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SUMMARY:Free Seminar and Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Why did Hydra become an unlikely precursor to the massive social and cultural upheaval of the 1960s?\n\nJoin LOGOS Centre at Flinders University for the book launch of “The World of Half the Perfect World” and seminar exploring this very topic.\n\nWritten by Adjunct Associate Professor Paul Genoni and Associate Professor Tanya Dalziell\, “The World of Half the Perfect World” will be available to purchase on the evening for the special price of $24 (RRP $39.95). Card payments only no cash. Read the review here: https://www.smh.com.au/…/half-the-perfect-world-review…\n\nPaul Genoni is an Adjunct Associate Professor with the School of Media\, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry at Curtin University. He has an academic background in Information Science and Australian Literature. He is a former President of the Association for the Study of Australian literature\, and with Susan Sheridan is the co-editor of Thea Astley’s Fictional Worlds (2006)\, and with Tanya Dalziell co-edited Telling Stories: Australian Life and Literature\, 1935-2012 (2013). With Tanya Dalziell he also co-authored Half the Perfect World: Writers\, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra\, 1955-1964 (2018).\n\nTanya Dalziell is an Associate Professor with the Discipline of English and Cultural Studies at The University of Western Australian. She is the author of Settler Romances and the Australian Girl (2004)\, and with Karen Welberry co-editor of Cultural Seeds: Essays on the Work of Nick Cave (2009). Together with Paul Genoni she is the co-author of Half the Perfect World: Writers\, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra\, 1955-1964 (2018).\nThe book Half the Perfect World: Writers\, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra\, 1955-1964 (2018)\, provides a social history of the expatriate colony of writers and artists that formed on the Aegean island of Hydra in the 1950s and ‘60s.\n\nAt the centre of this ‘colony’ were Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston\, who lived on the island for nearly a decade between 1955 and 1964\, after having previously spent nearly a year of the island of Kalymnos. Hydra emerged as a point of geographical desire for a rich and complex gathering of earnest artists\, shiftless beats\, and short-stay tourists\, who found on this seemingly remote island an ideal place on which to play-out fantasies of island living and mid-century bohemianism. Hydra provided for participants an experience that Canadian poet\, novelist\, songwriter and balladeer Leonard Cohen described as ‘Half the Perfect World’.\n\n“The World of Half the Perfect World” seminar will explore the questions of why Hydra\, why at this moment\, and why these particular people? It takes more than the promise of living cheaply in the sun\, or having extra time to write and paint to draw people from around the globe and entice them to embed themselves in a foreign culture and language. Hydra\, however\, was a very particular island\, and the post-war years a very particular time in the development of Greece\, and Europe more widely. For a short period of time\, the world came unexpectedly to Hydra\, and in turn Hydra became an unlikely precursor to the massive social and cultural upheaval of the 1960s.\n\nPlease contact layla.plummer@flinders.edu.au for further information.
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