Date: Wednesday, 10th August 2011

Time: 6.00pm drinks for 6.30 lecture start

Location: Room 327 Robert Webster Building

UNSW Kensington Campus

John Hume Institute for Global Studies

Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, The University of New South Wales, Sydney

www.arts.unsw.edu.au/faculty/our-schools/JHIGIS

The Meaning of Missing

Evelyn Conlon will read from her works on how we miss places. The ‘meaning of missing’ suggests missing out in many senses. Often we discuss the ‘diaspora’ we do so as if it is all about regret and loss. But often departure involves relieved escape. Mixing reading and discussion, this talk will concentrate on Evelyn’s writings on distant places, distant from Ireland that is, and will also discuss where fiction adds to history, fiction being a corridor of truth. In looking at how and why she wrote ‘A Glassful of Letters’, this talk will consider the epistolary form as communication from faraway places and, in particular, the role of men in diasporic letter writing.

READINGS: CONTINUOUS FLOW – CATCH A SHORT STORY AND PUT IT IN YOUR POCKET

Evelyn Conlon, Louis de Bernieres, Anna Krien, Mandy Sayer
MC: Dr Phillip Edmonds
Sponsored by Wet ink

Performance Tent

12.15pm – 2.00pm (Sunday, August 7)

Evelyn Conlon will give readings and host workshops as part of Australia’s premier writers’ festival which is held annually at Byron Bay

http://www.byronbaywritersfestival.com.au/v2/index.php?searchword=evelyn%20conlon&searchphrase=all&Itemid=115&option=com_search

Dublin City Libraries – Literature at lunch series

‘Missing the Light’

a reading   and question and answer session with Evelyn Conlon

Friday July 1^st, 1.00 pm

Central Library, Ilac Centre

Henry St., Dublin

Admission free