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THURSDAY 24 JULY

9:00 - 9:30 Registration

9:30-10:50 PLENARY PANEL: Historical Austens

Chair: Helen Groth Venue: Caltex 121

Deirdre Coleman, Clara Tuite, Mary Spongberg

10:50 - 11:10 Morning tea

11:10 - 12:30 SESSION 1

Panel 1 - American Poetry and Poetics

Chair: Chris Danta Venue: Caltex 121

Julian Murphet
"'Events listening to their own tremors": Zukofsky and the Historical Materialism of Form"

Timothy Cahill
"Refusing to Interpellate the Subject: Redressing the Spinoza-Marx Connection in Louis Zukofsky"

Jessica Wilkinson
"Word, Speech, Voice: Susan Howe's Melville's Marginalia and the Material Stammer of History"

Panel 2 - Historical Reinvention

Chair: Deirdre Coleman Venue: Unilever 101

Peta Mayer
"Is It Possible to Read a Contemporary Novel as a 19th-Century Novel? Anita Brookner, 'Performative Romanticism', the Dandy and Brief Lives (1990)"

Fiona Brideoake
"Rewriting the Present Past: Mary Louisa Gordon and the Ladies of Llangollen"

Kate Mitchell
"'What Will Count as History?': The Remembered Past in Neo-Victorian Fiction"

Panel 3 - Rewriting South-East Asian Histories

Chair: Hsu-Ming Teo Venue: AGL 122

Raita Merivirta-Chakrabarti
"Engagements with History in Post-Rushdie Indian Novels in English"

Michelle Xiong Ying
"Historiography and Romantic Colonialism: Nishikawa's Discourse on Taiwanese History"

Max Lane
"Pramoedya Ananta Toer's This Earth of Mankind Tetralogy: When Is Historical Fiction Revolutionary Literature?"

Panel 4 - Philosophy, History, Poetics

Chair: William Martin Venue: FAI 123

Emma Simone
"Historical Dasein - Virginia Woolf and Martin Heidegger"

Andrew Dunstall
"Derrida and 'the Literary' amongst the Historians"

Ned Curthoys
"Lessing's Nathan the Wise and the Fate of Andalusia"

Panel 5 - Literary and Historical Reformations

Chair: Natalya Lusty Venue: Lendlease 120

Kathleen Olive
"The List as Transgeneric Form"

Viv McGregor
"Rewriting Epic: The Transhistories of Middlesex"

Adrian Hale
"'The Untouchable Genre': Biography as the Site of Contestation between History and Literature"

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch

1:30 - 2:50 SESSION 2

Panel 1 - History, Fiction, Melancholy

Chair: Robert Savage Venue: Unilever 101

Paul Sheehan
"A History of Smoke: W. G. Sebald and the Memory of Fire"

Amelia Louise Scurry
"Pilgrimage and the Relic in W. G. Sebald's The Rings of Saturn"

Sarah Pinto
"Loss, Grief and Melancholy on the Frontier: Contemporary Australian Historical Novels"

Panel 2 - The Child in History

Chair: John Stephens Venue: AGL 122

Kim Wilson
"Cross-Dressing Heroines: History versus Fiction"

Arthur Rose
"Rewriting History in Atonement and The Child in Time"

Sue Page
"Defining or Subverting the Heroic Ideal? Recent Australian Children's Fiction about the First World War"

Panel 3 - South-East Asian Historical Re-formations

Chair: Marcelle Freiman Venue: FAI 123

Melissa Johnston
"History Between Lives: Two Malaysian Indian novels in English"

Sung-Ae Lee
"History and Displacement: Liminal Subjectivity in Narratives from and about Korea"

Manoj Mishra
"Which History, History of the Crown or Commoners Caught in Conflicts?: A Discourse on Ruskin Bond's Endeavour to Tap the Hidden Resources of History from Below as a Source Material for A Flight of Pigeons"

Panel 4 - History, Nation, Sexuality

Chair: Terry Castle Venue: Caltex 121

Sharon Worley
"Historicism and Fiction in National Identity: The Anti-Napoleonic Salon of Louise Stolberg, Countess of Albany, Florence, Italy"

Anne Pulju
"Barb'rous Oxford: Nationalist Discourse and the Political Moment on the Restoration Stage"

Julia Adrienne List
"'Sometimes a stamen is only a stamen': Historicising Readings of Eighteenth-Century Sexuality in Erasmus Darwin's The Loves of the Plants"

Panel 5 - Gender, History, Confession

Chair: Kathleen Olive Venue: Lendlease 120

Geoff Parkes
"Confessions of the Flesh Made Word: Foucault, Camus and the Work of Their Lives"

Jennifer Hamilton
"History between Women: The Labour of Homosocial Desire in Abi Morgan's Splendour"

Sashi Nair
"Dress[ing] the unknowable in the garments of the known": Reading Djuna Barnes's Nightwood and the Lesbian Roman à clef"

