The Symposium

The antiTHESIS Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Symposium takes place each July and provides a forum for graduate students in the humanities and social sciences to present their work to a public audience alongside established and well-respected academic keynote speakers.

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The 2011 Symposium was held on Friday 29 July 2011 at the University of Melbourne’s Graduate Centre.

Keynote Speakers for 2011 were:

Toni Jordan, author of the international best-seller Addition (2008) and Fall Girl (2010), who made the transformation from ‘science nerd’ to novelist after moving from Brisbane to Melbourne. She has worked as a research assistant, molecular biologist, quality control chemist, door-to-door aluminium siding saleswoman, marketing manager, shop assistant and copywriter. Toni’s articles have appeared in The Sunday Age, The Sun-Herald and The Monthly, and she also teaches creative writing.

Emmett Stinson, American-born author of the collection of short stories Known Unknowns (2010), and recipient of The Age Short Story Award in 2005 and a Lannan Poetry Fellowship. He is a Lecturer in Publishing and Communications at the University of Melbourne; President of SPUNC; Fiction Editor for Wet Ink. His essays, reviews, and fiction have been published in The Age, The Australian, The Big Issue, Kill Your Darlings, Meanjin, The Monthly, Overland and The Sleepers Almanac.

Other presenters were Corinna Verity Box, Joshua Comyn, Zoe Antony, Thomas Sutherland, Shirlaine Tse, Enqi Weng, Stuart Richards, Daniel Golding, Helen Hughes, Andrew Campbell, Ben Glasson, Nadiya Chushak and Olivia Monaghan.

We thank all presenters and attendees for supporting this hugely successful event and encourage you to join us next year for the 2012 Symposium event.