A writer’s work is inevitably—at least to some degree—anchored in its own time and space. And yet some writing also transcends those temporal and geographical connections in important ways: opening up questions that refuse easy answers, these works stay hauntingly relevant long after they were first published, and well beyond their particular geographical locale.

Janet Frame, as a writer of immense creative capability, paired with formidable intellectual curiosity and social awareness, has endowed us with such “transcendent” writing; indeed, she has given us a body of work whose probing questions we have barely begun to unpack with the full attention, and respect, that they deserve.

To celebrate Frame’s extraordinary legacy and mark the centenary of Frame’s birth in Dunedin, the University of Otago English and Linguistics Programme invites you to participate in a free one-day symposium that teases out some of the enduring questions raised by her work.

Places are limited, so please only register if you definitely plan to attend. The symposium will take place in the Barclay Theatre

Time		Speaker
9.00-9.20		Meet and greet
9:20-9:30		Welcome and introductory remarks: Lynley Edmeades & Simone Drichel
9:30-9:45	Writer 1	Sue Wootton
9:45-10:00		Clare Bogen (Fitzcarraldo) Publishing The Edge of the Alphabet
10:00-10:30		Emma Parker “Janet Frame’s Coastal Gothic: Reclaimed Land and Unsettling Seas in The Rainbirds and A State of Siege”
10:30-11:00		BREAK
11:00-11:15	Writer 2	Emma Neale
11:15-11:45		Kate Duignan "The heart accomplishing its own private growth: What Janet Frame may offer creative writers now"
11:45-12:15		Simone Drichel “Janet Frame and the Pursuit of Non-Violence”
12:15-1:00		BREAK
1.00-1:15	Writer 3	Mikaela Nyman
1:15-1:45		Craig Cliff “Living through an Outline: Janet Frame, Rachel Cusk and Autho-fictions”
1:45-2:15		Isla Thomas “Exploring Janet Frame's Temporospatial Dynamics in Living in the Maniototo”
2:15-2:45		BREAK
2:45-2:50	Writer 4	Lyndsey Knight: “Two Poems”
2:50-3:15		Etel Frota “Unveiling Janet Frame in Brazil”
3:15–3:45		Jing-Bao Nie “Fear, the Human Condition, and Emotional Care: Reading Janet Frame through a Lens of Confucian Ethics.”
3.45-4.15		Nicholas Wright & Andrew Dean Editing Special Issue “Janet Frame” for Journal of Commonwealth Literature
4.15-4.30		Short break – transit to campus for Dalziel Lecture
4:30-6:00		Margaret Dalziel Lecture – Dr. Jennifer Lawn: “The Art of Longing in Janet Frame’s Fiction” University of Otago Campus Arts/Burns Building, Lecture Theatre 2