Thursday 13th–Friday 14th January 2011

A symposium hosted by Australian Literature at the University of Sydney

In what ways do writing and reading generate forms of community in Australia? What roles might literature and the literary have in the formation of both publics and counterpublics? This symposium explores a variety of collective relationships among writers, readers and texts, with an emphasis on processes of literary sociability that elide or exceed the ‘imagined community’ of the nation.

Click here for more information and a pdf version of the call for papers.