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Program
Special Events
- Friday 12th December - 6:00pm - 7:00pm - Welcome:
Global Arts Link Gallery, D'Arcy Doyle Place, Ipswich City
centre
- Saturday 13th December - 6:30pm - Conference
dinner [Venue to be announced]
Keynote Speakers
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Rajeswari Sunder Rajan is currently Reader in
English at Oxford University and Professorial Fellow
of Wolfson College. Her major books include The Scandal
of the State: Women, Law and Citizenship in Postcolonial
India (Duke UP, 2003); Real and Imagined Women: Gender,
Culture and Postcolonialism (Routledge, 1994) and the
edited collections, Signposts: Gender Issues in Post-Independence
India (Rutgers UP, 1999) and The Lie of the Land: English
Literary Studies in India (Oxford UP, 1992).
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Patrick Brantlinger is currently Professor of
English at Indiana University. He served for ten years
as editor of Victorian Studies and has won numerous
fellowships and awards including a Guggenheim and a
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship. His
books include The Reading Lesson: The Threat of Mass
Literacy in Nineteenth Century British Fiction (Indiana
UP, 1998); Crusoe's Footprints: Cultural Studies in
Britain and America (Routledge, 1990); Energy and Entropy:
Science and Culture in Victorian Britain (Indiana UP,
1989); Rule of Darkness: British Literature and Imperialism,
1830-1914 (Cornell UP, 1988); and The Spirit of Reform:
British Literature and Politics, 1832-1867. (Harvard
UP, 1977).
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John Frow is Regius Professor of Rhetoric and
English Literature at the University of Edinburgh and
Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in the
Humanities. He is currently working a project on the
moral economies of everyday life, and on another on
cultural memory. He is author of Genre (Routledge, 2003);
Accounting for Tastes: Australian Everyday Cultures
(with Tony Bennett and Michael Emmison, Cambridge UP,
1999); Time and Commodity Culture: Essays in Cultural
Theory and Postmodernity (Clarendon, 1997); Cultural
Studies and Cultural Value (Clarendon, 1995); and Marxism
and Literary History (Harvard UP, 1986).
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