{"id":60,"date":"2019-07-15T08:39:33","date_gmt":"2019-07-15T06:39:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/easa\/?page_id=60"},"modified":"2019-09-03T08:56:51","modified_gmt":"2019-09-03T06:56:51","slug":"abstracts-et-bios","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sites.univ-tln.fr\/easa\/abstracts-et-bios\/","title":{"rendered":"Abstracts et Bios"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Albisson Gr\u00e9gory <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Managing Natural Resources in New Zealand: Towards a\nBicultural Perspective? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the 1980s, the Aoteraroa New Zealand Crown has been committed to reconciliation with the archipelago\u2019s first inhabitants. Every now and then new laws are voted to recognise tikanga, or customary laws \/ correct way of doing things. Among them, the Resource Management Act 1991 states that the \u201crelationship of M\u0101ori and their culture and traditions with their ancestral lands, water, sites, wahi tapu [sacred places], and other taonga [treasures]\u201d is a matter of national importance. Two decades later, a river and a national park have become legal entities out of respect for M\u0101ori tikanga and the Crown\u2019s Treaty obligations (and also for environmental reasons). That being said, have the successive governments been able to meet the same expectations in terms of resource management? Can the full recognition of M\u0101ori conception of natural resources achieve greater national unity? Or is it fundamentally incompatible with the nation\u2019s current economic model and mainstream P\u0101keh\u0101 [New Zealanders of European descent] views? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Gregory Albisson is a lecturer in British and\nCommonwealth Studies at Grenoble Alpes University.  His thesis topic under the supervision of\nProfessor Francine Tolron looked into the question of M\u0101ori street gangs and\nso-called neotribal theories. His current research is on bicultural policies\nand natural resources in New Zealand as well as climate migrants, refugees and\nasylum seekers in Australia and New Zealand. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Auguste Isabelle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alter\/native : Implementing the Declaration on\nthe Rights of Indigenous Peoples in Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab The 13th of September 2007 will be remembered as a day when the United\nNations and its Member States, together with Indigenous Peoples reconciled with\npast painful histories and decided to march into the future path of human\nrights\u2026 \u00bb (Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, Former Chairperson of the UN Permanent Forum,\n13 September 2007). On the 13th of September 2007, the United Nations General\nAssembly adopted the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP),\none of the most comprehensive instrument setting standards and foundations for\nthe protection of 370 million Indigenous peoples worldwide, the result of more\nthan twenty years of work. Australia was among the four countries which first\nvoted against the Declaration in 2007 before backing it two years after. In\nthis presentation, we will look closely at UNDRIP and its 46 articles and show\nthat implementing the Declaration could be an alternative to the status quo in Australia. We will argue, in\nparticular, that the first measure to be taken for its implementation to be\neffective should be a negotiated framework which would address the unfinished\nbusiness of reconciliation in the country and mark the beginning of a new\nrelationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isabelle Auguste is from Reunion Island and has been working in the field\nof Australian Studies since 1999. She has had the opportunity to prepare her\nPhD under the supervision of historian Peter Read (2005) and to be a visiting fellow at Australian Centre for Indigenous Histories (Research\nSchool of Social Sciences, Australian National University) in 2007-2008. Her\nmain areas of interest are : Indigenous Peoples\u2019 rights and Reconciliation in\nAustralia. She is currently a teacher at the Universit\u00e9 de la R\u00e9union.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Belleflamme Val\u00e9rie-Anne<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cPeering into the Darkness\u201d: The Leper Colony\nin The Death of Noah Glass by\nGail Jones <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her essay \u201cDark\nPlaces: The Movement of the Image\u201d, Gail Jones takes Fra Angelico\u2019s\npainting Pious Women at the Tomb (1440)\nas a starting point for her tribute to the work of her late friend and mentor\nVeronica Brady. The intriguing painting depicts four women peering down into\nChrist\u2019s marble casket, looking for his absent body. However, they are all\nlooking the wrong way, their gaze misdirected, and hence not seeing the\napparition of the resurrected Christ floating above their heads. The painting,\nJones concludes, \u201cis essentially of mistake,\u201d\nit is \u201cof assuming emptiness and absence, and of missing meaning\u201d (10, original\nemphasis). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Taking her cue from Bruno Latour\u2019s recommendation that\nwe should multiply mediators not only in our reading of paintings but also in\nour understandings, Jones then argues that we should consider the inclusion of\n\u201can \u2018inferred\u2019 dimension, generously and openly, in all forms of knowledge \u2013 in\nscience, philosophy, art and social theory\u201d (11). We should, she specifies,\n\u201cconsider movements of disembodiment and reembodiment,\u201d \u201cimagine competing\nvectors in the construction of meaning\u201d and \u201cadmit the non-realist and inexact\nqualities in all things\u201d (11). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This, I believe, is precisely what she aestheticises\nin her latest novel, The Death of Noah\nGlass (2018), namely through the spatial image of the leprosarium in the\nnorth of Western Australia and the bodily image of its Indigenous patients,\nwith their \u201ceroded faces and missing ears\u201d, \u201csitting in the shadows\u201d (41).\nConsequently, my paper will investigate how the leper colony and the leprous\nbody trigger the \u201cundoing of certainty, kenosis\nas a mode of knowing\u201d and, as such, act as alter\/native spaces in which \u201cart speaks in oblique and multiple\nregisters,\u201d \u201cpeering into the darkness,\u201d \u201cintuiting, not seeing directly,\u201d and\ntherefore allowing the emergence of alter\/native\nmeanings and discourses (Jones, \u201cDark Places\u201d 11). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Besides her work as a graduate assistant, Val\u00e9rie-Anne\nBelleflamme is currently working on a doctoral dissertation on temporality and\nthe craft of fiction in Gail Jones\u2019s literary oeuvre at the University of\nLi\u00e8ge, Belgium. Her research interests are in postcolonial studies and\nAustralian literature, as well as in narratology and phenomenology. She is also\na member of CEREP, the English Department\u2019s postcolonial research unit at the\nUniversity of Li\u00e8ge, and together with Marie Herbillon and Maryam Mirza, she\nhas guest-edited the JEASA issue entitled \u201cAustralia-South Asia: Contestations\nand Remonstrances,\u201d which was published in 2017. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Bernard Virginie <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A treaty that dares not speak its name : The Noongar Agreement in the\nAustralian South West<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Australia, there is a gap between, on the one hand,\nthe apparent willingness of the state to recognize the Indigenous Australians\nand the legal and institutional measures that seem to abound in this sense and,\non the other hand, the mechanisms of control that it puts in place to refuse\nclaims for recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a liberal state, it privileges the rights of\nindividuals and is wary of the international legal category of \u201cIndigenous\npeoples\u201d and its possible repercussions at the national level. Indeed, this\ncategory confers on the peoples claiming it the status of legal personalities\nand grants them collective rights which are the responsibility of states. The\nAustralian state notably perceives the right to self-determination as likely to\nopen the way to independence movements and refuses any idea of a treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this context, to settle\ntheir native title claims and assert their place in the mainstream Australian\nsociety, the Aborigines Noongars of the South West of Western Australia stand\naside, in their majority, from the international discourses on indigeneity and\nclaims to a treaty. Instead, they have negotiated a comprehensive\nagreement with the State of Western Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This presentation aims to demonstrate that this\nagreement is a treaty that dares not say its name. It will show that the\nNoongars have defended the idea of a Noongar Nation, an Alter\/Native space\nwithin the Australian nation, articulating the principle of \u201cinternal\u201d\nsovereignty to reframe their relationship with the Australian state. They have\nfashioned a noongar identity according to the general criteria that\ncharacterize the category of \u201cIndigenous peoples\u201d and claim the same rights it\naccords.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Virginie Bernard, in June 2018, defended her doctoral\nthesis in social and historical anthropology, prepared at the \u00c9cole des Hautes\n\u00c9tudes en Sciences Sociales, entitled: \u201cWhen the State interferes with\n\u2018tradition\u2019: the struggle of the Noongars of the Australian South West for\ntheir recognition\u201d. Her research interests include Australia (Western\nAustralia, South Western Australia), colonisation, Aboriginal and\nnon-Aboriginal relations, Indigenous land claims, state relations and\nIndigeneity. She has conducted a total of 16 months of ethnographic surveys in\nthe South West of Western Australia, combining participant observation,\nconversations and interviews, data collection and archival research. She is currently associated with the\nCentre de Recherche et de Documentation sur l\u2019Oc\u00e9anie, CREDO (Aix-Marseille\nUniversit\u00e9, CNRS, EHESS, CREDO UMR 7308).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Birchall Matthew<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

British\nCompany Colonisation and Indigenous Space, 1815\u20131840<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This talk analyses how chartered colonial\nenterprise propelled the settler revolution. Characterised by mass emigration\nto Britain\u2019s settler colonies during the long nineteenth century, the settler\nrevolution transformed Chicago and Melbourne, London and New York, drawing all\ninto a vast cultural network that straddled the globe. But while the settler\nrevolution is now well integrated into British imperial history, it remains\ncuriously disconnected from the global history of capitalism. In the wake of\nthe Napoleonic Wars, however, a suite of antipodean colonisation and\nagricultural trading companies were established in London, all of which had a\nprofound impact on British imperial policy in the South Pacific, an oceanic\nworld disrupted by European landfall. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Challenging the presumption that a \u201csettler boom\nmentality\u201d explains the surge in emigration to Britain\u2019s settler colonies in\nthe nineteenth century and calling into question Vincent Harlow\u2019s classic\ndistinction between the First and Second British\nEmpires, this talk aims to show how and why companies remade indigenous space\nin the 1830s, focusing in particular on South Australia and New Zealand.\nChartered colonial enterprise, I show, decisively shaped antipodean land\nsettlement, linking the Pacific new world to metropolitan capital and a\nsocial network of \u201cgentlemanly capitalists,\u201d a cluster of London-based\nmerchants and land speculators who employed a carefully constructed\ninterpretation of British imperial history and deep pools of capital, narrative\npower and the coercive force of money, to underwrite sovereign claims to\nAboriginal Australian and M\u0101ori tribal land. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matthew Birchall is a\nSmuts Scholar at Jesus College, Cambridge, where he is working towards a PhD in\nHistory under the supervision of Duncan Bell. His dissertation examines British\ncolonisation and agricultural trading companies in the early nineteenth\ncentury, among them the Australian Agricultural Company, the Canada Company and\nthe New Zealand Company. He has previously worked as the Editor for Learnerbly,\nan education<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Black Prudence<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Clearing Country and\nOpening the Skies: Indigenous Workers and the Aviation Industry<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Much has been written about the \u2018pioneering\u2019 movement\nof white Australians and the aviation industry, but this paper aims to get to\nan aspect of the essential infrastructure making it possible, in this case how\nIndigenous Australians were used not only as available labour, but also for\ntheir specific expertise about the terrain, the supply and movement of water\nand specific knowledge of weather patterns. The paper will focus on the period\nfrom the 1930s to the 1950s when civil and military aviation was expanding\nacross the northern part of Australia, and outline how Indigenous labour was\nused to prepare airstrips and provide crucial support for the aviation\nindustry. It was through local knowledge and the labour of the Indigenous\npeople that the industry could operate and expand, and in many instances ensure\nthe safety of those flying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prudence Black is a lecturer in the Faculty of\nHumanities, Adelaide University. Her research interests include interview-based\nprojects about the aviation industry, the textile industry and female offenders\nin the New South Wales prison system. Current research relates to \u2018Heritage of\nthe Air\u2019 an Australian Research Council project that will shape material for\nthe Centenary of Civil Aviation in Australia in 2020. Her latest book is Smile,\nParticularly in Bad Weather: The Era of the Australian Airline Hostess, UWA\nPublications, 2017.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Brewster Ann<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humour in Melissa Lucashenko\u2019s Too Much Lip<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a young girl, Kerry Salter, the protagonist of\nMelissa Lucashenko\u2019s recent novel is described as having \u2018too much lip\u2019. This\ncheeky narrative deploys a deft and mobile humour across a range of styles and\nrace, gender and class contexts. Whether it is the humour used to \u2018jar up\u2019\nwhitefellas\u2019 discomforts, complacency and ignorance; the humour used to counter\nthe gendered violence of Ken, the Salter family\u2019s \u2018alpha male\u2019; or the humour that\nemerges in response to the death and disappearance of family members which are\nsituated within a long history of transgenerational racialised violence, humour\nis a powerful resource in the novel in negotiating Indigenous anger, rage,\nfear, shame and grief, affects which arise from poverty, criminalisation,\ndispossession and the oppression of women. Terse irony, exuberant farce,\ncutting satire and redolent gallows humour remind us of the dynamic and\ntransformative nature of the comic mode and of the complex aesthetic and\ncultural work it undertakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his study of Harlem Renaissance literature, Mike\nChasar suggests that the \u2018black laugh could go where the physical black body in\nmany cases could not and thus could uniquely challenge white control of public\nspace\u2019. The worlding of novel is a rich medium for demonstrating the ways in\nwhich Aboriginal bodies are constantly put on the line. Yet the comedy of Too\nMuch Lip also reminds us how these bodies constantly cross the line, \u2018giving\ncheek\u2019 to the scripts and discursive imperatives of the white nation,\nreclaiming an alter\/native historicity and futurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Brewster is an Associate Professor at the\nUniversity of New South Wales. Her research interests include Australian\nIndigenous literatures, minoritised women\u2019s literatures, and critical race and\nwhiteness studies. Her books include Literary Formations: Postcoloniality,\nNationalism, Globalism (1996), Reading Aboriginal Women’s Autobiography (1995,\n2015), Giving This Country a Memory:\nContemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia, (2015), and\n(with Sue Kossew) Rethinking the Victim. Gender, Violence and Contemporary\nAustralian Women\u2019s Writing (2019). She is the series editor for Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary\nPerspectives Peter Lang Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Humour in Melissa Lucashenko\u2019s Too Much Lip<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a young girl, Kerry Salter, the protagonist of\nMelissa Lucashenko\u2019s recent novel is described as having \u2018too much lip\u2019. This\ncheeky narrative deploys a deft and mobile humour across a range of styles and\nrace, gender and class contexts. Whether it is the humour used to \u2018jar up\u2019\nwhitefellas\u2019 discomforts, complacency and