PRS Australia PhD Examination - Leanne Hall (School of Media and Communication - RMIT University)

Join us for the PhD examination of School of Media and Communication candidate, Leanne Hall.

9:30am - 11:30am, Monday, 20 October

What Can a Fiction Writer Do with Chinese Australian-Shaped Gaps in the Archive?

Leanne’s work uses the writing of her first historical novel and an accompanying critical dissertation to practically and reflexively seek to understand the ways that a Chinese Australian past can be known and reconstructed in fiction, using the presences and absences of the archive as a generative guide.

Her research recasts a fiction writer as a collector, curator, policymaker and archon – the identifier, the classifier, the interpreter, the one who gathers together signs into a unified body (Derrida 1995:3).

These acts include the creation of multiple and intersecting ‘imaginary archives’ of the Chinese Australian experience that contain official records and other unofficial sources such as memory, lived experience, family anecdotes and affective responses to records.

Please note no entry will be permitted after commencement of this examination. Please aim to arrive at least 15 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. 

RMIT Design Hub Gallery
Building 100, Level 2, Project Room 2
Corner Victoria & Swanston St, Carlton, Victoria, 3053

Access
This exam will be recorded, but not live-streamed.
The Level 2 Project Spaces are accessible via lifts from the street entry located at the corner of Victoria & Swanston Streets.