The conference takes place on, and discusses the theft of, Aboriginal lands in the places now known as New South Wales and Victoria. The convenor acknowledges the traditional owners of these lands, and expresses respect for their elders past, present and emerging.

The conference is supported by the English and Theatre Studies Program at the University of Melbourne, through the Cristensen Fund.

Abstracts

• Tom Ford, Harpur in the squatting age of Australian poetry

  Oct 29, '25

• Rachael Weaver, An Embarrassment of Species: Charles Harpur and How to Sing Australia’s Native Birds.

  Oct 29, '25

• Michael Farrell, ‘The world’s heart is kindless and grey and unholy’

  Oct 29, '25

• Ken Gelder, Charles Harpur and the (Satirical, Political) Sonnet

  Oct 29, '25

• Jonathan Dunk, Payable Dirt: The Use of Graves in Settler-Colonial Poetics

  Oct 29, '25