ignorance; the humour used to counter\nthe gendered violence of Ken, the Salter family\u2019s \u2018alpha male\u2019; or the humour\nthat emerges in response to the death and disappearance of family members which\nare situated within a long history of transgenerational racialised violence,\nhumour is a powerful resource in the novel in negotiating Indigenous anger,\nrage, fear, shame and grief, affects which arise from poverty, criminalisation,\ndispossession and the oppression of women. Terse irony, exuberant farce,\ncutting satire and redolent gallows humour remind us of the dynamic and\ntransformative nature of the comic mode and of the complex aesthetic and\ncultural work it undertakes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his study of Harlem Renaissance literature, Mike\nChasar suggests that the \u2018black laugh could go where the physical black body in\nmany cases could not and thus could uniquely challenge white control of public\nspace\u2019. The worlding of novel is a rich medium for demonstrating the ways in\nwhich Aboriginal bodies are constantly put on the line. Yet the comedy of Too\nMuch Lip also reminds us how these bodies constantly cross the line, \u2018giving\ncheek\u2019 to the scripts and discursive imperatives of the white nation,\nreclaiming an alter\/native historicity and futurity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Anne Brewster is an Associate Professor at the\nUniversity of New South Wales. Her research interests include Australian\nIndigenous literatures, minoritised women\u2019s literatures, and critical race and\nwhiteness studies. Her books include Literary Formations: Postcoloniality,\nNationalism, Globalism (1996), Reading Aboriginal Women’s Autobiography (1995,\n2015), Giving This Country a Memory:\nContemporary Aboriginal Voices of Australia, (2015), and\n(with Sue Kossew) Rethinking the Victim. Gender, Violence and Contemporary\nAustralian Women\u2019s Writing (2019). She is the series editor for Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary\nPerspectives Peter Lang Ltd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Callahan David<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Configuring\nAustralia Globally: Adding Australia to India in The Lost Legacy<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the\ninternationally successful American video game The Lost Legacy, a spin-off of\nthe massively popular Uncharted series, the central character, and the one we\nplay as, is the daughter of an Indian father and an Australian mother. After\nhaving been a secondary character in Uncharted 2 and Uncharted 3, it is easy to\nsee that Chloe Frazer\u2019s elevation to protagonist may be responding to pressure\non video game companies to be more attentive to representing women in roles\nwhich index competence in general, and competence in areas generally reserved\nfor male protagonists. What is not so easy to read is Chloe\u2019s identitarian and\nethnic mix of Indian and white Australian. Indeed, The Lost Legacy has two\ncompetent action figures as its central characters, and they are both mature\nwomen, with Chloe\u2019s companion, Nadine Ross, being a South-African of\nunspecified, but also mixed, background. Although The Lost Legacy is not a text\nproduced by Australians, it does participate in global discourses of\n\u201cAustralianness,\u201d which makes the choice of a mixed-parented Australian\nparticularly interesting, and this particular mixture even more so. This paper\nwould accordingly attempt to read the game\u2019s ethnic politics as intersected by\nits gender politics, with the high profile of this game warranting\ninvestigation into the intelligibility or otherwise of the subject formation\nrepresented by its protagonist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Callahan is Associate\nProfessor of English at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. His work has mostly\nconcentrated on postcolonial topics, and appeared in journals such as\nInterventions, Postcolonial Studies, Critique, English Studies in Africa and \u2026\nClinical Anatomy, along with book chapters on varied subjects such as DNA and Surveillance in CSI, James Fenimore Cooper\u2019s Androgynous Heroes, and The Last of the US: The\nGame as Cultural Geography. He is also the author of Rainforest Narratives: The\nWork of Janette Turner Hospital, and editor of other books on Australian and\ncontemporary literature.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Carter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Before otherness: Australian\nIndigenous Authors in the US Marketplace<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the 1980s, Indigenous authors have had a major\nimpact in the Australian literary marketplace, producing some of the most\nsignificant works over this period, winning major literary prizes, and being\npublished internationally. In many instances, however, achieving US publication\nhas been a more difficult proposition than translation into European or other\nlanguages. Building on the research for my recently published co-authored\nstudy, Australian Books and Authors in the American\nMarketplace, 1840s-1940s (with\nRoger Osborne, 2018), this paper will explore the history of American editions\nof works by Indigenous Australian authors and their reception in the USA.\nOutside certain academic circles, Australian Indigenous works have had limited\nimpact in the US in the absence of adequate reception frameworks or reading\nformations. The uneven course of \u201cmaterial transnationalism\u201d tells a different\nstory from the \u201ctextual transnationalism\u201d so powerfully invoked in the works\nthemselves and in critical discourses around \u201cindigenous transnationalism\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Carter is Emeritus Professor (Australian Literature\nand Cultural History) in the School of Communication and Arts at the University\nof Queensland and formerly Director of the University\u2019s Australian Studies\nCentre. Recent publications include Australian\nBooks and Authors in the American Marketplace, 1840-1940s (2018), with\nRoger Osborne, and Always Almost\nModern: Australian Print Cultures and Modernity (2013). He is currently Senior Editor\n(Australian Literature) for the online Oxford Research Encyclopedia of\nLiterature and a researcher on the projects Australian Cultural Fields: National and Transnational Dynamics\nand Genre Worlds: Australian Popular\nFiction in the 21st<\/sup> Century. He has been involved in\nAustralian Studies in China for more than twenty years and has twice held the\nChair in Australian Studies at Tokyo University (2007-08; 2016-17).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Danica \u010cer\u010de<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Redefining Indigenous Identity in the Poetry of\nJeanine Leane<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on the premise that literature can play an\nimportant role both in maintaining and disrupting the exercise of power, and\nwritten against the background of critical whiteness studies, the article deals\nwith the collection of poems Dark\nSecrets (2010) by the Australian Indigenous author Jeanine Leane. It\nshows how the poet intervenes in what Sara Suleri\n(2003) calls \u201cthe static lines of demarcation\u201d between subjugating and\nsubjugated cultures, that is, the\nassumptions about whiteness as a static privilege-granting category and system\nof dominance upon which the logic of coloniality often stands. I argue that, by\nmobilising various techniques and strategies to challenge the reproduction of whiteness and affirm Indigenous Australians\u2019 authentic\nrather than an imposed cultural personality, Leane performs both personal and\ncollective empowerment of Indigenous peoples. In this way, her poetry is preparing the grounds for the society that, in Homi Bhabha\u2019s words, \u201centertains differences\nwithout an assumed or imposed hierarchy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Danica \u010cer\u010de is a Full Professor of Literatures in\nEnglish teaching at the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana. Her field of research includes contemporary American\nand Australian literature, with the focus on Indigenous writing, and\nTranslation and Cultural Studies. She is the author of three monograph\npublications on John Steinbeck\u2019s fiction, several book chapters in edited\ncollections and conference proceedings, and has published several articles in\nvarious academic journals in Slovenia and abroad. \u010cer\u010de is on the editorial\nboard of Coolabah and Steinbeck\nReview, and the current President\nof the International Society of Steinbeck Scholars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Chen Hong <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The shaping and reshaping impact of the Chinese\nlanguage media on the Australia cultural landscape<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Chinese language media has steadily developed in\nAustralia alongside with the rapid and substantial growth of the Chinese\nimmigrant community in the country. It has played an important role in the\nretention and development of the ethnic Chinese Australians’ cultural identity\nand their integration into the broader Australian community. It is intrinsic to\nthe promotion of the heterogeneous and multicultural nature of the Australian\nsociety, and helps diversify the cultural scenarios of the country. The Chinese\nlanguage media outlets have served to preserve and promote the Chinese culture\nand to organically conjoin the cultural and social relations between the old\nand new generations of the Chinese immigrants. However, in the recent several\nyears there has been some increasingly illogical, irrational and baseless\ncontroversy centring on the Chinese language media outlets, in particular with\nthe scepticism of their political affiliations and motives. This paper is an analysis\nof the Chinese language media outlets\u2019 historical development, the status quo,\nthe debate and challenges targeting at them, and the relevant impact they have\nbeen exerting on the cultural, social and political landscape of Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Professor\nChen Hong is Director of Australian Studies Centre, Executive Director of Asia\nPacific Studies Centre, and Head of Department of English at East China Normal\nUniversity in Shanghai. He is also Executive Vice President of the Chinese\nAssociation of Australian Studies, and Deputy Editor-in-Chief of The Chinese\nJournal of Australian Studies, and The Journal of Studies of Australian\nCulture. Chen Hong\u2019s research interests include China Australia relations,\nAustralian foreign policies, Australian politics, Australian culture and\nAustralian literature. He is author and co-author of several books and more\nthan 30 academic papers in Australian Studies. Professor Chen teaches and\nresearches in Australian Studies at East China Normal University. He also\npublishes and commentates frequently on China Australia relations and other\ninternational issues in major Chinese and international media outlets including\nPhoenix Television, Xinhua News Agency, China Radio International, China News\nService, China Daily, Global Times, Liberation Daily, Shanghai Morning Post,\nXinmin Evening News, The ABC (Australia), The Australian, The Australian\nFinancial Review, The Sydney Morning Herald\/The Age, WION Television (India),\netc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Daozhi Xu<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Pluralism of Belonging in a Multicultural Australia<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A sense of belonging has always been a matter of\ncontestation and discord in Australia. Questions remain: what does \u201cbelonging\u201d\nactually mean for different groups of people who have been dislocated either by\nforce or by choice? How could one insist the right to belong? To what extent is\none\u2019s belonging to a place not exclusive of others\u2019 claims of home? The complex\nissues of belonging underline enduring debates on national identities,\nhistories, borders and territories in Australian settler society. It is\nassociated with pressing concerns of Indigenous groups regarding their\nracialised identity and legitimate positioning in territorial entitlement. It\nalso deals with the rising concerns of Asian immigrants who report being\nexcluded from national debates regarding Indigenous\u2013settler relations, and who\nare desirous of participating (Rolls, 2014). While the year 2018 marked the\n200th anniversary of Chinese migration to Australia, commemorating the first\nrecorded Chinese settler, Mak Sai Ying, who came to Australia from the Chinese\ncity of Canton in 1818, little is known about different understandings of the\nubiquitous term \u201csettler\u201d and its implications among Chinese and other Asian\nimmigrants in Australia. This paper seeks to address different and contested\nforms of belonging vis-\u00e0-vis Indigenous and Asian Australians in literary and\ncultural expressions, explore the power relations underpinning these matters of\ndisputes, and consider the possible ways that open up a space for a pluralism\nof belonging in the multicultural Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Xu Daozhi is currently a research fellow at School of\nInternational Studies, Sun Yat-sen University, a part-time lecturer at School\nof English, the University of Hong Kong, and a university associate with the\nSchool of Humanities, the University of Tasmania. She holds a PhD in English\nliterary studies from HKU. Her research interests include postcolonial studies,\ncultural theory, children\u2019s literature, studies of race and ethnicity, settler colonialism.\nHer monograph Indigenous Cultural\nCapital: Postcolonial Narratives in Australian Children\u2019s Literature\n(2018) won the Biennial Australian Studies in China Book Prize, awarded by\nAustralia\u2013China Council. It has also been shortlisted for the Association for\nthe Study of Australian Literature (ASAL) \u201cAlvie Egan Award\u201d in 2019. Her\nscholarly articles have appeared in Journal\nof Australian Studies, Australian Aboriginal Studies, Papers: Explorations into Children\u2019s\nLiterature, and Antipodes,\netc. She is interested in translation and has translated or co-translated\nseveral books. She is on the Executive of the International Australian Studies\nAssociation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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David Delphine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cEither\nYou\u2019re Black, or You\u2019re Not\u201d: Are In-between Identity Alternatives Possible in\nToday\u2019s Australia?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today, an increasing number of Australians chooses to identify as\nAboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. Far from stereotypes limiting the\ndefinition of Indigenous people, this growing minority is more diverse than\never and, as T. Moore writes, \u201c[is] living increasingly intercultural lives and\nidentif[ies] in postethnic ways.\u201d1 Such an evolution of Indigeneity follows\nfrom what M. Langton wrote: \u201cThe creation of \u2018Aboriginality\u2019 is not a fixed thing.\n(\u2026) It arises from the intersubjectivity of black and white in a dialogue.\u201d2\nMoreover, it arises from individuals building their own identity journeys, and\ndeciding how to integrate Indigeneity in their lives in multicultural\nAustralia. Despite this, Indigeneity continues to be described in essential\nterms. This static perception linked to demands for racial loyalty makes it\ndifficult for people in-between to assert their places. In a divided\npost-colonial country where, as a strategy of re-empowerment, reclaiming the\nright to self-identification leads some Indigenous people to focus on\nincommensurable differences with non-Indigenous Australians, there often seems\nto be little room for more fragmented identities questioning dominant\ndiscourses about Indigeneity. Using interviews of young Australians raised in a\nwhite culture but desirous to explore and\/or claim their Indigenous heritage,\nthis presentation aims at analysing the discourse according to which \u201cyou\neither are or you\u2019re not Indigenous\u201d, as well its impacts on people wishing to\nclaim alternative, more plural and fluid, identities which reflect their\npersonal trajectories as well as the complex historical and present links\nbetween Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Delphine David is a former student of the ENS Cachan. She passed the\nAgregation exam in English and has a PhD in English studies. She is specialised\nin Australian studies. She currently teaches at the university Paris 1\nPantheon-Sorbonne. Her research focuses on postcolonial relationships in\nAustralia where she worked on several occasions. She is especially interested\nin studying the relationship between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians,\nand the places these groups take in representations of national identity. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Davidson-Novosivschei Claudia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

My Kind and the Alter Native \u2013 a Border\nPerspective on David Malouf\u2019s Remembering Babylon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 \u201cGiven all that is going on, can the Other\nstill be considered my kind? (\u2026) The burden of the Other has become so\ndebilitating, would it not be better if my life was not linked to his presence\nanymore, and his to mine? Why towards and against all, do I still have to watch\nover the other, very close to his life if, in exchange, his aim is my defeat?\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

