The 5th EASA Conference

(corrected as of 13 September 1999)

Tuesday, 28 September 1999

1830: civic reception (Town Hall)

Wednesday, 29 September 1999

0900 : address by Prof. R. Gaignard, Vice-Chancellor, Université de Toulouse-Le Mirail

0930 : plenary lecture by Noel PEARSON

1030 - 1045 : coffee break

1045 - 1215 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: McKenzie Wark)
  • F. Kuna & P. Strohmaier (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), 'Critical Discourse and the Australian Film Revival'
  • D. Roberts (University of South Australia), 'Aborigines and Aboriginal Issues in Australian Film'

• Workshop II (chair: Andrew Taylor)
  • M. Brennan (University of Sydney), 'Waving to Art Rimbaud: Symbolist innovations in contemporary Australian poetry
  • D. Haskell (University of Western Australia), 'The Grasshopper Memory Leaps': Bruce Dawe's Elegies
  • W. Senn (University of Bern, Switzerland), 'To Fresh Woods and Pastures New'? Modern Australian Elegy and Literary Tradition

1400 - 1530 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: Stephen Alomes)
  • M. Ackland (Monash University), 'The Westering of Quasimodo: the Legacy of the Grotesque in the Antipodes'
  • F. Andrewes (University of Melbourne), 'Departing for Tomorrow: Australian Engagements with Modernity in the 1930s'
  • N. Cushing (University of Newcastle), 'The Pacific Highway and Australian Modernity'

• Workshop II (chair: Tom Griffiths)
  • G. Seddon (University of Western Australia), 'Pilbara Beginnings'
  • K. McConnochie (University of South Australia), 'Desert Departures: Isolation, Innovation and Introversion in Ice-Age Australia'

1530-1545 : break

1545 - 1745 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: Martine Piquet)
  • D. Masliah-Romy (Université de Cergy-Pontoise), 'The Greek Diaspora of Montreal and Melbourne: an exploration of new immigration patterns'
  • Y. Arimitsu (Doshisha University, Japan), 'Multicultural Society and Cultural Authenticity'
  • E. Clarence (University of Central England), 'Multiculturalism Through the Looking Glass'
  • V. Oost (Université de Paris 6), 'Multiculturalism in the Australian Press'

• Workshop II (chair: Wenche Ommudsen)
  • M. Ramsland (University of Newcastle), 'The "other" hemisphere : the writings of Dymphna Cusack'
  • B. Brennan (University of Sydney), 'Writing of death/death of writing in Brian Castro's Stepper'
  • K. Hansson (University of Karlskrona/Ronneby, Sweden), 'The Departure of the Author: a Post-Structuralist Reading of Gerald Murnane's Landscape With Landscape'
  • Zhu Jiong Qiang (Hangzhou University, China), 'Peter Carey's novels'

Thursday, 30 September

0900 : Plenary lecture by Andrew RIEMER:

'Old Cultures and New'

1015 - 1045 : break

1045 - 1215 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: George Seddon)
  • Heatley (Northern Territory University), 'A Missed Opportunity : the Northern Territory and Statehood'
  • D. Carment (Northern Territory University), 'Travelling Through the Northern Territory's Past : Public History, Public Memory and Cultural Heritage Tourism'
  • M. Piquet (Université de Paris 9), 'Wishing the French Left the South Pacific'

• Workshop II (chair: Helen Thomson)
  • Marc Delrez (Universite de Bruxelles), 'Cross-cultural patterns in the novels of Nicholas Jose'
  • F. Maravillas (University of Technology, Sydney), 'Towards a Hybridized Aesthetics : a case study of Chinese-Australian artists'
  • W. Ommundsen (Deakin University), 'From "Hello Freedom" to "Fuck You Australia": arrivals and departures in recent Chinese-Australian Writing'

1215-1400 : lunch

1400 - 1530 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: Lucy Frost)
  • P. Pierce (James Cook University), 'Tasmanian Departures'
  • E. McMahon (University of Tasmania), 'Dereliction : abandonment, disuse and the Tasmanian Landscape'
  • M. Jurak (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), 'Images of Slovenia and Australia in Richard Flanagan's Novel The Sound of One Hand Clapping'

• Workshop II (chair: David Callahan)
  • P. Bartoloni (University of Technology, Sydney), 'Travelling with Mortality : Robert Dessaix' Night Letters'
  • H. Thomson (Monash University), 'Australia, the 18th century's Last Enlightenment project: Catherine Spence, our Enlightenment Woman'
  • A.Garcia-Fernandez (University of Oviedo, Spain), 'The bunyip departs into the unknown future : a millenial reading of two Great Australian Novels of the 1990s'

1530 - 1545 : break

1545 - 1745 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: Joan Newman)
  • S. Alomes (Deakin University), 'The Rituals of Expatriation and the Life-Cycle of the Colonies : Australians and London, 1945-'
  • S. Ballyn (University of Barcelona, Spain) & L. Frost (University of Tasmania), 'Departure in a Foreign Tongue : How a young Spanish woman sailed as a convict bound for Botany Bay'
  • N. Graham (Macquarie University), 'Property and Place in Australian law and literature'

