[Abel Smith Lecture Theatre]

9.30am - 10am: Opening welcomes

10am - 11.15am: First Keynote Speaker, Professor Michael Taussig
"On the Beach at Ibiza with Walter Benjamin."
Respondent: Professor John Frow (University of Edinburgh)

11.15am -11.45am Morning tea: Abel Smith Foyer

[Abel Smith Lecture Theatre]

11.45am -12.30pm Special Session
Helen Tiffin "Sharks and the Australian Imaginary"

12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch: 30/40 Café at The Tennis Centre

1.30 - 3.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124]

1.30 - 3.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124a]

1.30 - 3.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 204]

1.30 - 3.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 205]

1.30 - 3.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 229]

Margaret Henderson
"The Big Business of Surfing's Oceanic Feeling: Thirty Years of Tracks Magazine"

Paul Scott
"Sick Pits and Filthy Barrels: Riding the Ideological Wave of Australia's Contemporary Surfing Print Media"

David Lanagan
"Surfing In The Third Millenium"

Sara Gwenllian- Jones
"The Effects of Saltwater on Leather, or What does Xena do at the Beach?"

Alan McKee
"Not on the beach, but in the suburbs: revisiting the Neighbours controversy"

Rosanne Kennedy
"The Beach at the End of the Century: Liminality and Place in Sea Change

Elaine Lally
"'Surf's up!': personal information accessories and metaphors of the beach, pleasure and the individual"

Susan Luckman
"'What are they raving on about?': Play, Temporary Autonomous Zones and Reclaiming the Streets of Australia"

Kath Albury
Pleasure (and Danger) in Parliament: what happened to the Non-Violent Erotica Classification?"

Sandra Brunet
"Surfing the Himalayas: the risk factor in returning home"

Briar Wood
"An End in Itself: The Beach as Third Space"

Libby McDonald & Guy Redden
"Still Surviving Beach Fantasies"

Robert Knight
Fugitive figures on the beach: the danger and pleasure of disintegration"

Sue Turnbull
"It's criminal what a girl's gotta do for a good read"

Sandra Lilburn
"'The Second Wave' made a big splash: 1970s feminism and the Australian press."

3.00pm - 3.30pm Afternoon tea: Venue TBA

3.30 - 5.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124]

3.30 - 5.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124a]

3.30 - 5.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 204]

3.30 - 5.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 205]

3.30 - 5.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 229]

Joan Ormrod
"Time, Myth and Rhetoric in George Greenough and Albie Falzon's Crystal Voyager (1972)"

Keith Beattie
"Sick, Filthy and Delirious: Surf Film and the Documentary Mode."

Jeff Lewis
"Drowning, not waving: Surf movies and the ends of the earth."

Stephanie Donald
"History, Entertainment, Education and Jiaoyü: A Western Australian perspective on Australian children's media and some Chinese alternatives"

Michael Keane
"The salon of love: making out on national television in the People's Republic of China"

Pieter Aquilia
"The man-made beach: a new multicultural site in Australasian film and television drama"

Vyvyan Stranieri
"Heaven: bodies and boys and sexuality and a 'perve'."

Christina George
"Re-making genres - surfing and silverchair"

Jennifer Webb
"Beach bodies"

Grahame Griffin
"Beyond the Beach and into the Blue: Gold Coast High Rises and the Oceanic Gaze"

Stephen Stockwell
"Moving Images from the Gold Coast"

Richard Read
"Swash Oscillations - Coastal Readings from a TranAustralian Emailbook"

Mark Gibson
"Solemnly enjoying an ice-cream: The inertia of the Ordinary and Australian cultural studies"

Amanda Macdonald
"Making Meta Beaches, or Over the Beach and Far Away"

Greg Noble & Megan Watkins
"Can Bourdieu Swim? Habitus, consciousness and embodiment"

[Abel Smith Lecture Theatre]

9.00am - 10.15am: Second Keynote Speaker, Associate Professor Philip Hayward
"Beaches, Decks and Betweens - The Re-Creational Project of Music"
Respondent: Professor Graeme Turner (University of Queensland)

10.15am -10.45am Morning tea: Abel Smith Foyer

[Abel Smith Lecture Theatre]

10.45am -12.30pm: Special Session Contesting the Purity of the Beach
Gay Hawkins "Plastic Bags: Living With Rubbish"
Gerry Bloustien & Mark Israel "Flotsam and Jetsam : Representations of Beach Crime in Australia"
Gael Walker "Contest at Bondi"

12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch: 30/40 Café at The Tennis Centre

12.50pm - 1.30pm: CSAA AGM

1.30 - 3.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124]

1.30 - 3.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124a]

1.30 - 3.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 204]

1.30 - 3.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 205]

1.30 - 3.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 229]

Krista Comer
"Surfing on the Edge of History: Grrrl Power and the New World Order"

Terrie Waddell
"Battler-trollop-mole-slut-bogan - the beach babes you don't see"

Nadine Wills
"'Below Under the Foam': Mermaids and Genital Anxiety."

