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Criticism as Intervention: The Fictions of J. M. Coetzee
Date/Time: Wednesday, 31 July 2019 - Thursday, 5 September 2019
Location: 209 Napier Building; 314 Ligertwood Building
Cost: Free
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Audit the upcoming University of Adelaide's Arts Master Class (CRICOS #ARTS2004).
Taught by celebrated literary critic, philosopher and writer Professor Andrew Gibson, this course will introduce students to the work of arguably the world's greatest living writer, J. M. Coetzee, Nobel laureate and Professor at the University of Adelaide. Students will have a rare opportunity to practice literary criticism as cultural intervention.
This course will focus on J. M. Coetzee's oeuvre to discuss the politics of critical engagement in regard to the problematic character of contemporary global, neoliberal culture. It will consist of six lectures--six angles of approach to the work of J. M. Coetzee--that will explore the history and possible relevance of an interventionist form of criticism.
This course is presented by the School of Humanities in collaboration with the J. M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice. For more information: https://bit.ly/2M2Aho9
N.B.: Please note that while auditors can attend lectures, workshops and seminars, they won't be awarded a participation certificate or credits towards a degree. Auditing postgraduate students, however, can claim CaRST hours.
Contact: Dr Camille Rouliere, Email: camille.rouliere@adelaide.edu.au, Website: https://www.adelaide.edu.au/jmcoetzeecentre/, Business: +61 8 8313 9164
Exhibition: History of Book Illustration: 1400 - 1900
Date/Time: Sunday, 18 August 2019 - Friday, 27 September 2019, all day
Location: Level 1, Barr Smith Library
Cost: Free - All welcome
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Is a picture really worth a thousand words?
From woodcut to lithograph, this exhibition explores the history and methods of book illustration, and sheds light on the important role that co-existent images and text play in the transfer and retention of meaningful knowledge.
Visit Level 1 of the Library where you can learn more about these centuries-old techniques and view some of the finest illustrated books Special Collections has to offer.
On display during Barr Smith Library opening hours until 27 September 2019 date.
Contact: Ms Cheryl Hoskin, Email: cheryl.hoskin@adelaide.edu.au, Special Collections Librarian, Business: (08) 8313 5224
A Literary Evening with J. M. Coetzee and Ceridwen Dovey
Date/Time: Friday, 23 August 2019, 5:10 pm to 6:40 pm
Location: Braggs Lecture Theatre
Cost: Free
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A reading by Nobel Laureate J.M. Coetzee from "The Glass Abattoir" and by acclaimed author Ceridwen Dovey from Only the Animals.
Presented by the Department of English & Creative Writing and the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide
Time: 5:10pm for 5:30-6:40pm
Venue: The Braggs Lecture Theatre, Braggs Building, North Terrace Campus, The University of Adelaide (accessible from Victoria Drive and North Terrace)
This event is free, but registration is essential via Eventbrite.
Ceridwen Dovey is the acclaimed author of the short story collection Only the Animals (winner of the inaugural Readings New Australian Writing Award) and the novels Blood Kin and In the Garden of the Fugitives. She regularly contributes essays to newyorker.com, WIRED and the Monthly. She wrote On J.M. Coetzee: Writers on Writers as part of Black Inc.'s Writers on Writers series. Born in South Africa, and raised between South Africa and Australia, she now lives in Sydney.
J. M. Coetzee is one of the most celebrated writers in the world today. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2003 and was the first author to win the Booker Prize twice. 'The Glass Abattoir' is included in Siete Cuentos Morales (first published in Spanish translation by El Hilo de Ariadna, Buenos Aires, 2018). Born in South Africa, J.M. Coetzee now lives in Adelaide and is a Professorial Research Fellow of The University of Adelaide.
Contact: Associate Professor Meg Samuelson, Email: meg.samuelson@adelaide.edu.au
