Literary Studies Convention @ Wollongong brought to you by AAL, ASAL and AULLA with the Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts, English and Writing Program of the University of Wollongong Program Overview Tuesday 7 July Time Venue Workshops 11.00 – 12.30 Building 19 Lunch 12.30 – 1.30 Building 24 Room G01 Session 1 1.30 – 3.00 Buildings 20 and 24 Session 2 3.10 – 4.10 Buildings 19 and 20 Reception 4.00 – 5.00 Building 24 Room G01 and foyer Welcome to Country 5.00 Hope Lecture Theatre (40.153) Presentation of Prizes 5.15 “ ” Keynote: Tony Birch 5.30 “ ” Wednesday 8 July Session 3 9.00 – 10.30 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Morning Tea 10.30 – 11.00 Building 24 Room G01 Keynote: Carolyn Dinshaw 11.00 – 12.10 Building 20 Theatre 1 Lunch + AUHE Meeting 12.10 – 1.00 Building 24 Room G01/AUHE 20.5 Session 4 1.00 – 2.00 Buildings 19 and 20 Session 5 2.10 – 3.10 Buildings 19 and 20 Afternoon Tea 3.10 – 3.30 Building 24 Room G01 Association AGMs 3.30 – 5.00 Building 20 various theatres Thursday 9 July Session 6 9.00 – 10.30 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Morning Tea 10.30 – 11.00 Building 20 Room G01 Keynote: Rita Felski 11.00 – 12.10 Building 20 Theatre 1 Lunch 12.10 – 1.00 Building 24 Room G01 Session 7 1.00 – 2.00 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Session 8 2.10 – 3.10 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Afternoon Tea 3.10 – 3.30 Building 24 Room G01 Panel: Publishing/Book Industry 3.30 – 5.00 Building 20 Theatre 1 Friday 10 July Session 9 9.00 – 10.30 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Morning Tea 10.30 – 11.00 Building 24 Room G01 Keynote: Susan K. Martin 11.00 – 12.10 Building 20 Theatre 1 Lunch 12.10 – 1.00 Building 24 Room G01 Session 10 1.00 – 2.00 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Session 11 2.10 – 3.10 Buildings 19, 20 and 24 Afternoon Tea 3.10 – 3.30 Building 24 Room G01 Forum: Literary Studies 3.30 – 5.00 Building 20 Theatre 1 Convention Dinner 7 pm til … (not very) late? Harbourfront Restaurant Saturday 11 July [Building 24 is not used on this day] Session 12 9.30 – 11.00 Buildings 19 and 20 Morning Tea 11.00 – 11.30 Building 20 Foyer Session 13 11.30 – 12.30 Building 20 Lunch 12.30 – 1.30 Building 20 Foyer For full program, please read on … for abstracts, go to http://lha.uow.edu.au/lit-net2015/index.html As at 2 July 2015 Tuesday 7 July 11.00 – 12.30 Workshops (Building 19) Career development (1): The job application and interview (Building 19 Room 1001) Career development (2): Getting tenure: planning research and teaching (Building 19 Room 1002) Career development (3): From mid-career to management (Building 19 Room 1003) Career development (4): Beyond the academy (Building 19 Room 1004) How to get the most out of conferences and candidature (Building 19 Room 2100) Getting published: what do readers, editors, and publishers look for? (Building 19 Room 2003) Teaching literature – issues in lectures and tutorials (Building 19 Room 1093) ASAL Executive Meeting (Building 20 Theatre 5) 12.30 – 1.30 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01) Session 1: 1.30 – 3.00 1A Building 24 Room 203: Indigenous Story Jacqui Katona, Sandra Phillips, and Alison Ravenscroft. This