Journeying and Journalling Draft Programme
Sunday
7.30: Barbecue by the Seafront Hotel bar: Please buy your own drinks
Monday
9.30-10.30: Registration, Morning Tea and Welcome
10.30-12.00: Session 1 (Chair: Graham Tulloch)
Footsteps :
Mark Minchinton “Writing and Vagabondage in Southwest Western Australia: Kellerberrin Walking”
Michele Grossman “The Itinerant Text: Walking Between the Lines with Stephen Muecke and Mark Minchinton”
Melissa Harper “‘Pictures of Travel’: The Journeys and Diaries of Pedestrian Excursionist William Mogford Hamlet”
12.00-1.00: Lunch
1.00-2.30: Session 2a (Chair: Melissa Harper)
Home and Away: Journeys from Australia:
Margaret Allen “Through Colonial Spectacles”
Shannon Dowling “Travelling ‘Home’ To a Strange Place”
Mat Trinca “Crowning Glory: Australians Celebrating London in the 1950s”
Session 2b (Chair: Michael Savvas)
Australian Journeys
Clare Archer-Lean “Bats and Crows: Ambiguity as Journey in Mudrooroo’s Master of the Ghost Dreaming Series”
Jim McKay “An Ethnography of a Requiem for an Old Digger”
Steve Hemming “Encountering Whiteness in an Act of ‘Reconciliation’—the Story of the Common Knobby Club Rush”
2.30-3.00: Afternoon Tea
3.00-4.30: Session 3a (Chair: Steve Hemming)
Exploring
Peter Manthorpe “Postcards from Purgatory: Journals Making Nowhere Somewhere”
Gillian Dooley “Matthew Flinders’ Private Journal: A Private Journey”
Jean Fornasiero and John West-Sooby “Writing Oneself Out of History: The Journal of Captain Emmanuel Hamelin, second-in-command of the Baudin Expedition (1800-1803)
Session 3b (Chair: Margaret Allen)
Celtic Journeys
Graham Tulloch “ Southern Highlands”
Miriel Lenore “Is Geography Destiny? A Poet’s Interlinked Journeys of Discovery”
John McLaren “In Search of the Celtic Sunrise”
EVENING MEAL – Please make your own arrangements
7.30 Penneshaw Community Hall cabaret. Members of the conference and Kangaroo Island communities will enjoy as participants and/or audience literary readings and music accompanies by generous wine tasings courtesy of WIRRA WIRRA VINEYARDS. Open to the public (no charge).
Tuesday
9.30-11.00: Session 1: (Chair: Kylie Cardell)
Movements
Richard White “Joseph Banks’ Grand Tour and the Beginnings of Modern Tourism”
Sudesh Mishra “Diaspoetics: ‘We must be still and moving still’”
Lesley Williams “Acts of Walking”
11.00-11.30: Morning Tea
11.30-1.00: Session 2a: (Chair: Shannon Dowling)
Contemporary Journeys
Paul Gifford “ India; Spiritual Threats and Opportunities in Sarah McDonald’s Holy Cow!”
Kylie Cardell and Kate Douglas “‘Toilet Paper is widely available: Journeying in Australiam Journalling through Cyberspace”
Debra Zott “Doldrums and Dolphins: Hope, Challenge and Write of Passage in Jesse Martin’s Lionheart”
Session 2b: (Chair: Jill Golden)
Environs, Journeys
Adrienne Sallay “Journey to India: Vicki Viidikas, Tommo and Me”
Peter Monteath “Travelling North: The Diary of Caroline Creaghe”
Michael Savvas “Crime Scenes: The Importance of Place in Australian Crime Fiction”
1.00-2.00: Lunch
2.00-4.00: Session 3a: (Chair: Debra Zott)
Frontiers: North and South
Anthony J. Brown “Hidden History: Narratives of the Southern Ocean Sealers”
Tracy Spencer “White Journeys into Black Country”
Sue Hosking “Journeys and Homes: Colebrook experiences”
Kay Merry “Dancing With Devils: The Relationship Between the Aboriginal Women and the Sealers of Bass Strait and Kangaroo Island in the Early 19 th Century”
Session 3b: (Chair Richard White)
Journeys Away, Literary Journeys
Jill Golden “Postcards from Italy: Reading Identity”
Elida Meadows “Horrors and Magnificence Without End”
Engelhard Weigl “The End of Journalling: Alexander Von Humbolt’s ‘Relation Historique’ as a contrasting model to the Narrative Travel Journal.
Paul Sutton “What We Propound”
4.00-4.30: Afternoon Tea
7.30 Conference dinner at the Seafront Hotel
Wednesday
9.30-11.30 : Session 1: (Chair: Rick Hosking)
Journeys to India
Helen Tiffin “Elise Aylen and The Night of the Lord”
Tim Youngs “Reconciling the Two Worlds: William Dalrymple’s India”
Mohammad A. Quayum “Nation and Empire: Political Ideology in Rabindranath Tagore’s Travel Writings”
Satendra Nandan “Postcolonialism in the Time of Plague”
11.30-12.00: Morning Tea
12.00-1.30: Session 2a: (Chair: Tim Youngs)
Trains, Boats and...Bodies
Peter Bishop “Where are the Stories? Long Distance Rail Travel in Australia”
Jeanette Hope “River Murray Journeys”
Allison Baensch “Bodysurfing Brief”
Session 2b: (Chair: Sue Hosking)
Journals, Notebooks, Collections
Kirpal Singh “Journeying and Not Journalling: The Singaporean Experience”
Paul Sharrad “The Long Hand of Travel: Murray Bail”
Jane Southwood “Voyages of the Mind: Don Dunstan’s Library. Reflections of the Collection of a Refined, Cultivated and Astute Reader”
1.30-2.30: Lunch
2.30-4.30: Session 3a: (Chair: Peter Bishop)
Writing South Australia
Clare Johnson “Lady Franklin’s Diary of a Visit to South Australia in December 1840”
Rick Hosking
Diana Glenn “‘Lollies in the Streets’: Life Narratives of a group of first generation women of Italian (Campanian) origin residing in Adelaide, SA”
Tanya Lehmann “Searching for the truth: Faded footsteps, Tennyson, and the South Australia
Connection”
Session 3b (Chair: Kirpal Singh)
Sacred and Spiritual Journeys
Meredith Lake “The Physical and Spiritual Journeys of Australia’s First Bishop”
Karen Upton-Davis “The Corridors of My Mind”
Anne Chittleborough and Martin Chittleborough “A River Road Home: The Legacy of a Journal” (two papers)
4.30-5.30: Afternoon Tea and Journeying and Journalling Forum:
Helen Tiffin, Tim Youngs, Richard Hosking, Richard White.
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