Murdoch University
PAST PAPERS
2002
6 November: Niall Lucy, On Deconstruction
13 November: Vijay Mishra, ‘Trauma Theory, Memory, Diaspora’
2003
14 February: Brij Lal and Satendra Nandan, ‘Writing Diaspora’
26 February: Bob Hodge, ‘Chaos Theory and the Multicultural World’
9 May: Kay Schaffer and Sidonie Smith,
'Land of the Free?” Circulating Human Rights and narrated Lives in the United States’
13 August: Marcella Polain, ‘The Third Collision: The Armenian Genocide and After’
27August: Frederico Zullo, ‘Nation and Narration: Postcolonial India in the works of Amitav Ghosh’
28 August: Nicholas Grene, ‘The Irish Theatrical Diaspora’
18 November: Jenny de Reuck, ‘Reflections on a Nobel Laureate: J M Coetzee’
27 November: Horst Ruthrof, ‘Kulture Kills’
2004
25 March: Alan Rubinow,
‘Personal Reflections of a Wandering South African Jewish Doctor and Ethicist’
27 May: Don Randall, ?Cross-Cultural Performance in David Malouf?s Remembering Babylon?
June 17: Rachel Dwyer, ‘Bollywood Cinema’
30 September: Mark Poster, ‘Postcolonial Theory and Global Media’
21 October: Nilanjana Deb,
?Re-rooted/Re-routed: Indigenous and Forced Migrant Populations in Conflict?
2005
4 March: Horst Ruthrof, ‘The Deep Fears of Osama bin Laden’
14 April: Hilary Radner ‘The ethics of discipline: embodying woman in contemporary popular culture or Jane Fonda meets Michel Foucault’
19 May: Suvendi Perera, ‘The Australian Solution? Mapping a New Politics of Space in the War on Terror’
3 June: Horst Ruthrof, ‘Modernity: the Splitting of Reason’
27 July: Roger Sell, ‘Scholarly mediation between cultures past and present’
17 August: Felicity Hand, ‘The Random Currents of Our Time: History and memory in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Recent Fiction’
21 November: Alex Main and Vijay Mishra, ‘William McGonagall poet and tragedian’
21 September: Martina Muller, 'Paris/Prague'
2006
16 March: Colloquium on Multiculturalism
5 April: John Mateer, ‘I am your diaspora: contemporary poetics’
1 May: Michael Best, ‘Bi-fold Authority”: the electronic recreation of Shakespeare’
1 June: Stan van Hooft, 'Cosmopolitanism as virtue’
26 July: Brian de Garis, ‘My Life in History’
23 October: Deborah Robertson: ‘On Writing Careless’
31 October: Helena Grehan, ‘Critical ambiguity and performance theory’
14 November: Matthew Jameson, ‘The uses of terror: politics and fantasy in Thomas Ligotti’s “Our Temporary Supervisor”'
2007
6 March: Book Launch – Simone Lazaroo and Vijay Mishra.
12 March: Martina Ghosh-Schellhorn, ‘Political Autobiography in a Transnational World’
19 March: Cathleen Maslen, ‘“Shine bright as you die”: Narcissism, melancholia and dead mothers in Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea.’
21 March: Kunal Basu, ‘The writer and his world(s)’
27 March: Matt Porter, ‘Climate change – an inconvenient truth'
