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Different Pasts,
​Foreign Countries

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A one-day symposium organised by
The Centre for Applied History and the Department of English
Program

​8​.45-9am
​Registration
​9-10.45am
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​Welcome and Session 1: The Spectacular Past. 
Chair: Prof. Louise D’Arcens
 
“Dressing Like a Church: The Pre-Modern and the Catholic Imagination” – Clare Monagle and Tess Watterson
 
“The Scarlet Empress: History as Farce” – James Philips
 
“A story-telling experiment at the State Library of NSW” – Elise Edmonds
 
“Incomprehensible in its extremity: counter-perspectives and hegemonic narratives of aerial bombing in Berlin’s heritage and tourism sites” – Eloise Florence
10.45-11am
Morning tea
11-12pm
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Keynote presentation: “Double-Helix History: Memory and the genetic historical imagination” - Prof. Jerome De Groot 
Chair: A/Prof. Hsu-Ming Teo
12-1.30pm
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​Session 2: Tattoos, Tudors and Travel
Chair: Prof. Sharon Ruston
 
“Tattooed Celts, and Painted People – Modern Representations of Ancient Britons” – Erica Steiner
 
​“Antipodean Tudors: Recreations of lost Tudor worlds by Australian novelists” – Kelly Gardiner and Catherine Padmore
 
​“The Lost World of the Tudor Court: Time travelling with Anne Boleyn” – Stephanie Russo
 
“Representing impact of conflicts in picture books: Using the concept “pastness” through creative written word and illustrations” – Heather Sharp
1.30-2pm​​
​Lunch
2-3.30pm
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Session 3: Problem Pasts
Chair: Dr Stephanie Russo
 
“Palimpsests of the ‘lonely island’: Chronotopes of wartime Shanghai in the western literary imagination” – Hsu-Ming Teo
 
“Haunting and Veiled Staging: Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life” – Matthew Hooton
 
“The rupture was the story: Diasporic (be)longing and return in Saidiya Hartman’s Lose Your Mother: A Journey Along the Atlantic Slave Route” – Maja Milatovic
 
“Forgery as Fake History: Constantine Simonides and his history of Egypt - Malcolm Choat & Rachel Yuen-Collingridge
3.30-3.45pm​​
​Afternoon tea
3.45-4.30pm
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Session 4 – (Re)Creating the Past in Documentary Film 
Chair: Dr Jane Hanley
 
Karen Pearlman and Tom Murray screen their respective documentaries, Woman With An Editing Bench (2016) and The Skin of Others: When Douglas Grant Met Henry Lawson (2018), before discussing how they as filmmakers created their past worlds.
4.30-6pm
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Session 5: Screening Past Worlds
Chair: Prof. Jerome de Groot
 
“Guillermo del Toro’s Twentieth Century Horrors and Fantasies” – Jane Hanley
 
​“Spirits’ Homecoming and the cinematic representation of Korean Comfort Women” – Niall McMahon
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​“Parody and Cinematic Representations of the Holocaust” – Maria Chatzidimou
 
​“Engaging with the Past: How TV programs create a sense of history” – Kate Warner
​6.30pm
​​optional symposium dinner at Khao Pla Thai restaurant, Macquarie Centre
For further information please contact Dr Stephanie Russo.

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