Friends of the University of Adelaide Library
Professor Brian Castro Arrested Motion and Future Mourning
The Friends of the University of Adelaide Library invite you to a free public talk with Professor Brian Castro on Thursday 30 October 2008 at 6.00 for 6.30pm
Venue: Ira Raymond Exhibition Room, Barr Smith Library, University of Adelaide
Recently-appointed Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide, Brian Castro, will discuss hybrid writing as it covers skin and ideology, authenticity and tradition, form and reception.
Brian Castro was educated at the University of Sydney and has worked in Australian, French and Hong Kong universities as a teacher and writer. He has published eight novels including Shanghai Dancing and The Garden Book; his Birds of Passage was joint winner of the 1982 The Australian/Vogel literary award. His novels have also won a number of other state and national prizes including, The Age Fiction Prize, the National Book Council Prize for Fiction, four Victorian Premier's awards, two NSW Premier's awards and the Queensland Premier's Award for Fiction.
Professor Castro has delivered keynote addresses at major conferences in Shanghai, Vienna, Paris, Toulouse, Hong Kong and Kyoto. He has been a Literature Board member on the Australia Council. For many years he was the literary reviewer for Asiaweek magazine.
In 2006 he held the position of Macgeorge Fellow at the University of Melbourne. In 2007-8 he was the Professorial Research Fellow in Creative Writing at the University of Melbourne. He is currently Chair of Creative Writing at the University of Adelaide.
Brian Castro's recent research has focussed on the fugue, in both its psychological and musical forms. He is currently engaged in research on melancholy and its relationship to creativity. His latest novel, The Bath Fugues, is due out in October 2008.
Bookings by Tuesday 28 October to:
Email: robina.weir@adelaide.edu.au
Telephone: 8303 4064
Admission is free and open to the public: gold coin donation invited.
Seating is limited.
Paul Wilkins
Deputy University Librarian
Barr Smith Library
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