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X-WR-CALNAME:A Talk By Dr. Merlinda Bobis (Australian National University) 
 - “Speculating: That Intelligent Wonderment”
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DESCRIPTION:Title: “Speculating: That Intelligent Wonderment”\n\n \n\nA
 bstract: \n\nDr. Merlinda Bobis is an award-winning trilingual Filipino-Au
 stralian writer\, performance maker\, and scholar. Her creative and critic
 al works explore issues on gender\, environment\, migration\, borders\, me
 mory\, language\, ethics and care\, and decoloniality. She published 4 nov
 els\, 6 poetry books\, 2 collections of short stories\, a monograph of lec
 tures on creative research and had 10 dramatic works performed internation
 ally\, some by the author herself. Her new novel on trees will come out la
 ter this year. Influenced by Philippine ways of ‘feeling-thinking-doing
 ’\, her scholarly articles emerge from grassroots theorising and creativ
 e-critical empathy. She developed and facilitated community arts and advoc
 acy projects on environment\, resilience of women and girls\, migration an
 d language\, and cross-cultural engagement. Composing songs is her latest 
 creative preoccupation. She is currently Honorary Senior Lecturer at The A
 ustralian National University. Among her literary awards are the 2021 Canb
 erra Critics’ Circle Award for her collection of short stories The Kindn
 ess of Birds\, which in 2022 was also shortlisted for the Christina Stead 
 Prize for Fiction in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards and t
 he Queensland Literary Awards\; the 2016 Christina Stead Prize for Fiction
  for her novel Locust Girl. A Lovesong\; and three Philippine National Boo
 k Awards (2016: Locust Girl\, 2014: Fish-Hair Woman\, 2000: White Turtle).
  She also received recognition for her poetry\, among them the Philippines
 ’ Carlos Palanca Memorial Awards in Literature and shortlistings in majo
 r Australian awards. Her play Rita’s Lullaby won the 1998 Prix Italia\, 
 1998 Australian Writers’ Guild Award\, and 1995 Ian Reed Radio Drama Pri
 ze.\n\n \n\nThis talk is co-sponsored by UCR’s Department of English\, S
 peculative Fictions and Cultures of Science Program\, Southeast Asia: Text
 \, Ritual\, and Performance Program\, in partnership with the American Ass
 ociation of Australasian Literary Studies (AAALS).
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SUMMARY:A Talk By Dr. Merlinda Bobis (Australian National University) - “
 Speculating: That Intelligent Wonderment”
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