Program (Literature and Science)

Literature and Science Programme Day 1: Monday, July 5
08.30 - 09.15	Registration Robert Webster Building (RWB), Landing, Lvl 2
09.15 - 10.30	Welcome: Prof James Donald (Dean FASS, UNSW) Keynote: Prof Brian Boyd Psychology and Literature: Mindful Close Reading Macauley Theatre, Quad Building
10.30 - 11.00	Morning tea RWB, Landing, Lvl 2
	RWB137	RWB138	RWB251	RWB256
11.00 - 12.30	Philosophy and Science Sara Wellman, University of Minnesota Accessing science through literature in Fontenelle’s Conversations on the Plurality of Inhabited Worlds Matthew Holt, UTS The Fictional Origin of Scientific Consciousness: The Cartesian Cogito and the ‘madness’ of autonomy	Poetics 1 Gavin Smith, UWS Poetry and the Mind: Cognition and the Nature of the Poetic Object Dr Louise Fairfax, UMelb Literature as catalyst of scientific change: Blake and Goethe, rebels of their age Jason Tuckwell, UWS Indeterminate Signs: some speculative questions	Experimental Writing 1 Vivienne Glance, UWA Performing the politics of science Rachel Funari, Monash University Intention, Presence and Multiplicity: A Complementary Reading of Michael Frayn's Copenhagen Assoc Prof Paul Brown (UNSW) and Dr James Arvanitakis, UWS Theatrical knowledge experiments at the arts-science interface	The Geological Dr Michael Christie, Independent Understanding the geological sublime? Andrew McGahan’s Wonders of a Godless World and Ian McEwan’s Solar Laura Olcelli, USyd Postcards from the Grand Tour: Sublime Geological Change and Curious Natural Disaster Dr Shé Mackenzie Hawke, USyd Water: A missing link in Darwinism recovered in eco-criticism
12.30 - 1.30	Lunch RWB, Landing, Lvl 2
	RWB137	RWB138	RWB251	RWB256
1.30 - 3.00	Ian McEwan Susan Green, Macquarie University Ian McEwan: A New Kind of Science Fiction Suzanne McDonald, UQ “Physics was free of human taint”: A Darwinian Exploration of Science and Ethics in Ian McEwan’s Solar Hannah Courtney, UNSW Science ‘versus’ Literature in Ian McEwan’s Saturday	Science Fiction 1 Christopher Palmer, La Trobe University Nature as Agent in Recent Australasian Science Fiction David Large, USyd Omega Points: The Guiding Principle of Hybridity in Dan Simmons' Hyperion Cantos Ms Radhiah Zaman Chowdhury, USyd Constructing Heroes out of Killers: Militaristic Science Fiction as Morality Play in Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game	Monsters Kay Rozynski, UWS Diving into the monster: excursions into evil with Jennifer Maiden’s hierophanic theory of poetry Evelyn Tsitas, RMIT Posthuman evolution in science fiction: development of a unique lifecycle for cyborgs and scientifically created human monsters. Dr Chris Danta, UNSW Anatomy of the Fable: Dr Moreau and the Aesthetics of Monstrosity	Australian and New Zealand Ecology Frances Kelly, University of Auckland Of Weasels and Magpies: Ecological Awareness in Recent Neo-Victorian New Zealand Fiction Alison Jeffreys, University of Auckland Ecosemiosis and Women’s Poetry of New Zealand, Australia and New Zealand, 1920s to 1940s Emma Joel, University of Newcastle Eatdirtzian Geosophy: Exploring the interface between Geography and Literary Criticism
3.00 - 3.30	Afternoon tea RWB, Landing, Lvl 2
	RWB137	RWB138	RWB251	RWB256
