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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)
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1. Australia and the Asia-Pacific
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2. Living on the Margins
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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
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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
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11.15-11.40am - Morning Tea (Provided)
11.45am-1.15pm - Session Two (parallel sessions)
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3. Australia and Beyond
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4. Narratives of Nation
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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?
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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
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1.15-1.55pm - Lunch (Provided
2-3.30pm - Session Three (parallel sessions)
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5. Evolving Feminisms
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6. Land and Identity
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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
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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
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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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