AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE (La Trobe University, 27 September 2004)

 

AUSTRALIAN PERSPECTIVES: AN INTERDISCIPLINARY POSTGRADUATE CONFERENCE

27 September 2004

 

Listed below is the program for the Australian Perspectives conference. Parallel sessions will be held. Click on the name of the presenter to read a full abstract of her/his paper.

8.30-8.55am - Registration

9-9.10am - Welcome - Professor Roger Wales, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

9.10-9.40am - Opening Keynote Presentation
'Australia: A View from the Turkish Bath' - Dr Susan Aykut, Deputy Director, Institute for Public History, Monash University

9.45-11.15am - Session One (parallel sessions)

1. Australia and the Asia-Pacific
2. Living on the Margins
Jose Wendell P. Capili
Title: Sadness from the Tropics: Mediating Southeast Asia and Australia in the Poetry of Adam Aitken and Merlinda Bobis

Penny Peckham
Title: One Artist's Investigation of Australia's Place Within the Pacific Region: Vivienne Binns' Pacific Works

Som Sengmany
Title: From Object to Subject: Positioning the Asian in Asian-Australian Studies

Lennart Jacobson
Title: Housing Commission Flats in Melbourne film


Jacqueline Wilson
Title: Doing Time with the Bat Nazis: Racist and Political Extremist Graffiti in Australian Prisons, 1970s to 1990s

Rikki Wilde
Title: Queer Death in Australia

11.15-11.40am - Morning Tea (Provided)

11.45am-1.15pm - Session Two (parallel sessions)

3. Australia and Beyond
4. Narratives of Nation

Kate MacNeill
Title: Arguing Cultural Rights: The Free Trade Agreement

Katrina Stats
Title: Reading Europe: Representations of the European Union in the Australian Media

Kristy Yeats
Title: The Australian New Left and the Vietnam War: lessons for Iraq?

Georgie Arnott
Title: Poem, Nation, Anthology: An Australian Narrative

Richard Manning
Title: Teaching about Indigenous Peoples' Histories in New Zealand and Australian Secondary Schools

Tiffany Shellam
Title: First Encounters: King George's Sound

1.15-1.55pm - Lunch (Provided

2-3.30pm - Session Three (parallel sessions)

5. Evolving Feminisms
6. Land and Identity

Meredith Fraser
Title: A Feminist Theoretical Analysis of White Pentecostal Australian Women and Marital Abuse

Lauren O'Mahony
Title: The Contemporary Urban Romance Down Under: Comparative Perspectives on Australian Chick Lit

Anne-Marie Tokley
Title: Ella Norman vs Phoebe Marsden: Two Colonial Australian Romances

Deb Anderson
Title: Rethinking Drought in a Sunburnt Country


Angus McGillivery
Title: Migrants, Cultivated Land, and Gold


Kirsten Henderson
Title: Australia is the Driest Continent

3.30-3.55pm - Afternoon Tea (Provided)

4-4.30pm - Closing Keynote Presentation
Professor Robert Manne, Professor of Politics, La Trobe University

5.30pm onwards - Post-conference drinks and dinner at Father Flanagans Irish Pub, 484 Smith Street, Collingwood - the tram from outside La Trobe University stops close to its front door.

 

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