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Tracy Ryan’s Launch Speech –
[pdf-embedder url=”https://staging.iamemilysun.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/08/Vociferate-launch-speech.pdf” title=”Vociferate launch speech”] Venue: Planet Books, Northbridge. 8th August 2021. Photograph Courtesy of Rashida Murphy
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Conversations with Marianna Shek
Marianna Shek was one of the writers I approached when I decided to profile writers on (or should the preposition be ‘in’? Do you appear in or on…) this blog because I really wanted to continue the conversation that we started in Melbourne. I was immediately drawn to Marianna’s creative passion and energy. When you read this profile, you’ll find out just how multi-talented Marianna is. We could have easily ended up with a novella-length interview if we’d allowed ourselves, but we decided to leave that for another day. Marianna has no immediate plans to travel to Perth, nor I to Brisbane, so we will have to make do with Skype…
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Asian Australian Studies Research Network (AASRN): Perth Symposium
I had the privilege of presenting Maybe it’s Wanchai? to a group of academics at the “Where’s your Asia?” symposium organised by Nadia Rhook and Denise Woods, the co-conveners of AASRN Perth. The person in the centre image is Denise who shared with us her research on the representations of Asia and Australia in Overwatch, a multiplayer video game. (My son says it a really really popular MMORPG that everyone talks about so I sense that he will be asking Santa for a PS upgrade this Christmas). AASRN was set up by Tseen Khoo over a decade ago and I joined after meeting Tseen through our anonymous blogs — I miss the days of…
