Asian Australian Stories

Name: Asian Australian Stories
Start: 2019-03-31T14:00:00+08:00
End: 2019-03-31T15:30:00+08:00
Location: Centre for Stories

Join the Asian Australian Studies Research Network for an afternoon of stories and readings with emerging and established local authors, including Rashida Murphy, Elizabeth Tan, Emily Sun, and Robert Wood.

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Mar 31, 2:00 pm - 3:30 pm

Centre for Stories

Join the Asian Australian Studies Research Network for an afternoon of stories and readings. This will be a chance to listen to original, creative work by emerging and established local authors, including Rashida Murphy, Elizabeth Tan, Emily Sun, and Robert Wood. Light refreshments provided.

Robert Wood
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Dr. Robert Wood (BA, B.Econ, Hons, AM, PhD) is interested in community, ideas and language, and the author of five books with an international profile. In 2021, he is one of ten Westpac Social Change Fellows. Robert was an Endeavour Research Fellow at Columbia University from 2017 to 2018 working with Nobel, Booker and Pulitzer Winners. In 2018, he was a Copyright Agency Emerging Critic with Sydney Review of Books, and had a monthly column with the Los Angeles Review of Books from 2017 to 2020. Between 2013 and 2016, he edited for the journals Cordite, Peril, and Overland, and was on the Faculty of The School of Life in Melbourne. Robert is responsible for developing partnerships with artists and social change organisations; planning a program of activities, including writing, publishing and mentoring; quality control of all creative outputs; and implementing best-practice models that improve wellbeing.

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