A shrinking earth and a growing\npopulation are the background for a non-relationship with the other, for a\ncontinuous demarcation from her\/him, as Achille Mbembe suggests in Politiques\nde l\u2019inimiti\u00e9 (2016), from which I translated the lines above. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Western states and their citizens make\nit financially possible for the border to be pushed further and further way.\nThe other is confined to an alternative (and alter-native) space, a mentally\ndiscardable one, where wars and famine are carried out and suffered by some\nwhom we insist are not our kind. Although stripped of mobility, if they manage\nto cut a way through, and get in our proximity, the border mechanism is\nactivated through the deprivation of rights, such as the right to work, to\nvote, etc. The alternative space is thus legally generated within our very\nspace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is within the framework of the\nborder, as theorized by scholars such as Gloria Anzaldua and Achille Mbembe,\nthat I shall look at David Malouf\u2019s Remembering Babylon (1993) novel. In this\nworld of ours that seems to have put up the sign \u201cDo\nnot enter, trespassers will be raped, maimed, strangled, gassed, shot\u201d\n(Anzaldua), Malouf\u2019s character, Gemmy \u2013 a ship\u2019s boy taken in by Aborigines \u2013\ncomes from \u201ca world over there, beyond the no-man\u2019s-land of the swamp, that was\nthe abode of everything savage and fearsome\u201d, and crossing spaces, he also\ncrosses (sub)human categories. Is Gemmy of our kind? Is he an alter native? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claudia Novosivschei is a PhD student with the Faculty\nof Letters of Babes-Bolyai University Romania. Her PhD project focuses on\nAustralian literature, more precisely the fiction of David Malouf and Peter\nCarey. Member of EACLALS and EASA since 2013, she participated in several international conferences: EACLALS (Innsbruck,\n2014), Postcolonial Narrations (Frankfurt, 2014), EASA (Prato, 2014);\nBritish and American Studies Conference (Timisoara, 2015), EASA (Liege, 2017),\nEACLALS (Oviedo, 2017), Constructions of Identity 9 (Cluj-Napoca 2017), EASA\n(Barcelona, 2018). In 2015 she benefited from a research mobility at the\nUniversity of Kent, UK. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dutto Matteo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reframing the Cinematic\nSpace of Migration: On- and Off-Screen Encounters between Italian Migrants and\nIndigenous Australian<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Italian and Australian films\nand documentaries on the lives of first-, second- and third-generation Italian\nmigrants to Australia have very rarely addressed how stories of Italian\nmigration to Australia intersect with those of Indigenous Australians, focusing\ninstead on how Italian migrants\u2019 sense of belonging and space is constructed\nand negotiated through their relationships with the settler colonial nation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper explores the role\nthat screen media productions by Italian and Italo-Australian filmmakers have\nplayed in reinforcing or, conversely, unsettling this absence. It examines the\nwork of filmmakers such as Luigi Zampa, Alessandro and Fabio Cavadini and\nVincent Lamberti that have either represented these encounters on-screen or\nenacted them off-screen through transcultural collaborations, and artistic and\npolitical solidarity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focusing on how these films,\ndocumentaries and stories of collaboration offer alternative cinematic\nrepresentations of migrants\u2019 sense of belonging within a settler colonial\nnation, I argue that these are all accounts that add complexity to our\nunderstanding of the position that migrants and Indigenous people occupy in\ncontemporary Australia, shedding light on how encounters between Italian\nmigrants and Indigenous Australians can work to reinforce settler colonial\nideologies or, instead, towards decolonisation and the redefinition of new\nmodels of transcultural belonging that operate at the borders of different\nsystems of knowledge and draw on embodied and localised senses of belonging and\nidentity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Matteo Dutto is ACIS Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Monash\nUniversity in the School of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics.\nHis current research explores how cultural producers collaborate with\nIndigenous, migrant and multi-ethnic communities to produce transmedia and\ntranscultural counter-narratives of belonging and identity. His work has been\npublished in Studies in Documentary\nFilm and Fulgor and he\nrecently collaborated to the production of the Australian Indigenous Film and Television\n(AIFTV)<\/a> online knowledge\nsharing platform. His first monograph\nLegacies of Indigenous Resistance will be published by Peter Lang Oxford in\n2019 as part of the \u2018Australian Studies: Interdisciplinary Perspectives\u2019\nseries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Elder Catriona<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Family, race,\nromance and anxiety: Reading some of FJ Thwaites\u2019 fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article takes a group of popular fiction novels,\nwritten by FJ Thwaites in the 1930s and 1940s uses them to explore themes of\nfamily, nation, race, desire and anxiety. Thwaites was a prolific writer and a\ngroup of his novels have adventure-romance plots involving a sexual\nrelationship between a white man and a non-white woman. These novels were often\nset in \u2018exotic\u2019 locations \u2013 from Nigerian jungles, to the Polynesian tropical\nislands. The analysis focus on the ways in which these texts\u2019 descriptions of\nlove and romance including how and when the taboo of inter-cultural desire were\nrepresented. Tropes explored include: the language characters use to express\nlove across \u2018colour lines\u2019; the authorial descriptions of gendered beauty,\nespecially in relation to skin colour; and concluding imaginings of the future\n\u2013 especially family and children \u2013 in relation to inter-cultural. Overall, the\npaper seeks to better understand the ways in which ideas of race, culture and\nskin colour were and still are used to demarcate the boundaries of a \u2018white\u2019\nnation space. It also considers the ways in the very status of Thwaites\u2019 novels\nas a type of \u2018pulp\u2019 adventure and romance fiction \u2013 shape what can be said in\nthe texts and how issues are resolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Catriona Elder is located in the\nDepartment of Sociology and Social Policy in the Faculty of Arts and Social\nSciences at the University of Sydney. Across her academic career her teaching\nand research interests have centred on Australian race relations, often in a\ncomparative context. Dr Elder\u2019s \npublications have  explored\nnational identities and belonging in settler colonial spaces, especially in\nrelation to the everyday and intimacy. \nHer research often analyses popular culture\u2014novels, films, and images\u2014as\nwell as oral histories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Farrall-Anquet Reia<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideas, Environmental Policy and Australian National\nIdentity <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australian national identity owes much to the struggle\nbetween mostly European immigrant settlers – and the natural Australian\nenvironment. The settler Australians encounter with the natural elements, has\nproduced such national icons as the \u201cAussie battler\u201d, mateship, the legend of\nthe farmer, and the \u201cshe\u2019ll be right\u201d attitude; stemming from the brutality of\nthe Australian land and seascapes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Settler Australians knew that they are here today, but\ndue to drought, flood, bushfire or cyclone, might be gone tomorrow. How have\nthese images of national identity affected the ways in which Australian\ngovernments have administered environment and resource use in Australia over\nthe past 230 years? As Australia has always been a country of ecological extremes,\nis the rhetoric of Australian settler values keeping the nation from seeing the\nenvironmental truth of climate change? How can Australia overcome these\nentrenched ideas to seriously consider Alter\/Native environmental and resource\npolicies?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Using public policy theories, this paper will analyse\nwhich paradigms and ideas pervade present environmental policy and resource\ngovernance in Australia. Australia needs to recognise how its environmental\npolicies have developed in order to find new \u2018hybrid\u2019 cultural solutions for\nthe Anthropocene to deal with problems of sustainability, biodiversity loss and\nclimate change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reia Farrall-Anquet is an English Lecturer (PRCE) at\nSciences Po Grenoble, where she teaches English for special purposes on\nBachelor\u2019s and Master\u2019s courses, as well as lecture content-based courses on\nAustralian Identity, and Environment and Society. She is a PhD candidate, under\nthe supervision of Professor Susanne Berthier-Foglar (Universit\u00e9\nGrenoble-Alpes), and Professors Benjamin Richardson and Marcus Haward\n(University of Tasmania, Australia). Her thesis topic investigates the\ninterplays between common law, legislation, public policy; and the\nopportunities for participation of Indigenous Peoples\u2019 in environmental\ngovernance in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Foster Meg<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mary Ann Bugg: an intersectional life<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the mid-nineteenth century, colonial Australians\nwere presented with a problem in the form of Mary Ann Bugg. The Aboriginal\n\u2018wife\u2019 of famous bushranger Captain Thunderbolt threatened white properties and\nlives when she helped her spouse in his daring escapades. She rode and dressed\nlike a man, butchered cattle and undertook strenuous physical labour, but no\none could deny that she was still very much a woman. Her feminine beauty did\nnot escape the attention of contemporaries, her children accompanied her and\nThunderbolt through the bush and colonial newspapers referred to Mary Ann the\nway that she described herself; as \u2018the Captain\u2019s Lady\u2019.  How then, did white Australians deal with\nsuch a troublesome woman? How did they approach a person who challenged,\nconformed and complicated their beliefs about race, womanhood and masculinity\nin almost equal measure?  These are the\nquestions that this paper will answer. In doing so, it will reveal the messy,\ncomplex, yet very real way that action and imagination worked together to shape\nAboriginal women\u2019s lives in the nineteenth century. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Meg Foster is a PhD candidate in History\nat the University of New South Wales, Australia and is currently a Visiting\nStudent at the University of Cambridge. Under the supervision of Professor\nGrace Karskens and Professor Lisa Ford, Meg is investigating the \u2018other\u2019\nbushrangers (Australian outlaws who were not white men) in history and memory.\nAfter completing her honours-thesis on Indigenous-bushrangers-in-2013, Meg\nworked-as a researcher with the Australian Centre of Public History at the\nUniversity of Technology, Sydney. She is the recipient of numerous awards and\nprizes, such as the 2018 Aboriginal History Award from the History Council of\nNSW and a King\u2019s College Bicentennial Scholarship in 2017. She was also the\ninaugural winner of the Deen De Bortoli Award in Applied History for her\narticle, \u2018Online and Plugged In?: Public history and historians in the digital\nage\u2019 featured in the Public History Review (2014). As well as her PhD, Meg\nworks as an historical consultant and has a particular interest in making\nconnections between history and the contemporary world. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giffard-Foret Paul<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Aboriginal-Asian\nProvinces in Simone Lazaroo\u2019s Fiction<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The emergence and\naffirmation in Australia of alternative voices under the aegis of multicultural\ndiscourse led to the burgeoning of new fields of inquiry and ways of revisiting\nthe nation\u2019s master-narrative. Two minority constituencies in particular \u2014 by\ntheir felt presence, the public debate and media attention they generated \u2014\nhave called for a reappraisal of Australia\u2019s place in the world, so far as to\nbecome constitutive minorities in the eyes of scholars in Cultural Studies.\nBoth \u201cAsian\u201d and \u201cAboriginal\u201d Australian identity formations strategically\namalgamate various languages, cultures and peoples together. These umbrella\nterms call to attention self-othering processes of (dis)identification\nresulting from the way Australia was historically constructed as a white\nsettler-colony and British imperial outpost in the Far East. Both groups have\nseparately challenged the pre-eminence of a White Australia and its lingering\nnostalgic elements beyond a Eurocentric worldview in the contemporary era, yet\nthere persists a dearth of scholarship on joint scenes of cross-fertilisation.\nMapping out the scope of this \u201ccontact zone\u201d (Pratt), without conflating shared\nyet asymmetrical relations between the two sides of the hyphen will contribute\nto further \u201cprovincialising\u201d (Chakrabarty) Australia. As I argue in the fiction of\nSingaporean-born Australian novelist Simone Lazaroo, specific points of contact\nbetween Aboriginal and Asian realities represent a \u201cThird Space\u201d (Bhabha) of\nenunciation whereby Australia may be rethought of as a transnational continuum\nwith the neighbouring Southeast Asian region and islands of the Pacific. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Paul\nGiffard-Foret earned\nhis PhD from Monash University\u2019s Centre for Postcolonial and Australian Writing\non the topic of Southeast Asian Australian women\u2019s fiction. His research has\nbeen concerned with postcolonial critical theory, Asian Australian studies,\ndiasporic and multicultural literatures. More recently, he has also developed\nan interest in Indian literatures and social movements, and indigenous\nAustralian cultural politics. His work has appeared in the form of\npeer-reviewed articles and book chapters in various academic journals both\ninternationally and in France, where he carries out his research and has taught\nat the University of Paris XIII. He is a copy editor for the refereed open\naccess journal Postcolonial Text and a regular contributor to the\nAustralian journal Mascara Literary\nReview. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Giovanangeli Angela<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interactivity and Encounter in Contemporary Australian Art Practices: Engaging the Public with Invisible Histories and Cultural Ownership<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Notions of alternative and multiplicity present an interface for reimagining historical encounters meshed with contemporary issues of entanglement. Such an interface coincides with opportunities offered by Australian contemporary art practices that speak to local experiences of place and how this might challenge understandings of national narratives as well as offer pedagogical tools to explore intersections of compounded entanglement across cultures.  In this paper, I argue that contemporary art practices in Australia play a significant role in engaging viewers with complex historical, cultural and political issues centred around recalibrating historical perspectives. The paper takes a case study of some of the works of artists to examine how spaces of interactivity and encounter help to unleash dialogue and previously undisclosed knowledge by addressing issues such as invisible histories and cultural ownership.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Angela Giovanangeli is a senior lecturer in the School\nof International Studies at the University of Technology Sydney, Australia.\nAngela\u2019s broad field of research is in cultural histories and intercultural\nengagement. In particular, she works on visual and cultural practices\nespecially in relation to French and European cultural programs and Australian\nIndigenous perspectives in Tertiary Education. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Gleeson Paige <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Casting Shadow\nNetworks onto the Photographic Archive: Hobart\u2019s \u2018blackbirding\u2019 album
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\nConceptualisations of space, fluid and infused with political ideology and\nracial anxiety, have always been central to the Australian settler-colonial\nproject. This paper seeks to reconceptualise the geographies of coastal and island\nAustralia within a framework of oceanic connection with the Pacific, as opposed\nto understanding the colonial territorial divides constructed by the Australian\nnation state as reflective of a natural spatial logic. Frequently disregarded Pacific and Australian\nIndigenous conceptualisations of space challenge such assumptions and throw into sharp\nrelief the politics of European geographical imagination. This paper seeks to\naddress questions regarding the history of the nationalisation of space through\na photographic album held by the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery (TMAG).
