Day 1
8:00 - 9:00 Registration (Manton
rooms, ground floor, south wing, Menzies Building 11)
N.B.
All plenary sessions will be held in H3 (enter via foyer of Menzies
Building, West wing) 9:00 - 9:15
| Vicky Nicholson Brown
| | Welcome to
Country |
9:15 - 9:30 | Kate
Rigby (President, ASLE-ANZ) |
| Welcome to the first ASLE-ANZ conference
|
9:30-10.30
| Keynote Address - chair
Kate Rigby |
| Richard Kerridge
Ecocriticism's Dilemmas |
10:30 - 11:00 Morning tea 11:00 - 12:15
| SG01 - chair Gerald Frederic
| SG02 - chair James Garrett
| | Fergus
Armstrong
Francis Bacon and the earth:
modernity's geo-technical sign Doug
Russell
'In proper perspective':
Nature, society, and the significance of popular science
Nataliya Oryschchuk
Fear of the machine: fight or flight? The representation of technology
in the work of the neo-romantic writer Alexander Grin |
William Rollins
and Lisa Bilsky
Between
a rock and a green place: Anti-Semitic nature and the dilemma of
German Jews in the Nineteenth century Monica
Moore
Latin American Gyn/Eco/Logy
: Anacristina Rossi's The Crazy Women from Gandoca
Peter Coleman
Alice and the Wolf: Exploring Dennis Danvers'Wilderness
|
| SG03 - chair Rhonda Khatab
| SG04 - chair Dimitris Vardoulakis
| | Roslyn
Joy Ricci
The power of poetry: transversing
time and space Midori Kagawa-Fox
Are the principles of 'environmental ethics'
applicable in Japan Rupert Summerson
"Howling emptiness" - revealing wilderness
and aesthetic values in Antarctic literature |
James Kirwan
On being true to the earth Louis
Magee
Thinking Nietzsche's injunction
otherwise Glen Phillips
Palimpsest to Palliative Care: A ficto-critical proposition for
the earth lover |
12:15 - 1:30 Lunch (Campus Centre) 1:30 - 2:45
| SG01 - chair Hamish Morgan
| SG02 - chair Sylvie Shaw
| | Perdita
Phillips
Ordinary Wilderness
Jayne Fenton Keane
Interspecies communication, activism and poetry Chris
Headley
Pandora's dilly bag: A neoclassical
tale of two post-modern heroes | Anna
Gould
The purposive way Justin
Karol
Is the current environmental crisis
really an environmental problem? |
| SG03
- chair Rebecca Lucas | SG04
- chair Peter Coleman |
| Mark Treddinick and John Cameron
Teaching the stones to talk: a dialogue
Kate Rigby
Consuming
Canberra | Kathryn
Ferguson
Representing the Great Barrier
Reef: True to the earth or submerged contempt? Karen
Barker
'Keep close to the earth!'
The schism between the worker and nature in Australian socialist
realist literature Chris Dew
Being true to ourselves |
2:45 - 4:00
| SG01 - chair Kate Rigby |
SGO2 - chair Adam Lam |
| Harry Nankin
Towards a biocentric photography Juliana
Venning
He papa atawhai nga toime te whenua
- Conserve arts and the land Lesley
Williams
Heart of Darkness - or - you
can't play Pooh-Sticks, here, any more |
Christy Di Frances
The Central Role of Nature in Tolkien's Lord of the
Rings Myth Nataliya Oryshchuk
"Tolkien cult" as a Post-Soviet escapist
Sub-Culture Lisa Wong (in absentia)
Theme/Film Tour: The disappearing of illusion
into integral reality Tom Wilson
Species-centric ecocriticism for change: What
should we make of the popularity of pastoral in the urban twenty-first
century? |
| SG03 - chair Sabina Sestigiani
| SGO4 - chair Mark Tredinnick
| | Iris
Ralph
Patrick White's Riders
in the Chariot: a green flaw in the crystal glass
David Fonteyn
Towards
an Australian panpsychist mythology: From Voss
to Bliss - a transformation of the Australian
Tradition Emily Potter
Ecological crisis and Australian literary poetics |
Charles Dawson
Of dryads and dams: silenced spirits and rivers in Aotearoa/New Zealand
Rob Baum
"This
land is white and slow" Faye
Adams
Re-imagining the world: Icons and
myths, pictures and stories sufficient to save a civilisation - ours!
