Last updated: 01/09/2023
* = online participation
DAY 1. Wednesday 6 September
9.00 – 9.30 Registration (Main hall)
9.30 – 10.00 Opening (Salon de Actos)
10.00 – 11. 30 Parallel sessions 1
Session 1A (Room 27): Reparative Visions of History
Chair: Danica Čerče
Aurora García Fernández: “Unburdened Secrets, Conjectured Truths and Troubled Voices: Kate Grenville’s literary quest for non-Indigenous affective resettlement in Australia”
Claudia Davidson-Novosivscei: “The Long Way to Aboriginal Love”
Marta Villalba Lázaro: “(Un)Settling Australia: The Sacred Land’s Haven in Wesley Enoch’s Black Medea”
Session 1B (Room 26): Diasporic Communities and Affective Dis/connections
Chair: Caty Ribas
Annalisa Pes: “Anger, hate and fear: the failure of Multicultural Australia in The Slap by Christos Tsiolkas”
Salhia Ben-Messahel: “The politics of inclusion in Alice Pung’s writing”
11.30 – 12.00 Coffee break
12.00 – 13.15 Keynote 1 (room 29)
Gail Jones (Western Sydney University; Australian National University)
“Wing-flutter, air-sweep and human breath: the ethics of voice and encounter in Australian Studies”
Chair: Valérie-Anne Belleflamme (University of Liège)
13.15 – 15.00 Lunch break
15.00 – 16.30 Parallel sessions 2
Session 2A (Room 27): Literature, Art and Activism
Chair: Astrid Schwegler
Martina Horakova: “Australian Artivism from the Heart”
David Kern: “‘The heart of the nation has always been…right…here…in our voices’ – Visions of Sovereignty and a Decolonial Aesthetics of Love: The Frame of Indigenous Picturebooks”
Sarah Yu*: “Seeking mabu liyan: Recognition of Aboriginal cultural Values, Relationships and responsibilities to reconcile the trauma of colonisation in the northwest Australia”
Session 2B (Room 26): Poetry and Emotions
Chair: Anna Branach-Kallas
Danica Čerče: “Rewriting the Colonial Archives in Australian Aboriginal Women’s Poetry”
Jean Page: “Liminality in language: struggles with displacement in the contemporary poetry of John Mateer (Southern Barbarians, 2011), Nandi Chinna (The Future Eaters, 2019) and the prose (poetry) of Suneeta Peres da Costa (Saudade, 2018)”
Jan Lencznarowicz*: “Charles Harpur as Australia’s national prophet”
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.00 Keynote 2 (room 29)
Simone Lazaroo:
Reading from Between Water and the Night Sky, an autofictional novel by Simone Lazaroo
Chair: Astrid Schwegler
18.00 – 19.00 Session 3
Session 3: Writing Grief and Trauma (room 27)
Chair: Mariana Ripoll
Valérie-Anne Belleflamme: “A Shimmer from the Heart: On the Ethics and Aesthetics of Writing about Grief in Gail Jones’ Work”
Hazal Kışlak: “Revitalising Indigenous Australian Sovereignty and Identities in Tara June Winch’s The Yield”
19.00 – 20.00 Welcome reception
20.00 – 21.30 Walking tour of Palma (departing from conference venue)
DAY 2. Thursday 7 September
9.00-10.30 Parallel Sessions 4
Session 4A: Landscapes and Waterscapes (room 27)
Chair: Marie Herbillon
Miriam Potter: “Can you not see it is bleeding at the roots?” (White, Voss 1962, 298)
Amanda Frances-Johnson: “Groundwater poetries: ‘Still glides the stream and shall forever glide…’”
Magdalena Císlerová: “The Power of Land and Language: Reclaiming the Bush in Melissa Lucashenko’s Mullumbimby”
Session 4B: Narrating Trauma, Envisioning Healing (room 26)
Chair: Martina Horakova
Irma Krčan: “Healing the Land to Heal the People: Geotrauma in Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip”
Laura Singeot: “Caring for Country: from the hazy disruptiveness of loss to hopeful narrative envisionings in Praiseworthy by Alexis Wright”
Francesca Di Blasio*: “Healing the Country: Narration and/as Emotion in Indigenous Contemporary Fiction”
10.30 – 11.15 Special online session (room 29; online)
Ouyang Yu
“Writing with Machine Translation in Mind”
Chair: Aurora García Fernández
11.15-11.45 Coffee break
11.45-13.15 Parallel sessions 5
Session 5A: Politics and Emotions (room 27)
Chair: Agnieszka Sobocinska
Isabelle Auguste: “Affective citizenship and Indigenous peoples in Australia – Reflecting on the 1967 Referendum”
Lars Jensen: “Having a Heart? Looking for Empathy in Remote Locations”
