University of Adelaide, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide is running an interdisciplinary creative winter school on the theme of creating out of Country. The school is five nights and four full days and is set in the historic Oratunga sheep station on the traditional lands of the Adnyamathanha people. Led by eminent ficto-critical writer and anthropologist Jury Professor Stephen ...
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The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice at the University of Adelaide is running an interdisciplinary creative winter school on the theme of creating out of Country. The school is five nights and four full days and is set in the historic Oratunga sheep station on the traditional lands of the Adnyamathanha people. Led by eminent ficto-critical writer and anthropologist Jury Professor Stephen ...
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With support from GALA, I had the wonderful opportunity to travel to Adelaide University to present a paper at the interdisciplinary conference ‘H20: Life & Death’ (14-16 Sep) organized by thefor Creative Practice, and part of GALA’s Lost Water series. My paper, ‘Flooding the Bathtub: The Politics of Invisibility and Community Resilience in Behn Zeitlin’s Beasts of the Southern Wild (2012)’, w...
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J.M.Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice The University of Adelaide, 14-16 September ‘Lost Waters’ was proposed as a key theme when GALA was established. Professor Claudia Egerer from the University of Stockholm was one of the key members of the early group. Her keynote at ‘H2O: Life and Death’ was entitled ‘Imaginings of Water – Lost Water and the Entanglement of the Living’. In a masterly analy...
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This year the J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is excited to announce a new venture: a winter school on the theme of creating out of place, led by eminent artist and spatial theorist Paul Carter and set in the historic Oratunga Cattle Station, South Australia, on the traditional lands of the Adnyamathanha people. Distinguished artists (and members of the JMCCCP) will give workshops, resul...
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H2O Life and Death 15 & 16 September, 2017 (Australia) Call for Submissions Waters are contested entities that are currently at the centre of most scientific discussions about sustainability. Discourse around water management underlines both the serious absence and devastating overabundance of water: rising sea levels compete against desertification; hurricanes and floods follow periods of pro...
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University of Adelaide, JM Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice subjects/ specialisms for shared teaching: The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice is a research centre and hub for the arts without borders. Cross-disciplinary in its outreach and project driven in its rationale, the centre investigates new syntheses across traditional borders as art forms evolve. Its main areas of research s...
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In April, Professor Ian Gadd was invited to participate in two public Shakespeare talks at the National Library of Australia and the University of Adelaide. He was asked to respond to a lecture by Emeritus Professor Ian Donaldson (his former undergraduate tutor) on ‘The Death of Shakespeare’. Professor Gadd also delivered a lecture on ‘Shakespeare and copyright’ at the University of ...
Read More »Where inspiration, ideas and invention come together. Background Before the printed book and before musical recordings, literature – whether prose, poetry or drama – was performed in conjunction with music. Over the centuries, innovations in technique created boundaries that gradually separated the two art forms from one another. The J.M. Coetzee Centre for Creative Practice (JMCCCP)...
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