2009 CONFERENCES
WORK-IN-PROGRESS (WIP)
Pockets of Change: Cutural Adaptations and Transitions
The University of Queensland, St Lucia
4 - 6 September 2009
Hosted by the postgraduate student society, EMAPS, within the School of English, Media Studies and Art History, the 13th annual Work-In-Progress Conference, Pockets of Change: Cultural Adaptations and Transitions, addressed cultural transition and/or adaptation from a theoretical, critical, or creative perspective from disciplines within the Humanities. The conference included more than 80 abstracts submitted from all around Australia, New Zealand, Taiwan and the US. Students presenting at the conference represented universities from: Sydney, Melbourne, Monash, UWA, Victoria, as well as a delegate from the University of Virginia. The conference keynote address was delivered by Associate Professor Angela Ndalianis, a Cinema and Cultural Studies scholar from The University of Melbourne and Professor Donald Sassoon, Queen Mary, University of London.
THE SECOND CONFERENCE OF THE INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CULTURAL HISTORY
Cultures of Violence and Conflict
The University of Queensland, St Lucia
20 - 23 July 2009
The conference was a spectacular success, attracting over a 100 papers from Australian and international contributors (from 15 nations), and from a wide range of disciplines that converged through the lens of cultural history. Our keynote speakers Joanna Bourke (UK), Alice Yang (US) and Alistair Blanchard (Aust) all argued for the centrality of cultural history to our understanding of historical and contemporary issues of violence and conflict.
5th AUSTRALIAN INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MOTHERHOOD
The Mother and History: Past / Present / Future
The University of Queensland, St Lucia
2 - 4 July 2009
Keynote Speakers: Associate Professor Gracelyn Smallwood - first Indigenous person in Australia to obtain a Masters of Science (in Public Health) She works at Cleveland Youth Detention Centre as nurse and mentor, and at Townsville Hospital as a nurse and midwife.
Andrea O’Reilly, Associate Professor in the School of Women’s Studies at York University, Toronto, Canada. In 1998 O’Reilly founded and continues to direct the Association for Research on Mothering. This association (ARM) has been in operation for 13 years and is the International centre for maternal scholarship.
This interdisciplinary conference explored, examined, critiqued, theorised, and responded to key issues for mothers that have arisen historically. Despite the economic situation, both national and international scholars were represented in the presenters of the forty-one papers. These scholars came from every level of the academic system and from twenty-one different institutions. Selected papers will be published in Hecate 35.2.
This conference was the fourth of the five International Motherhood conferences held in Australia to be hosted at The University of Queensland. It was sponsored by the Centre for Research on Women, Gender, Culture and Social Change in EMSAH, the Association for Research on Mothering - Australia (ARM-A) and ARM, York University.
WOMEN WRITERS / ARTISTS AND TRAVELLING MODERNISMS CONFERENCE
The University of Queensland, St Lucia
4 & 5 June 2009
Thirty-five delegates came together at The University of Queensland Library Conference Room to present and discuss new approaches to, and research in the field of Women and Modernisms. The keynote speakers were Professor Bonnie Kime Scott (San Diego State University ) and Professor Susan Sheridan (Adjunct, Flinders).There were several overseas speakers and many from interstate.
Selected papers will appear in Hecate 35.1, including Bonnie Kime Scott,"First Drafts for Transnational Women's Writing"; Susan Sheridan, "When Was Modernism? The Cold War Silence of Christina Stead"; Prudence Black, "Fashion Takes Flight: Amy Johnson, Schiaparelli and Australian Modernism"; Carole Ferrier, "Did Crossing the Tasman Ruin Jean Devanny’s Brilliant Career?"; Sylvia Martin, "War, Poetry and Madness: Aileen Palmer’s Poetry and Autobiographical Writings"; Sean Macdonald, "Drinking Tea at a Time of War: Zhang Ailing’s ‘Jasmine Tea’ "; Yasuko Claremont, "Nyonin Geijutsu (1928-1932) and its Women Contributors"; Barbara Hartley, "Exiled in Modernity: The Suppressed Body of the woman Writer in Japan"; Patricia Juliana Smith, "'Everything to Dread from the Dispossessed: Changing Scenes and the End of the Modernist Heroine in Elizabeth Bowen's Eva Trout"; Marcia Espinosa-Vera, "Unsubordinated Women: Modernist Fantasies of Liberation in Silvina Ocampo’s Short Stories "; Melissa Boyde, "Hope Mirrlees’s Paris: A Poem"; Catherine Speck, "Flowers, Portraits, Gum Trees: My Father and Me"; Ann Vickery, An Uncanny Vernacular: Comparing the Radical Modernisms of Lorine Niedecker and Lesbia Harford".
2008 CONFERENCES
Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre, South Bank
22 - 26 September 2008
INTERSPEECH 2008 covered all the scientific and technological aspects of speech science and technology. There were close to 900 participants from all over the world and more than 600 papers presented in parallel oral and poster sessions. The conference included plenary talks by internationally renowned experts, tutorials, exhibits, and special sessions.
WORK-IN-PROGRESS (WIP)
Border States: Mental, Political, and Textual Landscapes
The University of Queensland, St Lucia
8-10 August 2008
“Border States” is the 12th Annual Work-in-Progress postgraduate conference organised by the English, Media Studies and Art History Postgraduate Society (EMAPS) of the University of Queensland. Since the “spatial turn” of the 1990s, the border has become a focus for critics in the Humanities whose works break down class-, race- and gender-bound categories. This conference will focus on metaphorical and theoretical “borders” emerging in the work of postgraduates from across the humanities. We seek to explore the poetry and politics of frontiers, watchtowers, border conflicts, and encounters with the foreign; we will also address issues of thresholds, the “rough edges” of maps, “cartographic silence” and No Man’s Land. Borders define the imaginative territories of the mind, the nation state and the cultural text at the very moment that they reveal their porosity. The figure of the border suggests a world of related metaphors with which literature and other arts approach the boundaries of texts, discourses and disciplines. Keynote Speakers: Professor Simon During, English Department, Johns Hopkins University, Professor Gordon McMullan, English Department, King’s College London