Emily Potter and Brigid Magner: “Shared reading, shared feeling at the interface of text, place and community: young Australian regional readers discuss climate futures”
Session 5B: Contesting Inherited Violence (room 26)
Chair: Geoff Rododera
Catie Gressier: “Blood Ties: Loving, Kinning and Killing on Australian Heritage Breed Farms”
Tihana Klepač*: “‘A Shot Reputation’: Rape in Colonial Australia and Why It Matters Today”
13.15 – 15.00 Lunch
15.00 – 16.30 Session 6
Session 6: Filmic Representations of Australia (room 27)
Chair: Annalisa Pes
Geoff Rodoreda: “Of Rocks and Stones that Speak: Affective Landscapes in Australian Film”
Cecilia Gall: “Ned Kelly without a beard: Unmasking and Truth Telling in Justin Kurzel’s True History of the Kelly Gang”
Alejandra Moreno Álvarez: “Sewing Alternative Identities: Rosalie Ham’s The Dressmaker”
16.30 – 17.00 Coffee break
17.00 – 18.15 Keynote 3 (room 29)
Ellen van Neerven:
“‘By Heart’: The role of memory and family in First Nations Literature”
Chair: Salhia Ben-Messahel
18.15 – 19.15 Parallel sessions 7
Session 7A: Reparation Beyond Borders (room 27)
Chair: Lars Jensen
Agnieszka Sobocinska: “The Moral Economy of Australian Foreign Aid”
Parisa Delshad Rezaee: “Navigating Settler Colonialism and Global Migration: A Refugee’s Truth to the Parliament”
Session 7B: Australia and India: Intertwined Histories (room 26)
Chair: Alejandra Moreno
Felicity Hand. “Australianama: Unearthing Forgotten Truths about History”
Suja Kurup P.L. and Nithin Lal: “Sovereign Storytelling of Aborigine and Adivasi Ontological Indigeneity in Chelsea Watego and C.K. Janu’s Life Narratives”
21.00 Conference dinner. Ca n’Eduardo Restaurant
DAY 3. Friday 8 September
9.00 – 10.30 Parallel Sessions 8
Session 8A: Transformative Affects (room 27)
Chair: Amanda Frances Johnson
Nishtha Pandey: “Reimagining Postcolonial Subjectivity in Terms of Reconciliation: Lessons from David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon”
Marie Herbillon: “Performing for Reparation: Dance and the Transformative Power of Affect in J.M. Coetzee’s The Death of Jesus”
Chinmaya Lal Thakur*: “Waiting for Death as Reparation, or Frank Harland’s Strange Journey in David Malouf’s Harland’s Half Acre”
Session 8B: Dystopian and Apocalyptic Narratives of Australia (room 26)
Chair: Dolores Herrero
Bárbara Arizti: “Inga Simpson’s The Last Woman in the World as a Transmodern Fiction of Attention”
David Callahan: “Down There in Muddled Darkness: George Turner’s Last Novel”
Iva Polak: “The Second Coming in Claire G. Coleman’s Enclave”
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.15 Keynote 4 (room 29)
Hsu-Ming Teo (Macquarie University):
“Reparative Dreamings of Citizenship in the Koori Lit of Anita Heiss”
Chair: Paloma Fresno-Calleja
12.15 – 13.15 Parallel sessions 9
Session 9A: Affect across Continents (room 27)
Chair: Iva Polak
Dean J. Kotlowski*: “‘Mr. Johnson Loved Australia and Australians, and They Loved Him’: Australian Responses to LBJ’s 1966 Visit and the Politics of National Identity”
John Scheckter: “Gail Jones in No Man’s Land: Empathy and its Discontents in Salonika Burning”
Session 9B: Narratives of War and Romance (room 26)
Chair: Cristina Cruz
Donna Coates: “Home: Not Where These (Indigenous) Hearts Are”
Anna Branach-Kallas: “Romance, Affects and the First World War in The Wing of Night by Brenda Walker and As The Earth Turns Silver by Alison Wong”
13.15 – 14.45 Lunch break
14.45 – 16.15 Parallel sessions 10
Session 10A: Book presentations (room 26)
Session 10B: Postgraduate seminar (room 27)
16.15 – 17.30 Keynote 5 (room 29)
David Carter (University of Queensland):
“Novels and Novelists, Publishers and Editions, Critics and Readers: Multiple Histories and The Cambridge History of the Australian Novel”
Chair: David Callahan
17.30 – 18.00 Coffee break
18.00 – 19.00 Session 11
Session 11: Affective Ecologies (room 27)
Chair: Jean Page
Jaroslav Kušnír: “Collective Remembering, Place, Region and Environmental Damage in Nardi Simpson’s Song of the Crocodile”
Dolores Herrero: “Affective Ecologies and Emotional Communities in Merlinda Bobis’s The Kindness of Birds (2021)”
19.00 – 19.15 Closing Remarks (room 27)
19.15 – 20.30 EASA AGM (room 29)