ERCC Public Lecture by Professor Alexis Wright

'The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times', Tuesday 11 August 2020

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The ERCC is delighted to invite you to an upcoming public lecture with Professor Alexis Wright (Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature, SCC) -

'The Inward Migration in Apocalyptic Times'

The world will always need its dreamers, and we all have the capacity to dream, but the storytellers and writers will need to dream big, and have a far greater storehouse in the mind for creating the imaginative thinking necessary to respond to the massive changes of a rapidly changing world.

Date and time: Tuesday 11 August 2020, 1:00-2:00PM AEST

Registration: The lecture will take place via Zoom webinar software. To register your attendance, please click here. All are welcome to join, however registrations are capped at 500 people.

Alexis Wright is a member of the Waanyi nation of the southern highlands of the Gulf of Carpentaria. The author of the prize-winning novels Carpentaria and The Swan Book, Wright has published three works of non-fiction: Take Power, an oral history of the Central Land Council; Grog War, a study of alcohol abuse in the Northern Territory; and Tracker, an award-winning collective memoir of Aboriginal leader, Tracker Tilmouth. Her books have been published widely overseas, including in China, the US, the UK, Italy, France and Poland. She holds the position as the Boisbouvier Chair in Australian Literature at the University of Melbourne. Wright is the only author to win both the Miles Franklin Award (in 2007 for Carpentaria) and the Stella Prize (in 2018 for Tracker).

This public lecture is presented by the "Critique, Creativity, Innovation" Research Group in the ERCC.

More Information

ER-CC@unimelb.edu.au

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