Tue 19 Jan 2010
Workshop for postgraduate students and interested members of the public hosted by the English Department at the Free University of Berlin and The Ludwig Hirschfeld-Mack Chair of Interdisciplinary Australian Studies at the Free University of Berlin to inaugurate a joint PhD programme between the Free University of Berlin and the University of Western Australia:
“Australian Literature Local and Global”
Wednesday 17 February 2010 – 10:00-15:00, at the Free University of Berlin, “Rostlaube”-Complex, Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin-Dahlem, Seminar Centre Room L 116
Prof. Russell West-Pavlov (Professor of Postcolonial Literatures, Free University of Berlin)
10:15 Keynote address:
Prof. Nicholas Birns (Professor of English Literature, New School, New York)
“Trans-Pacific Crossings: Australian Literature from a North American Perspective”
11:15 Coffee break
11:45 Discussion paper 1:
Prof. Philip Mead (Chair of Australian Literature, University of Western Australia)
“The Critical World: Recent Work in Transnational Literary Studies”
12:30 Lunch break
13:30 Discussion paper 2:
Prof. Russell West-Pavlov
“National Literature – Translation beyond National Borders”
14:30 Concluding discussion
No registration fees!
If you wish to attend, please register with Mrs M. Bonifacio-Migas: maria.bonifacio-migas@fu-berlin.de