FINAL
PROGRAM |
| Thursday
8 December |
| 8:00–9:00am |
Registration and coffee (Old Canberra House Foyer) |
|
| 9:00–9:15 |
Welcome to Country – Matilda House (Conference Room) |
|
| 9:15–9:30 |
Orientation – Carolyn Strange, Convenor |
|
| 9:30–10:00 |
Jonathan Lamb, Sterne, Sebald and Siege Architecture |
|
| 10:00–10:30 |
Discussion |
|
| 10:30–11:00 |
Coffee and art gallery (Foyer and Seminar Room Gallery) |
|
| 11:00–12:00pm |
Session 1: Gender and/in justice
Maria-Suzette Fernandes-Dias – In the Name
of Honour: Viewing Honour Crimes beyond the Cultural and Gendered
Divide
Lynn Savery and Sarina Lirosi – Regarding the Pain of
Women (Conference Room) |
Session 2: Interrogating war
Betty Snowden – Heroicism in pain and death: Exposing
the illusion
Hans Pols – The Psychology of War, Violence and Death
(Theatrette) |
| 12:00–1:00 |
Lunch (provided in Foyer) |
|
| 1:00–2:30 |
Session 3: Testimonies of pain & death
Peter Read, Translations from terror; Jeni Allenby, Thematic
narratives of political protest, pain and death within contemporary
Palestinian cultural expression; Andrew Watts, Death,
Bureaucracy and Deferred Responsibility; (Conference Room) |
Session 4: Community responses to state violence
Jennifer Wood, Facing the ‘Distant Reality’ of Non-violent
Policing in Argentina: A Normative Agenda; Peter Reddy, Putting
the Peace back into Peacekeeping; Monique Marks, New identities,
old behaviours: Violent regressions and the South African police
(Theatrette) |
| 2:30–3:00 |
Coffee and art gallery (Foyer and Seminar Room Gallery) |
|
| 3:00–4:00 |
Session 5: Conceptualising genocide,
Subhash Jaireth, Waiting for Stalin not Godot: Terrorism and
the Re-membering and Dis-membering of Pain; Ann Curthoys and
John Docker, Genocide, Humanity, and World History (Conference
Room) |
|
| 4:15–4:45 |
Mark Finnane, Making hanging unthinkable: languages
of abolition and the demise of the death penalty in Australia
(Conference Room) |
|
| 4:45–5:15 |
Discussion |
|
| 5:30–5:45 |
ACT Chief Minister Jon Stanhope addresses the death penalty (Conference
Room) |
|
| 6:00–6:30 |
Performance by Salaka led by Ghanaian master drummer
Tuza Afutu and featuring dancer Kukua (Old Canberra House) |
|
Friday 9 December |
| 9:00–9:30am |
Registration and coffee (Old Canberra House Foyer) |
|
| 9:30–10:00 |
Joanna Bourke, Sexed Violence (Conference
Room) |
|
| 10:00–10:30 |
Discussion |
|
| 10:30–11:00 |
Coffee and art gallery (Foyer and Seminar Room Gallery) |
|
| 11:00–12:00 |
Session 6: Theatres of Violence and questions of identity
Debjani Ganguly, 100 Days in Rwanda: Choreographed Killings
in Image, Text and Real Time; Terri-ann White, Arriving:
Reflections on Australia's Detention Policies (Conference Room) |
|
| 12:00–1:00pm |
Lunch (provided in Foyer) |
|
| 1:00–2:30 |
Session 7: Re-presenting and witnessing execution
Helen Ennis, Triumphal Portraits and Colonial Narratives: Post-mortem
Photography; Rosanne Kennedy, The Haunting of Edith Thompson:
Sentimentality, Abjection, Innocence; Rosemary Hollow, What’s
in a name? Memorialization, punishment, and perpetrators of crime
(Conference Room) |
Session 8: Sovereignty, pain and death Daniel
Loick, Imagining a World without Sovereignty: Theoretical Approaches
to Contest a Modern Concept; Barbara Ann Hocking, Projections
from To Kill a Mockingbird: Fiction, History and the International
Criminal Tribunal for Yugoslavia (ICTY) (Theatrette) |
| 2:30–3:00 |
Coffee and art gallery (Foyer and Seminar Room Gallery) |
|
| 3:00–4:00 |
Performance 1. Lycia Trouton, Monique Van-Nieuwland and Tom Fitzgerald,
visual and musical performance – Counter memory and The
Irish Linen Memorial: (re)imagining Northern Ireland after the troubles,
1969 – 1998 (Conference Room) |
|
| 4:15–4:45 |
Betty Churcher, WWII artists confront the horrors
of war (Conference Room) |
|
| 4:45–5:15 |
Discussion |
|
| 5:15–6:00 |
Wine and cheese (Foyer) |
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Saturday 10 December |
| 9:30–10:00am |
Registration and Coffee (Old Canberra House Foyer) |
|
| 10:00–10:30 |
Hilary Charlesworth, Legal Rationalizations of Torture
(Conference Room) |
|
| 10:30–11:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 11:00–11:30 |
Coffee and art gallery (Foyer and Seminar Room Gallery) |
|
| 11:30–1:00 |
Session 9: Audiences for violence
Kit Messham-Muir, Darkness: The Politics and Aesthetics
of Pain and Death at Contemporary Holocaust Museums; Vera Mackie,
“The bodies are gone. Only the shoes remain”
(Conference Room) |
Session 10: Finding a voice for violence
David Tait, State-sanctioned child-beating: memories of
corporal punishment at school; Sylvia Kleinert, Dealing
with death: Indigenous Representations of settler-colonial violence;
Adam Chapman, Re-Living the Liberation of Laos: Death and Music
Karaoke (Theatrette) |
| 1:00–2:00pm |
Lunch (provided in Foyer) |
|
| 2:00–2:30 |
Javier Moscoso, The political uses
of pain and violence: Terrorism in Spain (Theatrette) |
|
| 2:30–3:00 |
Discussion |
|
| 3:00–3:30 |
Coffee and art gallery (Foyer and Seminar Room Gallery) |
|
| 3:30–4:30 |
Performance 2. Narrabundah Players, Malice
in Blunderland: A Political Satire, (Conference
Room) |
|
| 4:30–5:00 |
Final Plenary (Conference Room) |
|
| 5:00–5:15 |
Closing and Thanks |
|
| 5:15–6:00 |
Wine and hors-d’oeuvres (Foyer and Courtyard) |
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