School of English, Communications and Performance Studies Monash University

ECPS Colloquium 2010 Programme

All sessions will be in L 1 and L 4 of the Law Building (downstairs)

Catering in the Law Building Foyer (downstairs)

Thursday, 9 December 9.15 – 9.30 Opening address (L 4)

Stream 1: (L 4) 9.30 – 11.00: Nathaniel Avery

David Blencowe Sean McQueen

Stream 2: (L 1) Diane Molloy

Camilla Reestorff Paulus Sarwoto

(Chair: Conall Cash) (Chair: Sam Cuff)

11.00 – 11.15: Morning tea

(L 4) (L 1) 11.15 – 12.45: Mark Howard Sam Cuff Stephanie Rocke Gene Flenady Jeff Stewart Catherine Ryan (Chair: Camilla Reestorff) (Chair: David Blencowe)

12.45 – 1.45: Lunch (L 4) (L 1) 1.45 – 3.15: Ohad Kozminsky Tim Chandler Catherine Noske Anne Melano Andrew Sims (Chair: David Blencowe) (Chair: Sam Cuff)

3.15 – 3.30: Afternoon tea

(L 4) (L 1) 3.30 – 4.30: Conall Cash Matthew Lockitt Stephen Palmer Nita Moghaddam (Chair: Nathaniel Avery) (Chair: Catherine Ryan)

4.30 – 5.00: Colloquy Launch

5.00 – Late: Dinner and Drinks

Friday, 10 December

(L 4) (L 1)

10.15 – 11.45: Whitney Monaghan Shafizan Mohamed Lenise Prater Rina Tung Aida Wan Wan Yahaya (Chair: Gene Flenady) (Chair: Lauren Bliss)

11.45 – 12.00: Morning tea

12.00 – 1.00: Keynote Address from Justin Clemens: “Obscenity as education: the Earl of

Rochester's libertine poetry.” (Chair: Conall Cash)

Justin Clemens is most recently the co-editor of Alain Badiou: Key Concepts (Acumen 2010) with A.J. Bartlett and of The Jacqueline Rose Reader (Duke 2011) with Ben Naparstek. He

teaches at the University of Melbourne.

1.00 – 2.00: Lunch

(L 4) (L 1) 2.00 – 3.30: Julie Banks Glenn Gordon Lauren Bliss Prashanth Pillay Janice Loreck Botond Vitos (Chair: Whitney Monaghan) (Chair: Tim Chandler) There will be a $200 book voucher prize awarded to the best paper presented, and publication in the School’s postgraduate journal Colloquy. All presenters are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration to Colloquy.

TITLES: Nathaniel Avery – “Jameson’s Uneasy Inheritance” David Blencowe – “Not as if, but what is: the Invariance of Becoming in Ernst

Bloch’s Ontology” Sean McQueen – “Fearful Symmetry: J.G. Ballard’s and David Cronenberg’s Crash” Diane Molloy – “Cultural Memory and Literature: The Australian Experience” Camilla Reestroff – “Rebranding Denmark” Paulus Sarwoto – “Surviving Dutch Colonialism and its Aftermath: Javanese Priyayi

in Umar Kayam’s Para Priyayi and Pramoedya Ananta Toer’s Bumi Manusia”

Mark Howard – “The Function of Aesthetic Experience in Social Movement

Theory Accounts of Attraction to Radicalism” Stephanie Rocke – “The Mass Re-visioned: Proselytising Peace in Place of Dogma” Jeff Stewart – “Tattooed” Sam Cuff – “Useful or Useless Suffering” Gene Flenady – “The Pathos of Impossibility: Derrida and Rancière on What You

Can and Can’t Do” Catherine Ryan – “Foucault Creates Problems: History, Problematisation and

Transformative Force” Tim Chandler – “Silua resonans, arbor inscripta: Materials of Virgil’s Eclogues” Ann Melano – “The Grove as Crossing Point: Recovering a Spiritualised Nature” Ohad Kozminsky – “Reading the Song of Songs and its Tradition” Catherine Noske – “The God Story: Narrative, Religion and the Context of Self” Andrew Sims – “The Constituents of Interpretation: Charity and Linguistic

Authority” Conall Cash – “On not Seeing Films: Experience and Ideas in Criticism” Stephen Palmer – “Another Voyage on the North Sea: Artwork and Document” Mathew Lockitt – “‘I Sing, Therefore I Am!’” Nita Moghaddam – “Stripping Bare and Sam Shepard” Whitney Monaghan – “Queer Girls as Producers: Mashup as Minority Video” Lenise Prater – “Gender Difference: Magic and the Feminist Potential of

Fantasy Literature” Aida Wan Wan Yahaya – “The Representation of Modern Women in Historical Films:

Struggles for Emancipation in two Films Based on Japanese History”

Shafizan Mohamed – “Blogging Malaysia” Rina Tung – “Effects of the (In)voluntary Codes within Popular Culture”

Julie Banks – “Blinded by Sensation: Sombre” Lauren Bliss – “Pregnancy in the Cinema: Some Stories, Figures and Motifs” Janice Loreck – “Establishing Motive: Epistemophilia and Women’s Violence

in Lars von Trier’s Antichrist” Glenn Gordon – “‘Home Literature’ and the Bibliotherapeutic Value in Faith-

based Young Adult Fiction” Prashanth Pillay – “An Insight into Australian Youth Political Communication:

The Institutional Framing and Rationalisation of Every Day Cultural Youth Politics in Australia”

Botond Vitos – “Discursive Demarcation and Identity Construction in the Czech Psytrance Scene: Experiential versus Ideological Motivations”