A one-day symposium organised by
The Centre for Applied History and the Department of English
The Centre for Applied History and the Department of English
Program
8.45-9am |
Registration |
9-10.45am |
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 |
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“The Scarlet Empress: History as Farce” – James Philips |
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“A story-telling experiment at the State Library of NSW” – Elise Edmonds |
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“Incomprehensible in its extremity: counter-perspectives and hegemonic narratives of aerial bombing in Berlin’s heritage and tourism sites” – Eloise Florence |
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10.45-11am |
Morning tea |
11-12pm |
Keynote presentation: “Double-Helix History: Memory and the genetic historical imagination” - Prof. Jerome De Groot Chair: A/Prof. Hsu-Ming Teo |
12-1.30pm |
Session 2: Tattoos, Tudors and Travel Chair: Prof. Sharon Ruston |
“Tattooed Celts, and Painted People – Modern Representations of Ancient Britons” – Erica Steiner |
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“Antipodean Tudors: Recreations of lost Tudor worlds by Australian novelists” – Kelly Gardiner and Catherine Padmore |
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“The Lost World of the Tudor Court: Time travelling with Anne Boleyn” – Stephanie Russo |
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“Representing impact of conflicts in picture books: Using the concept “pastness” through creative written word and illustrations” – Heather Sharp |
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1.30-2pm |
Lunch |
2-3.30pm |
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 |
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“Haunting and Veiled Staging: Chang-rae Lee’s A Gesture Life” – Matthew Hooton |
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“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 |
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“Forgery as Fake History: Constantine Simonides and his history of Egypt - Malcolm Choat & Rachel Yuen-Collingridge |
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3.30-3.45pm |
Afternoon tea |
3.45-4.30pm |
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. |
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4.30-6pm |
Session 5: Screening Past Worlds Chair: Prof. Jerome de Groot |
“Guillermo del Toro’s Twentieth Century Horrors and Fantasies” – Jane Hanley |
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“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 |
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6.30pm |
optional symposium dinner at Khao Pla Thai restaurant, Macquarie Centre |
For further information please contact Dr Stephanie Russo.
Program and Abstracts file attachment
| different pasts symposium program and abstracts.pdf |
