Art History postgraduate seminars
The seminar series welcomes all postgraduate students in the School of Culture and Communication.
During semester, the various disciplines within the school hold weekly staff/postgraduate research seminars, in which local and guest speakers read a research paper, followed by discussion. You are strongly encouraged to attend and are welcome to offer papers or suggest visiting speakers. Details of the programmes will be circulated by email and posted on the website.
Postgraduate students organise their own seminar series in addition to the school’s seminar series. Details will be circulated by email and posted on the website, and you are strongly encouraged to attend, offer a paper, and take advantage of this opportunity to meet other postgraduate students.
Friday afternoons, 4.00-5.00pm
Multifunction Room, 1888 Building (except the 16 May, which will be held in the Gryphon Gallery)
Food and drinks are provided.
Convenor
- Caroline Wallace, c.wallace3@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au
Contact Caroline for further details or to offer a paper for the program.
Program: Semester 2, 2007
| Date | Speaker | Topic | 7 March |
Aaron Mannion | ‘Intimate Knowledge: The Lyric Bridge’ |
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| 14 March | Chris Leong | 'Turning Japanese: World Literature in the Global Age’ |
| 21 March | Good Friday | |
Mid-semester break: Friday 21 March - Sunday 30 March |
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| 4 April | Jay Daniel Thompson | ‘My own sweet time: rewriting ‘Australia for the White Man’’ |
| 11 April | Patricia Di Risio |
‘De-Gendering the cinematic gaze’ |
| 18 April | Amy Espeseth | To be advised |
| 25 April | Ricci-Jane Adams | ‘Seeing Ordinary Things in Extraordinary Ways: Magical Realism in Australian Theatre’ |
| 2 May | Michelle Aung Thin | ‘Degenerate bodies, makeshift places: spatial inflection in representations of Anglo-Burmese women’ |
| 9 May | Angelina Mirabito | ‘Collage: The Appropriation of a Fragile Mind’ |
| 16 May | Karolina Trapp | ‘R.S. Thomas’s Imagining the Bible: when narrative meets lyrical’ |
| 23 May | Callum Scott | ‘Transgressive Performativity: dramaturgical representation of crime in Australian film’ |
| 30 May | Benjamin Goldsworthy | To be advised |
Call for papers
Exhibitionism: representing identities
An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium
Friday July 25, 2008
The University of Melbourne
Deadline for abstracts 31 May 2008
"There is no trusting appearances"
Richard Sheridan, The School For Scandal, 1777
Exhibitionism is the presentation or exposure of the self to another; it plays with appearances and challenges notions of identity. It is suggestive of a body that offers itself up to a voyeuristic gaze. Exhibitionism is apparent on a personal level through the prolific use of forums such as Myspace and Facebook; the anonymity of the internet has become a pretext for the formation of multiple projected identities. With the Olympics this year we are confronted with the world's biggest and most expensive exhibition, one that combines politics and national pride in the arena of competitive sports, all under the glare and digitised scrutiny of the world's media.
This year antiTHESIS is casting the spotlight on the spotlight and seeking abstracts and papers that intersect with the idea of exhibitionism. Creative pieces, scholarly papers and panel proposals from all disciplines are welcome.
Topics may include, but are not limited to:
- The state as an exhibit
- The politics of exhibitionism
- The demise of privacy
- Representing the self
- Cyberspace, reality TV
- Exhibitionism and narcissism
- The art of exhibitionism
- Exhibitionism and sexuality
- The rhetoric of self representation
- Dress codes and behaviours
- International/interregional representations of national identity
- Representing ethnic/subaltern/diasporic identities
- Museums, galleries, festivals
- Science, technology and exhibitionism
- Policing identities
- Voyeurism, the panopticon
- Crime and deviance
Conference papers are 20 minutes in length with 10 minutes of question time. To submit a proposal for the conference, please forward a 200-word abstract and short biographical note (100 words maximum) to: editor.antithesis@gmail.com by 31 May 2008.
All proposals will be considered and responded to by 15 June 2008.
A selection of papers will be published in the 19th volume of antiTHESIS, Exhibitionism: representing identities.
Exhibitionism: representing identities is a one-day symposium organised by the editorial collective of antiTHESIS and postgraduates in the School of Culture and Communication at the University of Melbourne. The symposium will bring together postgraduate scholars and creative writers from across Australia for a day of interdisciplinary debate and academic exchange.