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\nTracing histories of maritime\ntravel and connection in the colonial Pacific through the TMAG photographs\nreveals links between the seemingly disparate geographies of Hobart, Queensland\nand the Australian Territory of Papua. The images in this album picture\n\u2018blackbird\u2019 recruiting, the term used to describe the recruitment of indentured\nlabourers from Melanesia for Queensland\u2019s sugar plantations in the late\nnineteenth century. Viewed singularly, such photographs could be read as\npresenting a straight forward visual record of Australian exploitation of\nPacific Islanders. It was a network of exploitation that linked South Sea\nIslanders to Australia, paralleled by maritime networks that facilitated\nscience, missions, business and trade and which linked Hobart to Queensland and\nthe Pacific, generating the material networks through which this album found\nits way back into the hands of the TMAG\u2019s curator in 1906. This paper takes an\nalternate approach, applying historian Banivanua Mar\u2019s concept of shadow\nnetworks, allowing the photographs to expand beyond their frames as material\ntraces of a more complex narrative of Indigenous autonomy, movement and\nresistance. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


\nPaige Gleeson is a PhD Candidate at the University of\nTasmania within the Australian Research Council project \u2018Reform in the\nAntipodes\u2019. Paige has published on colonial and postcolonial photography and\nfeminist history, was recipient of the 2019 National Library of Australia\u2019s\nresidential Summer Scholarship, and has given papers on colonial history and\nanthropology at a number of conferences in Australia. Paige\u2019s research\ninterests include Indigenous and transnational histories of Australia and the\nPacific, colonial photography, ethnographic collection, humanitarianism, the\nhistory of anthropology, and museum studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Grasso Arianna<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Rewriting the\nRefugee Identity in Alter\/Native Spaces: The Australian Case <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since the 2012 reimplementation of the Pacific\nSolution, refugees and asylum seekers, who have tried to reach the Australian\nshores in the hope of obtaining residency permits, have instead been\narbitrarily confined on the offshore detention centres of Nauru and Manus\nPacific Islands. The choices of the Australian government regarding this\ncontentious issue have inevitably generated heated debates within the (virtual)\npolitical arena, which landed on social media platforms. The present research\naims to investigate whether and how online interactional spaces, such as\nTwitter, are dominated by the so-called white anxiety and paranoid nationalism,\nand particularly how the identity of refugees and asylum seekers has been\ndiscursively reconceptualised, while being subjugated to new forms of\nneo-colonialist discourses. In this vein, recent investigations have\ndemonstrated that other Alter\/Native Spaces inhabited by subaltern subjects\nhave been colonised and appropriated, not only physically but also politically\nand ideologically. The purpose of the study is therefore to analyse, from a linguistic\nand semantic perspective, how representations regarding the refugee identity\nare constructed online, both by nationalist leaders and social media users. The\nresearch relies on a mixed methodology that combines: Corpus Linguistics to\nelicit and analyse quantitative data from the research opportunistic Twitter\ncorpus; Political Discourse Analysis and approaches of Content Analysis to\nsingle out thematic patterns and occurring metaphors that emerge within\nnarratives and counter narratives produced on the refugee identity. The study\nhas the ultimate scope of unveiling the ideological substratum underlying the\npolitical discussion and encourage social media users to become aware of the\nmanipulative discriminatory practices circulating online. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Arianna Grasso is a PhD Candidate at the Department of\nLiterary, Linguistics and Comparative Studies of the University of Naples\n\u201cL\u2019Orientale\u201d. She has obtained an International Master Degree in\nSociolinguistics and Multilingualism with a master\u2019s thesis titled Body Perception\nin Sex Workers\u2019 Speech and Identity Construction. Her research interests focus\non Sociolinguistics, Gender Studies and Social Media Studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hage Ghassan <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

No Way: Australia from the Radical Point of Non-Belonging <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018No Way You Will Make Australia Home\u2019 says the infamous immigration poster directed at asylum seekers, recently a source of inspiration for Donald Trump. While Asylum seekers experience this \u2018No Way\u2019 at sea on their way to Australia, many experience it even after having been in Australia for a long time. For me, for example, it comes when the question of Palestine comes to the fore: I am in a situation where I feel as I often do as fully belonging to Australia, as sharing with at least some Australians similar cultural tastes and political orientations and then Palestine comes to the fore and all of a sudden it is \u2018No Way\u2019. I call this the radical point of non-belonging as it involves a fundamentally different relation to what exists. For some like Indigenous people and Muslims it is a continuous dimension of life where various degrees of belonging and radical non-belonging are entangled. I am interested in some writing that reveals to us what Australia looks like from this point. I am also interested in the way radical non-belonging contains the seeds of a different belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghassan Hage is\nprofessor of Anthropology and Social Theory at the University of Melbourne,\nAustralia. He has held many visiting professorships in Europe and the United\nStates, most recently the Chair of Euro-Philosophy at the Universit\u00e9 de\nToulouse. His research interests include: Critical Anthropological Theory;\nComparative nationalism, colonialism and racism; The work of Pierre Bourdieu;\nThe anthropology of the Palestinian question; and The anthropology of Lebanon\nand the Lebanese diaspora. His more recent works includes Alter-Politics:\nCritical Anthropological Thought and the Radical Imagination (2016), and Is\nRacism an Environmental Threat? (2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hauthal Janine<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

European\nModernities in Contemporary Australian Novels<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper investigates\nimaginings of Europe born in contemporary Australian fiction in order to\nexplore whether (traveling to) Europe provides alternative points of reference\nto discourses on nation, belonging, and identity beyond the (settler)\npostcolonial. The paper sets out to compare recent works by Peter Carey, Christos\nTsiolkas and Gail Jones who narrate Europeagainst a wide range of backgrounds,\ncovering diverse diasporic, migratory and expatriate experiences, in order to\nexplore the role of Europe as alternative space, and of European modernities in\nparticular, in the Australian literary imagination. Concentrating on Jack Maggs (1997), Dead Europe (2005) and A Guide to Berlin (2015), the paper\nhas a threefold focus: First of all, it will concentrate on the representation\nof European spaces and explore how the three novels relate urban and peripheral\nspaces in ways that draw attention to multiple modernities within Europe. Secondly, the\nrepresentation of time will be scrutinized in order to show how the three\nnovels imagine the past and the present as intertwined and how they, in their\nown way, reveal European modernities to be haunted by its other, i.e. death,\nsuperstition, ghosts, or the occult. Thirdly, these previous findings will be\nsynthesized in order to determine how the three novels relate Europe to Australia.\nDo the novels challenge or perpetuate the protagonists\u2019 desire for Europe as an\n\u2018imaginary homeland\u2019? How do they (re-)value Europe vis-\u00e0-vis the protagonists\u2019\nAustralian homelands? Do references to Europe support the construction of\nnational identity in the works under review, or do these references rather\npoint to the emergence of transnational identities? In concluding, I will seek\nto connect my findings to the different acts of migration and tourism that the\nthree novels depict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Janine\nHauthal is Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation \u2013 Flanders at the Vrije\nUniversiteit Brussel (2014-2021) where she is affiliated with the Centre for\nLiterary and Intermedial Crossings. Her research interests include \u2018fictions of\nEurope\u2019, metareference across media and genres, contemporary (Black) British\nwriting, postcolonial literature and theory, postdramatic theatre (texts) and\ntransgeneric\/transmedial narratology. Her research has been published in\npeer-reviewed journals such as Modern\nDrama, Journal for Postcolonial\nWriting, Lili \u2013 Zeitschrift f\u00fcr Literaturwissenschaft und Linguistik and\nEnglish Text Construction as\nwell as with Brill, De Gruyter and Routledge. She is currently completing a\nmonograph on Britain in Europe: The\nEmergence of Transnational Discourses in Contemporary British Literature and\nworking on a new project concerned with \u201cEurope in the Anglophone Settler\nImagination after 1989\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herbillon Marie <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michelle de Kretser\u2019s\nMulticultural Australia in The Life to\nCome<\/em>: A Genuinely Alter\/native Space?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In spatial terms, The Life to Come<\/em> (2017), the Australian\n(but Sri-Lankan-born) author Michelle de Kretser\u2019s fifth novel, which received\nthe Miles Franklin Award in 2018, is arguably a global one: focusing in\nparticular on the travels and transnational connections of Pippa Reynolds, a\ncosmopolitan Australian writer, it includes characters of various nationalities\nand origins, as well as scenes set in countries as diverse as Australia, France\nand Sri Lanka.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While De Kretser\ncontrasts Australia\u2019s rural landscapes, where some white Australian citizens\nare shown to be haunted by blatant Aboriginal absences (a case of historical\ndenial that is interestingly paralleled, in the text, with France\u2019s repression\nof its own imperial past, involving the colonisation of Algeria and its painful\naftermath), with more urbanised places like Sydney, she still questions the\nlatter as spaces in which belonging remains highly racialised, not least for\npeople of Sri-Lankan descent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper, which will\nexamine De Kretser\u2019s subtle critique of Australia\u2019s alleged multicultural\nmodernity, will also look at the extent to which Asian Australian communities\ncan contribute to constructing more inclusive alter\/native spaces that broaden\ntheir adopted nation\u2019s racial and cultural imaginary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marie Herbillon lectures in the English\nDepartment of the University of Li\u00e8ge. A member of Centre d\u2019Enseignement et de\nRecherche en \u00c9tudes Postcoloniales (CEREP), she has completed a PhD entitled\n\u201cBeyond the Line: Murray Bail\u2019s Spatial Poetics\u201d and published articles in\ninternational journals such as Commonwealth: Essays and Studies<\/em>, Journal of Postcolonial Writing<\/em>, The Journal of Commonwealth Literature<\/em> and Antipodes: A Global Journal of Australian\/New Zealand\nLiterature<\/em>. She is also the guest editor of \u201cAustralia-South Asia: Contestations\nand Remonstrances,\u201d a special issue of the Journal\nof the European Association for Studies of Australia<\/em> (JEASA<\/em> 8.2, 2018). Her current research project addresses the themes\nof history and migration in J.M. Coetzee\u2019s late fiction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Horakova Martina <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leah Purcell\u2019s The Drover\u2019s Wife as Alter\/Native Canon<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is probably not much left to be said about Henry\nLawson\u2019s iconic short story \u201cThe Drover\u2019s Wife\u201d (1892), though the Lawson\nscholarship continues to be interested in the rather ingenious process of\nmythologizing both the man and his work. Equally notorious are the many playful\nrewritings, which have in one way or another voiced something particular about\nthe time they were written in\u2014from Murray Bail, Frank Moorhouse, Barbara\nJefferis, Anne Gambling, Mandy Sayer, up to the recent edition of all versions\nby Frank Moorhouse (2017) and Ryan O\u2019Neill\u2019s latest, though certainly not last,\ncollection of 99 reinterpretations of the story in his The Drover\u2019s Wives\n(2018). My presentation focuses on the theatrical spin written by actor, writer\nand director Leah Purcell. The play The Drover\u2019s Wife in which Purcell played\nthe lead, premiered in Sydney\u2019s Belvoir Theater in September 2016, attracting\nenough commercial attention for Purcell and her troupe to start developing the\nplay into a TV miniseries and possibly a feature film produced by one of the\nHollywood studios.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The main source for this rewriting the story is,\nexpectedly, a much larger and significant presence of Indigeneity. What in\nLawson\u2019s canonical text remains elusive and ultimately ambivalent (a\ntreacherous Black who builds a hollow woodpile and the midwife Black Mary who\nhelps the wife deliver her baby), is brought in Purcell\u2019s writing to the\nspotlight. Not only does the play introduce the character of Yadaka, Aboriginal\nfugitive accused of white woman\u2019s murder, but eventually the drover\u2019s wife\nherself is revealed to have Indigenous origin, being Black Mary\u2019s daughter.\nThis powerful twist implicates several things: a tour de force of frontier\nviolence with disturbing and haunting images of racism, rape, lynching, and\nmurder, the play unflinchingly confronts the very foundations of established\nliterary canon as well as national history, providing an alter\/native to\nboth.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martina Horakova is based at Masaryk University in the\nCzech Republic where she teaches and does research in contemporary Australian\nand Canadian literature, particularly Indigenous and settler narratives. She\npublished Inscribing Difference and Resistance: Indigenous Women\u2019s Personal\nNon-fiction and Life Writing in Australia and North America (2017) and is\ncurrently working on a book manuscript on settler\u2019s memoirs of belonging in\nAustralia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Hu Dan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Identity and Sense of Belonging of Chinese\nAustralians: a case study of Labor Party\u2019s wechat engagement<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Australia\u2019s Labor Party Leader Bill Shorten made an\nunprecedented move to engage with Chinese Australian voters on 27 March 2019,\nwhen he created a chat group on WeChat, the paramount brand of social media\namong the Chinese, and did a 40-minute discussion with the 500 group members on\nLabor\u2019s policies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This presentation intends to take this as a case study\nto illustrate how the greater Chinese Australian community (including not only\nthose from the Mainland, HKSAR, Taiwan, but also those with Chinese descent\nfrom South-East Asian countries) perceive their own identity and their sense of\nbelonging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysis will first be made on the makeup of the\n500-member group, the members\u2019 place of living, origin and cultural identity.