World Literatures and the Global South Conference Friday 23rd August – Sunday 25th August 2019 Program Schedule and Maps Friday 23rd August 2019 8.00am Registration Opens – SSB Lecture Theatre 200 Foyer (A02) 8.40am 8.40am Opening Ceremony – Welcome to Country, conducted by Uncle Allen Madden, Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council 9.30am Conference Opening: Dr Michael Spence, Vice-Chancellor and Principal Welcome: Prof Annamarie Jagose, Dean, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Prof Liu Shusen, Director at Australian Studies Centre, Peking University SSB Lecture Theatre 200 (A02) 9.30am Keynote Speaker: Alexis Wright (Introduction by Nicholas Jose) – A SELF-GOVERNING LITERATURE: WHO OWNS THE MAP OF THE WORLD? 10.15am SSB Lecture Theatre 200 (A02) 10.15am Special Event: Documentary Launch (Introduction by Alexis Wright) – CLARENCE WALDEN: GANGALIDDA MAN FROM QUEENSLAND’S GULF OF CARPENTARIA 11.15am SSB Lecture Theatre 200 (A02) 11.15am Morning Tea and Book Display Tables – MacLaurin Hall, Quadrangle Building (A14) 11.45am 11.45am Keynote Speaker: Gauri Viswanathan (Introduction by Vanessa Smith) – BROKERED SITES OF EXCHANGE: COLONIAL EDUCATION AND THE POSTCOLONIAL NOVEL 12.30pm SSB Lecture Theatre 200 (A02) 12.30pm Lunch and Book Display Tables – MacLaurin Hall, Quadrangle Building (A14) 1.30pm Section 1: Imag(In)Ing The Global Section 2: Transnational Literatures Section 3: Global South, World Literatures and Section 4: Beyond World Literatures South/Writing from The Global South Venue: Education SR 625 – 626 (A35) Market Forces Venue: Education SR 530 (A35) Venue: Education SR 409 (A35) Venue: Education SR 524 (A35) 1.30pm Panel 1: China in The World Panel 1: Japanese Sinitic Poetry as Exophonic Panel 1: Ecocriticism and The Global South Guest Speaker – Panel Moderator: Josh Stenberg (University of Literature Panel Moderator: Clara Sitbon (University of Maraea Rakuraku (Writer, New Zealand) 2.00pm Sydney) Panel Moderator: Matthew Fraleigh (Bandeis Sydney) Writing into Landscapes Unfriendly from The University) Margins into The Glare of Light Guest Speaker Yoshitaka Yamamoto (National Institute of Ju (Writer, Yangon) Nicholas Jose (Writer, University of Adelaide) Japanese Literature) Eco Criticism in Myanmar Literature Antipodean China: Judging A Poem by Its Title: The Exophonic Imagining A Literary Space Significance of Poem Titles in Japanese Sinitic Poetry Page 1 of 14 World Literatures and the Global South Conference (cont'd) Friday 23rd August – Program Schedule 2.00pm Liu Shusen (Peking University) Rintaro Goyama (Keio University) Charlotte Mackay (University of Melbourne) Panel 1: Moving Across the Screen: World – Zhao Jingshen And China’s Initial Study of The Names of Native Flowers and Sinitic Poetry Diasporic Memory and The Environment in The Literatures and Cinema 2.30pm Australian Literature as World Literature in Early Modern Japan: Focusing on The Works of Contemporary Cameroonian Writer Panel Moderator: Michelle Royer (University of Relation with Knowledge in The Field of Herbal Léonora Miano. Sydney) Medicine Christina Kkona (Aarhus University) From ‘Fingersmith’ To ‘The Handmaiden’: Queerness and Cross-Cultural Adaptation 2.30pm Michelle Cahill (University of Wollongong) Riko Fukushima (Tezukayama Gakuin Evelyn Corr (University of Sydney) Guadalupe Escobar (University of Nevada, – Bloomsbury's Chinese Gaze Reversed University) What Will We Leave Our Daughters? Reno) 3.00pm “Hai-Tai-Shi”: Humorous Sinitic Poems Written Teleological Conflict in Indigenous Climate Reframing the Family Tree In ‘Children of by Japanese Poets Poetics Diaspora’ 3.00pm Anna Stecher (LMU Munich) Noriko Niina (Bukkyo University) – Adapting Bandung. Chinese Narratives of the Sinitic Poetry Composition as A Step Toward 3.30pm 1955 Conference. A Study Based on Zhou Enlai Advancement in Local Society and Politics Biographies 3.30pm Afternoon Tea and Book Display Tables – MacLaurin Hall, Quadrangle Building (A14) 4.00pm 4.00pm Mingwen Xiao (Sun Yat-Sen University) Bonaventure Munganga (University of New Kshama Kumar (University of New South – “Global South” And “Global North” Within South Wales) Wales) 4.30pm East Asia: Alternative Narrative of Heroism The Ecological Thought, Epistemic and Ethical The Community, The State and The Politics Of and Patriotism in Mo Yan’s Red Sorghum Issues in Indigenous Australian Speculative “Tension” In ‘Dweepa’ Fictions 4.30pm Thomas Moran (Monash University) Mengtian Sun (University of Melbourne) Laetitia Nanquette (University of New South – Nostalgia for The Future: Utopian Reflections The Globe and The South: Imaginations of Wales) 5.00pm in Hu Fang’s ‘Dear Navigator’ (2014) Globalization in Science Fiction on The Global Why Is Iranian Literature Not Global? South 5.15pm Special