On the Margins
International Conference
organised by :
the European Association for Studies on Australia
and
CLIMAS
4 – 7 September 2013
Université Michel de Montaigne-Bordeaux 3
WEDNESDAY SEPTEMBER 4th
10.00 – 12.30 Post-Graduate Workshop (C104)
Run by Anne Brewster and Marc Delrez
12.00 – 1.30: Registration (A 001)
1.30 – 2.00 : Official opening (Amphi B 200)
Marc Delrez (President of EASA)
Nathalie Jaeck (President of CLIMAS)
2.00 – 3.00 : Keynote session (Amphi B 200)
Gail Jones (University of Western Sydney)
“Mousterians of the Antipodes: marginal bodies and the untimeliness of colonial
paradigms”
Chair: Dolores Herrero
3.00 – 4.30 : Parallel Sessions
1A: On the Margins of Language and Literature (C 105)
- Éva FORINTOS (University of Pannonia): “Semantic Aspects of AustralianHungarian and New Zealand-Hungarian Language Contact Phenomena”
- Wenche OMMUNDSEN (University of Wollongong): “Australian literature:
transnational and translingual?”
- Gabriella T. ESPÁK (University of Debrecen): “Literary Nationalism in Teaching
Australia”
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1B: On the Margins of Literary Identity (C 107)
- Martin RENES (University of Barcelona): “Spectral Matters: Mudrooroo’s ghostly
deconstruction of ‘authentic’ Australianness”
- Maria Preethi SRINIVASAN (Queen Mary’s College, Chennai): “The Exceptional
Exception: Reflections on Roberta Sykes ‘Black Australian’ Identity”
- Paul SHARRAD (University of Wollongong): “Tom Keneally: The Marginal
Mainstream”
4.30 – 5.00 : Coffee Break (Maison des étudiants)
5.00 – 6.30 Parallel Sessions
2A: Indigenous Australians in Film and Television (C 105)
- Renate BROSCH (University of Stuttgart): “Making the Marginalized Matter: The
Production of Empathy in the Australian Movie Samson and Delilah”
- Luisa PÈRCOPO (Cagliari University): “Humour, Ethics and Indigenous Film:
Wayne Blair’s The Sapphires”
- Cecile Cau (Independent scholar, France): "Recentering Indigenous (hi)stories.
‘Redfern Now’ : from the margins of Aboriginal drama to mainstream TV"
2B: Gail Jones (C 107)
- Mark FROUD (University of the West of England) “The Lost Child at the Centre of
the Story”
- Houda JOUBAIL (University of Liège) “Sorry in the Margin : ‘Trauma Envy” in
Gail Jones’s Sorry”
- M. Pilar ROYO (University of Zaragoza) “Intertextuality in Gail Jones’s Sorry: Is
Perdita an Australian Shakespeare or a Shakespearean Australian?”
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THURSDAY SEPTEMBER 5th
9.00 – 10.30 : Parallel Sessions
3A: David Malouf (C 105)
- Martin STANIFORTH (University of Leeds): “Figures at the Margins: Reading the
Liminal in David Malouf’s Remembering Babylon and Rodney Hall’s The Second
Bridegroom”
- Jean PAGE (University of Lisbon): “Language as Margin: David Malouf’s ‘The
Last Speaker of his Tongue’”
- Eleonora GOI (University of Udine): “‘A steely impersonality”: marginalised
characters in David Malouf’s Child’s Play”
3B: On the Margins of Social Policy (C 107)
- Michael ACKLAND (James Cook University): “Comrade Lenin’ viewed from the
margin: Christina Stead’s verdict on Australia’s seminal role as social laboratory and
working-man’s paradise”
- Sophie KOPPE (Université du Sud-Toulon): “The appropriation of the margin:
Learning from Australian welfare reform”
- Dr Kiera LINDSEY (University of South Australia): “Coercion and Consent: How
the Australian nation state uses Forced Marriage to construct margins and assert control
over ethnic, cultural & religious difference”
3C: The Margin and the Centre in Museums and Galleries (C109)
- Helen IDLE (King’s College, London): “Nothing to see: an enquiry into the space
between two paintings: ‘Old Bedford’ (2005) and ‘September’ (2005)”
- Alison CLARK (King’s College London): “[Un]Bounded objects: exhibiting the
multiple histories present in an Indigenous Australian collection”
- Andreia SARABANDO (University of Minho):“Object Lessons from Dominic
Smith’s Bright and Distant Shores: the exhibition of native peoples and artifacts”
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee Break (Maison des étudiants)
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11.00 – 12.30 : Parallel Sessions
4A: Literary Encounters on the Margins (C 105)
- Geoff RODOREDA (University of Stuttgart): “The Swinging Stirrup: Murder at the
Margins of Queensland in Recent Australian Fiction”
- Laura SINGEOT (Caen University): “Meeting on the Margins: Rewriting First
Encounters in Three Australian Novels (Voss [1957] and A Fringe of Leaves [1973] by
