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Professor J.M. Coetzee awarded with the Companion of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours

We are delighted to share with you the news that on Monday the 9th of June, 2025, Professor J. M. Coetzee was awarded with the Companion of the Order of Australia in the King’s Birthday Honours.

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J. M. Coetzee presents the LII. Sigmund Freud Lecture "Freud and Marriage"

Our distinguished patron, J. M. Coetzee, was invited to deliver the fifty-second annual Sigmund Freud Lecture.

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Nation, Memory, Myth: Remembering Gallipoli in Australia over 110 years

On 25 March the JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice and the School of Humanities hosted a Public Conversation featuring Professor Stuart Ward with Professor Steve Vizard on the topic Nation, Memory and Myth: Gallipoli and the Australian Imaginary.

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A Public Conversation Featuring Steve Vizard with Stuart Ward

Please join us on Tuesday 25 March for a Public Conversation, followed by drinks, between acclaimed historian Stuart Ward and polymath Steve Vizard on the topic: 'Nation, Memory and Myth'.

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