\nThen discourse analysis will be conducted on the discussion in the group from\nthe time the group was created, all the way to three days after the\nLabor-initiated group chat, when Labor people left the group. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Among other questions, focus will be put on the\n\u201cChinese-ness\u201d and \u201cAustralian-ness\u201d perceived by the group members, as\ndemonstrated by the discussions. Opinions expressed will also be linked to\ntheir background so as to paint a clearer picture of the perception of their\nown identity and sense of belonging held by a certain segment of Chinese\nAustralians. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ms. HU teaches \u201cAustralian Economy and Its Economic\nRelations with China\u201d, the only course in China featuring Australian economy\nand bilateral economic relations, in the country\u2019s largest Australian Studies\nCentre at Beijing Foreign Studies University. She works as Assistant Professor\nand Deputy Director there, as well as Deputy General Secretary of the Chinese\nAssociation for Australian Studies. She has chaired or participated in several\nprojects on China-Australia (economic) relations, with funding from the\nNational Social Sciences Fund, Ministry of Education and Foundation on\nAustralian Studies in China. She has been an active commentator on\nAustralia-related issues on media and thinktanks, including China\u2019s national TV\nand radio CCTV and CRI, Jiefang Daily<\/em>, SBS, Financial\nReview<\/em>, Reuters, UTS\nACRI and La Trobe Asia Institute. She is also Co-Deputy Chief-Editor of Blue Book of Australia<\/em> and Co-Executive\nChief-Editor of Journal of Australian\nStudies<\/em> in China. She is on the Editorial Board of InASA\u2019s Journal of Australian Studies<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Humphreys  Sheridan <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two wealthy European women travel from England to\nAustralia with their young Aboriginal servant seated on the ground beside them\nin this 19th century illustration<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper will detail how research inspired by one\npicture impacted a multi-disciplinary approach to screenwriting scholarship, a\nhistoriographical and creative process that is also a way of confronting\nindigenous invisibility, and doing something about it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2019, a beautifully illustrated book was published:\nWomen: Our History<\/em>, with a foreword\nby none other than Lucy Worsley and a few pages by Sheridan Humphreys (ie, me).\nOn page 193, in the section about women emigrants to Australia and New Zealand\nduring the settler colonial period, there was an intriguing picture with the\nabove caption.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a starting point to inspire a fictional story, this\nis a perfect image. The source is mysterious, the artist unknown, there is a\nhuge question over the location and the destination, and the identities are\nunconfirmed or obscured. One woman is Black, two women are White. Perhaps it is\n1888, perhaps not. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I wrote and researched these pages for Women: Our History<\/em>, where the image with\nthis caption appeared, but I did not choose the image. It became a starting\npoint to develop a fictional story. Perhaps the image chose me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Because it also revealed something troubling to my\npractice-led research: in my aim to try to write Indigenous Australian\nprotagonists in a fictional historical drama set in Britain, in my obsession to\nwrite leading roles in historical drama for actors of colour, I forgot\nsomething. I made my character a young man. I forgot all about gender. This\npaper will explore how and why that mattered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sheridan Humphreys : I grew up in Sydney, Australia\nand Kundiawa, Papua New Guinea. Now I live on the edge of a farm in Surrey,\nEngland with my dog Shaz, a retired greyhound<\/a>. I am a creative writer and researcher and currently\na Visiting Lecturer in Screenwriting at the University\nof Greenwich <\/a>and\nat Royal Holloway,<\/a> University of London. I am also working on a\npractice-led PhD in Screenwriting at the Menzies Australia Institute,\nKing\u2019s College London<\/a>.\nMy background is in theatre. First I trained as a performer and then worked in\nthe theatre industry as a publicist for many of the UK\u2019s leading new writing\ncompanies including Talawa, Tamasha and Paines Plough, and the dance company\nCandoco. My writing has been published in The Stage, The Guardian and BBC\nonline and my plays have been performed at Edinburgh Festival and on tour in\nthe UK. In 2017, I was selected to participate in CLOSR<\/a>, a six-month film development scheme led by Raising Films<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Idle Helen <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theory into practice: outside in <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In a Manchester library a story of James Cook is\nlocked behind glass; it is a first edition of Hawkesworth\u2019s 1777 account of the\nvoyage that came to shore at what is now Australia. The journal recounts the\nBritish voyage outwith the Pillars of Hercules and is held within the\ncollection of The Portico Library, a purpose-built independent library\nestablished in 1806.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper outlines an intervention staged in that\nlibrary to propose possible connections between ideas that led to Cook\u2019s voyage\nand ideas encountered on that voyage, to challenge dominant narratives about\nJames Cook\u2019s voyages of \u2018discovery\u2019. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ideas were exchanged locally, brought back to Europe\nand incorporated into existing knowledge systems. Or were overwritten or\nignored. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The methodology of the intervention was cast as a\ndecolonising manoeuvre to promote multiple knowledges that could be found in\nThe Library. Holdings were linked to accounts of the voyage to trouble\nepistemological assumptions and so encourage alternative understandings of what\nknowledges were abroad at this time. Here we may approach and acknowledge\nindigenous knowledge systems that are beyond the edges of Europe but came to\ninform new meaning-making and ideas. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This contributes to the discourses generated by Brook\nAndrew\u2019s upcoming Sydney Biennale 2020 Nirin\n<\/em>(Wiradjuri word translates as \u2018edges\u2019) that places Indigenous languages and\nontologies central to meaning-making within an established mode of exhibition.\nIn both situations new space is created in an existing space whereby the\ndominant ecology can be challenged physically and intellectually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen Idle: PhD\n(Australian Studies) King\u2019s College London 2017; MA Visual Culture, University\nof Westminster 2005. Helen\nis a Project Curator and Research Associate at Menzies Australia Institute,\nKing\u2019s College London. Helen produced Entwined:\nKnowledge and Power in the Age of Cook<\/em> (2018) for The Portico Library.She contributed a chapter to Castejon,\netal, Ngapartji, Ngapartji. In turn, In turn: Ego-histoire, Europe and\nIndigenous Australia <\/em>(ANU Press, 2014); <\/em>published in Meanjin <\/em>(73:3, 2014) and was\nco-editor of Australian Studies Journal\non Australian Art <\/em>(7, 2015). She is on the Editorial Advisory Board for\nAustralian Studies Journal (Zeitschrift\nf\u00fcr Australienstudien<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Indelicato Maria Elena<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Beyond Settler Belonging:\nViolence and Migration in the Borderlands of North Queensland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The foundational myth of a pre-WWII white Australia is\nperpetuated in the grounding fiction of the historiography of Italian migration\nin Australia: Italians\u2019 innocence from the violence enacted against the\ncountry’s First Peoples<\/a>.\nDeconstructing this double myth is necessary to fully understand who Italian\nmigrants are vis-a-vis a country where they cannot but exist in a marginal\nposition but also, and more importantly, unravel the settler colonial\nconditions which overdetermine their belonging to Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper will do so by taking the case of three South Sea Islanders attacking an\nItalian farmer in the city of Ingham in 1927. In unfolding the individual\nhistories of those involved in the incident against the wider context of\nanti-Italian sentiment, this paper will demonstrate the implication of Italian\nmigrants in the violent subjugation of local Indigenous populations as well as\nthe descendants of indentured South Sea Islander workers.  Moving from the personal to the political, from the past of imperial\nconquests to the present of multicultural debates on national identity and\nhistory, this paper will also advocate, more generally, the importance of\nexploring what it means to belong according to an historical lens that is also\ntransnational and relational. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Maria Elena Indelicato\nreceived her Ph.D. from the Department of Gender and Cultural Studies,\nUniversity of Sydney. Besides her monograph Australia\u2019s\nNew Migrants: International Students\u2019 History of Affective Encounters with the\nBorder<\/em>, Indelicato has published in race feminist and cultural studies\njournals such as Outskirts: Feminism\nAlong the Edge<\/em>, Critical Race and\nWhiteness Studies,<\/em> Chinese Cinemas,<\/em>\nInter-Asia Cultural Studies<\/em>, and Paedagogica Historica<\/em>. She is also the\neditor of the ACRAWSA blog.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jensen Lars<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alter whiteness. The rise (and rise) of Australian far\nright nationalism<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My thoughts on this paper were partly prompted by the\nChristchurch massacre, but it is not what this paper will be about. I am\ninterested in exploring the short and long term rise of what I will\nprovisionally call \u201cwhiteness extremism\u201d in Australia. I want to discuss it in\nterms of its \u201cAustralianness\u201d, and as part of a wider phenomenon in the club of\nnations to which Australia belongs as a white and as a settler colonial\nsociety. I am particularly interested in how articulations of whiteness in its\nextreme forms are related to \u201csofter\u201d more broadly embraced \u2013 and endorsed –\nversions of whiteness, and how oscillations of extreme and soft whiteness\nenable whiteness to (as I will argue) persist across time, as a component of,\nrather than an aberrant form of, modernity. Since this is an EASA conference, I\nwill pay some limited attention to the relationship between Australian\nwhiteness and similar discourses in Europe. Finally, I will discuss how the\nusage of terms such as \u201cwhite\u201d, \u201cwhiteness\u201d, \u201cright wing extremism\u201d, \u201cterrorist\nattacks\u201d channels the phenomena they represent into already accepted discourses\nthat also contain them precisely in terms of alienating extremeness that allows\nfor softer more \u201cbenign\u201d forms of \u201cconcerned citizens\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lars Jensen is Associate Professor in Cultural\nEncounters, Roskilde University. He has researched Australian Studies in\nvarious shapes and forms since the 1990s, interrupted by other research\ninterests in Cultural Studies, Postcolonial Studies and beyond. He has written\nand co-edited a number of books and written even more articles. He is currently\nresearching a monograph provisionally titled, Remoteness<\/em>, which in spite of its title will be exploring Australia\nfrom \u201cinside\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kilroy Peter<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alternative institutions: decolonization\ndiscourse in Australia and the UK <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Despite the long theoretical and empirical history of decolonising nations,\ncalls to decolonize a wide range of institutions and practices have become\nincreasingly prominent in recent years, particularly since the Rhodes Must Fall\nand Why is My Curriculum White? campaigns. Everything from schools and\nuniversities through to methodologies and academic disciplines have been\nsubject to such calls. One element that most campaigns have in common, though,\nis a concern to effect substantive rather than superficial institutional or\npractical change. This plays out in educational, health and political\ninstitutions, but also increasingly in cultural institutions like museums and\ngalleries. A growing trend has been a shift away from the language of\n\u201cinclusion\u201d, \u201caccess\u201d, \u201cdiversity\u201d and \u201cwidening participation\u201d towards the\nlanguage of \u201cdecolonisation\u201d. Activists, scholars and practitioners are\nincreasingly asking: how does one effect long-term, systemic institutional\nchange amidst the lingering, structural impacts of colonialism, and the\nrelative absence of public debate on such legacies? Is such decolonisation\ninternal or external to such institutions? And is it possible to decolonize\ninstitutions in the absence of broader political-economic change? Using\nexamples from Australia and the UK, this paper will analyse decolonisation\ndiscourse within both contexts, and consider what a genuinely decolonised\ninstitution might look like. It will explore the parallels, overlaps and points\nof divergence between Australia and the UK, and more particularly between\nAustralian First Nations and UK BAME communities, institutions and strategies.\nAnd it will ask: what is the relationship between such institutional change and\nbroader patterns of self-determination, sovereignty, reparation and reconciliation?\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter Kilroyis a Lecturer in Cultural Studies and Cultural Sociology in the Department\nof<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sociology at City, University of London. Prior to that, he was a Research\nAssociate and British<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the Menzies Australia Institute, King\u2019s\nCollege London. Peter<\/p>\n\n\n\n

works across the fields of British and Australian Cultural Studies, and\nIndigenous and<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Postcolonial Studies. He has published on Australian First Nations media,\nhistory and politics,<\/p>\n\n\n\n

and is a former editor of parallax <\/em>and Ex Plus Ultra <\/em>journals.\nPeter is currently co-editing a<\/p>\n\n\n\n