Event: Writers’ Plenary – Southern Reflections: Writers on Literary Geography 6.45pm Welcoming: Duncan Ivison (Deputy Vice-Chancellor Research) Moderators: Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney)Zhao Baisheng (Peking University) SSB Lecture Theatre 200 (A02) 7.00pm Reception – MacLaurin Hall, Quadrangle Building (A14) 8.45pm Page 2 of 14 World Literatures and the Global South Conference Saturday 24th August 2019 – Program Schedule Saturday 24th August 2019 Section 1: Imag(In)Ing The Global Section 2: Transnational Literatures Section 3: Global South, World Section 4: Beyond World Literatures Language Streams: South/Writing from The Global Venue: ABS Seminar Room 3020 Literatures and Market Forces Venue: ABS Seminar Room 3010 Venue: ABS Seminar Room 3080 South (H70) Venue: ABS Seminar Room 3180 (H70) (H70) Venue: ABS Seminar Room 3110 (H70) (H70) 9.00am Panel 2: Australia In the Network of Panel 2: Bypassing the Metropole: Panel 2: New Approaches to Panel 2: Beyond the Canons: World French – Cultures New Comparativism And Transverse Transnational and World Literature Literatures and The Popular Genres Panel Moderator: Michelle Royer 9.30am Panel Moderator: Vanessa Smith Vectors for Minority World Panel Moderator: Rebecca Suter Panel Moderator: Léa Voung (University of Sydney) (University of Sydney) Literatures (University of Sydney) (University of Sydney) Panel Moderator: Nicole Moore (University of New South Wales Canberra) Didier Coste (Université Bordeaux Dr Beibei Chen (East China Normal Ben Etherington (Western Sydney Isabelle Hesse (University of Sydney) Guest Speaker Montaigne) University) University) World Literature, Political Thrillers, Isa Qala (Writer, New Caledonia) From Brobdingnag To the Billabong, Translated Poetics and The Fractious Against Network Thinking: Critical and the Semi-Periphery in Diaspora Oralitécriture Et Littérature And Back: Mapping A Global South Translation Zone in Australian Poetry Humanism and Speculative Literary Writing from Israel/Palestine with Peter Carey. Translation Totalities 9.30am Mark Piccini (Queensland University Nicole Moore (University of New Adam Morton (University of Sydney) Max Bledstein (University of New Screening of The Short Film – of Technology) South Wales Canberra) A Geography of Blood Meridian South Wales) ‘L'enfant Wetr’ And Discussions with 10.00am ‘I Am Not Yet Satisfied’: Desire and Transverse Vectors: Australian A Fantastical Event: The Historical Isa Qala Violence in The Works of Christos Literature Beyond the Anglophone Graphic Narrative of Marjane Tsiolkas World Satrapi’s ‘Chicken with Plums’ 10.00am Tiao Wang (Harbin Institute of Sandeep Singh (University of New Dashiell Moore (University of Faris Yothasamuth (University of Soumaya Abdellatif (Ajman – Technology) South Wales Canberra) Sydney) Sydney) University) 10.30am Good and Evil: Thomas Keneally And Conceptualizing the Postcolonial Cold World Literature and The Glissantian We Are Not Them: Thai Imperialism Gender: The Foreign Origins of The the Representation of The Global War in Southeast Asia Through the Encounter and Racism in The Translations of Concept and Its Hard Meaning in The North Literary: Heterotemporality, Region, English Popular Novels in The Early Tunisian Socoipolitical Context Asymmetry Twentieth Century 10.30am Priyanka Shivadas (UNIVERSITY OF Alya Ansari (University of Minnesota) Nisha Ghatak (University of Etienne Naveau (Institut National Des – NEW SOUTH WALES Canberra) Discursive Disruptions: Hybridity as Auckland) Langues Et Civilisations Orientales, 11:00am Languaging In Indigenous Australian Historiographic Method The Other Side Of ‘La Nuit Bengali’: A Paris) And Indian Poetry – A Trans- Critical Analysis of Maitreyi Devi's ‘It « Nh Dini (1936-2018) Ou L’écriture Indigenous Approach Does Not Die: A Romance’ De Soi D’une Femme Indonésienne » 11.00am Morning Tea and Book Display Tables – ABS Level 3 Foyer (H70) 11.30am Page 3 of 14 World Literatures and the Global South Conference (cont'd) Saturday 24th August 2019 – Program Schedule 11.30am Natalie Edwards (University of Panel 3: Translational Literature and Yuri Takahashi (Australian National Chinese – Adelaide) And Christopher Hogarth Writings from The Diaspora University) Panel Moderator: Josh Stenberg 12.00pm (University of South Australia) Panel Moderator: Benjamin Nickl A Sense of Justice as Seen in (University of Sydney) Franco-Australian Transnational (University of Sydney) Myanmar’s Popular Literature – Min Literature Sharmani Patricia Gabriel (Universiti Thein Kha And His Novel ‘Goddess Horng Shu-Ling (National Taiwan Malaya) Manusari’ University) Rerouting the Nanyang: From 台灣詩人利玉芳的南方經驗和日常 “Diasporic Local” To Transnational 書寫 Imaginaries 12.00pm Paola Scrolavezza (University of Fiona Lee (University of Sydney)