Drusilla Modjeska
Perhaps I’m just being fashionably late, but I’ve just read Drusilla Modjeska’s 2013 Seymour Biography Lecture and it’s brilliant. Modjeska ponders her “defection from that borderline ground between the biographical and the fictive, my journey through the check-points into the land of the novel.” Her lecture takes us to the highlands of Papua New Guinea…
2014 Seymour Lecture with Ray Monk
Distinguished biographer Ray Monk will deliver the 2014 Seymour Lecture on the legitimate role – and limitations – of biography in understanding philosophers and scientists. These are free events, in association with the National Library of Australia and Melbourne Conversations. More info here. Friday, 19 September (6 pm) Bookings: nla.gov.au/bookings or (02) 6262 1271 Theatre,…