Conference Programme (final, July 2007)

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Day 1: July 12

9 - 10 am
10 - 10.30am
 

10.30 - 11.30am

 

Simone, Emma, ‘Virginia Woolf and the
Sensation of Being-in-the-world’

Uhlmann, Anthony, The sense of intention and the sensation of meaning in Nabokov's Despair

 

Williams, Jordan, Toy literature and real authors

Lyssa, Alison, Theatre as agent of the heart in its struggle against annihilation, in Wesley Enoch, Black Medea, and Stephen Sewell, Gates of Egypt.

Kumar, Niven, 'Reason' and 'Sensation' in Kafka and Borges

Williams, Peter, Getting real: absorption, coolness and aesthetic bliss

11.30 - 12pm
12 - 1.30pm
 

Brown, Lachlan, ‘Deep Inside the Things of the World’: the Visible and Invisible in Kevin Hart’s Poetry

Connolly, Michele, Gospel of John: A Synaesthesic Encounter with the Spiritual

Seger, Natalie, Meditations on Sensation: Judith Beveridge’s ‘From the Palace to the Bodhi Tree’

Cassidy, Bonny, The music of fact: the poem as organism

Magee, Paul, Yielding : the senses in 20 contemporary Australian poets

Hazel Smith, soundAFFECTs: transcoding, writing, new media, affect

 

D’Arcens, Louise,The Round Table and Other Furniture: Sensing the Medieval Past on the Nineteenth Century Australian Stage

Dunstan, Angie, Stunner: The Sensation of Elizabeth Siddal

Payne, Geoff: Managing sensation: incestuous desire in Joanna Baillie's De Montfort

1.30 - 2.30pm
2.30 - 4pm

 

Barrett, Lindsay, Patrick White and Voss

Gercken, Cassandra, The manufacture and purpose of sensation…the affective power of
Christina Stead’s novels

Görümlü, Özlem, Elif Shafak’s The Saint of Incipient Insanities: An Issue of Identity

Soltanzadeh, Zeynab, Literature and Sensation: poetic sense and sensibility

McCooey, David: Fine lines: poetry in film

Danta, Chris, Sarah's laughter Kafka's Abraham

McDonald, Donna, The Art of Being Deaf

Savage, Robert, Erocide is painless. Insensation in Les Murray's Fredy Neptune

Sheehan, Paul, Murder most artful: De Quincey and the work of darkness

4 - 4.30pm
4.30 - 5.30pm

 

Day 2: July 13

 

9 - 9.30 am
 
9.30-11am
 

Conti, Chris, Adorno on 'Aesthetic Negativity'

Edmonds, Anne, Heidegger and the Origin of the Work of Art

Vardoulakis, Dimitris, Sensing Language, Sensing Literature

Martin, William, The Sensible and the Intelligible in Joyce's Ulysses

McLaren, Stephen, Making sense of Portrait’s villanelle

O’Leary, Timothy, “The Perils of Experience: sensation in Joyce’s A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

McLean Davies, Larissa, Sensational Stories: Helen Garner and the Failure of Fiction

Newton, P. M., Beyond the “Sensation Novel”: Contemporary crime literature — sharing the sensations of the real world

Melinda Jewell, The metaphor of dance in Australian novels

11 - 11.30am
11.30am -1.00pm

 

Cordingley, Anthony, Beckett’s Mudspeak

Gourley, James, "Whenever said said said missaid": Beckett's Worstward Ho and DeLillo's the Body Artist

Smith, Russell, Walking … Stumbling … Falling … Lying Down: Beckettian operations in the work of Francis Alÿs, Ugo Rondinone and John Barbour

Gibson, Suzie, Sensation and Resistance in J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace

Kossew, Sue, “Pip in the Pacific”: Reading and Sensation in Lloyd Jones’s Mr Pip

Takolander, Maria, The sensational imagination: Ian McEwan’s Saturday

Mitchell, Kate, Sensational Knowledge: Reading as Romance in A.S. Byatt’s Possession

Wilson, Kim Maree, ‘Living History in Historical Fiction: a past to excite the senses’

Webb, Caroline, Sensation, Pornography, Guilt: Angela Carter's Seduction of the Reader in "The Bloody Chamber"

1 - 2pm
2 - 3pm

 

Fleming, Chris, Hallucinogens, thought and writing

Kelen, Chris, Inebriations of the Tang - responses in kind

Gibbs, Anna and Maria Angel, On Moving and Being Moved

Denham, Ben, Difficult sense: the neuro-physical dimensions of the act of reading

Hamilton, Jennifer, “In the winter, of course, that amusement would come to an   end”

Tuckwell, Jason, 'Post-Structuralism',
Anthropology, Literature.
The sense and nonsense in Carlos Castaneda

3-3.30pm
3.30 - 4pm
4 - 5pm

Keynote Speaker

Brian Boyd

The Art of Literature and the Science of Literature