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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:32.0pt">Realism on Country<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">22 – 23 May 2025<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Evelyn Araluen Goorie, Koori (UniMelb)
Melanie Saward Bigambul, Wakka Wakka (UQ)
Luke Patterson Gamilaroi
Jeanine Leane Wiradjuri (UniMelb)
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<span lang="EN-GB" style="font-size:14.0pt">Tony Hughes-d’Aeth (UWA)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Research Hub 19.2072B<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">Thursday 22 May <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:18.0pt">8:45am – 4:45pm<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:10.0pt">Michael Griffiths, Shady Cosgrove, Jen Saunders<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Dr. Michael R. Griffiths<br>
Senior Lecturer, English Literatures<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Acting Discipline Leader, English Literatures and Creative Writing<br>
School of The Arts, English and Media<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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Room No. G31 | Building 25<br>
University of Wollongong NSW 2522<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Latest work:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><a href="https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-031-80908-8"><span style="color:#0563C1">The Death of the
Author and Anticolonial Thought</span><span style="color:#0563C1;font-style:normal"> (Palgrave Pivot, 2025)</span></a></span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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W: <a href="https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/michael_griffiths"><span style="color:#0563C1">https://scholars.uow.edu.au/display/michael_griffiths</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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</span><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">I acknowledge that the Country I work and live on always was, and always will be, Aboriginal land. UOW is situated on the unceded sovereign
lands of the Dharawal, Wodi Wodi, Yuin, Gundungurra and Dharug peoples.</span></i><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"> </span></i><i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">I
pay my respects to Elders past, present and emerging. </span></i><span lang="EN-AU" style="font-family:"Times New Roman",serif;color:black;mso-ligatures:none"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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