book on Australian screen media (Screening\nAustralia: Culture, Media, Context<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kirne Jack<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agricultural Catastrophes: Writing the Anthropocene in\nCarrie Tiffany\u2019s Everyman\u2019s Rules for\nScientific Living <\/em>and Kim Scott\u2019s Taboo\n<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Agricultural fictions have played an intrinsic role in\ninterrogating human relationships with the landscape, in settler societies\nespecially, often perpetuating and creating moral ideals of nationhood,\nfrontier and modernity. Radical changes in technologies, both mechanical and\nchemical, particularly in the last century, have also modified the landscape in\na way that is not so different to geoengineering practices now being flagged as\na possible response to climate change. In this paper, I will look toward Carrie\nTiffany\u2019s Everyman\u2019s Rules for Scientific\nLiving <\/em>(2005)and Kim Scott\u2019s Taboo <\/em>(2017) and using a\npost-agricultural lens, I seek to outline how these novels separately imagine\npost and emergent catastrophes in engineered environments. Specific attention will be applied to the\npossibilities of the Post-Natural environments imagined in each work, and how\nthey conceptualise settler and Indigenous futures within them. In conclusion,\nthe paper will try to forward a series of strategies for writing about\ngeological catastrophe that does not rely on tropes of science fiction or\napocalyptic framings. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jack Kirne is a PhD\ncandidate at Deakin University in the School of Communication and Creative\nArts. His fiction has been featured in Meanjin and Ibis House (forthcoming).\nHis critical work has appeared in Cinder. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Klepa\u010d Tihana<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rosa Praed\u2019s My\nAustralian Girlhood<\/em> as an \u2018Alter\u2019 Space<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ghassan Hage in his Alterpolitics <\/em>defines settler colonial societies as warring\nsocieties wherein \u201cwar is no longer a transmitted state but a permanent feature\nof the social situation\u201d and \u201cthe whole of society from its economy to its\nculture becomes part of the reproduction of this permanent state of war.\u201d The\nterm perfectly describes the late nineteenth-century Queensland frontier\ndescribed in Rosa Praed\u2019s My Australian\nGirlhood: Sketches and Impression of Bush Life<\/em>. Though published in 1902,\nthe book describes the events that date back a generation. It was the high tide of British imperialism, when most British people believed in the natural\nsuperiority of the Anglo-Saxon race and its \u201cmanifest destiny\u201d. Preventing its\nfulfilment stood the indigenous population of the continent unwilling to give\nup their living space, their culture, their economic and social system. Thus\nwhen Praed describes a young girl\u2019s view of the indigenous population, the\nMyall Creek murders, the Frazer massacre she is creating \u201cthe savage slot\u201d\n(Hage), a description of radical cultural alterity, one that does not exist in\nour Western structures based on binary oppositions, one that is so different\nthat it disorients us. Yet it is otherness that has something to say to us.\nNamely, Praed\u2019s text attaches\nno easy blame to the brutalities committed by both blacks and whites on the\nfrontier, which won Praed the attribute of an \u201cunpopular radical.\u201d Aware of the\nweakness of her (female) voice in patriarchal Victorian age, this progressive\nintellectual creates her \u201calter\u201d space of existence, an other reality, in the,\ntraditionally innocuous genre, the autobiography of childhood.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tihana Klepa\u010dis\nassistant professor at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and\nSocial Sciences in Zagreb where she teaches 19th<\/sup> century Australian\nliterature. She has published papers on Australian exploration narratives, and\nearly Australian women\u2019s writing. She has co-edited Irish mirror for Croatian literature: theoretical assumptions, literary\ncomparisons, reception<\/em> with Ljiljana Ina Gjurgjan, and English Studies from Archives to Prospects: Volume 1 –\nLiterature and Cultural Studies<\/em> with Stipe Grgas and Martina Domines Veliki. Her research interests include nineteenth-century\nwhite settler literature of Australia, and women\u2019s life writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Klik Lukas<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Multiperspectival Fiction, the Plurination and\nIntersectional Concerns <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this paper, I will argue that through their aesthetic structure\ncontemporary Australian multiperspectival novels, such as Christos Tsiolkas\u2019s The\nSlap <\/em>(2008), Gail Jones\u2019s Five Bells <\/em>(2011) or Steven Lang\u2019s Hinterland\n<\/em>(2017), present a specifically powerful critique of the nation thought of\nas a monolithic and monologic entity by responding to the visible\ndiversification of Australian society. These novels embody what, drawing on the\ninsights of cultural and  postcolonial\nstudies as well as Caroline Levine\u2019s notion of new formalism, I call the\n\u2018plurination\u2019, an understanding of the nation that reconceptualises it as a\nnetwork that takes into consideration the multiplicity of potentially\nconflicting versions of it coexisting simultaneously. Methodologically,\nconsidering that the variety of subject positions within the plurination is\ndetermined by a complex interplay of numerous social identities, I propose to\nemploy a form of narratology that can be termed intersectional. Here, in\ncontrast to other theoretical contributions so far, I make use of the concept\nof perspective structure as described by N\u00fcnning and Surkamp. Such an approach\nhighlights that the manner in which literary characters approach the world is\nnecessarily linked to the ways in which they are located with regard to a\nvariety of different identity categories. By extending the concept of\nperspective structure to take into account character constellation in more\ngeneral terms and issues on the discourse<\/em>-level, in particular\nfocalisation, too, it, then, becomes possible to explore how dominance and\nmarginality operate in the construction of the plurination in multiperspectival\nfiction. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I am currently a research assistant and PhD student at the English\ndepartment of the University of Vienna, Austria. My research interest is in the\nfield of Australian literature. In my PhD project, I focus on contemporary\nAustralian multiperspectival novels and analyse how they reflect the\ndiversification of present-day Australia through their form.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ku\u0161n\u00edr Jaroslav, <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Native and\nRegional Spaces in Kim Scott\u00b4s Taboo<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In\nmany of his novels, Kim Scott does not depict only various aspects of\nAboriginal cultural identity, but also a connection of the Aboriginal (Noongar)\nidentity with the Australian West. In his Taboo<\/em>, Scott depicts\nNoongar people from the Australian West trying to revisit a taboo place on\nwhich the massacre based on racial tension between the Aboriginal and white\npeople took place in the past. The journey to the taboo place becomes a\nsymbolic recuperation of the past and its alter\/native rediscovery, but also a\nsymbolic exploration of a region, its physical, cultural and spiritual\nspecificities as connected with both Aboriginal and White cultures and cultural\nidentitities.  This paper will analyze Scott\u00b4s depiction of the Australian\nWest and its connection with a formation of a specificity of both Aboriginal\nand white cultural identity in their mutual interaction through history. The\npaper will also focus on Scott\u00b4s use of imagery and narrative techniques\nconnected with Aboriginal characters which undermine traditional Western\nconcept of time and history and thus create an alternative vision of both\nhistory and the world. At the same time, however, the paper will analyze the\nAustralian West as a possible  \u201ccommon space\u201d representing  the\ncultural specificity of contemporary cultural identity of both Aboriginal and\nwhite people.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jaroslav Ku\u0161n\u00edr is Professor of American, British and Australian literature at the University of Pre\u0161ov, Slovakia, where he teaches such courses as American literature, British literature, Australian short story, literary theory and criticism. His research includes American postmodern and contemporary fiction, Australian postmodern fiction, and critical reception of American, British and Australian literature in Slovakia. He is the author of Poetika americkej postmodernej pr\u00f3zy (Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme)[Poetics of American Postmodern Fiction: Richard Brautigan and Donald Barthelme]. Pre\u0161ov, Slovakia: Impreso, 2001; American Fiction: Modernism-Postmodernism, Popular Culture, and Metafiction. Stuttgart, Germany: Ibidem, 2005; Australian Literature in Contexts. Bansk\u00e1 Bystrica, Slovakia: Trian, 2003; and Postmodernism and After: New Sensibility, Media, Pop Culture, and Communication Technologies in Anglophone Literatures. Nitra:ASPA, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lazaroo Simone<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00a0Writing and Photographing Alter\/native Western Australian Individuals and Places<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In this paper,\nI seek to explore the ways in which personal observations and experiences of\nIndigenous Australians throughout my life as a Singaporean Eurasian migrant in\nWestern Australia, from the mid-1960s to the present, informed and complicated\nboth my sense of belonging and my fiction writing. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I first take a new look at how I remember and write about my own and my family\u2019s first encounters with urban Aboriginal people living in the Perth metropolitan suburbs in the mid-1960s to mid-1970s, years that bridged government policies including the final years of the White Australia Policy, and the first years of multiculturalism. I then look at my encounters with urban and remote regional Aboriginal people in the mid-1980s, including a brief spell living with a suburban family who identified as Aboriginal and my subsequent choice in the mid-1980s to teach indigenous children in a space designated as a \u2018remote Aboriginal community school\u2019, but designed and controlled by the white educational authorities down in Perth. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Secondly, I reflect on how further life experiences underpinned accounts in my fiction; for example, in my second novel of a young Singaporean woman\u2019s time in Broome, after World War Two, as the guest of her white pearler fianc\u00e9 (The Australian Fianc\u00e9<\/em>, 2000). I also explore how my work in the mid to late 1980s in the WA Education Department as a photographer and writer of educational magazines for Aboriginal children influenced my fiction. Taking photographs of Aboriginal people and the landscapes they lived in, I thought subsequently about how photographs could be used both to objectify people and to give people a stronger sense of themselves and \u2018where they come from\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Finally, I\nconsider the question:  how did I manage\nin my fiction writing, an ethical position toward indigenous perspectives from\na position that is non-indigenous, but not-white either? In\nshort, m<\/a>y aim as a Eurasian Australian\nwriter is to explore afresh the \u2018stories\u2019 I have made\nand the history that has made me, to rethink difference and belonging. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Simone Lazaroo\u2019s\naward-winning novels and most of her short stories have explored individuals\u2019\nstruggles for meaning at the juncture of cultures and in consumerist societies.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Her short fiction has been\npublished in Australia, USA, England, Cuba and in a bilingual chapbook, Duty Free (<\/em>2015 Oviedo, Spain: KRK\nEdiciones). Her novels and short fiction have been taught in Australian,\nAmerican and Spanish university courses. She is a senior lecturer in English\nand Creative Writing at Murdoch University and lives in Fremantle, Western\nAustralia. She is currently writing two novels exploring cross-cultural\nrelationships and loss, one set in contemporary Lisbon and Fremantle and the\nother in Singapore and Australia from the 1950s to 2018. Her latest short\nstory, Night Shifting,<\/em> was published in Westerly <\/em>journal,\n(University of Western Australia), in July 2019 and her second novel, The\nAustralian Fianc\u00e9, <\/em>is currently optioned for film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lee Christopher and Lara Lamb <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hindsight: Repatriating photographs and film in the\nGulf of Papua New Guinea<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This Hindsight<\/em>\nproject seeks to make a contribution to an interdisciplinary field of study,\nwhich is interested in interrogating and addressing the legacies of\ncolonialism. It takes the form of a specific case study of an expedition by the\nexplorer, journalist, photographer, and cinematographer Frank Hurley to Papua\nNew Guinea in the 1920s. We want to understand the cultural, ethnographic, and\nhistorical conditions that influenced the collection and representation of\nthese images and objects, and to return them to their source communities for\ncomment and testimony. In taking these cultural materials back to the Urama and\nKerewo peoples represented in and through them, we seek to understand the\nongoing effects and affects of this colonial process on their communities. We\nargue that in order to reach a more accurate, representative, and equable\nunderstanding of what takes place in exchanges such as that which occurred\nbetween Hurley’s expedition and the Kerewo and Urama peoples, we need to know\nmore about the agencies through which they were colonised and their response to\nthose agencies. Such an understanding requires an inter-disciplinary interest\nin history, biography, anthropology, ethnography, politics, communications, and\nrepresentation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Christopher Lee is a Professor of English in the\nSchool of Languages, Humanities and Social Science at Griffith University and a\nmember of the Griffith Centre for Social and Cultural Research. Chris has published widely on postcolonial and Australian\ncultural history developing a special, interdisciplinary interest in the social\npurchase of settler colonial mythologies. His most recent books are Post-Colonial Heritage and Settler\nWell-Being <\/em>(Cambria 2018) and Trauma\nand Public Memory<\/em> (coedited with Jane Goodall, Palgrave MacMillan, 2015).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lara Lamb is an Associate Professor in Anthropology at\nthe University of Southern Queensland. She has been working in Papua New Guinea\nfrom 2008 to the present and has published a wide range of academic papers that\nhave expanded our understanding of the Gulf Province significantly. Prior to\nworking in Papua New Guinea, Lara has had a long history of working with\nIndigenous communities on the central Queensland coast and in Arnhem Land,\nwhere she was engaged with ethnography, oral history and archaeology.\nCurrently, she is the recipient of an ARC Discovery Grant (2019-2022) to\nconduct ethnographic and archaeological investigations on the Great Papuan\nPlateau. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lencznarowicz Jan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Dunmore Lang and the Indigenous Australians<\/p>\n\n\n\n