2:50 - 3:15 Afternoon tea

3:15 - 4:15 SESSION 3

Panel 1 - History, Cognition, Literature

Chair: Blakey Vermeule Venue: Unilever 101

Evelyn Tribble and John Sutton
"Cognitive Theory and Cultural History: An Interdisciplinary Approach in Early Modern Studies"

Antonina Harbus
"Culture, Cognition, and Crimson Cheeks: Jane Austen on the Mind"

Panel 2 - Colonial Histories

Chair: Mary Spongberg Venue: FAI 123

Judith Barbour
"The Mutiny on HMS Bounty; the Wreck of HMS Sirius: Writing Reverberations and Vindications of Historical Calamities in Colonial NSW"

Nicholas Stirrett
"Undertones of Enlightenment: Thomas Paine's Revolutionary Common Sense"

Panel 3 - Fantasy in History

Chair: Geoff Payne Venue: Caltex 121

John Stephens
"Fantasy-world Steampunk, Alternative History, and Children's Literature"

Radhiah Zaman Chowdhury
"'There is another world, but it is in this one': Susanna Clarke and Writing the Fairies into British History"

Panel 4 - Suffering, History, Law

Chair: Charles Altieri Venue: Lendlease 120

Peter Londey
"'Alas, the suffering city!': The Trojan Women and Its Audience"

Honni van Rijswijk
"Strange Neighbours: Proximity, Suffering and Responsibility in Modernist Law and Literature"

4:15 - 4:30 Break

4:30 - 6 TERRY CASTLE

"Jazz Age Rococo: The Eighteenth Century and British Modernism"

Official opening: Caroline Trotman Venue: Price Theatre W5A

6:00 - 7:30 Drinks and nibbles (Australian History Museum, ground floor W6A)

FRIDAY 25 JULY

10 - 11:20 SESSION 1

Panel 1 - Joyce and History

Chair: Chris Conti Venue: Unilever 101

Stephen McLaren
"We think of Rome: A User's and Abuser's Guide to History in Ulysses"

Anthony Uhlmann
"Joyce (Wilde, Shakespeare): Life and Art in Ulysses"

William Martin
"Joyce on Parnell: The Rhythm of Poetry, Dialogue and History"

Panel 2 - Nation, Writing, Representation

Chair: Jane Messer Venue: FAI 123

Willa McDonald
"Artist as Journalist: Fact, Truth and Subjectivity in the Work of Helen Garner"

Melinda Jewell
"The Representation of Social Dance in Australian Novels"

Eugenia Demuro
"Sarmiento: The Birth of a Nation State and the Birth of a National Literature. An Argentinian Case Study"

Panel 3 - American Literature in History

Chair: Louise Colbran Venue: Rm 248

Lindsay Tuggle
"'Specimens of unworldliness': Walt Whitman and the Civil War"

Peter Williams
"Picasso's Eyes: Robert Creeley and Abject Poetics"

Julian Stefan Novitz
"The Holocaust and the American Bildungsroman: Philip Roth and William Styron's Uses of the Structures of the Classic Bildungsroman in The Ghost Writer and Sophie's Choice"

Panel 4 - Nineteenth-Century Reinventions

Chair: David Ellison Venue: AGL 122

Chris Danta
"The Scientific Ape: Robert Louis Stevenson and the Post-Darwinian Fable"

David Clapham
"The Historical Novel as Theatre: Tolstoy's History, Berlin's Russian Thinkers and Stoppard's Utopia"

Wiebke Eikholt
"The Relation between Fact and Fiction in The Young Cosima"

Panel 5 - Historical Alterities

Chair: Deborah Pike Venue: Lendlease 120

Hsu-Ming Teo
"Powerful Women and Feminist Revisionist History in Bertrice Small's
The Kadin (1978)"

Michelle Diane Aung Thin
"Truth, Authenticity and the Skin of a Writer in F. Tennyson Jesse's The Lacquer Lady"

Shubhra Tripathi
"Lakshmibai, Valiant Warrior, Vulnerable Woman?: Problems in Validating or Visualising History"

11:20 - 11:40 Morning Tea

11:40 - 1:00 SESSION 2

Panel 1 - Victorian Fictions

Chair: Angie Dunstan Venue: Unilever 101

Helen Groth
"Domestic Phantasmagoria: Illusion, History and the Victorian Novel"

David Ellison
"Inimitable Puppets: Dickens with Napoleon in His Eyes"

Lee O'Brien
"The Were-Wolf and Jack the Ripper: The Monster and / as History in Rosamund Marriott Watson's 'A Ballad of the Were-Wolf'"

Panel 2 - Australian Biography and History

Chair: Melinda Jewell Venue: FAI 123

Christina Spittel
"Based on a True Story: The First World War in Australian Novels"

Eileen Chanin
"Recovering the Life of David Scott Mitchell through His Reading"

Kelly Jean Butler
"Feasting on the 'Magic Pudding': Negotiating History and Fiction in the 'Australian' Work of Inga Clendinnen"

Panel 3 - Modernism, History, Politics

Chair: Anthony Uhlmann Venue: Rm 248

Hee Kang
"Faulkner on History in The Sound and the Fury and Absalom, Absalom!"

