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ASAL 2012 'The Colonies' - Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference
Date: 4–6 July 2012
Time: 4.00 pm
Venue: Victoria University of Wellington
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature will hold its 2012 conference at Victoria University of Wellington, hosted by the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
The Colonies
Before there were Australia and New Zealand there were the colonies – NSW, Victoria, Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand. Now there are competing nationalisms (including internal ones), but countless filiations continue to span the Tasman – people, language, politics, sentiment, ecology, history, art, sport and literature. Can we revisit the literary history of our two nations and uncover the ways in which the 'Tasman World', as James Belich terms it, continues into the twenty-first century?
The theme for the 2012 ASAL conference is inspired by Grace Karsken's history of early Sydney, The Colony, praised for its outstanding sense of place. Is it possible to disaggregate contemporary national binaries in ways that allow us to see the many continuities as well as the divergences with which we generate our sense of place? As critical writing shifts focus and gear – to eco-criticism, transnationalism, 'field', curriculum and emotion – do the old postcolonial verities and paradigms become less important?
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Programme Outline
Wednesday 4 July
(Hunter Building, Kelburn Campus)
- 4.00pm – 5.00pm – Welcome – Powhiri at Te Herenga Waka Marae, Victoria University. Please be at the carved gate on Kelburn Parade at 3.55pm
- 5.00pm to 7.30pm – Welcome function and prize giving ceremony
'Barry Andrews' address by Martin Edmond (Hunter Council Room, Kelburn Campus)
Thursday 5 July
(Rutherford House, Lambton Quay)
- Registration - 8.30am
- Presentations and Key Note Speaker Grace Karskens
- Evening Function
Friday 6 July
(Rutherford House, Lambton Quay)
- Presentations and Key Note Speaker Elizabeth McMahon
- Conference Dinner – Milk & Honey Restaurant, Kelburn Campus at 6.30pm
Registration Fee
- $400 Non Member
- $370 Association for the Study of Australasian Literature (ASAL) Member
- $100 Student-Unwaged
- $70 Conference Dinner (additional to registration fee)
Accommodation
Reasonably priced accommodation is available from ibis Hotel which is situated in the CBD and approximately 10 minutes walk from the Conference Venue:
Ibis Hotel
153 Featherston Street
Wellington
Tel: +64 4 496 1883 Bookings
Website
Or alternatively please see Wellington Accommodation
For further information please email deborah.levy@vuw.ac.nz
Register Online
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Public Lectures
ASAL 2012 'The Colonies'
Date: 4 July 2012
Time: 5.30 pm
Venue: Hunter Council Chamber
ASAL 2012 'The Colonies' - Association for the Study of Australian Literature Conference
The Association for the Study of Australian Literature will hold its 2012 conference at Victoria University of Wellington, hosted by the Stout Research Centre for New Zealand Studies.
The Colonies
Before there were Australia and New Zealand there were the colonies – NSW, Victoria, Van Diemen's Land/Tasmania, Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia, New Zealand. Now there are competing nationalisms (including internal ones), but countless filiations continue to span the Tasman – people, language, politics, sentiment, ecology, history, art, sport and literature. Can we revisit the literary history of our two nations and uncover the ways in which the 'Tasman World', as James Belich terms it, continues into the twenty-first century?
The theme for the 2012 ASAL conference is inspired by Grace Karskens's history of early Sydney, The Colony, praised for its outstanding sense of place. Grace Karskens is an Associate Professor in the School of Humanities, University of New South Wales. She will give the keynote lecture on Thursday 5 July at 5pm in Rutherford LT3. This lecture is open to the public.
Martin Edmond, author of Chronicle of the Unsung (Montana Biography Award 2005) Autobiography of My Father (1992) Luca Antara: Passages in Search of Australia (2006) Waimarino Country& Other Excursions (2007) and numerous other books, will give the Barry Andrews Memorial Lecture to open the conference on Wednesday 4 July at 5.30pm in the Hunter Council Chamber. He will speak on ‘Colin McCahon in Australia’. All welcome.
Seminars
Marsden Scholar Seminar Series 2012 - Jane Stafford
Date: 30 May 2012
Time: 4.00 pm
Venue: Stout Research Centre
Jane Stafford – Colonial Literature and the Native Author
This paper discusses the effect of the British literary empire on the native writer. Educated in the literary language of empire, but with an awareness of their indigenous or native persona, the native writer writes as both subject and author, the world these writers inhabited was not just the local – the kainga at Waiomatatini, provincial society in Ontario, Manicktollah Street, Calcutta. It was also literary, textual and above all global. In this context, is a new kind of writing produced, or does the native author conform to the models of the coloniser? And does the global literary collapse differences between such disparate subjects?
Marsden Seminar Scholar Series 2012 - Peter Brunt
Date: 12 June 2012
Time: 4.00 pm
Venue: Stout Research Centre
Peter Brunt – Art in Oceania: A History
Due to be published by Thames and Hudson later this year, Art in Oceania: A History is the outcome of a five-year Marsden-funded research project involving seven scholars in New Zealand and the United Kingdom. In this seminar, project leader Peter Brunt will reflect on the significance of the project in relation to the state of contemporary art history and the particular journey of realizing it as a collaboration between scholars of different disciplines, museum professionals, artists, publishers, administrators and students.