Conferences & Symposia
Past conferences
Past conferences
Work in Progress Day
Thursday November 6, Economics and Commerce building.
Work in Progress Day is designed as an opportunity for postgraduates to share their work in a conference-style setting and to hear about the research of others. All the School's PhD and Masters students are invited to present papers and participate in discussion. The 15-minute papers may take the form of a self-contianed conference-style paper or a 'thesis outline' that sketches the main issues and arguments of the research project.
Work in Progress Day:
- enhances dialogue between staff and students
- helps students crystallise some of the issues in their work
- marks an important milestone in students' progress
- provides an opportunity to gather together as an intellectual and solical community and celebrate the wonderful work and achievements of our postgraduate students;
- and provide practice and experience in the arts of oral presentation and public speaking.
We look forward to this event and encourage students to present and come along to support their colleagues on the day.
Refashioning Myth: Poetic Transformations and Metamorphoses
Thurs 2 - Fri 3 October 2008
The University of Melbourne
My mind leads me to speak of new forms changed / into new bodies
Ovid, Metamorphoses[T]he poet's first enrichment is a knowledge and understanding of myths
Robert Graves, The White Goddess
Ancient poetic texts tell us that the deeds of gods and heroes have long been a central concern of the poet. Recent texts, such as those by Simon Armitage and Don Paterson, would suggest that this tenet holds true for the contemporary poet as much as it did for the ancients. The recent series of mythic rewritings which have appeared under the auspices of The Myths project exemplify how mythic poetry can be self-consciously refashioned for contemporary culture. But how, and why, do age-old mythologies still hold relevance in the twenty-first century? This conference encourages poets and scholars to reassess the role of myth in poetry, to examine and produce poetic engagements with myth.
Confirmed Keynotes:
Dorothy Porter
Chris Wallace-Crabbe
John Davidson
Exhibitionism: Representing Identities. An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Symposium
Friday July 25, 2008
The University of Melbourne
"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.
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.
Japanese Transnational Fandoms and Female Consumers
University of Wollongong
3-4 July 2008
This workshop investigates the different ways in which originally Japanese genres, aesthetics and styles have been taken up, deployed and transformed by female fans transnationally. The way in which Japanese products, styles and images are received in different cultures as well as the (sub)cultural ends to which they are deployed will be investigated, as will the impact of the fandom on the changing nature of consumerism, participatory fan culture and particularly gender in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond. We invite papers that discuss female consumers' uptake of originally Japanese popular cultural styles and artefacts across all regions and media.
Of particular interest in this workshop is the 'yaoi' or 'boys' love' (BL) manga/animation fandom popular with girls and young women. Over the last decade there has been a massive boom in interest in this genre (including commercially translated and published volumes as well as amateur fan-authored productions) in Korea, China, Taiwan, Thailand and the United States. Papers focusing specifically on the yaoi/BL fandom are particularly welcome.
The workshop will result in a themed edition of the journal Intersections, due for release in April 2009.
Keynote speaker: Professor Christine Yano (University of Hawaii) speaking on the global Hello Kitty Fandom.
Other invited speakers include: Professor Chris Berry (Goldsmiths University) speaking on BL fan circles in Shanghai; Dr Kazumi Nagaike (Oita University) speaking on the history and cultural context of Japanese BL fandom; Dr Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia) speaking on yaoi influence on the Harry Potter fandom; Dr Larissa Hjorth (RMIT) speaking on "cute customisation" across Japanese and Korean new media; Dr Fran Martin (University of Melbourne) speaking on the BL fandom in Taiwan.
Please send 250 word title and abstract and a short biography to Dr Mark McLelland (markmc@uow.edu.au) and Dr Fran Martin (f.martin@unimelb.edu.au) by 25 October 2007. A limited number of travel bursaries will be available.
This event is sponsored by the ARC's Cultural Research Network and CAPSTRANS (Centre for Asia-Pacific Social Transformation Studies) at the University of Wollongong.
Aesopic Voices: Reframing Truth in Twentieth-century Folklore, Fairy Tales and Fables
The University of Melbourne
21-23 February 2008
www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/aesopic-conference
What do artists do when political, social or religious circumstances are hostile to truth and open discussion?
The 32nd International Conference in the History of Art, Crossing Cultures: Conflict, Migration and Convergence
32nd Congress of the International Committee of the History of Art (CIHA)
The University of Melbourne
13-18 January 2008
The University of Melbourne will host the world's most prestigious and significant Art History conference in January 2008.
