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Creative Conversations is brought to you by the China Australia Writing Centre, a partnership between Fudan University, Shanghai, and Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia. CAWC is a research and creative partnership that focuses on Australian writing in China, and Chinese writing in Austr…

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    • Dec 7, 2018 LATEST EPISODE
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    • 1h 4m AVG DURATION
    • 4 EPISODES


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    04 Looking Forward/Looking Back: Age

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 7, 2018 65:51


    The final instalment in the Looking Forward/Looking Back series, episode 4 features our very own Liz Byrski, who joins Beth Yahp and Brooke Davis to discuss Age. The panel is chaired by Geraldine Blake. With a rapidly ageing global population, questions of how we age are paramount across cultures. Three women writers of varying ages explore how older characters are represented. Are they represented enough, and is there gender and diversity equity in these representations? And what of older writers themselves; what does it mean to sustain a writing practice over many years?

    03 Looking Forward/Looking Back: Childhood and Youth

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 15, 2018 62:46


    In episode 3, “Youth and Childhood”, Meri Fatin chairs a panel consisting of three authors who write for and about children: Cleverman creator Ryan Griffen, Western Australian YA author Dianne Touchell, and Chinese scifi writer Xia Jia. The panel discuss writing from the perspective of the child; treating child protagonists with the seriousness they deserve, and young audiences with the respect that is their right; what this means from an indigenous perspective; and how trauma can act as the doorway to empathy. The four episodes in this series were recorded in October, 2017, at Creative Conversations: Looking Forward/Looking Back. This public event was held at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia. Over the course of the day four panels discussed problems of positioning, distance and perspective in relation to the past and the future. Proceedings on the day were recorded by David Le May from ABC Radio National. Music by Patrick Liddell and Matthew Liam Nicholson.

    02 Looking Forward/Looking Back: The Past

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 3, 2018 68:06


    In our second episode, presented by Geraldine Blake, Huiyi Bao, Wayne Price and Paul Hetherington discuss “The Past”. The panel discuss childhood and the body as a site of memory; our debts to many pasts, including the medieval, ancient Chinese, and the renaissance; and the past as a rich seam to be mined for inspiration. The four episodes in this series were recorded in October, 2017, at Creative Conversations: Looking Forward/Looking Back. This public event was held at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia. Over the course of the day four panels discussed problems of positioning, distance and perspective in relation to the past and the future. Proceedings on the day were recorded by David Le May from ABC Radio National. Music by Patrick Liddell and Matthew Liam Nicholson.

    01 Looking Forward/Looking Back: The Future

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 24, 2018 61:43


    In this first episode, presented by Meri Fatin, Xia Jia, Elizabeth Tan and Matthew Chrulew discuss “The Future”, focussing on science fiction; the subgenre of porridge scifi; the concept of extinction; the human, nonhuman, and posthuman; and the idea of the future having already arrived. The four episodes in this series were recorded in October, 2017, at Creative Conversations: Looking Forward/Looking Back. This public event was held at the Esplanade Hotel in Fremantle, Western Australia. Over the course of the day four panels discussed problems of positioning, distance and perspective in relation to the past and the future. Proceedings on the day were recorded by David Le May from ABC Radio National. Music by Patrick Liddell and Matthew Liam Nicholson.

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