John Dunmore Lang, a Scottish Presbyterian clergyman\nwho settled in Sydney in 1823, played an important role in the religious,\npolitical and cultural life of New South Wales until his death in 1878, and\nhelped to create two new colonies: Victoria and Queensland. He made a\nsignificant contribution to the rise of early Australian identity and laid the\nfoundations for Australian nationalism and republicanism. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lang consistently and vigorously encouraged the\nEuropean, overwhelmingly British settlement of Australia. He was convinced of a\nglorious future for Australia, which he foresaw as an empire in the Southern\nHemisphere and a booming economy. A great believer in progress, he envisaged\nthe disappearance of the Aboriginal population \u201cbefore the progress of\ncivilization\u201d brought by European colonists. At the same time, he accused Europeans of the mass\nextermination of the Aborigines and the taking of their land. Unlike many of\nhis contemporaries he considered them \u201cbone of our bone and flesh of our\nflesh\u201d.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on Lang\u2019s books and pamphlets as well as some of his articles, sermons and speeches published in the colonial press, the proposed paper analyses his attitude towards the Indigenous Australians. The focus is on the way in which he defined them and related them on both social and moral levels to European colonists. In order to explain Lang\u2019s views some space is also given to contemporary religious ideas and ideological concepts that influenced his position as well as to the historical context of colonial Australia. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan Lencznarowicz, Ph.D. is an associate professor at the Institute for\nAmerican Studies and Polish Diaspora, Jagiellonian University, Krak\u00f3w. His main\nareas of research are: Polish political emigration, Polish ethnic group in\nAustralia, history of Australia and political myths and nationalism in modern\nhistory.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jan Lencznarowicz is the author of\nthree books: Ja\u0142ta. W kr\u0119gu mit\u00f3w\nza\u0142o\u017cycielskich polskiej emigracji politycznej po II wojnie \u015bwiatowej. <\/em>1944-1956<\/em>, [Yalta as the Foundation Myth of the Polish\nPolitical Emigration 1944-1956],<\/em> Krak\u00f3w 2009; Australia<\/em>, Warszawa\n2005; Prasa i spo\u0142eczno\u015b\u0107 polska w\nAustralii. <\/em>1928-1980,<\/em> [The Polish Press and Polish Community in Australia.\n1928-1980<\/em>], Krak\u00f3w 1994. His publications include\nnumerous articles in Polish and in English.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marshall Brye<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A Lock & Leprosorium in Northern Queensland<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From 1923 until the late 1970s, the Queensland\ngovernment operated a quarantine station which dealt specifically with\ncontrolling \u2018diseased\u2019 Indigenous peoples from across the state (Parsons; Qld\nDpt of Heritage & Environment; Evans). The legalities of this form of\ncontrol and disempowerment have never truly been investigated, but Fantome\nIsland does show the practical application of Australian eugenics policy. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The treatment by the Qld government towards Indigenous\npeople has been debated\/discussed\/espoused by numerous humanities\/social\nscience academics and various interested parties over the last 40 years.\nDespite the well-known culture wars of the 1990s, numerous agents such as\nacademics, politicians, social commentators, media and historians (to an\nextent) still to this day are engaging in a dichotomy which accelerates their<\/em> careers and build upon their<\/em> profession. The dichotomy is that\nthe 20th<\/sup> century Indigenous v. non-Indigenous relationships were\npoints of contest and conjecture dependant on ideologies and\/or attitudes\ntowards Indigenous Australians as subjects to examine. Indigenous academics or\nIndigenous experts have consistently been pushed aside and authority over\nIndigenous content still sits with usurpers. \n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is evident when looking at 20th<\/sup>\ncentury Qld Indigenous v. non-Indigenous interactions from the discipline of\narchaeology. My presentation, engages in this period with an examination of\nFantome Island. Relatively unknown in comparison to its neighbour Palm Island;\nI will discuss the historical and archaeological significance of Fantome Island\nand explain how Indigenous archaeologists are now taking ownership of telling\nthe story of ethnic cleansing, unethical experimentation, genocide, invasion\nand importantly survival and retaliation that is 20th<\/sup> Century north\nQld history\/heritage. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brye Marshall is a RHD student in the department of\nArchaeology at the University of Sydney. His research project is investigating\na relatively unknown quarantine station, specifically used to control and\nseparate Indigenous people in Qld during the 20th<\/sup> Century. Brye is\nalso a member of the Australian Archaeology Association, a representative of\nthe Barki-Darling Archaeology sub-committee, Executive member of the Pacific\nIndigenous Archaeologists Association Think Tank and a NIRKN member.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Menzies Isa<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Affect, autochthony, and the Australian horse\ndiscourse: narratives of identity and belonging<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The cultural significance of the horse functions as\none of the cornerstone narratives in the production and performance of\nAustralian national identity. From museum exhibitions to the Melbourne Cup, the\nnotion that the horse is meaningful to Australians continues to be perpetuated,\nyet the exact nature of this significance remains nebulous and imprecise. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing on the recent \u2018brumby debates\u2019, which centre\non the population of feral horses inhabiting the unique alpine region of\nKosciuszko National Park, I examine the narratives of affect, and concepts of\nautochthony, which characterise discussions of horses in the Australian\nlandscape. I argue that this \u2018horse discourse\u2019 functions to mediate anxieties\nof belonging among white, Anglo-European Australians.  In Australia\u2019s settler-colonial context, the\nuncomfortable truths surrounding the continent\u2019s bloody colonisation are\ninterwoven with the problematics of belonging. The paper will reveal the\nhistorical role of the horse as a colonial tool of dispossession, unpacking the\nway this function has been sublimated and celebratory narratives of equine\nsignificance have been substituted for darker truths. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Drawing from research undertaken for my doctoral\nthesis, this paper contributes to debates on national identity and belonging in\na settler-colonial society such as Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isa\nMenzies is currently completing her PhD at the Australian National\nUniversity (ANU). Her research focuses on representations of the\nhorse in Australian identity narratives, and its role in the national\nimagination.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isa holds\na Master of Arts (Museum Studies) from the University of Sydney, and has\nspent 15 years working with cultural heritage, both in\nAustralia and internationally. She has worked across a range of areas,\nfrom exhibition development to collection management, and has also taught\nmuseology subjects at the ANU.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Muecke Stephen <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ways of Life: Knowledge\nTransfer and Indigenous Walking Trails<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Indigenous Heritage Trails are a growing phenomenon in Australia. They come in all shapes and sizes, from mere signage to\u2014in the case of the famous Lurujarri trail out of Broome, Western Australia\u2014a nine-day immersive experience walking the beach with one of the Goolarabooloo family groups. Here people experience the beautiful Indian Ocean coastline, extensive dinosaur footprints, storytelling, and meals of freshly-caught mangrove crab, dugong and turtle. These trails are far more than \u2018tourism products\u2019. For the Aboriginal families, with all ages present, they enact intergenerational knowledge transfer. Palaeontologists learn that the dinosaur footprints are also the traces of the emu ancestor, Marala, and their discipline adjusts its epistemological parameters accordingly. Walking with one\u2019s \u2018arts of noticing\u2019 on alert deepens and extends both European and Aboriginal knowledge, as they find agencies that can transfer and translate the multi-functionality inherent in the ecological \u2018pluriverse\u2019 that is this continent-wide network of dreaming tracks. Could this experiential model of knowledge transfer represent a path away from the nineteenth-century model of knowledge collection, storage and display that we find in museums?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Stephen Muecke is Jury Professor of English Language and Literature, School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, a research leadership position.He has been a Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities since 1998, and is Head of the Communication and Culture Section. Professor Muecke has written pioneering and sometimes prize-winning books, including Reading the Country<\/em>, No Road (bitumen all the way)<\/em>] and Ancient & Modern:<\/em> Time, Culture and Indigenous Philosophy.<\/em> He has written or edited 19 books (not including several translations from French intellectuals) and numerousarticles and chapters.
He has spoken as a keynote at conferences around the world, including New York, Chicago, Berlin, London, Paris, Halle, Kuala Lumpur, Kolkata, and Kingston, Jamaica.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Page Jean <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing the name of things: inscribing the tourist\ngaze in Murray Bail\u2019s Homesickness<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In his post-modern novel Homesickness <\/em>(1980)Australian\nnovelist Murray Bail depicts a group of Australian tourists on a package tour\nthrough diverse countries \u2014 including Senegal, the UK and Ecuador and in cities\n\u2014 London, New York and Moscow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addressing the archetype of the tourist, for which\nthe mobile Australian is judged suitably representative, Bail explores the\nvarious perspectives of his diverse group in their picaresque encounters with\nunfamiliar, Other landscapes and people. \nIn particular he focusses on the nature of their descriptions of such\nencounters in an increasingly virtual or curated world of global tourism (its\nmuseums, guides, exhibitions). This is seen in the dialogic, arguably\nappropriating, acts of naming, identifying, epistolary accounts (notably in\npostcards) and also photography, including by the group\u2019s tellingly blind\nphotographer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I argue that Bail\u2019s tourist group can be considered\nakin to the post-colonial settler described in The Empire Writes Back<\/em> (Ashcroft, Griffith and Tiffin, 1989),\nalbeit in a global situation in which foreign nations and people are viewed as\nOther. This paper examines the way Bail examines the nature of human\napprehension of unfamiliar and familiar worlds through the binaries of\ndistance\/closeness, as well as though ratiocinative, visual, classifying,\ncollecting impulses as distinct from a more chaotic and intuitive submergence.\nA central anchoring, comparative reference point is the familiar (the\nAustralian home, landscape, vegetation, in its various stereotypes) and the\nalternative counter viewpoints of the stable, of non-travellers.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While the novel\u2019s overriding slant tends to be\nsardonic and reductive, the paper addresses how its accumulating effect works\ntowards questioning what lies beneath a contemporary impetus to travel: \u2014\nrestlessness, hedonism, diversion, uncertainty, seeking knowledge (of self and\nreality) as well as an understanding about what constitutes home.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jean Page (PhD), is a Researcher at University of\nLisbon Centre for English Studies (ULICES) who recently completed her doctoral\nthesis at U. Lisbon on the Australian poet James McAuley \u201cThe many voices\nurging: Transformation, Paradox and Continuity in the Poetry of James McAuley.\u201d\nHer research focusses on poetry and short fiction in the other English\nliteratures (Australia, Canada, the Caribbean, South Asia, South Africa) also\ngenre, notably travel literature, and perspectives on the postcolonial,\ndiaspora and spatiality. With ULICES Research Group 4 she is involved in the\nproject Representations of Home (RHOME). She participates in Australian and\nEuropean conferences on Australian literary studies and has published in their\njournals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Palleau-Papin Fran\u00e7oise<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The weight of words in Alexis Wright\u2019s works<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00ab The Toyota, resurrected from Uncle\u2019s demise,\nwas so loaded down with the weight of Aunty\u2019s rumours, the axles almost touched\nthe ground. \u00bb (Carpentaria<\/em>,\np.115)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alexis Wright has a unique way of doing things with\nwords, of reactivating dead metaphors, of mixing literal and figurative\nmeanings, and of using expressions like artifacts in her similes and\ncomparisons. She thus weighs in on the way words may hurt and have actual\nimpact on her characters, on the world they inhabit, and eventually, on her\nreaders. For instance, the \u00ab stuffed mullet \u00bb comparison she\nreactivates, to capture the desperate expression of \u00ab the old fishing men\nat Desperance \u00bb (Carpentaria<\/em>,\np.262), gives actual metonymical power to the classic expression, becoming the\nmen\u2019s emblem, while she enlarges the animal metaphor to other species and\ncategories of the down-and-out to further characterize them, such as that of\n\u201cflea-bitten dogs\u201d \u2013offering a humorous zoological portrayal of the disasters\nspringing from the gambling madness in the community.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper proposes to engage in a stylistic study of\nWright\u2019s extensive metaphorical usage, in an attempt to categorize her\nlinguistic creativity, focusing mainly on her works of fiction Carpentaria<\/em> and The Swan Book<\/em>, but not limited to fiction (Grog War<\/em> will be included in the study, to a lesser extent).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Fran\u00e7oise Palleau-Papin is Professor of American\nLiterature at the University of Paris 13, where she currently chairs the\nEnglish Department. After completing a PhD dissertation on Willa Cather, she\nhas published a critical study of My\n\u00c1ntonia<\/em>, a monograph on David Markson, and edited a critical study of\nWilliam T. Vollmann\u2019s novel The Rifles<\/em>.