Monday 6th July 2009
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8.30-9.30 |
DAY ONE: Registration |
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9.30-10.30 |
PLENARY |
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10.30-11.00 |
Morning Tea |
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11.00-12.30 |
Concurrent Sessions |
| A | Place, Earth, Utopia Abbott, Mathew The Myth of the Earth: Heidegger, Poetry and Politics Simone, Emma Virginia Woolf and the Politics of Place Vardoulakis, Dimitris Political Literature in Greece: The case of Aris Alexandrou’s The Mission Box |
| B | Working Class Writing Attfield, Sarah The Politics of Working Class Writing Barker, Karen “Rouse up your feeling intensely!” The double horizon of Jean Devanny’s socialist teleology and the élan ouvrier Peter Marks TBA |
| C | Modernist Ireland Kuch, Peter ‘We writers are not politicians’—W.B. Yeats: Poetry, Plays, Prose and Politics, and the Politics of Publication. McLaren, Stephen Caesar confesses Christ: revisiting Joyce’s revolution of the Word Anthony Uhlmann Relational Identity in Joyce |
| D | Critical Theory Boucher, Geoff “A Challenge to the Mere Politicization of Literature: The Frankfurt School and New Humanism” Conti, Chris The Primacy of the Object Holt, Matthew Capitalism as Fiction: The Communist Manifesto. |
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12.30-1.30 |
Lunch |
| 1.30-3.00 | Concurrent sessions |
| A | Constructing Identities 1: Australians Brady, Veronica Walter Benjamin’s Dwarf And The Imaginative Construction Of Australia Olubas, Brigitta Writing about the United Nations: Shirley Hazzard’s Humanist Politic Treep, Elizabeth Being at Home in Australia: Utopian Constructions in Eve Langley’s Bancroft House |
| B | Post-Colonial Places Coghlan, Jo The Syncretic Philosophies of Sukarno:Merdeka and the ‘imagined state’ in colonial and post-colonial Indonesia Broinowski, Alison The hegemonic bargain Chakraborty, Mridula Nath In Praise Of Smallness: The Case Of The Provincial, Mufossil Novel |
| C | Race and Racism Curry, Alice ‘And, please, don’t tell me I hate foreigners’; Racial Prejudice and Ideological Blind Space in Anne Provoost’s Falling (1997) and John Boyne’s The Boy in Striped Pyjamas (2006). Jain, Jasbir The Nation and its Minorities: Refugees and Exiles in the Homeland Solomon, Stefan “Layin’ ‘mong de t’ings I’s allus knowed”: Racial Representation and the Residual |
| D | Writing Capitalism Dickson, Sam The Spectre Of Capitalism: The Haunted Ideological Subject In Don Delillo’s Falling Man Christie, Michael Anthony Macris’s Capital, volume one: Negating Financial Derivatives and Neoliberalism through Literary Form Gourley, James The '9/11 Novel': Eternal Return in Pynchon and DeLillo |
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3.00-3.30 |
Afternoon Tea |
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3.30-5.00 |
Concurrent sessions |
| A | Politics of Literary Production Ensor, Jason D “A Policy of Splendid Isolation”: Angus & Robertson, George G Harrap and the politics of co-operation in the Australian book trade during the late 1930s. Haag, Oliver The Politics of Publishing Indigenous Literatures in Germany: A Comparative Study of Australian and New Zealand Indigenous Literatures in German Translation Jordan, Deborah Canon, Gender and the Politics of Literary Production |
| B | The Uses of Poetry & Rhetoric Smith, Gavin The significance of poetry in public debate Hanne, Mike Making War and Peace with Metaphor Derrin, Daniel Francis Bacon and the Rhetorical Power of the 'Mental Image' |
| C | Constructing Identities 2: Madness and Childhood Jenkins, Gareth S. Resisting Rational Transformation: Mannix Narrating Psychiatry Narrating Mannix Hopkins, Lucy The Politics of Childhood in Christos Tsoilkas’ The Slap. Somlo, Scarlett The Madness of Money, Politics and Reality in Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater |
| D | Australian Subjects Barrett, Lindsay An Australian Story Burdett, Lorraine Politics and Patrick White: Cold War Culture and the Paranoid Subject in The Aunt’s Story Cottle, Drew Russel Ward and the Making of the Australian Legend |
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5.30-6.30 |
PLENARY |
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6.30-7.30 |
Drinks & AGM of AAL |
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8.00-11.00 |
Conference Dinner, Glebe |