Program
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DRAFT PROGRAM AAL LITERATURE AND CENSORSHIP CONFERENCE 11-13 JULY 2012 NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA PARKES PLACE PARLIAMENTARY TRIANGLE |
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WEDNESDAY 11 JULY |
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REGISTRATION 5.30PM NLA THEATRE |
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EVENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS 6.00PM-7.30PM NLA THEATRE Chair: Nicole Moore Acknowledgment of traditional owners, Dr Jeanine Leane, Australian National University Welcome from Professor John Arnold, Deputy Rector, University of New South Wales, Canberra Speaker: Professor Peter McDonald, University of Oxford “’That Monstrous Thing’: The Critic as Censor” |
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COCKTAIL RECEPTION 7.30PM-8.30PM NLA FOYER |
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DAY 1 THURSDAY 12 JULY | ||||
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8.30-9.00am Registration NLA Theatre | ||||
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9.00-10.00am Plenary NLA Theatre Literature in the court room Chair: Helen Groth Clara Tuite, “’Son of George, We Beseech Thee’: The Trials of William Hone.” Chris Hilliard, “The Politics of the Lady Chatterley’s Lover Trial.” | ||||
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10.00-10.30am Morning Tea Grey Area | ||||
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10.30-12.00pm Panel Sessions | ||||
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Theatre |
Conference Room | |||
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Ancient and pre-modern censorship Chair: Chris Danta Han Baltussen, “Burning Books in the Ancient World: Reflections on an old Problem.” Peter Davis, “Narratives of Censorship in Ovid.” Megan Cassidy-Welch, “Dissimulation and Self-Censorship in Thirteenth-Century Inquistorial Testimonies.” |
Blasphemy, obscenity and literary scandals Chair: Chris Hilliard Vijay Mishra, “Salman Rushdie, Blasphemy and Literature.” Karen Crawley, “Resignifying Obscenity: Maintaining the Chastity of the Records in Nineteenth-century Obscenity Trials.” Harry Ricketts, “Rudyard Kipling, Hugh Walpole and The Well of Loneliness.” | |||
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12.00-1.00pm Lunch Grey Area | ||||
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1.00-2.30pm Panel Sessions | ||||
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Theatre |
Conference Room |
Training Room 3-4 | ||
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Noise and censorship Chair: Clara Tuite David Ellison, “Suppressed Noises and the Wonders of Nineteenth-Century Automata.” Helen Groth, “Obscene Voices: Censorship and the Ethics of Ear-Witnessing in Henry Mayhew’s London Labour and the London Poor.” Penelope Hone, “Silenced Voices and Phonographic Politics in Henry James’ Princess Casamassima.” |
Censorship and modernism 1 Chair: John Attridge Lindsay Tuggle, “Censoring Whitman” Ruth Skilbeck, “‘Fugal Modality’ and the limits of expression: Censorship, trauma and self-exile in ‘fugue’ writers from Joyce to exiled journalists.” Jacinta Kelly, “Silence and Materiality in Mina Loy’s Manuscripts.” |
Silencing regimes Chair: Nicholas Jose Sanaz Fotouhi, “Censorship and Rise of Iranian Women’s Memoir” Joumana Bayeh, “Egypt’s “Facebook” Revolution: Arab Diaspora, Literature and Censorship in the Homeland” Lynda Ng, “Censorship and Value: Novel Pathways in the Internet Age” | ||
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2.30pm-3.00pm Afternoon Tea Grey Area | ||||
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3.00pm-4.30pm Panel Sessions | ||||
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Theatre |
Conference Room | |||
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Censorship and modernism 2 Chair: Paul Eggert Dougal McNeill, “After the Clash: Literature, (Self) Censorship, and the 1926 General Strike” John Attridge, “Little magazines, literary elites and cultural conflict: Louis Aragon at La Revue européenne” Rodney Swan, “Beating the Nazi Gag: The Resistance and the illustrated book in occupied France” |