Emily Finlay
"Maurice Blanchot: Propagandist for Terrorism?"

Peter Marks
"The Transatlantic Thirties: Writers, Workers, Writing and Working in Britain and America"

Panel 4 - American History, Literary Transformations

Chair: Peter Williams Venue: Lendlease 120

Louise Colbran
"The Great Escape: Representing Hegemonic Masculinity through the Historical Figure of Houdini in Michael Chabon's The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay"

Chris Conti
"'Pulling Cleo's Leg': Remaking American History in The Sot-Weed Factor"

Andrew Croome
"Archival Fictions: Historical Fiction and the Archive"

Panel 5 - Eighteenth-Century Visions

Chair: Clara Tuite Venue: AGL 122

Katrina Bell
"Literary Scenes and Historical Blindspots: Relationships between Brothers and Sisters in Eighteenth-Century Writing and Culture"

Ryan Twomey
"Regional Juvenilia: Maria Edgeworth's The Double Disguise"

Michelle Smith
"Rewriting the Robinsonade: The Development of the Female Crusoe"

1:00 - 2:00 Lunch & Association AGM

2:00 - 3:20 SESSION 3

Panel 1 - Medieval Histories

Chair: Evelyn Tribble Venue: FAI 123

Helen Young
"Writing and Reading the Past in the Middle Ages"

Kathy Watson
"The Chivalric World - Natural or Not?: The Pre-History of English Poetry"

Gordana Galic Kakkon
"Intertextuality, Facts and Fiction in the Worldly and Otherworldly Journey of Ramon de Perellos"

Panel 2 - Science Fiction and History

Chair: Paul Sheehan Venue: AGL 122

Andrew Burrell
"The Future History of the Self in Greg Egan's Permutation City "

Howard Prosser
"History From Beyond: E. P. Thompson, Science Fiction, and Utopia"

Robert Savage
"Palaeoanthropology of the Future: The Prehistory of Posthumanity in Arthur C. Clarke's 2001: A Space Odyssey"

Panel 3 - Postcolonial Histories

Chair: Stephen McLaren Venue: Unilever 101

Viktor van Niekerk
"Dusklands: History and Mythology"

Blakey Vermeule
"J. M. Coetzee: History, Narrative, Ego, Irony"

Majid Jafari Saray
"Anti-Historicism in V. S. Naipaul's Travelogues"

Panel 4 - Experimental Histories

Chair: Ned Curthoys Venue: Lendlease 120

Mia Stephens and Roy Neill
"You do know it's only got one bathroom"

Bethany Small
"'A dedication has to be flawed': The Beauty of the Husband, Academia and the Ambiguous Narrative (Auto)biography in the Work / Work / Life Balance"

Michael Farrell
"A History of Experimental Poetry in Australia"

3:20 - 3:40 Afternoon tea

3:40 - 5:00 SESSION 4

Panel 1 - Postmodern and Counter-Histories

Chair: Peter Marks Venue: Unilever 101

Andrew Yerkes
"Thomas Pynchon's Against the Day and the Prospects of Historiographic Metafiction"

Will Noonan
"Humour and the Metafiction of History: Uneasy Laughter in Tristram Shandy and Jacques the Fatalist"

Jumana Bayeh
"Diasporic Literature and Counter-History: The case of Israel / Palestine in Amin Maalouf's Ports of Call"

Panel 2 - Memory, Place, Cultural History

Chair: John Sutton Venue: FAI 123

Laura Basu
"The Cultural Memory of Ned Kelly, 1930-1960: Deferred Identities"

Lyn McLintock
"Bourdieu in the Suburbs: Representations of Suburbia in Contemporary Australian Fiction"

Urbashi Barat
"'Not a (her)story to pass on': Partition Trauma, Memory and Re-Membering in Women's Fiction"

Panel 3 - Revisioning the Nineteenth Century

Chair: Helen Groth Venue: Lendlease 120

Jennifer Newton
"Literary Invention and Historical Accuracy in Dorothy Dunnett's Lymond Chronicles"

Angie Dunstan
"'If it were a copy, it was a copy of a good original': Rewriting Pre-Raphaelite History in H.D.'s The White Rose and the Red"

Mark Steven
"From Kraken to Chromatophores: Aesthetic Cephalopoda in Nineteenth-Century Literature"

Panel 4 - Grenville Makes History

Chair: Melissa Johnston Venue: AGL 122

Jodi Gallagher
"Relaxed and Comfortable: Carey, Grenville and the Politics of the History Novel"

Libby Angel
"I Jump the Rattler": Lilian's Story and the Reinvention of Bee Miles"

Anica Boulanger-Mashberg
"'As true as I could make it': How Kate Grenville Makes History"

5:00 - 5:30 Break

5:30 - 6:30 CHARLES ALTIERI

"In Defence of Autonomy as the Necessary Remaking of Nature"

Chair: Paul Sheehan Venue: Caltex 121

 

 

 

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