3.30 - 5.00	Poetics 2 Dr Bryan Walpert, Massey University Poetry and Science: Knowledge as Intervention Assoc Prof David G. Butt, Macquarie University “Reductio ad absurdum”: the ‘EPR’ experiment as method in physics and poetry Stephen Lawrence, University of Adelaide Conflict and union: Science in recent Australian poetry	Tragic Weather Jennifer Hamilton, UNSW Literary Meteorology: the performativity of a storm Mehran Mortezaei, UWS The Structure of Classic Tragedy within a Thermodynamic Framework Thomas Ford, Monash University The climate of Romantic culture	Psychoanalysis and Psychiatry Dr Ehsan Azari, UWS Science in Lacan’s literary theory Josh Mei-Ling Dubrau, UNSW Russian Futurism and the Lacanian Real: Formulating a Psychopoetics of Zaum Dr Judith Seaboyer, UQ Border Raiding: The Intersection of Psychotherapy and Neuroscience in Pat Barker’s Another Worldand Border Crossing	Neuroscience Nicole Heber, UMelb The Novel, the Neuroscience, and the Two Cultures Zachary Norwood, University of Auckland Neurocriticism and Divergent Reader-REsponse to Shakespear's Coriolanus: Nature, Nurture, or B Prof Julian Murphet, UNSW Characterology and Neuroscience: a loose democracy in the skull
5.30 - 6.00	Keynote: Prof Claire Colebrook Theory After Vitalism Macauley Theatre, Quad Building
6.30 - 6.45	Australasian Association for Literature Annual General Meeting Macauley Theatre, Quad Building
7pm	Drinks and Dinner at the Doncaster Hotel, 268 Anzac Pde, Kensington

Literature and Science Programme Day 2: Tuesday, July 6
09.00 - 10.00	Keynote: Prof Paul Giles Ontologies of Time Travel: History, Literature, and Science Macauley Theatre, Quad Building
10.00 - 10.30	Morning tea RWB, Landing, Lvl 2
	RWB137	RWB138	RWB251	RWB256
10.30 - 12.00	Experimental Writing 2 Prof Stephen Muecke, UNSW A Metaphysics of Writing: Reproduction and Vitality Carol Jenkins, Independent Literature—An ongoing experiment with 26 variables. Martin Harrison, UTS Figure, Thought, Writing	Writing Science Michaela Spencer, UMelb Of Forests and Farmland: Holding nature writing and scientific method in an informative relation Dr Clare Archer-Lean, University of the Sunshine Coast The Human as Story: The Literary in Popular Science Writing Dr Julie Robert, UTS Fractured Bodies: Flawed Tropes of Québécois Nationhood	The Body Jacinta Kelly, UNSW "A Trickle of Saliva": Excavating the body in Mina Loy's poetry James Gourley, UWS Beginning to Re-think Cannibalism Without the Abject Dr Russell Smith, ANU 'Perhaps it is liquefied brian': The physiology of tears in Samuel Beckett's post-war writing	Poetics 3 Dr Robert Phiddian, Prof Ian Gibbins and Assoc Prof Haydon Manning; all Flinders University Recognition, Disgust and the Effects of Political Satire Assoc Prof Anthony Uhlmann, UWS Ethics, Ethology and Art Prof Chris Ackerley, University of Otago An Unbearable Thereness of Being: the Problem of Validity
12.00 - 1.00	Lunch RWB, Landing, Lvl 2
	RWB137	RWB138	RWB251	RWB256
1.00 - 2.30	Modernism Dr John Attridge, UNSW Four Types of Secret Agency: Conrad, Causation and Popular Spy Fiction Fiona Burrows, UWA “Street Lamps like Fatalistic Drums”: Poetry and Synesthesia in the Early Twentieth Century Andrew Yerkes, Nanyang Technological University The Biological Grotesque in Sherwood Anderson’s Winesburg, Ohio	Media Bodies Jan Jamieson, ANU Metaphor and the Language of Infertility Dr Olivia Harvey, UNSW Mass media and the regenerative subject: How reading Althusser might illuminate the future of the market for new medical technologies Casimir MacGregor, Macquarie University Engaging the Public’s Scientific Identity: Fantasies of Human Cloning in the Australian Human Embryonic Stem Cell and Cloning Debate in an Age of Mediapolitik	Classification