About the Convention
Literary Capitals explores how literature interacts with the places where it is created, circulated, and experienced. From cities and frontier towns to Indigenous Country and regional communities, literature offers powerful ways to understand how places are imagined, represented, and transformed. The convention will consider literary capitals not simply as geographical or political centres, but as dynamic cultural spaces where stories, languages, identities, histories and ideas intersect.
Held in Darwin/Garramilla, a place shaped by diverse Indigenous, regional and global connections, the convention provides an opportunity to consider literature beyond conventional metropolitan centres and to examine the literary significance of regional, frontier, Indigenous and globally connected places.
The program welcomes diverse approaches to literary studies and encourages conversations across literature, culture, place, history, environment, language and society.
Theme:
Literary Capitals
Location:
Darwin/Garramilla, Northern Territory, Australia
Venue:
Charles Darwin University, Waterfront Campus
Key Dates
Burdilla 2021 - Image courtesy and © Gary Lee
Acknowledgement of country
We acknowledge the Larrakia People, the Traditional Custodians of the land and waters of Garramilla/Darwin. We pay our respects to Elders past and present and acknowledge the continuing connection of Larrakia people to Country, culture, knowledge and community.
We extend our respects to all First Nations peoples and recognise their enduring contribution to the cultural, intellectual and creative life of this place.
Sponsors and Collaborators
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