The preliminary programme for this year’s GASt conference is online now. The main conference venue is the Glaspavillon at Campus Essen, R12 S00 H12. You can download the programme here.
Thursday, 19 October 2023
14.30-16.00
GASt Annual General Meeting (Members only)
16.00-16.30
Coffee Break
16.30-17.30
Award Ceremony
17.30-18.00
Coffee Break
18.00-19.00
Sonia Mycak: “Transnational Australian mobilities: Ukrainian-Australian life writing”
Friday, 20 October 2023
9.00-9.30
Welcome Addresses
9.30-10.30
Bill Ashcroft (UNSW): “Looking for Australia”
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
11.00-12.30
| Cultural Heritage, Networks, & Mobility | Roundtable Teaching and Researching Australian Studies – A View from Europe |
| Paul Arthur & Isabel Smith (Edith Cowan University): Slavery Biographies and Networks | Contributors: |
| Christina Henneke (Frobenius Institute, U of Frankfurt): Mobilising Indigenous Knowledge through the Digital Return of the Frobenius Archive to the Kimberley | Zuzanna Kruk-Buchowska (U of Poznań) Agnieszka Setecka (U of Poznań) tba |
| Sarah Yu (Nyamba Buru Yawuru, Broome): Changing the Gaze: Recognising and Reconciling the Pearling Heritage of Northern Australia |
12.30-14.00
Lunch Break (Mensa)
14.00-15.00
Frances Steel (U of Otago): “Austral(as)ian mobilities across the Pacific: ‘Blood brotherhood’ and its limits”
15.00-15.30
Coffee Break
15.30-17.00
| Indigenous Mobilities in Language & Literature I | Asia-Pacific Mobilities |
| Bettina Charlotte Burger (HHU): “No choice but to fly inhumanly well”: The Future of Indigenous Mobilities in Claire G. Coleman’s Apocalyptic Narratives | Syed Kazim Ali Kazmi (UDE): “To us the Asiatic is generaly a dirty, disease creating being with filthy habits”: “Afghan” Cameleers and Ghan Towns in the Outback |
| Leonie John (UzK): Nuclear Im/Mobilities: Stories of Maralinga | Louise Thatcher (U of Potsdam): “The real Quon Tat”: Proving Identity and Domicile to Enter White Australia |
| Friederike Zahn (UzK): Linguistic Mobility: Performance and Attitudes of Heritage Language Speakers in Australia – The Role of Language Policies | Susann Liebich (U of Heidelberg): Nineteenth-Century Maritime Mobility and Texts in Transit across the Pacific |
17.00-17.30
Coffee Break
17.30-18.30
| (Im)Mobilities in Law and Literature |
| Emily Zong (HK Baptist U): Ecologies of Affective Im(mobility) in Australian Refugee Writing |
| Kathrin Bartha-Mitchell (U of Frankfurt): Cosmology in Motion: Aquatious Mobilisation of Multi-species Justice in Melissa Lucashenko’s Too Much Lip |
from 19.00
Conference Dinner (Café-Restaurant Çagdaş) with a reading by Polina Bilinsky Mycak
Saturday, 21 October 2023
9.00-10.30
| Indigenous Mobilities in Language & Literature II | Inter- and Transcultural Mobilities |
| Alice Duncan (RMIT): Representations of Australian Indigenous People in Children’s Books in France and Australia – a comparative study | Jim Franklin (Tokyo): Shakuhachi and Mobility |
| Geoff Rodoreda (U of Stuttgart): Footnotes in the Work of Kim Scott | Joevan Caitano (Löbau-Zittau): Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD) and interactions with Australia: mobility and interculturality |
| Gianluca Calio (UzK): “Sorry for the history, they say“: Cultural Mobility, History, Trauma, and Reconciliation in Kim Scott’s Taboo | Lindsay Frost (Speyer): Mobility and transcultural approaches in contemporary art discourse: a comparative analysis for Germany/Australia |
10.30-11.00
Coffee Break
11.00-12.00
Ghassan Hage (U of Melbourne): “Diasporic Lenticularity in Australian Culture”
12.00-13.00
13.00-14.00
Brown Bag Lunch Break
Anne Pattel-Gray (U of Divinity, Melbourne): “Red Ochre Theology”
14.00-14.30
14.30-16.00
Coffee Break
| Religious Mobilities | Water and (Im-)Mobilities in Contemporary Indigenous Narratives |
| Felicity Jensz (U of Münster): Movement and German missionaries in 19th-Century Australia | Victoria Herche (UzK): Water is Life: Mining, Water Flows and Indigenous (Im)Mobilities on Screen |
| Marine Berthiot (U of Lyon): Girlhood Trauma-Telling in Rachael Romero’s Series of Paintings and Visual Poem, The Magdalen Diaries (2011) | David Kern (UzK): Water Protectors, Land Defenders, and the Frame of Indigenous Crime Fiction: (Im-) Mobility and Resistance in Julie Janson’s Madukka the River Serpent |
| Rita Mariocchi & Peri Sipahi (U of Münster): Bodies of Water: Embodied Sites of Hydro-Colonialism and Indigenous/Aboriginal Displacement in “Water” by Ellen van Neerven |
16.00-16.30
16.30-17.30
17.30-18.00
Coffee Break
Noah Riseman (ACU): “Transnational Influences on Transgender Australians”
Erzählte Welt: Zeitgenössische indigene australische Kunst by Elisabeth Bähr & Lindsay Frost
from 18.00
Reading: Jan Kemp
Sunday, 22 October 2023
10.00-10.30
Patricia Plummer: Colonial Entanglements: Essen and Australasia
10.30-13.00
Zeche Zollverein / Ruhr Museum (Guided Tour)
13.00-14.00
14.00
Lunch
Conference Ending & Farewell
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