04 November 2022
On Thursday 17 November, the University of South Australia’s Creative People, Products and Places Research Centre (CP3) will host the fifth event in the Writing, Gender and the Natural World speaker series, featuring Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic, Associate Professor Jeanine Leane.
Supported by the Copyright Agency, this Auslan-interpreted series features female and non-binary writers speaking about the importance of our environment at a time of climate and extinction crises, and Assoc Prof Leane will examine how this subject relates to writing about Country.
“Blak women are prolific writers in the growing and flourishing canon of First Nations writing, and this discussion will explore some of the ways we write to and of and about Country,” Assoc Prof Leane says.
“How is writing Country different to writing nature? What is the difference between writing Country and environment? The writings of First Nations women from many different Countries will be centred in this discussion.”
Assoc Prof Leane teaches Creative Writing and Aboriginal Literature at the University of Melbourne, and her work has been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Overland and the Sydney Review of Books.
She was the recipient of the University of Canberra Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Poetry Prize, has won the Oodgeroo Noonucal Prize for Poetry twice, and was the 2019 recipient of the Red Room Poetry Fellowship for her project ‘Voicing the Unsettled Space: Rewriting the Colonial Mythscape’.
Writing, Gender and the Natural World is curated by UniSA Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing and Literature Dr Jessica White. Previous events have featured writers including Jane Rawson, Eileen Chong, and Jennifer Mills.
A recording of Jennifer Mills’ presentation, Unnatural Being, can be viewed here.
Writing Country featuring Associate Professor Jeanine Leane
When: Thursday 17 November, 6.30pm to 8.30pm – drinks served from 6.30pm, light supper 7.45pm
Where: University of South Australia, Whyalla Campus, Innovation and Collaboration Centre (entrance near Mint Café), 111 Nicolson Avenue, Whyalla Norrie; or via Zoom
Whether attending in person or via Zoom, please reserve your ticket for Writing Country here.
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Media contact: Dan Lander M: +61 408 882 809 E: dan.lander@unisa.edu.au
