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DESCRIPTION:<p style="margin-right: 0cm\; margin-left: 0cm\; font-size: 12p
 t\; font-family: "><span style="font-size: 14pt\; font-family: ">Hear Aust
 ralian Nikkei novelist <a href="http://www.christinepiper.com/" style="col
 or: #0563c1\;">Christine Piper</a> talk about her writing process\, how sh
 e wrote her novel for a PhD program and the literary techniques she used.
  \n\n<p style="margin-right: 0cm\; margin-left: 0cm\; font-size: 12pt\; f
 ont-family: "><span style="font-size: 14pt\; font-family: ">Her novel\, "<
 a href="https://www.amazon.com/After-Darkness/dp/1760113115/" style="color
 : #0563c1\;">After Darkness</a>"\, won the 2014 Vogel's Literary Award and
  was shortlisted for the Miles Franklin Literary Award. The Japanese trans
 lation (<span style="font-size: 14pt\; font-family: "><a href="https://www
 .kadensha.net/book/b10033487.html" style="color: #0563c1\;"><span style="f
 ont-family: ">暗闇の後で</a><span style="font-size: 14pt\; font-famil
 y: ">) came out last year (Kadensha\, 2023). \n<p style="margin-right: 0c
 m\; margin-left: 0cm\; font-size: 12pt\; font-family: "><span style="font-
 size: 13pt\; font-family: "><span style="font-family: Helvetica\; font-siz
 e: 10.6px\;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica\; font-size: 10.6px\;"><s
 pan style="font-family: Helvetica\; font-size: 10.6px\;"><span style="font
 -family: Helvetica\; font-size: 10.6px\;"><span style="font-family: Helvet
 ica\; font-size: 10.6px\;"><span style="font-size: 14pt\; font-family: "><
 span style="font-family: Helvetica\; font-size: 10.6px\;"><span style="fon
 t-family: Helvetica\; font-size: 10.6px\;"><span style="font-family: Helve
 tica\; font-size: 10.6px\;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica\; font-siz
 e: 10.6px\;"><span style="font-size: 14pt\; font-family: ">Synopsis: It is
  early 1942 and Australia is in the midst of war. While working at a Japan
 ese hospital in the pearling port of Broome\, <span style="font-family: H
 elvetica\; font-size: 10.6px\;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica\; font
 -size: 10.6px\;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica\; font-size: 10.6px\;
 "><span style="font-family: Helvetica\; font-size: 10.6px\;"><span style="
 font-size: 16pt\; font-family: ">Dr Ibaraki is arrested as an enemy alien 
 and sent to Loveday internment camp in a remote corner of South Australia.
  There\, he learns to live among a disparate group of men divided by cultu
 re and allegiance. As tensions at the isolated camp escalate\, the doctor'
 s long-held beliefs are thrown into question and he is forced to confront 
 his dark past: the promise he made in Japan and its devastating consequenc
 es.\n\n<p style="margin: 0cm\; font-size: 12pt\; font-family: Calibri\, sa
 ns-serif\;"> \n\n<p style="margin: 0cm\; font-size: 12pt\; font-family: C
 alibri\, sans-serif\;"><strong><span style="font-size: 13pt\; font-family:
  ">Monday 19 August </strong><span style="font-size: 13pt\; font-family: "
 >2024\, <strong>14:00-15:30</strong> (English with Japanese translation\, 
 scheduled to be delivered by Zoom)\n<p style="margin: 0cm\; font-size: 12p
 t\; font-family: Calibri\, sans-serif\;"><strong><span style="font-size: 1
 3pt\; font-family: ">Venue: Meisei University</strong><span style="font-si
 ze: 13pt\; font-family: "> in Tokyo. Bldg No. 28\, Presentation Room 100-3
  (opposite the 1st floor entrance of the Library) <span style="font-size: 
 13pt\; font-family: ">〒<span style="font-size: 13pt\; font-family: ">191
 -8506 2-1-1\, Hodokubo\, Hinoshi\, Tokyo\n\n<p style="margin-right: 0cm\; 
 margin-left: 0cm\; font-size: 12pt\; font-family: "><strong><span style="f
 ont-size: 13pt\; font-family: ">Access:</strong><span style="font-size: 13
 pt\; font-family: "> <a href="https://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html"
  style="color: #0563c1\;">https://www.meisei-u.ac.jp/access/hino.html</a>\
 n\n<p style="margin: 0cm\; font-size: 12pt\; font-family: "><span style="f
 ont-size: 13pt\; font-family: ">Registration and Enquiries<span style="fon
 t-size: 13pt\; font-family: ">：\n\n<p style="margin: 0cm\; font-size: 12
 pt\; font-family: "><span style="font-size: 13pt\; font-family: "><a href=
 "https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TQ0o449hKsMN50iWLvo8BE21gtNa1Rd_e4SF-sk3
 H8E/edit" style="color: #0563c1\;">https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1TQ0o44
 9hKsMN50iWLvo8BE21gtNa1Rd_e4SF-sk3H8E/edit</a>\n\n<p style="margin: 0cm\; 
 font-size: 12pt\; font-family: "><span style="font-size: 13pt\; font-famil
 y: ">Hosted by the Australia/New Zealand Literary Society of Japan.\nOrgan
 ised by Megumi KATO\, Meisei University\, <a href="mailto:kato@sw.meisei-u
 .ac.jp" style="color: #0563c1\;">kato@sw.meisei-u.ac.jp</a>\n\n<p style="m
 argin: 0cm\; font-size: 12pt\; font-family: "><span style="font-size: 13pt
 \; font-family: "> \n\n<p style="margin: 0cm\; font-size: 12pt\; font-fam
 ily: Calibri\, sans-serif\;"><span style="font-size: 13pt\; font-family: "
 >More info: <span style="font-size: 13pt\; font-family: "><a href="https:/
 /bit.ly/4dcY8NR?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR0ccrG79_d-Sc5jKznQPTHU6TPaqhVcG
 rmKH0-bjpFihIC28ipE6rn-ZEc_aem_577X5MZTM6ThcQ4fYR0yEQ" style="color: #0563
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 ial\; background-origin: initial\; background-clip: initial\;">https://bit
 .ly/4dcY8NR</a>\n\n
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SUMMARY:Free lecture: Silence and Memory in "After Darkness"
URL:/en/events/2024/08/19/free-lecture-silence-and-memory-in-after-darknes/
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