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An interdisciplinary seminar series - all welcome
Removing the Boundaries is
presented by the School of English, Journalism and European Languages.
Seminars take place on Friday afternoons at 3:45 pm for 4:00pm,
in Rm 555 of the Humanities building on the Sandy Bay campus. Refreshments are served before the session.
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Programme for semester 2, 2009 |
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July 24
August 7
August 21
September 11
September 25
October 9
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Programme for semester 1, 2009 |
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February 27
March 13
March 27
- Lisa Fletcher: “Historical Romance Fiction: Heterosexuality and Performativity”
- Professor Lucy Frost: “The Politics of Writing Convict Lives: Academic Research, State Archives and Family History”
April 17
- Jonathan Ledgard: International journalist and author of the novel Giraffe (jointly hosted with the Animals and Society Research Group)
May 1
- Elle Leane: “Creatures of the Ice”
- Eva Meidl: "A picture of the vanished: the genesis of an Aboriginal image in Ludwig Salvator's book Hobarttown oder eine Sommerfrische in den Antipoden. 1886."
May 15
- A Seminar Presented by Postgraduate Students
May 29
- Robert Clarke: “Celebrity & Travel”
- Guinevere Narraway: “Film of the Third Reich”
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The Tourist, the Witch and the Bakery: Understanding a media pilgrimage
Tasmania’s historic town of Ross, known for its convict-built bridge and
sandstone buildings, has been re-imagined into the 21st century through Internet-based rumours spread by Japanese tourists who claim the local
Village Bakery is the inspiration for a key location in the anime (Japanese animation) Kiki’s Delivery Service. This paper focuses on the strange case
of Ross’s Village Bakery shifting from the periphery of Australian heritage tourism to the centre of an imagined world spread through a network of
Japanese anime-fans and tourists. By understanding how and why Japanese tourists have located Ross in the world of anime this project will shed
light on issues of representation and the network society. Dr Craig Norris is a Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Communications at UTAS.
Discoveries in the Reading Room
Dr Ralph Spaulding talks about his most recent research on the life and work of the first two professors of English at the University of Tasmania, William Henry Williams and Albert Booth Taylor, and the discoveries he has made on the bookshelves of the Staff Room 555 in the School of English, Journalism and European Languages (the room where Removing the Boundaries is held) during the course of this research. In conversation with Dr Nicola Goc, Dr Spaulding will provide an insight into the life and work of the first woman lecturer in the department, Joyce Eyre (1909-1950); Clive Sansom, whose portrait graces the wall of the room; and renowned Australian poet James McAuley who accepted a readership in poetry at the University of Tasmania in 1960 and in 1961 succeeded to the chair of English, which he held until his death.
Australian Literature: Crisis or Transformation?
Newly appointed Lecturer in the School of English, Journalism and European Languages, Dr Katherine Bode introduces herself and her most recent research. Her talk will explore claims of a contemporary crisis or decline in Australian
fiction. By identifying long-term patterns in Australian literature and publishing, Katherine complicates this perception and explores how literary history might be refigured if viewed from a ‘distance’.
Why Didn’t You Listen: White Noise and Black History
In 1999 Henry Reynolds published Why Weren’t We Told. In his introduction
Reynolds explains the question which titles his book was one that he had been
asked over and over: ‘Why were we never told? Why didn’t we know?’ Insightful, perhaps, as they are, such questions are not particularly useful to
understanding the current state of affairs in scholarship on Australian history.
The question ‘Why didn’t you listen’ has the potential to be more revelatory, for
as recognised by W.E.H. Stanner and many others, settler Australians did know. In critiquing the exculpatory question it is not my intent to ascribe agency and
blame to individuals, whether singly or in association. It is to consider what
other questions might be asked in order to better understand how it is that a
nation practices such a cult of forgetting. The paper will also briefly canvass
forms of deliberative Aboriginal forgetting. The above analysis will contest
polarising myths underpinning much current discourse vis-à-vis settler-Aboriginal
relations Dr Mitchell Rolls is a Lecturer and Co-Director (Academic) of Riawunna, the Centre for Aboriginal Education at UTAS.
Super Sizing Debate: A popular political documentary in the Australian public sphere
This paper will examine the film Super Size Me and its presence within the Australian public sphere. It will analyse how the film speaks to, and reflects, expanded notions of “the political” within contemporary society. This inquiry into Super Size Me’s politics will fuel broader questions about what influence the film had within public debate. A useful approach to answering these questions is to examine how this film was received within the Australian press.
On Neutral Ground
Miranda Morris. As a prelude to a work of fiction, Miranda’s paper explores the tensions within, and the inscriptions upon, the 'neutral' space that was Switzerland during the Great War. It questions the place of liminal individuals; people compromised by multiple identities and loyalties forced into 'taking sides'.
War, Poetry and Madness: Aileen Palmer's poetry and autobiographical writings
Dr Sylvia Martin will explore the complex threads of Aileen’s Palmer’s life and work. Palmer is one of only three women represented in a recent anthology of thirty-three poets writing about their experiences of the Spanish Civil War. Born in 1915 in London during the Great War Palmer grew up in Australia and then spent nearly a decade of her early adulthood as an interpreter in Spain and an ambulance driver in London during
World War II.
In Conversation with New Journalism, Media and Communications staff
Miranda Harman spent 16 of at The Sydney Morning Herald, working in several senior roles, including chief sub editor and night editor. She has specialised in newspaper editing and production but has also worked as a reporter and chief of staff. She played an integral role in the Herald’s coverage of some of the biggest stories of the past decade. Co-editing the Letters page gave her an unfiltered insight into the issues that stir that all-important constituency: the readers. Miranda’s research interests include the changes the internet has brought to Australian journalism, particularly its impact on accuracy and balance.
Michelle Phillipov is Associate Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Communications. Prior to joining UTAS, she taught communications and cultural studies at the University of South Australia. Her PhD, completed at the University of Adelaide, focuses on death metal music and the limits of political criticism in cultural and media studies. In addition to her scholarly interest in popular music, Michelle has been actively involved in the Australian underground music scene, writing for a range of music publications, including street press.
John Martinkus began work as a journalist freelancing news and feature stories from East Timor in 1995. He then covered the conflict there for Australian Associated Press and various other outlets. He has since covered conflicts elsewhere in Indonesia and in Iraq, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and Burma for print and since 2004 for SBS Dateline. He has published three non fiction accounts of the conflicts in East Timor, Aceh and Iraq and been nominated for three Walkley awards for his coverage of East Timor, Iraq and Afghanistan in both print and television. In 2002 his book on East Timor A Dirty Little War was shortlisted for the NSW Premier’s literary awards.
Time and Tide: Probabilities and Possibilities for the
Australian Dictionary of Biography in the 21st Century
Professor Nolan is the Director of the National Centre for Biography and General
Editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography. The online edition of the Dictionary
contains scholarly biographies of more than 11,000 persons who were important in
Australian history or who represent aspects of the Australian experience. Professor
Nolan will talk about the history of the ADB, its transition from print culture to the
digital world, and the future of the ADB Online, which includes the use of embedded
links to trace social networks.
If you wish receive email notification of upcoming seminars please email SEJEL.admin@utas.edu.au and let us know.
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