2009 Research Seminars
Semester 2 2009
3–5 pm Wednesdays
Room W710 (ECPS Library), Menzies Building
Monash University, Clayton Campus
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Wednesday 22 July
Four or five words in Derrida
Kevin Hart
Wednesday 5 August
The return journey: rasa and the aesthetics of desire in Michael Ondaatje’s poetry and fiction
Chandani Lokuge
Wednesday 19 August
On the limits of virtue and duty: Kant and the question of friendship
Blair McDonald
Wednesday 26 August
The writer as genealogist: the realist poetics of Dostoevsky and Flaubert
Millicent Vladiv-Glover
Wednesday 9 September
Compelling fictions: Spinoza and George Eliot on belief and faith
Moira Gatens
Wednesday 16 September
From Flaubert to the fantastique: science fiction and the literary field
Andrew Milner
Wednesday 23 September
Metaphorology: a beginner’s guide
Robert Savage
Wednesday 14 October
Literature and globalization: some thoughts on translation and the transnational
David Roberts
Semester 1 2009
3–5 pm Wednesdays
Room W710 (ECPS Library), Menzies Building
Monash University, Clayton Campus.
Wednesday 27 May
Something’s Missing: John Banville’s Wary Aestheticism
Matthew Ryan
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Wednesday 13 May
Future Narrative: Interactivity, Computer Games and the Authorship of Fantasy
Chris Worth
Wednesday 22 April
Certitude and Linguistic Play in Chinese Critical Inquiry
Gloria Davies
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Wednesday 8 April
‘Come Forth Into the Light of Things’: Material Spirit and Negative Ecopoetics
Kate Rigby
Wednesday 18 March
Eternal Feasting in the Halls of Immortality: Western Light and Ecocide
Geoff Berry
Wednesday 4 March
Changing the Climate: the Politics of Dystopia
Andrew Milner
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