• Workshop II (chair: Andrew Riemer)
  • D. Callahan (University of Viero, Portugal), 'Abandoned by Society : The Failed Social Contract of The Castle'
  • P. Gillen (University of Technology, Sydney), 'Globalism and Its Discontent'
  • K. Barker (University of Melbourne), 'Vitalism, the White Aborigine and Evolving National Identity'
  • McAuliffe (University of Melbourne), 'Guerrillas, Poseurs and Nomads : Reinventing the Politics of the Avant-Garde in Art and Music'

Friday, 1 October 1999

0900: Plenary lecture by Tom GRIFFITHS:

'Travelling in Deep Time: The Re-invention of Australian History'

1015 - 1045 : break

1045 - 1215 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: Adi Wimmer)
  • B. Olubas (University of NSW), 'Two (More) Helens : Writing an Australian Woman's Journey'
  • J. Kusnir (University of Presov, Slovakia), 'Helen Darville's Reinvention of Australia'
  • M. Lynch Percopo (University of Cagliari), 'Narrative Departures: The Astley's Colonial Novels'

• Workshop II (chair: David Carment)
  • C. Bridge (Sir Robert Menzies Centre, London), 'Other People's Wars? Australian Involvement in the Wars of the 20th Century'
  • J. Carey (University of Melbourne), 'Gender and Science at the Periphery: Women and Science in Australian Universities, 1930-1960'
  • N. Platz (University of Trier, Germany), 'The Australian University in the 21st Century: Visions and Revisions'

1230 - 1400: lunch

1400 - 1530 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: Werner Senn)
  • Pulford (Monash University), 'Departures and Arrivals: Immigrant Experience in Recent Australian Theatre'
  • S. Pfisterer (Sir Robert Menzies Centre, London), 'Brave Red Witches: Communist Women, Identity and the New Theatre'
  • C. Selles (Université de Bordeaux), 'Murray Bail's departures in Homesickness'

• Workshop II (chair: Sue Ballyn)
  • D. O'Grady (Rome), 'Changing Countries'
  • C. Nicholls (Flinders University), 'Departir, Aufbrechen, Tabidatsu'
  • McDermott (University of Technology, Sydney), 'Bare Feet, Broken Glass: Aboriginal Poetry and the Leaving of Trauma'
  • N. Robinson, 'Postcolonialism in Australian children's picture books'

1530 - 1545 : break

1545 - 1745 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: Deidre Gilfedder)
  • McKenzie Wark (Macquarie University), 'Death of Brunswick: Is Suburbia Still Viable?'
  • Warne (University of Melbourne), 'Moral Departures: Australian Church Women and the Emergence of Mass Media in Australia, 1908-1938'
  • Sedorkin (Deakin University), 'Current Affairs television in Australia: "Kill or Cure"?'
  • J. Newman (Curtin University), '"Moral Monstrosities": Women Convicted of Capital Crime, or Motherhood, Murder and the Media'

• Workshop II (chair: Dennis Haskell)
  • R. Ross (University of Texas at Austin), 'Departures to the Promised Land: Kylie Tennant's The Battlers and John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath'
  • N. Rowe (University of Sydney), 'Deviation and Devotion: Francis Webb's "Homosexual"'
  • D. Coad (Université de Valenciennes), 'Buggery in the Barracks'
  • M. Leer (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), 'Charles Conder's The Departure of the Orient: Circular Quay - an ecotextual reading'

Saturday, 2 October 1999

0900 - 1030 : plenary lecture by Portia ROBINSON:

'Forgive their foolish ways...': Women and the original innovative Australian society, c1788-1828

1030 - 1045 : break

1045 - 1215 : WORKSHOPS

• Workshop I (chair: Peter Pierce)
  • A. Wimmer (University of Klagenfurt, Austria), 'No more "national identity": Ethnicity and Gender blending in Australian films of the 1990s'
  • A. Taylor (Edith Cowan University), 'We Are Also What We Lose: Departure And Gain in Elizabeth Jolley's Fiction'
  • D. Feltracco (University of Milano, Italy), 'Elizabeth Jolley and Tim Winton's Young Australians'

• Workshop II (chair: Karin Hansson)
  • I. Maver (University of Ljubljana, Slovenia), 'Australian Writers in Europe since the 1960s'
  • S. Ben-Messahel (Université de Paris 10), 'A Pilgrimage in the Dead Heart Country: Nikki Gemmel's Cleave and Eva Sailis' Hiam'
  • Anurag Sharma (Dayanand College), 'Les Murray's Vernacular Republic - Australia's Poetic Re-Invention of Itself'

1215 - 1400 : lunch

1430 - 1500 : EASA Board meeting

1500 - 1700 : EASA General Assembly

1700 : Introducing the CD Making Multicultural Australia (Prof. A. Jakubowicz)

1800 : Meanjin launch

Sunday, 3 October 1999

Trip to Albi and Cordes

CONFERENCE ENDS