Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya Centre d'Estudis Australians

Monday 28th July
Registration will take place throughout each day from 08.30-17.30

9.45-10.30 Opening:

El Embajador de Australia, Excelentísimo Sr. D. Noel Campbell
Dra Carmen Muñoz Lahoz, Vice-Rectora de Política Científica
Dr  Sotelo Vazquez, Decano de la Facultat de Filologia
Dr. Sue Ballyn, Directora del Observatori: Centre d’ Estudis Australians

10.30-11.30 Plenary Lecture 1 CHAIR: Sue Ballyn
Terri-Ann White The country and the city

11.30-12.15 Coffee

12.15-13.30 1st Panel Session “Dis/placement of Memory”
CHAIR: Baden Offord

Catalina Ribas Segura Did it Really Happen? Memory, History and Myth in Eugenia Tsoulis´ Between the Ceiling and the Sky.
María Isabel Seguro Gómez `Hawai, Hawai/ Like a dream/ So I CAME/ But my tears/Are flowing now/ In the canefields´: Beauty´s Price in Philip Kan Gotanda´s Ballad of Yachiyo.
Luisa Pèrcopo Time Shifting and Collective Memory: Minority Autobiographies in Australia

13.30-14.00 AULA MAGNA Launch “Myth, History and Memory     Sculpture Show”:
His Excellency the Australian Ambassador, Noel Campbell
Dr. Jaime de Cordoba, Professor of Fine Arts

14.00 Champagne Reception in the Cloister

15.30-16.45 2nd Panel Session  “Indigenous History Revised”
CHAIR: Eleanore Wildburger

Jay Arthur Remembering the Stolen Generations in the National Museum of Australia.
Terry Widders Indigenous (Colonial) History: A Past in the Present.
Cynthia vanden Driesen From `a shrew from the Orkneys´ to white indigene- the many re-Inventions of Eliza Fraser.

16.45-18.00 3rd Panel Session “Politics of Rememberance: Indigenous Australia”
CHAIR: Martin Leer

Isabelle Auguste On the Significance of Saying “Sorry” –Politics of Memory and
 Aboriginal Reconciliation in Australia.
Lyndall Ryan “The long shadows of remembrance: massacre denial and the Black War   in Tasmania”
Lyn McCredden “Forms of memory in post-colonial Australia”

18.00-18.45 TEA
 

18.45-20.00 4th Panel Session “The Genesis of Meaning and Image”
CHAIR: John Docker

Carles Conrad Serra Pagès A Reading of Husserl´s “life-world” against the Loss of History in the Context of Postcolonial Aboriginal Australia.
Vanessa Castejon A demystification in process? The image of Aboriginal people in France
Kristina Everett Traditional Urban Aboriginal Religion

Tuesday 29th July

09.30-10.30 Plenary Lecture 2 CHAIR: Doireann MacDermott
Baden Offord “Memories Of Tolerance”
 

10.30-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.30 5th Panel Session “Arguing for Mythologies”
CHAIR: Terri-ann White

Ann Curthoys  Remembering Paul Robeson’s Australian Tour of 1960
Ann Mcgrath Lady Mungo: Empowering Histories of Indigenous Belonging amidst the Science.
Frances Peters-Little Remembering the Referendum.

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-16.35 6th Panel Session “Indigenous Visual and Performing Arts”
CHAIR: Peter Read

Dolors Soriano & Victòria Medina  The body as a language and expression of the Aboriginal cultural identity
Eleanore Wildurger Indigenous Australian Artworks in Intercultural Contact Zones.
Helen Gilbert Indigenous Performance and Global Spectacle.
Anna Cole `Dancing with the Prime Minister’.  Myth and History

16.35-.17.15 Tea

17.20-18.35 7th Panel Session “Futuring Memory”
CHAIR: Cynthia vanden Driesen

Martin Leer Antipodean Memory Theatres in the Work of David Malouf.
Martin Renes Echoes of a not so Mythical Past: Memories of Race in Elizabeth Jolley´s The Well.
Elisa Morera de la Vall A Noah of out Times: Around Him Arose a Myth
 

18.35-19.50 8th Panel Session “Determinants of Narrative Strategies”
CHAIR: Carles Serra
Roberta Trapè From the notebook to the novel: memory’s journey in Robert Dessaix’s Night Letters
Teresa Requena  Catharine Sedgwick’s Hope Leslie (1827) and the Revision of the Puritan Past
Anne Holden Rønning Myth and Memory as Determinants of Narrative.

Wednesday 30th July

09.00-10.35 9th Panel Session “Interpreting and Finding Identities”
CHAIR: Isabel Alonso

Gloria Montero Myth and Memory in The Queen of Dreams.
Inez Baranay Local Time.
John Mateer  “The Blackfella is the Ghost of the Father” - a fictional essay
Rosanna Rion Translation and Tradition: the Translator as Mediator between Two  Literary Systems.

10.35-11.15 Coffee

11.15-12.30 10th Panel Session “Science: A Fertile Ground for Myth?”
CHAIR: Bill Phillips

Joan. M. Salietti. Myths in environmental Sciences
David Serrat Climatic Change and Humanity: A Permanent Conflict?
Francesc Llauradó  Food and Chemicals The case of Nufarm

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-16.15 11th Panel Session “The Silent Language of Trauma”
CHAIR: Inez Baranay

Jennifer Wilson The Experience of Being Injured: an 'Otherwise' Perspective
Mercè Cuenca `Inscrutable Intelligence´: The Case against Plastic Surgery in the  Works of Jean Stafford and Sylvia Plath.
Maureen Lynch The Ethics and Politics of Remembering and   Forgetting in Sue Woolfe’s The Secret Cure
 

16.15-17.00 TEA
 

21.30 CONFERENCE DINNER Restaurante Flamant

Thursday 31st July

09.45-10.30 Coffee
 

10.30-11.30 3rd PLENARY CHAIR: Kathleen Firth
Peter Read “A Funa in Australia?”

11.30- 12.45 12th Panel Session “Past and Present: Spain and Catalonia”
CHAIR: Ann Curthoys

Isabel Alonso & Marta Ortega When We Were Kids:The Treatment of Race Difference in Texts and Images under the Franco Regime (Working title)
Bill Phillips Constructing Catalonia
John Docker The Scandal of Sir Walter Scott´s Ivanhoe in Nineteenth Century English  Culture: Can Rebecca be saved from Moorish Spain?

13.00-15.00 Lunch

15.00-16.35 13th Panel Session “Routes to Historical Memory and Myths”
CHAIR: Gloria Montero

Jaime de Córdoba Drawing Myth and History in visual art.
Francesco Cattani Picnic at Hanging Rock: an Australian Myth.
John Ryan The Life To Come: Fiction as a Magical Intervention
Wenche Ommundsen Myth And Migration: Alienation And Belonging In Recent Asian-Australian Picture Books

16.40-17.30 TEA
 

17.30- 18.45 14th Panel Session “Rituals and Legends: Reasserting Identity”
CHAIR: Vanessa Castejon

Julieta C. Mallari King Sinukuan Mythology and the Kapampangan Psyche.
Victòria Medina & Dr.Théophile Koui After the Wê mask in Ivory Coast:a preliminary study about its origin, symbolism and value as an element of communication
Roser Bosch A way of reasserting and sharing identity: Acrylic Paintings of the Central Desert.
 

18.45 -19.30 Closing table-
CHAIR: Sue Ballyn
Baden Offord
Peter Read
Terri-ann White

20.00 Colla de Castellers d’Esplugues : Els Cargolins  University Garden. This is a unique experience and the first time it has been performed within the University. Do not miss it!