Patrick White; Remembering Babylon [1993] by David Malouf)”
- Elizabeth McMAHON (University of New South Wales): “Castaways: Lost at sea
in No Man’s Land”
4B: On the Margins of Australia and Asia (C 107)
- Megumi KATO (Meisei University, Tokyo): “Diversity in the Centre of the Margin:
Perceptions of the Japanese in the Literature of Australia’s North”
- Kun Jong LEE (Korea University): “Australia Seen from the Asian Australian
Margins: Dono’o Kim’s The Chinaman”
- Amit SARWAL (Deakin University): “Real, Imagined and Mythologized:
(Re)Presentation of Lost Home in the Short Stories of South Asian Diaspora in Australia”
4C: Mining and Carpentaria (C109)
- Lars JENSEN (Roskilde University): “Mining their own Business: The Australian
mining industry and the construction of the national imaginary and its margins”
- Estelle CASTRO (LIA TransOceanik, CNRS/JCU-Cairns Institute): The Poetics of
Relation in Alexis Wright’s Carpentaria
- Anne LE GUELLEC-MINEL (University of Bretagne Occidentale): “Writing away
in the fringe in Carpentaria by Alexis Wright”
12.30 – 2.00 Buffet Lunch (Maison des étudiants)
2.00 – 3.00 : Keynote session (Amphi B 200)
Philip McLaren
“Thaw-uma-li: coals for cooking in, or food for thought”
Chair : Marc Delrez
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3.00 – 4.30 : Parallel Sessions
5A: Convict Australia (C 105)
- Susan BALLYN (Barcelona University):“Two Marginal Stories: Hannah Thornton
and Mary Kelley Transported on the Hydery in 1832”
- Sissy HELFF (Goethe-University of Frankfurt): “Commodifying Port Arthur?
History and Memory in the Limelight of Dark Tourism”
- Amanda JOHNSON (University of Melbourne):“The Expedition of Female
Mourning: Jane Franklin as marginal ‘adventuress’ and colonial mourner”
5B: On the Margins of Politics (C 107)
- Jenny HOCKING (Monash University): ‘The Forgotten History of 11 November
1975: Gough Whitlam, the House of Representatives and Sir John Kerr’s Second Dismissal’
- Peter GALE (University of South Australia): “Framing Public Debate on the
Northern Territory Intervention: The Media and Moral Panic on the Margins”
- David CALLAHAN (University of Aveiro): “The Edge of the Australian Empire”
5C: Murray Bail (C109)
- Martin HARRISON (University of Technology Sydney): “Am I Marginal?”
- Marie HERBILLON (Liège University): “Decentralizing the Australian short story:
Murray Bail's “Camouflage”
- Jaroslav KUŠNÍR (University of Prešov): “Rewriting the Margins: The Margin
Strikes Back in Murray Bail’s The Voyage (2012)”
4.30 – 5.15 : Coffee Break (Maison des étudiants)
Launch of the latest edition of the Journal of Australian Studies
Mitchell Rolls, Kiera Lindsey
Presentation of AustLit
Elizabeth McMahon
5.15 – 6.30: EASA General Meeting (Amphi B 200)
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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 6th
9.00 – 10.30 : Parallel Sessions
6A: Tim Winton (C 105)
- Tomasz GADZINA (Opole University): “Tim Winton’s Australia as a Margin:
Remarks on Australian Postcoloniality”
- Lyn McCREDDEN (Deakin University): “Tim Winton and the poetics of
resurrection”
- Dominique SEVE (Université du Havre): “Tim Winton: A Marginal Individual”
6B: On the margins of literary cultures (C 107)
Chair: Gabriella Espak
- Oliver HAAG (Edinburgh University / Austrian Centre for Transcultural Studies,
Vienna): “Replicating Marginality through Translation”
- Dr Beate JOSEPHI (Edith Cowan University) & Christine BOVEN:“On the margins
of literary journalism: Anna Funder’s All That I Am and Ursula Krechel’s Landgericht”
- Milena MARINKOVA (University of Huddersfield): “‘Caught between’: Spectres of
the Balkan, Reading Australia”
6C: On the Margins of Place (C109)
- Gillian BARLOW: (University of Western Sydney): “Rubbing Out: looking at
Aboriginal housing”
- Bronwyn LAY (European Graduate School): “Swapping one great silence for
another”
- Lise GAROND (Laboratoire d’Anthropologie Sociale, Paris): “Ambivalent memories
of colonial others on Palm Island”
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee Break (Maison des étudiants)
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11.00 – 12.30 : Parallel Sessions
7A: Indigenous Identity (C 105)
- Michelle CAREY & Michael PRINCE (Murdoch University): “Erasure, survival
and the mobilisation of difference”
- Delphine DAVID (University of Paris-Dauphine):“White, Australian and
Aboriginal: shifting identities in today’s Australia”
- Franca TAMISARI (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice):“The Limits of Recognition.
