2012 AAALS Conference
"Trans-Hemispheric Connections"
Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto
Thursday, February 16
6-8 PM, Reception
Friday, February 17
8 to 9 am continental breakfast
9 AM welcome
9: 15-10:30 am Session 1 Transnational Texts. John Scheckter, Chair
"Francis Webb's Canada," Toby Davidson, Macquarie University.
"Stepping into America in Australian Literature." David Callahan, University of Aveiro, Portugal
"The Banality of Evil: Family Trauma and Everyday Violence in Animal Kingdom", Eva Rueschmann, Hampshire College.
"Epistemological Crisis: Place, Nation, and Identity in Eve Langley and Robin Hyde," Sophie Clarke, University of New South Wales.
10:30-10:45 break
10:45-12 Session 2 Para-Indigenous Discourses, Per Henningsgaard, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point, chair.
“The Girl in the White Dress”: Iris Milutinovic takes on the “Aboriginal question”, Brenda Machosky, University of Hawai'i
The White Usurper’s Power:’ Figurations of Shanawdithit and Truganini in Settler Culture Writing," Fiona Polack, Memorial University, Newfoundland.
12-1:30 PM Lunch. Emergent Settler and Indigenous Imaginaries: Learning to Read in Pacific Contexts." Diana Brydon, Canada Research Chair in Globalization and
Cultural Studies, University of Manitoba
1: 30-2:45 Indigeneity and Trauma
Eva Rueschmann, Hampshire College, Chair.
"The Notions of Permanence: Autochthony, Indigeneity, Locality in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria," Nicholas Birns, Eugene Lang College. the New School.
On Being Serious About Welcome to Country: Deconstructing and Repositioning Reconciliation and Recognition in Noongar Theater and Activist Performance. Michael Griffiths, Rice University,
"John Marsden’s “Tomorrow Series”: An Escher-Like Political Text", Theodore Sheckels, Randolph-Macon College.
"John Marsden’s “Tomorrow Series”: An Escher-Like Political Text", Theodore Sheckels, Randolph-Macon College.
2:45-3 break
3-4:15 Creative Session: Poetry reading by Nathanael O'Reilly, Paul Kane, Jonathan Bennett,
4: 15 Plenary session "From Winds to God, The Devil, and Me: Alf Taylor on poetry and memoir.
6: 30 PM BANQUET
The game of nationhood: Federation, recreation and modernity
The game of nationhood: Federation, recreation and modernity
Chris McAuliffe, Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Fraser Visiting Professor of Australian Studies, Harvard University 2011-12
SATURDAY February 17
Continental breakfast 8-9
9:15-10:30 6. Australian Classics in Context
Nicholas Birns, Eugene Lang College. Chair
"Patrick White and Suburbia: Disdain or Ambivalence?”, Nathanael O'Reilly, Texas Christian University,
The Age of Gas: Marcus Clarke, George Augustus Sala and Colonial Bohemia
Peter Blake, University of Brighton
"Witkacy in Oz" John Scheckter, Long Island University.
10:30-10:45 break
10:45-12 7. Australian Contexts
Three Generations of McCrae Writers, 1804 – 1958
Three Generations of McCrae Writers, 1804 – 1958
Mark Klemens, Columbus, OH.
Brenda Walker’s Challenge to the Anzac Legend in her Great War Novel The Wing of Night Donna Coates, University of Calgary.
12-1:30 Lunch, Professor Cecilia Morgan 'From Rupert's Land to Port Phillip: the Voyages of Duncan and Donald McTavish Within the British Empire, 1830s-1850s.'
1:30-2:45 Education and Cognition
How can a writer of historical fiction ethically negotiate the divide between fact and imagination?
Marcia van Zeller, Curtin University
Marcia van Zeller, Curtin University
"Psychology and Book History: A New Frontier," Per Henningsgaard, University of Wisconsin, Stevens Point,
"The Power of the Pen: Teaching Politics Via Political Cartoons." Kathleen Burns, George Mason University
"The Power of the Pen: Teaching Politics Via Political Cartoons." Kathleen Burns, George Mason University
3 PM Business Meeting
Alf Taylor's presence is assisted by The Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts
Alf Taylor's presence is assisted by The Western Australian Department of Culture and the Arts