Lindsay Tuggle, USyd The Afterlives of “Specimens”: The Intersection of Surgical and Medical Practices in Whitman’s Civil War Texts Dr Julieanne Lamond and Dr Mark Reid; both ANU Reading the stats: tackling library loans records with statistical machine learning Tiffany Hambley, UNSW Where Science and Literature Collide: A Literature of Taxonomies, and the Impulse to Collect, Sort and Classify	The Neurotic Annette Upfal, UNSW The intersection of Literature and Science: Jane Austen’s The History of England and the problematic issue of her relationship with her mother Luke Johnson, UTS The Neurotic in Nana Naomi Stekelenburg, University of Sunshine Coast Gestaut-Geschwind Syndrome and the Nature of Literature
2.30 - 3.00	Afternoon tea RWB, Landing, Lvl 2
	RWB137	RWB138	RWB251	RWB256
3.00 - 4.30	Evo-Devo Dr Michelle Smith, Deakin University On the Origin of Men: Boyhood, Darwinism and Tarzan of the Apes Gustavo Generani, Macquarie University The Island of Doctor Morean by H.G Wells: a Political Fiction on a Political Use of Science	Modernist Aesthetics Pauline Farley, UWA A boy’s own paradigm: ‘scientists’ in the 20th century English children’s annual Mark Steven, USyd The Poetry of Science: On William Carlos Williams’ Paterson Tom Lee, UWS The Period of Critical Periods: A reading in relation to Alfred North Whitehead’s philosophy and W. G. Sebald’s prose	Science Fiction 2 Elizabeth Hayes, University of Newcastle Cyberpunk and Dystopia in William Gibson’s Virtual Light Joy Wallace and John O’Carroll; both Charles Sturt University Challenging the Present in Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Dr Phoebe Poon, UNSW The Quest for Immortality in Doctor Who (2005-present)	Material Minds Assoc Prof Helen Groth, UNSW Magical Optics and the Science of Reading Scott's 'Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft' and David Brewster's 'Letters on Natural Magic' Dr Charles Wolfe, USyd Materialism and dreams in Diderot's D'Alembert's Dream Prof John Sutton, Macquarie University Anachronism in the cognitive life of things: early modern distributed cognition
4.30 - 6.00	Victorian Science Dr Chris Worth, Monash University Ruskin Renames Nature Heidi Logan, University of Auckland The Representation of Sensory Disability in two novels of Wilkie Collins Patrick Marland, USyd "Hard Facts": Scientific Discourse, Nineteenth-Century Fiction and Dickens	Film Christine Yu-Ting Hung, UWS To See is to Believe? The Relationship between Popular Memory and Technology in Hou Hsiao-hsien’s Good Men, Good Women Scarlett Somlo, UWS Self-Destruction and Self-Construction: The Search for Personal Identity in Fight Club Assoc Prof Anna Gibbs, UWS Mimesis as a Mode of Knowing: the Aesthetic Practice of Jean Painlevé	Astronomy Michael Buhagiar, USyd Aeschylus and Astronomy Elizabeth Treep, University of Auckland Star Finder and Moon Raker: astronomy and the astronomer in Eve Langley’s Land of the Long White Cloud. Meegan Capsopoulos, USyd “Things Mysterious, Immortal, Starry”: John Keats and the Herschelian Universe	Meta-Polemics Assoc Prof Roslynn Haynes, UNSW Re-presenting Darwin: The Elephant in the Room Dr Paul Sheehan, Macquarie University Continental Drift: The Clash Between Literary Theory and Cognitive Literary Studies Prof James Franklin, UNSW Explaining science for the humanities crowd: try a 'clash of the titans' script

Literature and Science Programme Day 1: Monday, July 5

Literature and Science Programme Day 2: Tuesday, July 6