Offending Africa Chair: Peter McDonald Anthony Uhlmann, “J.M. Coetzee and Giving Offence” Tony Simoes Da Silva, “Taking on Mugabe’s (His)stories: Reading Recent Zimbabwean Writing” Roie Thomas, “Political Manoeuvres in the Dark: Detecting Censorship in McCall Smith’s Botswana Series.” | |||
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5.00pm-6.30pm Exhibition Launch, Academy Library Launched by Professor Nicholas Jose, University of Adelaide Champagne and finger food UNSW Canberra at the Australian Defence Force Academy (Bus transport from the NLA to ADFA returning for the conference dinner) | ||||
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7.00pm- Conference Dinner The Lobby, Parliamentary Triangle | ||||
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DAY 2 FRIDAY 13 JULY | ||||
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9.00am-10.30am Panel Sessions | ||||
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Conference Room |
Training Room 3-4 | |||
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Control in /of Australia Chair: Nicole Moore Christina Spittel, “From the ‘land of cars and fridges’: Australian literature in the German Democratic Republic.” Jeremy Fisher, “The Struggle for Identity: The Emergence of a Gay Press in Australia.” Kevin Patrick, “Love on Trial: Romance Comics and the Challenge to State Censorship in Australia, 1954-1956.” |
Communism vs modernism Chair: Anthony Uhlmann Mark Steven, “Brumaire, Fructidor, Petrograd: The Communist Vortex” Ilona McCarter, “’Manuscripts Don’t Burn’: Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita as a Treatise Against Censorship” Elizaveta Shatalova, “The problem of self-censorship in Vladimir Nabokov’s translations.” | |||
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10.30-11.00am Morning Tea Grey Area | ||||
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11.00am-12.30pm Panel Sessions | ||||
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Conference Room |
Training Room 3-4 |
Meeting Room 1 | ||
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Taboo aesthetics Chair: David Ellison Tyne Daile Sumner, “’With Your own Face On’: The Rise of Uncensorable Confessions.” Lou Jillett, “Intentional Taboos and Freedom from Constraint.” Marise Williams, “Censoring Literary Femicide” |
Dreams and dissent Chair: Kate Montague Kate Montague, “The Interpretation of American Dreams: Philip Roth’s American Pastoral.” Eduardo Marks de Marque and Jo Lampert, “Redefining Freedom: Blank and reverse censorship in post-9/11 culture” Michael Austin, “Dissenting Voices: The Australian Post 9/11 Novel” |
Controlling colonialism Chair: Lynda Ng Paul Tickell, “Controlling People and controlling ideas: Libel, Surveillance, Banishment and Indigenous Literary Expression in the Dutch East Indies.” Elen Turner, “Censorship’s ‘Magnum Opus’, Self- Censorship, and Indian Women’s Writing” Jeanine Leane, “Australian Aboriginal literature and censorship” | ||
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12.30-1.30pm Lunch Grey Area | ||||
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1.30-2.45pm Panel Sessions | ||||
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Conference Room |
Training Room 3-4 | |||
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Book guardians Chair: Christina Spittel Francesca Rendle-Short, “My Mother’s ‘Negative Library’: Moral Guardians and their ‘Death Lists’.” David Hastie, “The Teacher, the Child and Religion: Literary Censorship in Australian faith-based schools.” |
Narrative limits Chair: Michael Austin James Gourley, “Infinite Regress as Narratological Censorship in Kafka’s Short Stories.” Chris Danta, “’Might Sovereignty be Devouring?’ Derrida and the Fable.” | |||
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2.45pm-3.15pm Afternoon Tea Grey Area | ||||
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3.15pm-4.45pm Plenary – PEN Empty Chair Conference Room Chair: Paul Tickell Clinton Fernandes, “Artistically extraordinary but politically dangerous”: The banning of Balibo in Indonesia. | ||||