| 4:00 - 4:15 Afternoon
tea 4:15 - 5:15 | Keynote
Address - chair Peter Coleman |
| David Abram
Speaking as an Animal |
5:15 - 6:30 BOOK LAUNCH & CONFERENCE RECEPTION
A reception to welcome the participants to the conference
and to launch Freya Mathew's Reinhabiting Reality:
Towards a Recovery of Culture and Kate Rigby's Topographies
of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism
6:30 - 8:00 | Author
Readings - chair Kate Rigby |
| Chris Wallace-Crabbe,
Mark Treddinick, Martin
Harrison,Rosaleen Love,
Freya Mathews, Miriel
Lenore |
Day 2
9:00 - 10:00
| Keynote Address - chair Matthew Chrulew
| | Louise
Westling
Darwin in Arcadia: The Human
Animal Dance from Gilgamesh to Virginia Woolf |
10:00 - 11:15
| SG01 - chair Robert Savage |
SG02 - chair Anne Elvey |
| Matthew
Chrulew
Nominating the visual: The table
and the menagerie Elizabeth Parsons
Pets, lies and videotape: Anthropomorphism and
children in popular film Philip
Armstrong
What animals mean, in Moby-Dick
, for example | Mark
Manolopoulos
Being true to the gift of
the earth: From Nietzsche to Derrida to Creation Rebecca
Lucas
An earth-based ethics
Deborah Rose
Bobby's
face, my love |
| SG03 - chair Michael Fitzgerald
| SG04 - chair Christopher Bassett
| | Gary
Presland
The land as actant: Being true
to the earth in the settlement of the Port Phillip region
Deb Anderson
Rethinking
'drought' in a sunburnt country Greg
Pritchard
Salt-lakes and swamps: Michael
Meehan's Australian environments |
Simon Musgrave
Placename narratives and identity in the north east of Ambon Island
Barbara Ghattas
The country and the city in the plays of Maori dramatist Riwia Brown
Betsan Martin
Relationality, fluidity and the riverine poetics of Hone Tuwhare
| 11:15 - 11:30 Morning
tea 11:30-1:00 | Plenary
discussion - chair Hellene Gronda |
| David Abram, Freya Mathews,
Deborah Rose |
1:00 - 2:00 Lunch (Campus Centre) 2:00 - 3:15
| SG01 - chair Mark Treddinick
| SG02 - chair Monica Moore
| | Veronica
Brady
How to reinvent the world? The hope
of being true to the earth Jenny
Kohn
Longing to belong: Judith Wright's
poetics of place Martin Mulligan
Stoking the "two fires": Honouring
the legacy of Judith Wright | Douglas
Reid
21st century mystics: Ecology and
Identity in a postcolonial land Caroll
Birrell
Auto da fe: An act of faith
Peter Cock and Belinda Towns
Journeys into wilderness: social and sacred connections with nature
|
| SG03 - chair Matthew Chrulew |
| Tom Burton
Dorset's Blackmore Vale in 1844: Reconstructing
William Barnes's Chronotope Robert
Savage
Are rats comrades? Some readings
of a question in Orwell Paul Starr
"There's something different about
global warming": Culture and climate change |
3:15 - 4:30
| SG01 - chair Andrew Johnson |
SG02 - chair t.b.a. |
| Anne Elvey
Earth as intertext: "the stones would
shout out"(Luke 19:40) Martin
Harrison
The degradation of land and the
position of poetry Stuart Cooke
Getting closer to country: Wandering into an
Australian narrative | Lorraine
Shannon
Can gardening be true to the earth?
Paul Morgan
Inside
or out: Humanity's ambiguous relationship with nature
Kylie Mirmohamadi
Talking about native plants |
| SG03
- chair Peter Cock | |
Maya Ward
The Long
Yarra Walk - a modern day pilgrimage Sylvie
Shaw
Sustaining the sea, sustaining ourselves
Michael Farrell
Creating a beach poetics for Melbourne |
4:30 - 4.45 Afternoon tea 4:45
- 5:45
| Keynote Address - chair Carlo Salzani
| | Greg
Garrard
Nietzsche contra Lawrence: How
to be true to the earth |
5:45 - 6:00 | Concluding
remarks | | Charles
Dawson and Mark Tredinnick
Vice Presidents, ASLE-ANZ
|
6:00-6:30
| ASLE-ANZ Annual General Meeting
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