2005 Events
March 11 - Associate Professor Chris Ackerley, "What's Watt?"
March 18 - Engl480 presentations
April 1 - Dr Thomas McLean, "Nobody's Argument: Jane Porter, Walter Scott, and the Historical Novel"
April 14 - Emeritus Professor Andrew Gurr (University of Redding): "Shakespeare's Auditorium"
April 15 - Dr Simone Drichel, "Of 'Political Bottom Lines' and 'Last Ethical Frontiers': Negotiating Otherness in Aotearoa/New Zealand"
April 22 - Professor Jocelyn Harris, "'An Essay on Writing, a Critique on Walter Scott, or the History of Buonaparte': What was Jane Austen Thinking of?"
May 6 - Emeritus Professor Lawrence Jones, "Janet Frame's Three Worlds: An Introduction"
May 12 - Associate Professor Chadwick Allen (Ohio State University) "Comparative Indigenous Studies"
May 13 - PhD Student Nicola Learmonth, "Divine Glory under Scrutiny in Paradise Regained"
May 20 - Cultural Transformations Network Seminar
May 27 - PhD Student Sandra Muller "Poetry in the Digital Age: Mapping the Connection between Susan Howe and Electronic Poetry"
July 22
Dr Jacob Edmond "Crossing Divides in Postmodern Poetry: Vikram Seth's The Golden Gate and Lyn Hejinian's Oxota."
August 5 - Sounding Culture Colloquium
August 10
William Evans Fellow Professor Bruce Smith (University of Southern California): "The Curtain Between the Theatre and the Globe"
August 12 - Printer in Residence Brendan O'Brien: "Strugglers in the Wilderness" examined the allure of the hand-made, books, presses and printers in New Zealand and elsewhere.
August 19 - Dr Wendy Parkins, Combined English Department/Cultural Transformation session: 'Slow Living: An ethics of time?'
September 5 - Professor Diana Brydon (University Western Ontario), member of research team: Globalisation and Autonomy
September 9 - Postgraduate Students' Open Day
September 14 - Dr Bernard Muir (Reader in Medieval Language and Literature at Melbourne University) 'Poets, Scribes and Anthologists in Anglo-Saxon England: Who's who and what are they up to?'
September 16 - Dr Shef Rogers: "Enlarging the Canon: Additions to the Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature, 1700-1800."
September 23 - Professor John Drummond, Cultural Transformations Research Network, 'Cultural Diversity in Music Education: a Fool's Errand?'
September 30 - Dr Paul Tankard 'The Tenth Muse: E.V. Lucas, A.G. Gardiner and the Fate of the Essayist.'
October 7 - Dr Susannah Radstone (Reader in School of Social Sciences, Cultural and Media Studies at the University of East London): 'Psyche, Time, Culture: Revising Psychoanalytic Film Theory'. She is currently a Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Melbourne.
October 19 - Emeritus Professor Joel Myerson (University of South Carolina): 'Books, Bibliographies, and Whitman' in the Moot Court, on the 10th floor of the Richardson Building at 5:10pm.
December 2-4 - (Trans)figuring Bodies - Cultural Transformations Annual Symposium