American Association of Australian Literary Studies

       Marriott Plaza Hotel, Kansas City, Missouri

Program 2002

Thursday evening, April 18.   Reception

Friday, April 19.

Coffee and rolls: 8:30 to 9:00

Welcome:  9:00

Session 1: 9:15 to 10:15

 

Andreas Gaile. Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz.   "Irishness Revisited: Christopher Koch's Out of Ireland and the Question of Australian Identity."

Rebecca McNeer.  Ohio University-Southern.  "Happily Ever After:  Shakespeare and Murray Bail's Eucalyptus."  

Coffee: 10:15 to 10:30

Session 2: 10:30 to 11:30

        

Christina Stanciu.  Emporia State University.  "A Dream within a Dream within a Dream: Peter Weir's Picnic at Hanging Rock."

Andra Taur.  Emporia State University.  "Initiation in Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith."

Lunch on Your Own

Session 3: 1:30 to 2:30 

Lily Brett reading from her novel Too Many Men

2:30-2:45 Break

2:45-3:45 Session 4 

 

Martin Harrison.  "Teaching Contemporary Australian Writing in an American University: A Lonely Planet Guide."

John Scheckter, Moderator:  Open Forum on Undergraduate Teaching

Session 4: 3:45 - 4:45 

 

Poetry reading by Martin Harrison

Saturday, April 20.

Board breakfast meeting, 7:00 to 8:30

Coffee and rolls: 8:30 to 9:00

Session 5:  9:00 to 10:00

Ian Conrich.  University of Surrey Roehampton.  "A Life Represented: The Opposing Screen Biographies of Sylvia Ashton-Warner in Hollywood's Two Loves (1961), and the New Zealand film Sylvia (l985)."

Janaki White. Auckland.   "Indices of Identity: The Canon Revisited."

Coffee: 10:00 to 10:15

Session 6: 10:15 to 11:45

Richard Carr.  University of Alaska Fairbanks.  "In Search of a National narrative: Thomas Keneally's The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith and Andrew McGahan's 1988."

 

Saturday lunch and poetry reading: 12:00 to 1:30

General Business Meeting

Reading by John Kinsella

Session 6: 2:00 to 3:00

Theodore Sheckels.  Randolph-Macon College.  "Rape in Australian Film: An Analysis."

Kathleen Ellis.  Murdoch University.  "Why Isn't There Any Wheelchair Access at the Logies?: Portraying Disability and Australian-ness in Australian Films."