CFP - Celebration for Dennis Haskell: Creative Writing and Its Contexts 17-18 February, 2011 U of Western Australia, Perth [23.07.2010]
CFP – Celebration for Dennis Haskell: Creative Writing and Its Contexts
17-18 February, 2011
University of Western Australia, Perth
In anticipation of AASRN member Dennis Haskell’s retirement from UWA, which he’s planning mid-2011, the Westerly Centre together with the Association for the Study of Australian Literature is planning a one-and-a-half day symposium to recognise the major contribution Dennis has made to the many areas in which he has worked and to which he continues to make a difference. Preliminary details are below.
We are hoping that many of Dennis’s friends, colleagues, fellow writers and many of those he’s had contact with over the years will be able to join us for readings, lively discussion and general celebration at a symposium.
If you wish to register your interest in this event, please let us know, and we will keep you in touch as our planning progresses.
With best wishes
Delys Bird, Kieran Dolin and Philip Mead at the Westerly Centre, UWA.
Please reply to:
Megan O'Connor at the Westerly Centre
megan.oconnor@ uwa.edu.au
Research/Administra tive Officer (Mon to Thurs)
Westerly Centre
Phone 6488 2063
Fax 6488 1030
Further Information:
http://www.westerly centre.uwa. edu.au/
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) and the Westerly Centre are to honour the work of Winthrop Professor Dennis Haskell with a symposium entitled Creative Writing and its Contexts.
Professor Haskell is a distinguished poet, editor, scholar and administrator.
His work has been directed to the promotion of literature in The University and schools, and in a variety of public forums and media in Australia and overseas.
Creative writing and its contexts is an opportunity to discuss the place of literature in contemporary culture, the institutions that support creative writing and reading, the relationships between Australian literature and other national literatures, particularly Asian.
ASAL and the Westerly Centre anticipate a symposium of lively debate, creative energy and humour. If you would like to contribute or attend please let us know.
The contributions can cover any of the areas in which Professor Haskell has worked, including:
* Creative writing and the study of literature
* Australian and Asian literary interactions
* The role of institutional support for writers and writing
* Literary and scholarly publishing
* The place of the humanities in the modern university
* The writing and reading of poetry
* Teaching creative writing