panel will outline the potential reach of a project from the Centre for Indigenous Story (La Trobe University) for networking between Indigenous people, and between Indigenous and non- Indigenous Australians. Chair: Bernadette Brennan 1B Building 20 Theatre 2: Between Poem and Painting: Collaboration, Crushes, and Court Favourites in the New York School Ann Vickery, ‘Playing Favourites: Considering the Minor Intimacy of Jane Freilicher and the New York School’ Ella O’Keefe, ‘Writing in Painting: Barbara Guest’s Visual Collaborations’ Duncan Hose, ‘“You in Me, That is What the Soul Is”: How Frank O’Hara and Larry Rivers Made the Cult of “Us”’ Chair: Jill Jones 1C Building 20 Theatre 3: India – Australia Deirdre Coleman and Sashi Nair, ‘India and Australia in the Nineteenth Century’ Roanna Gonsalves, ‘The Survival of the Friendliest: Learning to be a Writer in Contemporary India’ Meeta Chatterjee-Padmanabhan, ‘Looking back at India: Humour in “Sticks and Stones and Such Like” and “Homework”’ Chair: Paul Sharrad 1D Building 20 Theatre 4: Networks of Mobility: Place, Space and Value Sarah Galletly, ‘Mobilising the Pacific Imaginary: Periodical Fiction and Australian Travel Networks in the Interwar Period’ Robyn Greaves, ‘Women, Space and Representation in Twentieth-Century Australia’ Victoria Kuttainen, ‘Picture This: Australian Magazines, Contemporaneity, Visuals and Value 1920s– 30s’ Chair: Christina Spittel 1E Building 20 Theatre 5: Gender, Violence and Humanitarianism Sue Kossew and Anne Brewster, ‘Australian Women’s Literature’s Articulation with Discursive Networks of Sexual Violence’ Anne Maxwell, ‘The Humanitarian Politics of Eleanor Dark’s Slow Dawning’ Shamara Ransirini Pitiyage, ‘Radical Subjectivities: Marion May Campbell’s Konkretion’ Chair: Lyn McCredden As at 2 July 2015 Tuesday 7 July Session 2: 3.10 – 4.10 2A Building 20 Theatre 2: Poetry (1) Christopher Oakey, ‘The Literary Network as Cultural Project: Ron Silliman and Language Poetry’ Rose Lucas, ‘The Shimmering Image: Poetry and Paying Attention’ Chair: Ella O’Keefe 2B Building 20 Theatre 3: Reception (1) Tom Clark, ‘Reference, Texture, and Poetics in Tony Abbott’s Medieval Dreaming’ Sasha Henriss-Anderssen, ‘Gazing at Fallen Leaves: Feminine Subjectivity in Fruits Basket Chair: Heather Neilson 2C Building 20 Theatre 4: Conjuring Bodies Francesca Rendle-Short, ‘Non/fictive Bodies: Fleshing out Absence/Drawing Presence’ Merlinda Bobis, ‘Aesth-ethics’ and Disappeared Bodies: Between absence and presence’ Chair: Emily Yu Zong 2D Building 20 Theatre 5: Normativity and the Posthuman Elizabeth Stephens, ‘Networks of Normality: Rethinking (Anti-)Normativity in Contemporary Critical Theory’ Monique Rooney, ‘It’s Impossible’ Chair: Emily Potter 2E Building 19 Room 1002: Gallipoli/ANZAC Christina Spittel, ‘Paper Gallipolis: Imagining the Peninsula in Australian Novels, 1916-2014’ Troy Potter, ‘Mateship, Binary Narratives and the ANZAC Tradition’ Chair: Ian Campbell 2F Building 19 Room 1003: Indigeneity and Representation Fiona Polack, ‘Tony Birch’s Blood, and Oil’ Chunli Xing, ‘The Aboriginal-White Relationship in The Secret River and Carpentaria’ Chair: Michael Griffiths 4.00 – 5.00 Reception (Building 24 Foyer) 5.00 – Welcome to Country, Dr Barbara Nicholson (Hope Lecture Theatre, aka Building 40 Room 153) 5.15 – Presentation of Prizes, including ALS Gold Medal (Hope Theatre) 5.40 – 6.40 Barry Andrews Memorial Lecture: Tony Birch ‘The Sky lay flat upon the earth and covered it like a blanket’: Climate Change, Indigenous Knowledge and the Privilege of Apocalyptic Fantasies Chair: Brigitta Olubas As at 2 July 2015 Wednesday 8 July Session 3: 9.00 – 10.30 3A Building 24 Room 203: Spatiality (1) Elizabeth McMahon, ‘The Regional Archipelago: Re-membering Literary Networks’ Meg Brayshaw, ‘“No light, no land or sea”: A Geocritical Reading of Elizabeth Harrower’s Down in the City Jasmin Kelaita, ‘Literary Reading in the Extra-literary World’ Chair: Brigitta Olubas 3B Building 20 Theatre 2: Reception (2) Alison Bell, ‘Getting “Carried” away: What Do Popular Characters Tell Us about Their Audiences?’ Heather Neilson, ‘The Networks of The Lone Ranger’ Paul Sharrad, ‘Networking Asmara: Tom Keneally and Eritrea’ Chair: Simone Murray 3C Building 20 Theatre 3: Creative Writing Camilla Palmer, ‘HOLOGRAMS’ Tanya Thaweeskulchai, ‘Image and Landscape: Intertwining the Two Collections of Prose Poems, The Laughter and the Crow and Ashes and Fire in the House of Portraits’ James Bedford, ‘Into the Wakes of Leviathan’ Chair: Ann Vickery 3D Building 20 Theatre 4: Environment Deborah Bird Rose and Thom van Dooren, ‘Lively Ethography: Storying Animal Worlds’ Kate Wright, ‘How to Tell Stories in Nonhuman Voices’ Laura Jean McKay, ‘The Disappearing Animal: Representations of Nonhuman Animals in Contemporary Fiction’ Chair: Jennifer Hamilton 3E Building 20 Theatre 5: Emotion Megan Nash, ‘Authorising Emotion: Feeling and Writing in the Novels of Elizabeth Harrower and Elizabeth Bowen’ Sue Parker, ‘Sentimentality, Emotion and Gender in Furphy’s Such is Life’ Jessica Taylor, ‘“Rights, Not Privileges. It’s That Easy, It Really Bloody Is!”: Working-Class Women’s Anger in Nigel Cole’s Made in Dagenham’ Chair: Susan K. Martin 3F Building 19 Room 1001: Transformations of the Book Jocelyn Hargrave, ‘Transtextual Editorial Margins within George Howe’s NSW Pocket Almanack’ Katie Hansord, ‘Poetry, Spiritualism, and Periodical Print Culture: Literary Networks and Emily Manning’s The Balance of Pain’ Anna Poletti, ‘How the Book has Shaped Thinking about Autobiography’ Chair: Paul Eggert 3H Building 19 Room 1002: Imagination and Crisis Anne Collett, ‘Poetic Response to Caribbean Hurricane and Marronage Imaginary’ Chrystopher Spicer, ‘The Cyclone Which is at the Heart of Things: The Cyclone as Trope of Place and Apocalypse in Queensland Literature’ Gareth Griffiths, ‘Human Rights and the Literary Imaginary’ Chair: Alice te Punga Somerville 3G Building 19 Room 1003: Temporalities Steven Hampton, ‘A Network of Nightmares: Fuseli, Marx and Raising the Dead’ Alison Cardinale, ‘Reading Coleridge and Romanticism after Heisenberg’ Evan Milner, ‘Danubian Travel Writing and Competing Ideas of Tradition’ Chair: Will Christie As at 2 July 2015 Wednesday 8 July 10.30 – 11.00 Morning Tea (Building 24 Room G01) 11.00 – 12.10 Keynote: Carolyn Dinshaw Green is the New Black: Medieval Foliate Heads, Racial Trauma, and Queer World-making Chair: Louise D’Arcens (Building 20 Theatre 1) 12.10 – 1.00 Lunch (Building 24 Room G01)