AAWP Conference - November 2002

Dangerous Dreaming

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Conference timetable (21/11/02)

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VENUE: All spaces used are in the Arts Centre Building (Map).
FRIDAY - 22/11/2002
9.30 11.30
REGISTRATION: Foyer, Arts Centre Building
11.30 12.30
INTRODUCTION: Assoc. Prof. Angela O'Brien
OPENING ADDRESS: Lillian Holt, Director Indigenous Studies,
University of Melbourne
VENUE: Harold White Lecture Theatre
12.30 2.00
LUNCH & BOOK LAUNCH
2.00 3.30

The courage of self-indulgence: a performance
alicia sometimes

A sequence of poems
Grant Caldwell
University of Melbourne

Portrait of the artist as a mad girl
Linda Neil ('Lula Bliss')
University of Queensland





VENUE: Open Stage

Imaginary Anatomies: working with dream bodies
Jennifer Lee
Deakin University

Terror, shame, disgust and contempt: writing as affect
Anna Gibbs
University of Western Sydney

Flight: the ethical implications of narrative choices
Jan Harrow
Adelaide University


VENUE: Room 223

3.30 4.00
AFTERNOON TEA
4.00 5.15 An unaccountably dead subject
Andrew Watts
University of NSW

The musical dream of a forgotten woman
Christine Balint
University of Melbourne

The architect’s dream
Dr Jo Gardiner

 


VENUE: Harold White Lecture Theatre

Dreams and nightmares in the kingdom of capital
Jennifer Webb
University of Canberra

The spirit of place: writers and their settings
Dr Nigel Krauth
Griffith University


Dreaming Out Loud: Reading and Writing Memoir.
Sari Smith
University of Melbourne

VENUE: Room 222

5.15 6.16
KEYNOTE SPEECH: Dr Brenda Walker, Senior lecturer University of WA: Deflection, Defection and Disclosure: Telling Stories in Australia
VENUE: Harold White Lecture Theatre

SATURDAY - 23/11/2002
9.30 10.00
MORNING TEA
10.00 11.50 10.00 - 10.50am
Anyone feeling dangerous?

Postgraduate writing students perform short plays, poetry, audio-visual events:
Deakin University
Ali Alizadeh, Jennifer lee, Ben O'Mara, Jo Scicluna, Winnie Salamon, David Sornig, Patrick van der Werf.

10.55-11.45am
Readings
from University of Melbourne
English Department Creative Writing students:
Rhonda Dredge & friends


VENUE: Harold White Theatre
Creative diversity: the public and the private of learning disabilities
Dr Kate Deller-Evans & Reem Al-Mahmood
Flinders University & University of Melbourne

Unpacking creativity in the academic discipline
Dr Marcelle Freiman
Macquarie university

Teaching creative writing in English in Hong Kong
Nancy Tsui Yuk Chun
Chinese University of Hong Kong


VENUE: Room 223
12.00 1.00 Panel: Mixed motives, multi-cultures, & common grounds between professional and creative writing
Chair: Prof. Brian Dibble
Members (to be confirmed): David Parker, Judith Rodriguez, Carmel Kelly

VENUE: Room 223
1.00 2.00
LUNCH & BOOK LAUNCHES
2.00 3.30 Something borrowed something blue
Dr Steve Evans
Flinders University

Poetry: rewriting to what end?
Dr Kevin Brophy
University of Melbourne

An alternative verse novel: an exploration of alternation
Philip Salom
University of Melbourne


VENUE: Room 223
Don't speak to me about politics: political poems of Sharon Olds
Assoc. Prof. Jeri Kroller
Flinders University

The poetry of a political theatre
Paul Monaghan
University of Melbourne

Tracking the tracker
Prof. Tom Shapcott
Adelaide University


VENUE: Harold White Theatre
3.30 4.15
AFTERNOON TEA
4.15 5.45 Dialogue with a thesis journal
Helen Milte Bastow
University of Melbourne

Ways of knowing place: a novel-in-progress
Glenda Guest

A novel of wilderness journeys
Amanda Johnson
University of Melbourne



VENUE: Harold White Theatre
'The girls guide to real estate' as case study
Dr Tess Brady & Donna Lee Brien
Deakin University & Queensland University of Technology

Writing in landscapes downunder
Assoc. Prof. Glen Phillips

Site-seeing poet: location research for creative writers
Ali Alizadeh
Deakin University

VENUE: Room 316-7
       

Conference Dinner 7.00 pm: UNIVERSITY HOUSE, Lower East Dining Room
GUEST SPEAKER: ROD QUANTOCK
SUNDAY - 24/11/2002
9.30 10.00
MORNING TEA
10.00 11.15
Annual General Meeting of AAWP
11.15 1.00

Dismembering and remembering: the abject and the icon
Jennifer Gay Albertson

Private grief and creative women in the public sphere: Carol Shields
Brenda Glover
Flinders University

'And thus the night .....': animals, humans and politics
Dr Patrick West
Griffith University


VENUE: Room 223

Sociological poetics in creative writing pedagogy
Dr Paul Dawson

Dreaming into being: pressure and autonomy for young writers in Hong Kong
Nicole Wong Chun Chi
Chinese University of Hong Kong

Eucalyptus regnans or the forest and the trees
Dr Gaylene Perry
Deakin/Monash Universities


VENUE: Room 222

1.00 2.00 LUNCH
2.00 3.30
KEYNOTE & PLENARY SESSION: ARNOLD ZABLE
VENUE: Harold White Lecture Theatre