Departament de Filologia Anglesa i Alemanya Australian Studies Centre

GENERAL INFORMATION

REGISTRATION:
Registration will begin on the 30th of June at 17.00 to 20.30. Please enter the University through the big glass main doors on Plaça Universitat/Plaza Universidad. These doors are easily distinguished by their size and the fact that there are four large flagpoles immediately above them. You will find yourselves in a large colonnaded hall. There will be an exhibition taking place in the hall. Walk through on your right hand side until you come to a large wide staircase. Go up the stairs and turn left at the top. There will be notices out telling you where to go from there. There will also be a member of the team waiting for you at the top of the stairs. On the afternoon of the 30th of June the School of Dentistry will be holding its graduation ceremony and they and their families will be using the same entrance and staircase so you should not get lost! On registering please also pay for the Conference Dinner if you intend to come as we need to tell the restaurant the number of people dining by mid-day on the 1st of July.

Sessions: All sessions will be held in the Aula Magna  which is located where you register for the Congress. Please use the same entrance and staircase to reach the Aula Magna as described above.

Coffee and Tea Breaks will be held outside the University at the Cafetería Aribau. We will show you all where it is. On registration you will be issued with coffee and tea tickets for both days and this should be handed to the waiters. Morning coffee will be a choice of coffee and teas, croissants and fresh orange juice. Afternoon tea will be a choice of coffee and tea and a pastry.

If you require internet services at the conference there is an excellent internet centre opposite the University. At the time of going to press the computer in the Australian Studies Centre is down with a virus. If it has been repaired and is in service you will be able to access that machine. However, we would like to point out that this will mean having a member of the team take you to the Centre and thus we would be one short on the desks. We would ask that, if possible, you use the centre across the road. Should you require a fax service then please ask at the help desk and your document will be sent for you.

The conference papers are not going to be published this year. The idea at the moment is to wait until the second part of the conference, organised by Terri-ann White, has been held  in New Norcia in 2005 and to then bring out a publication.
 
 
 
 

“Landscapes of Exile”: Programme

30th June 17.00-20.30 Registration The registration desk will remain open throughout the conference. Should we be absent from it at any time there will be a notice saying where you will be able to find somebody to help you.

THURSDAY 1st July 2004

08.00-08.45 Registration
09.00-09.45 Formal Opening and Welcome Ceremony

09.45- 10.30 Coffee Break

10.30- 11.30 PLENARY LECTURE
CHAIR: Terri-ann White
Dom Christopher Power OSB New Norcia Monastery and Katherine Massam “NEW NORCIA: A  Place Apart”
 

11.30- 13.00 Session 1
CHAIR: Sue Ballyn
• Anna Haebich “Distorted Visions: Exile, Transformation And Replication At New Benedictine Norcia Mission”
• Lucy Frost “Exile in a Pastoral Setting: What to do with Willow Court?”
• Libby Robin ”Landscapes on the edge”

13.00 RECEPTION at the University
13. 00- 15.00 Lunch
 
 

15.00- 16.30 Session 2
CHAIR: Elisa Morera
• Peter Read “Gravestones silent in a foreign language”
• Jay Arthur “Exiling a language”
• Geoff Belligoi to be confirmed

16.30- 17.15 Tea Break

17.15- 18.45 Session 3
CHAIR: John Barnes
• Michael O´Shuagnnessey  “Journeys to the frontier: The shifting exiles of Willi Remmel”
• Eva Campama “Iberian Anti-Fascists in Australia”
• Judith Keane “Anarchy, Exile and Creativity in
the Australian Bush”

18.45-19.00 Short Break

19.00 – 20.30 Session 4
CHAIR: Tina Picton-Phillipps
•   Janie Conway-Herron “Writing  Worlds: Exile and the Imagination”
•  T.A. White “Other People's Exiles”
• Gloria Montero “Exile:  The Fabric Of Identity”
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

FRIDAY 2nd July

09.00 – 10.30 Session 5
CHAIR: Baden Offord
• Carmen Villasol “Return and migrants in current Galicia.”
• Peter Sotirakis “Broken Circles: The Return from Exile”
• Dolors Collellmir  “Exiled in their Own Land: The Case of the Australian Aborigines as Seen Through Their Literature”

10.30- 11.15 Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.45 Session 6
CHAIR: Peter Read
•  Tina Picton-Phillipps “Home & Landscape: A New Perspective”
• Sue Thomas “Tropical Gothic and West Indian Slave Narratives 1831-1833”
•  Ian Duffield “Mastering the Landscape of Exile: Exiling the Landscape of Hearth and Home; Joseph Lingard’s ConvictNarrative”
 

12.45 – 13.00 Short Break

13.00 – 14.30 Session 7
CHAIR: Lucy Frost
•  Bill Phillips “Urban Landscapes of Exile in Contemporary Detective Fiction”
• Martin Renes “Why (not) give Jake a break?
Maori displacement in Alan Duff’s novel Once Were Warriors and its filmed version by Lee Tamahori.”
•  Baden Offord “Landscapes of Exile (& Narratives on the Trauma of Belonging)”

14.30- 16.30 Lunch

16.30 – 18.00 Session 8
CHAIR: Jay Arthur
• Kay Ferres “Mourning and Justice.”
• Jackie Hurtley "The Republic in exile: Nina Murdoch's contribution."
• John Barnes “Calling Australia Home: Garden-Making as a Cultural Statement”
 

18.00 – 18.45 Tea Break

19.45 – 20.45 CLOSING SESSION: “Looking Forward”
CHAIR: Baden Offord
• Sue Tanner, Australian Ambassador
• Lucy Frost
• Terri-ann White

CONFERENCE DINNER: Restaurante Berriketa. Opposite the University. The time will be announced. Please present your tickets at the door

ACTIVITIES DURING THE CONFERENCE

Photographic Exhibition outside the Lecture Hall of Catalan and Spanish migrants in Australia during the period 1920-1950. This exhibition has been released to us for exhibition by the Fundación Primero de Mayo and has been brought to Barcelona by The Australian Embassy in Madrid in conjunction with the Australia Spain Business Association, both of whom are sponsors for the Australian Studies Centre. The Exhibition will run from the 28th of June until the 5th of July inclusive.

On the evening of the 1st of July, at 22.00 there will be a performance of the opera Josafat in the Humanities Quad (Patio) as part of the University’s involvement in the Forum of World Cultures. Those of you who have requested invitations will have them in hand on registering.

We hope to be able to offer you the Premiere of Peter Sotirakis’ documentary on Greek Migrants. The time and place will be announced during the conference