genre' and 'gender' are effectively the same word in French: not dissimilarly, the genre work of<em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tomorrowland</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>is
expansively trans both in the pressure put on the named principles Eula, Manda, and Fasti and in the multiplication of the work into three different genre versions. I'll discuss these creative research works as performances of identity thinking in a transnational
context, evident in the book version of <em><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">Tomorrowland</span></em><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>and differently available in the audio and cinematic versions. The presentation will include playing
samples from the audio CDs and showing the 16 minute art short.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Samples from the CD are available <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Samuels.php" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">here</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">The film is can be viewed on <a href="https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/%20https:/vimeo.com/243013345" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">vimeo</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">About the Speaker</span></strong><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;letter-spacing:.4pt">Lisa Samuels is the author of thirteen books of poetry and prose, with recent experiments in memoir ANTI M (2013) and the novel Tender Girl (2015). Her poetry is in anthologies such
as Out of Everywhere 2 (2015) and has inspired scholarly work and musical scores internationally. Her recent critical essays include Over Hear: six types of poetry experiment in Aotearoa/New Zealand (2015) and her current projects are Symphony for Human Transport
(poetry), The Long White Cloud of Unknowing (prose), Imagining what we don't know (essays), and continuing experiments in soundwork. A transcultural writer, Lisa teaches at the University of Auckland in Aotearoa/New Zealand.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black"><a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/about-us/seminar-series/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">For further information and to register
click here.</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="background:white"><span style="color:black">The <a href="https://blogs.deakin.edu.au/gender-and-sexuality-studies-research-network/" target="_blank"><span style="color:black">Gender and Sexuality Studies Research Network blog</span></a> contains
registration details, recordings of past seminars where available and links to other events. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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