The ‘Politics of Sentiment’ in Australia.”
7B: Women in Literature (C 107)
Chair: Lyn McCredden
- Annalisa PES (University of Verona): “Marginal genre/marginal gender:
Australian women writers and the short story”
- Donna COATES (University of Calgary): “From the Margins to the Military: CrossDressing Soldiers in Second World War Fictions by Mandy Sayer and Sara Knox”
- Giovanni MESSINA (University of Turin): “Coloured marginalities: the
‘white/brown sugar’ metonymy in Nancy Cato’s Brown Sugar”
7C: To/From the Margins of Europe (C109)
- Andrew TAYLOR (Edith Cowan University): Marginality and Transgression:
Henry Handel Richardson’s Maurice Guest
- Dolores HERRERO (University of Zaragoza): Chris Womersley’s Bereft: Ghosts
that Dwell on the Margins of the Traumatic Memory
- Jan LENCZNAROWICZ (Jagiellonian University): On the Margins of Two Worlds:
Polish Displaced Persons’ Life in Occupied Germany and Their Settlement in Australia after
World War II
12.30 – 2.00 Buffet Lunch (Maison des étudiants)
2.00 – 3.00 : Keynote session (Amphi B 200)
Helen Gilbert (Royal Holloway, University of London)
“Out of the Exhibition: Indigenous Performance in the Modern Day Museum”
Chair: Susan Barrett
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3.00 – 4.30 : Parallel Sessions
8A : On the Margins of White Australia (C 105)
- Marie-Bénédicte REY (Caen University):“Asian people on the margins”
- Jatinder MANN (King’s College London): “A comparison of the introduction of
multicultural policies in Canada and Australia, 1960s-1970s”
- Dr Chloe PATTON (University of South Australia): “On the margins of citizenship:
Young Muslims and the imaginative work of belonging in post 9/11 Australia”
8B : White Australia (C 107)
- Emma BARROW & Barry JUDD (RMIT, University, Melbourne):“Whitefellas at
the Margins: The politics of going native in post-colonial Australia”
- Marilyne BRUN (University of Lorraine):“White Australia: An Axial Margin in
Federation Debates”
8C: The Centre and the Margin in contemporary literature (C109)
- Hervé CANTERO (University of Rouen): “Skirting and straddling the confines of
Australianness in Robert Drewe’s fiction”
- Nataša KAMPMARK (University of Novi Sad): “The Indispensable Margin and the
Collapsing Centre in Andrew McGahan’s The White Earth”
- Xavier PONS (Université de Toulouse-Le-Mirail): ‘On the threshold of change’:
Liminality and Marginality in Steven Carroll’s Fiction
4.30 – 5.00 : Coffee Break (Maison des étudiants)
6.00 – 7.30 : Writers’ Readings (“Salon” Mollat Bookshop)
Martin Harrison, Amanda Johnson, Gail Jones,
Anthony Lynch, Philip McLaren, Andrew Taylor
8.00 : Conference Dinner (Café de l’opéra)
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SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 7th
9.00 – 10.30 : Parallel Sessions
9A: Indigenous Writing (C 105)
- Iva POLAK (University of Zagreb): “Deadly Feminae Ludentes: Me, Antman &
Fleabag Bitin’ Back”
- Martina HORAKOVA (Masaryk University): “Double-edged Files: Writing Back to
the Colonial Archive in Indigenous Life Writing”
- Jeanine LEANE (Australian National University): “The Margins Write Back”
9B: Images of Australia (C 107)
- Mitchell ROLLS (University of Tasmania): “Centring the Centre and Walkabout
magazine (Australia 1934-1978): a Critique of the Conventions Reading Apprehensions of the
Outback’.”
- Brigitta OLUBAS (University of New South Wales): “Intimacy, Division,
Geography: political margins in the artworks of Ian Howard”
- Stephen MORGAN (King’s College London): ‘Gained nothing and learnt precious
little’: Reassessing the marginal existence of the Australian films of Ealing Studios, 19461959
10.30 – 11.00: Coffee Break (Maison des étudiants)
11.00 – 12.00 : Closing Keynote session (Amphi B 200)
Anne Brewster (University of New South Wales)
“The Gendering of Indigenous Protest Poetry”
Chair: Lars Jensen
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