Jeanette Hoorn
"They burn their beastly bodies brown" - Nino Cullota's Weird Mob at the Beach"

Jane Landman
"Kings of the Coral Sea: Colonial identities on Australia's margins"

Barbara Creed
"Blood on the Beach - Anxiety, Racism & Death at the Shoreline"

Lisa French
"A Sandy Nation: Reclaiming the Shore"

Jane Sayle
"Pohutukawa Rina: A Day in the Sun"

Ian McLean
"The beach in art"

Nancy Victorin-Vangerud
"The Second Coming of the Sea: Dis/closive Possibilities in Australian Spirituality"

Jo Robertson
"What is it about Whales?: Charismatic Megafauna and Commerce"

Stephen Muecke
"The Ocean Taussig Forgot"

Helen Grace
"The Air of the Time: Breathing On the Beach"

Constantine Verevis
"On the Beach This is the way the world ends"

Wendy Pearson
"White-Out: Apocalyptic Revision and the Erotics of Ending"

3.00pm - 3.30pm Afternoon tea: Venue TBA

3.30 - 5.30
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124]

3.30 - 5.30
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124a]

3.30 - 5.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 204]

3.30 - 5.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 205]

3.30 - 5.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 229]

Clifton Evers
"The 'Other' surfer"

Mary Ann Hunter
"No Fear: Boys' Own Beach Adventure"

Rebecca Bell-Metereau
"The Beach as a Site of Transformation: From Here to Eternity, The Last Wave, and The Piano"

Howard McNaughton
"Things to Do with Jane Campion's Beach"

Chris Healy
"Dead Men on the Beach"

Deane Williams
"Moby Dick on the Inland Sea"

Annette J Aw
"FASHION@
BEACH.COM" An analysis of fashion (as a cultural item) @ the beach"

Jennifer Craik
"From the Bush to the Sea: Aussie Bodies, Aussie Cossies"

Liane McDermott, John B Lowe & Mike Emmison
"A suntan: the summer fashion accessory that just won't fade away!"

Ian Buchanan
"Going out of Fashion, the fate of theory"

Katrina Schlunke
"Playing the Beaches and Patrolling the Shores; Rhetoric, Refugees and the Politics of Uncertainty"

Paul McCormack
"Importing Conflict/Importing Culture: Attitudes to Immigration at the End of White Australia and After"

Maria Giannacopoulos
"The 'legal' mistreatment of refugees in Australia"

Wenche Ommundsen
"Reading at the Beach: The Pleasures of Literary Festivals"

Andrea Witcomb
"From Batavia to Australia II: Negotiating changes in curatorial practices"

Lisa Gunders
"Who's on the Beach?"

Chris Prentice
"Virtually on the Beach"

[Abel Smith Lecture Theatre]

9.00am - 10.15am: Third Keynote Speaker, Associate Professor Anne Freadman
"The Functions of a Fossil: What's Semiotics Doing in Cultural Studies?"
Respondent: Dr Helen Grace (University of Western Sydney, Nepean)

10.15am -10.45am Morning tea: Abel Smith Foyer

[Abel Smith Lecture Theatre]

10.45am -12.30pm Special Session
John Frow "Signature and Brand"
Zoe Sofoulis "Swimming, Nature and the Sociotechnical: the 'Fastskin' controversy"

12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch: 30/40 Café at The Tennis Centre

1.30 - 3.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124]

1.30 - 3.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124a]

1.30 - 3.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 204]

1.30 - 3.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 205]

1.30 - 3.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 229]

Cameron White
"Sharkbaiting: Beach Culture and Urban Development in Sydney, 1880-1914"

Keith Moore
"Zinc Cream and Coca-Cola - The lure of the beach for young Australians during the latter half of the 1960s"

Justine Lloyd
"Arrivals and arrivals: Royal travel at Botany Bay"

Ruth Barcan
"The Moral Bath of Bodily Unconsciousness": Female Beach Nudism, Bodily Exposure and the Gaze"

Leila Green
"Hiding Behind Nakedness on the Nude Beach"

Paul Magee
"An Ocean Within"

Brian Morris
"Televising the (r)evolution: exaggeration, urban spectacle and the Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras"

Sharon Chalmers
"Beyond Boys at the Beach and Dykes on Bikes: Living at the Edges of Queer Identity"

Susan Knabe
"The Erotics of Place and the End of the Archive: Locating the Gay Beach in the Age of AIDS"

Anne Brewster
"Anxiety and Aboriginality: the intersubjectivities of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal (post) reconciliation Australia."

Janie Conway
"Prison, Haven or Paradise?"

Lisa Bellear
"From the Torres Straits to Kulin Nations Country: seeing the seas through Indigenous eyes"

Terry Flew, Harvey May & Christina Spurgeon
"'Australianness' and Cultural Critique: Evaluating Casting and Cultural Diversity in Australian Commercial Television Drama 'Australiannes' and Cultural Critique: Evaluating Casting and Cultural Diversity in Australian Commercial Television Drama

Tom O'Regan
"Whither cultural policy studies?"

3.00pm - 3.30pm Afternoon tea: Venue TBA

3.30 - 5.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124]

3.30 - 5.00
[Colin Clark]
[Room 124a]

3.30 - 5.00
[Chamberlain]
[Room 204]

P. David Marshall
"The Surf, Cultural Production and the value of Cultural studies: How the Web leads to a tidal shift in orientation"

Chris Chesher
"The Laptop on the beach"

Jason Wilson
"Arcade-techture: the arcade, gaming, bodies and space."

Peter Jackson
"No Panopticon in Sight at this Sexotic Oriental Beach: Gender and Sexual Minorities Under the Thai Regime of 'Positive Images'"

Mark McLelland
"Private Acts/Public Spaces: the Impact of the Internet on Gay Cruising Practices in Japan"

Will Brooker
"Hero of the Beach: Flex Mentallo at the End of the Worlds"

Jon Stratton
"Not Another Multicultural Story: The Ethnicisation of the English in Australian Multiculturalism."

Warwick Mules
"Beauty and the Beach: the Postcard as a Time Concept"

Jude Adams
"Margins and Melodrama: Landscape at the Edge"