Wednesday 20 February 2008

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18:00- 20:00

Welcome Evening.

Senior Common Room Trinity College- Royal Parade, Parkville. Victoria 3052

All registered Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees invited to attend.

Thursday
21 February 2008

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9:30 Onwards

Registration

Open Stage Theatre Foyer- Arts Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010. 
757 Swanston St crn. Swanston and Grattan St (Enter via Swanston St)

All Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees.

10:00-11:15

Welcome and Introductory Remarks

Open Stage Theatre

1.10:00-10:05am- Philip Morrissey ‘Welcome’
2. 10:05-10:15am- Prof Barbara Creed ‘Official University Welcome Address’
3. 10:15-11:15am- Dr Gert Reifarth ‘Aesopic Ways: An Introduction’

11:15-11:30

Coffee

Open Stage Theatre Foyer

All registered Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees.

11:30-12:30

Keynote Address

Open Stage Theatre

Dr Odile Cazenave
‘Dis-Enchanted, Dis-Entangled Tales: Francophone African Literature Today The Examples of Boubacar Boris Diop and Véronique Tadjo’

12:30-14:00

Lunch and Themed Discussion Groups

Elisabeth Murdoch Courtyard
Building 134
The University of Melbourne/ Open Stage Theatre Foyer- weather dependent

All registered Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees.
Discussion of selected ideas from:
Razvan Amironesei
‘Power versus Violence - Sovereign Power and the Pitesti Experiment (1949-1952)’

14:00-15:00

Paper Session 1: Aesopics and Theory

Open Stage Theatre

Session Chair: Dr Kevin Murray
1. Assistant Professor Gillian M.E. Alban ‘Beyond the Other: A Beautiful Beast: Angela Carter’s Fairy Tales through her reading of the Marquis de Sade.’
2. Dr Justin Clemens ‘On the Enigma of Half-Truths’

15:00-16:00

Afternoon Tea

Open Stage Theatre Foyer

All registered Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees.

16:00-17:30

Paper Session 2: Aesopics in Africa

Open Stage Theatre

Session Chair:  Dr Odile Cazenave
1. Betty Caplan ‘Pre and Post Colonial Voices: A view from Kenya’s Heartland’
2. Daria Tunca ‘Ben Okri’s Starbook: A Magical Pathway to Reality, or an Enchanted Road to Nowhere?’
3. Dr Kevin Murray ‘Of Minks and Men: Mbulelo Mzamane’s Allegory for post-Apartheid South Africa.’

Friday 22 February

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10:00-11:00

Keynote Paper

Open Stage Theatre

Prof Greg Dening
‘Wayfinding. Dances on the Beaches of the Mind.’

11:00-11:30

Morning Tea

Open Stage Theatre Foyer

All registered Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees.

11:30- 13:30

Paper Session 3: Aesopics and Resistance

Open Stage Theatre

Session Chair: Philip Morrissey
1. Prof Catherine Collins and Prof Patricia Varas ‘Thrilling the Audience, (Dis)tracting the Censors: Suspense as Diversion’
2. Dr Julia Vassilieva ‘Beyond Aesopic: Religious Discourse in Post-communist Russia as an “Empty Signifier”’
3. Dr Gert Reifarth ‘Aesop vs the Censor in the GDR: On the Power of Fairy Tales.’
4. Eugenia Kravchenkova, "'Once GPU came to Aesop…' Political Fables in Russian literature of XXth century: N. Erdman and V. Mass"

13:30-15:30

Lunch and Exhibition Visit

Elisabeth Murdoch Courtyard/ Open Stage Theatre Foyer- weather dependent

All registered Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees.

16:00-18:00

Paper Session 4: Aesopics and Theatre

Open Stage Theatre

Session Chair: Dr Peter Eckersall
1. Dr Catherine Fargher ‘Bio-Ethical Issues As A Base For Fables’
2. Dr George Katsadoros ‘The Disfiguration of Aesop and Karaghiozes: Embodiment of Indirect Expostulation and Resistance.’
3.Dr Jeanne Clark ‘PalestinianTheatre and the Aesopic Voice’
4. Xan Colman and Tamara Searle ‘Once Upon a Time, Tonight: Contemporary Application of Aesopic Discourse in the Performance making of Makhampom Theatre Group, Thailand.’

19:15-20:30

‘Erwin and Elmire’ An Opera Production in Progress

Open Stage Theatre

Excerpts from this work will be presented.

Saturday 23 February

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11:00-12:30

Paper Session 5: Aesopics in Australia

Open Stage Theatre

Session Chair: Dr Justin Clemens
1. Marcus Waters ‘Contemporary Urban Indigenous ‘Dreamings’: Connection, Ceremony and Practice’
2. Marie Herbillon ‘Murray Bail’s Eucalyptus: An Australian Fairy Tale?’
3. Philip Morrissey ‘Old Cobraboor: Colonial Violence and Aboriginal Modesty.’

All registered Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees.

Discussion of selected ideas from:
Prof Dr Erwin Rotermund
"Formen und Rezeptionsprobleme der 'Verdeckten Schreibweise' im 'Dritten Reich' (1933-1945) Problems of the 'Mode of Hidden Writing' in the Third Reich (1933-1945)"

14:00-16:00

Conference Concluding Discussion and Presentation of Contemporary Aesopic Fables

Open Stage Theatre

All registered Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees.

17:30-20:00

Conference Concluding Jazz evening- Music provided by Dave Newington and Band

Yasuko Hiraoka Myer Room- Sidney Myer Asia Centre, The University of Melbourne, Parkville

All registered Aesopic Voices Conference participants and attendees.