On 2 & 3 December 2014, the Placing the Personal Essay Colloquium will be held at Massey University, Wellington. This event is co-convened by the W.H. Oliver Humanities Research Academy at Massey University, the Centre for Research on Colonial Culture at the University of Otago, and the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies at Victoria University and brings together writers, historians, literary critics, cultural theorists and interested others for a discussion about new ways of writing about place in contemporary New Zealand. Featured participants include: Sally Blundell, Alex Calder, Tim Corballis, Martin Edmond, Ingrid Horrocks, Lynn Jenner, Cherie Lacey, Tina Makereti, Harry Ricketts, Jack Ross, Alice Te Punga Somerville, Giovanni Tiso, and Lydia Wevers as well as two members of CRoCC, Tony Ballantyne and Annabel Cooper.
If you want to know more about the colloquium and how to register, go to the Placing the Personal Essay website by clicking on the highlighted text.