The 32nd Congress of the International Committee of Art History is anticipated to attract over 1,000 art historians, academics, visual artists and staff from the most important museums and art galleries around the globe.
It will provide a unique international forum for vital debate and a rare opportunity for delegates to hear from leading authorities in Art History.
The theme of the conference is global and the scope is broad. For this Congress, the definition of art is broadly conceived so as to include traditional media, painting, sculpture, architecture and the crafts, as well as design, film, visual performance and new media.
The conference will also include what is expected to be the largest ever global book fair on the subject, a public lecture series and an exciting social program.
Art in Baroque Rome: New Directions in Research (Baroque Arcadias — Baroque Display)
Symposium presented by the Art History program and the Fine Arts Network
Wednesday 14 November
9.30 am—6.00 pm
Elisabeth Murdoch Theatre, University of Melbourne
This Symposium presents to the interested public new research and new directions in the study of art and architecture in Rome and Italy in the 17th and 18th centuries.
Keynote speakers include international experts on Caravaggio, Borromini, Juvarra and Trevisani, Dr Karin Wolfe (British School at Rome) and Professor Tommaso Manfredi (Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria), as well as local scholars David R. Marshall, Lisa Beaven, Tim Ould, Glenys Adams, Victoria Hobday, Mark Shepheard, Katrina Grant.
Registration Free. To register: email AHCCA-FAN@unimelb.edu.au
Program: www.melbourneartjournal.edu.au/FAN
Dr Wolfe is a Research Fellow at the British School at Rome. She holds a PhD from the Courtauld Institute and has taught at Temple University Rome and John Cabot University and has published widely on Roman seventeenth- and eighteenth-century patronage, painting and architecture, including articles on Cardinal Antonio Barberini, Caravaggio, Francesco Borromini, Andrea Sacchi and Francesco Trevisani. Dr Wolfe recently published a study of the National Gallery of Victoria's Trevisani depicting "Joseph Sold into Slavery" in Art, Site and Spectacle: Studies in Early Modern Visual Culture (Melbourne, 2007). She is currently preparing a monograph on Trevisani.
Professor Manfredi teaches in the Faculty of Architecture in the Università Mediterranea di Reggio Calabria, and works on the history of architecture and of the city in the modern and contemporary periods. He is author of numerous books and studies on Filippo Juvarra, Borromini, Roman urbanism of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, and Baroque architectural treatises.
'The Writer and the Academy'
A symposium addressing the Creative Writing PhD at the University of Melbourne
8.45am - 6pm, Friday 12 October
Gryphon Gallery, 1888 Building
What is the position of the creative writer in the academy? If the critical and creative halves of a PhD are meant to 'speak to one another', what language will they use? How should creative writers negotiate academic publications, DEST points and examiners' expectations? And what exactly is a Creative Writing PhD training us for?
The Writer in the Academy symposium will address these questions - and others - during a day of panel-led discussions. If you're a creative writing PhD student, or you supervise creative writing students, or you are considering a creative writing PhD, you're invited to join us on Friday 12 October. Panels will consist of current students and faculty staff from the University of Melbourne as well as other institutions.
This is a student initiative and we'd like to hear from Creative Writing PhDs with specific ideas for discussion points. The full agenda will be emailed to respondents beforehand.
For catering purposes (and to receive a copy of the agenda) please send an email to m.aungthin@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au or j.gallagher3@pgrad.unimelb.edu.au with 'Writer and the Academy' as the subject header before October 1st, 2007.
Supported by the School of Culture and Communication
We would like to thank the School of Graduate Research for their support with this event.
Enter The New Wave: Australian Theatre 1967-1970
A symposium at the Uuniversity of Melbourne
26-28 September 2007
Hosted by Creative Arts, School of Culture and Communication, The University of Melbourne.
Supporting the 40th Anniversary Production of White With Wire Wheels by Jack Hibberd
Directed by Susie Dee and presented by MU Student Union's Union House Theatre and the Theatre Board of the University.
Convenors
Associate Professor Angela O'Brien, Dr Kate Donelan, Mr Paul Monaghan, Ms Susie Dee.
Keynote speakers include:
- Jack Hibberd
- Sue Ingleton
- Liz Jones
- Max Gilles
- John Romeril
- and a special guest to launch the symposium
Futher information
Visit the Enter The New Wave symposium website