\nShe recently co-edited An Introduction to\nAnglophone Theatre<\/em>, and has written numerous articles on contemporary\nAmerican authors. Her passion for Australian literature began when she read\nPatrick White as a student, and she has been a lover of Australian cinema and\nliterature ever since, but this is the first time she is making a professional\nincursion into Australian Studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Polak  Iva<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Desert in Claire G. Coleman\u2019s Terra Nullius<\/em> as an alter\/native space of Australia\u2019s futurity<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire G. Coleman\u2019s 2017 novel Terra Nullius<\/em> initially reads as a fictional account of Australia\u2019s\ncolonial history by using a well-known natives\/settler binary to narrate about\nthe mission years, punitive squads and survival of desert-dwelling Aboriginals\nwho were trying to escape the coloniser\u2019s reach. However, half way into the\nnovel, the meaning of the work skids since it transpires that the narrator has\nbeen \u201ccheating\u201d by creating the reality effect (Barthes) of the colonial era\nsince the actual story-now takes place beyond the year 2041. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Terra Nullius, <\/em>as it turns out, is not a world of Australian\nAboriginals and Anglo-Celtic settlers\/colonisers, but a world of barely\nsurviving terrans and technologically advanced extraterrestrials. This is a\nfuturistic post-racial space of the much drier continent that was once called\nAustralia, wherein the arrival of the extraterrestrials, who \u201ccame in peace,\ntheir peace\u201d (Coleman) has eradicated racism and hate among the earthlings.\nThose terrans who have survived aliens\u2019 diseases and urban concentration camps\nhave withdrawn deep into the desert.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hence, it will be argued that the desert enacted in\nthe novel as the only safe haven for humans constitutes an alter\/native\nfuturistic space marked by so-called strong multiculturalism, whose most\nimportant principle, according to Stanley Fish, \u201cis not rationality or some\nother supracultural universal, but tolerance\u201d. As the work of speculative\nfiction, the novel also poses a question as to whether futuropolis, a common\ntrope in science fiction, can provide a frame for such an alter\/native space\nwhich rethinks difference and belonging.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Iva Polak is Associate Professor in the Department of\nEnglish, University of Zagreb, Croatia, where she teaches Australian studies,\ntheory of the fantastic, contemporary British fiction and fiction of the\nAnthropocene. Her most recent publication is Futuristic Worlds in Australian Aboriginal Fiction<\/em> (Peter Lang,\n2017) and \u201cThe Swan Book: Indigenous Cli-Fi\u201d in Cli-Fi. A Companion<\/em>, eds. Axel Goodbody and Adeline Johns-Putra\n(Peter Lang, 2019). Her current project concerns Anthropocene fiction and film.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Potter Miriam<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

V<\/em>oss<\/em>, Seeing and Reading\nAlter-Land <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Voss, <\/em>Patrick White\u2019s novel of a\nscientific expedition into the \u2018unexplored\u2019 \u2018dead heart\u2019 of inland Australia\nand a long distance love affair, begins with two one-sentence paragraphs. The\nsecond paragraph starts with the conjunction \u201cAnd\u201d. In this paper I argue we\nthus, immediately enter into a story that uses stylistic tools as narrative\ndevices to invite the reader to continually explore that which is seldom\nexplored. Surprised that Voss would walk from Sydney to Potts Point Laura\nTrevelyan observes: \u201cBut monotonous\u201d (White, 1977:10). Her aesthetic judgement\nof the surrounding environment prompts Voss\u2019s reply \u201cI am at home\u201d, likening it\nto his hometown in Germany adding, as a complete sentence, \u201cSandy\u201d (White,\n1977:13). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1840s Sydney the sandy soil is being progressively potted\nand re-potted to cultivate and foster European gardening, agricultural and\nscientific undertakings. This first conversation between the future lovers\nshows that they draw elementary semantic distinctions about their environment\naccording to their experiences of the world. White, fascinated by the\nchronicles and diaries of the times, explores the early Victorian age by sending\nhis characters into uncharted territory to discover what the \u201cstimulus of their\nsurroundings\u201d would wield (White, 1994:107). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Through an ecocritical lens, I argue that to read Voss <\/em>is to be led to question\npreconceived knowledge and modes of thought and to recognise cultural\ncontinuities and discontinuities that led to present day \u201cplastic garbage\nlittering [our] backyards\u201d (White, 1981:104). I demonstrate how through Dugald\nand Jackie, the expedition\u2019s Indigenous guides, White posits in the textual\ngeography of the novel alternative readings to feed our mind and our\nimagination with different modes of dwelling and belonging. White conveys that\n\u201cknowledge was never a matter of geography. Quite the reverse, it overflows all\nmaps that exist. Perhaps true knowledge only comes of death by torture in the\ncountry of the mind\u201d (White, 1977: 446). Voss<\/em>\npresents the reader with a larger system where distinctions between nature and\nculture cease to exist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Miriam Potter is pursuing a Ph.D. on Patrick\nWhite\u2019s fiction at the Australian National University and at Paris-Sorbonne.\nShe has worked for Robin des Bois, a Non-Governmental Organisation, for over\nfifteen years and as an English lecturer at Paris-Sorbonne. Her career as an\necologist has paralleled her studies in history and literature. Her research is\nsupported by an Australian Government Research Training Program scholarship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rechniewski Elizabeth<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Commemorative Struggle over the \u2018Foundational Wars\u2019\nof Australia: Boer Wars and Black Wars in the Memorial Landscape<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recent campaigns across Australia to ramp up\nmemorialisation of the Boer Wars offer a striking example of \u201ccommemorative\ndisplacement\u201d \u2013 the selective highlighting of certain forms of conflict to the\nexclusion of others, a displacement that is not only symbolic but often spatial\nas well.  The commemorative agenda and\nmemorial landscape of Australia was colonised throughout the twentieth century\nby a militaristic interpretation of its history, centred on the exploits of\nwhite soldiers who fought overseas in the service of the British Empire, as the\nAnzac legend so clearly illustrates. This commemorative policy constitutes a\nform of \u201cdisplacement\u201d whereby the foundational violence on which the nation\nwas built is identified not as that deployed against the Indigenous peoples in\nthe \u2018Black Wars\u2019, but as the battles fought overseas against a foreign enemy.\nThis paper focuses on two periods in which the relationship between the Boer\nwar and the Black Wars became particularly significant: the period around\nFederation in 1901 and the current revival of interest in the Boer war in a\ncontext where the national commemorative agenda is being challenged by\nadvocates of memorialisation of the Black or Frontier Wars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Elizabeth Rechniewski is Honorary Senior Lecturer in\nthe School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney. She has\npublished widely on the political and commemorative uses of the national past,\nand on the remembrance of twentieth century war and colonial war in Australia,\nFrance, Cameroon and New Caledonia, including the commemoration of the role of\nIndigenous soldiers from these countries. Recent publications include\n\u201cRemembering the Black Diggers: from the \u2018great silence\u2019 to an \u2018excess of\ncommemoration\u2019?\u201d in War Memories<\/em>\n(McGill 2017); \u201cRes\u00e9n\u00e9galisation<\/em> and\nthe Representation of Black African Troops during World War One\u201d in Commemorating Race and Empire<\/em> (Liverpool\nUP 2018); \u201cWhy the War in Cameroon Never Took Place\u201d in Seeking Meaning, Seeking Justice in the Post-Cold War World <\/em>(Brill\n2018).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Renes Martin <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Towards an Indigenous, alter\/native paradigm of existence: Alexis Wright\u2019s\nThe Swan Book <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enlightenment thought keeps informing our decolonising present in Europe, and as Baden Offord e.a. (2014) argue, this is also the case for a white settler nation such as Australia, which naturally imported its mindset. The perseverance of an ideology of infinite, linear progress  and European superiority finds its ultimate logic in globalisation, the increasingly international connectivity and circulation of capital and goods (Khair 2016), humans and information across and beyond increasingly porous national borders, which upsets our sense of comfort and security at our (national) home, and boosts our sense of vulnerability. We are building physical and legal walls to keep our privilege from the Foreign Other while refusing to acknowledge the disruptive impact of Europe\u2019s massive settlement abroad since the start of the Modern Age, enabled by the sense of superiority provided by the development of civil and military technology. The discursive logic of an altruistic, benevolent Civilising and Christianising imperial mission to justify the West\u2019s expansion has always been belied by the economic rationale of the obtention and exploitation of foreign resources, which eventually took us to two world wars, the subsequent creation of the United Nations and the European Union to ward off the dangers of ruthless economic competition between nation-states. By that time, Empire had led to the genocide of indigenous peoples around the world and the usurpation of their lands, destruction of their habitats, and traumatic displacement. Nowadays, through globalisation, the violent legacy of our imperial past returns to haunt us with finite resources, over-exploitation, harmful climate change, environmental destruction, and its corollary: uncontrollable migratory movements, and Indigenous literature is testimony to this. In  the following I will address Alexis Wright\u2019s The Swan Book as a profound critique of Western epistemology based on the ontological connection between Indigeneity and the land, which offers us a blueprint for a less harmful future as human species.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Martin Renes is an Associate Professor\nin English Studies at the University of Barcelona, Spain, and specialises\nin postcolonial literatures from Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. He\nco-directs the Australian and Transnational Studies Centre (CEAT), recognised\nas an official interdisciplinary, intercultural research centre within the\nuniversity\u2019s Faculty of Letters. He is involved in the organisation of research\nprojects, regular conferences, lectures, and academic exchanges of postcolonial\ncontent and co-edits the CEAT\u2019s online journals Coolabah and Blue Gum. He has\nchaired the European Association for Studies of Australia (EASA) since 2015.\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Rolls Mitchell. <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Slipperiness of Space: Distinguishing Difference\nfrom Disposition<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Calls to imagine new ways of conceptualising space,\ndifference, belonging and related praxis often pre-suppose extant and\noppositional entrapments, emancipation from which is thought necessary for the\nrealisation of some greater good. Overlooked in such exhortations is the fact\nthat life, as the saying goes, goes on, and its going on is in the context of\nentanglements which produce \u2018changing conditions of possibility,\u2019 and that\n\u2018social and cultural structures are reproduced\u2019 within those changing\nconditions. More straightforwardly, incitements of the necessity to think anew\non belonging and identity frequently overlook existing dynamics, and how these\ndynamics are sometimes already producing the very alternative spaces sought,\nalbeit in ways that challenge taken-for-granted orthodoxies. This dynamic is\nperhaps most apparent\u2014at least overtly\u2014in the arena of Native Title and the\ndistinction drawn between \u2018historical\u2019 and \u2018traditional\u2019 people. Although this\nis familiar terrain to anthropologists, more broadly the relevant tensions\nremain largely unknown or unacknowledged where so. This paper explores these\ndynamics. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mitchell Rolls is senior lecturer in the School of\nHumanities, University of Tasmania, Hobart. With a background in cultural\nanthropology, he works across disciplines to draw attention to the contextual\nsubtleties underlying contemporary cultural constructions, identity politics,\nrelationships to place and related exigencies. He has published widely on these\nissues. His most recent monographs are Travelling Home, Walkabout Magazine\nand Mid-Twentieth-Century Australia<\/em> (Anthem Press, 2016, co-authored with\nAssociate Professor Anna Johnston), and Australian Indigenous Studies:\nResearch and Practice<\/em>, (Peter Lang, 2016, co-authored with Drs Terry Moore,\nCarol Pybus and David Moltow. Forthcoming (with Dr Murray Johnson) is a revised\nedition of the Historical Dictionary of Australian Aborigines<\/em> (2019).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Russo Katherine E<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alter\/Natives Climate Change Justice: Risk\nCommunication and Legal Mining Conflicts in Australian News and Literary\nDiscourse<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The evaluation of environmental risk often leads to\nconflict and legal disputes since risks are \u201cthreats to outcomes that we value.\nDefining risk means specifying those valued outcomes clearly enough\nto make choices about them\u201d (Fischhoff and Kadvani 2011: 22). Yet while some\noutcomes, such as car mortality, are defined as risks, other outcomes such as\nclimate change are contested and their measurement often leads to legal\ncontroversies. As Latour famously pointed out, the definition and evaluation of\nenvironmental risks is far from being stable and unproblematic (Latour,\n1987). The paper provides an analysis of the recontextualisation and appraisal\nof Indigenous Australian Climate Justice in a media genre chain (New and Old\nNews media, and Literature) regarding the instalment of coal megamines. The\nanalysis will be carried out by analysing a corpus, specifically compiled to\nrepresent different interrelated media discourse genres. It is the\ncontention of this paper that Indigenous Climate Change Justice stands as an\nopaque, alter\/native discursive practice, which is often not taken into\nconsideration in studies of climate change communication and literature. Far from being an\nexercise in environmental apocalypticism, itstands as a resistant trace that questions\nneo-colonial ideologies of development and the fiction of national progress,\nhighlighting that its deterministic nature does not make it predictable, and\nrevealing how chaos is not just incidental but central to ethics and\n\u2018cosmopolitics\u2019 as the potential trigger of encounter, connectivity and\nconviviality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Katherine E. Russo, PhD University of New South Wales\n(Sydney), is Associate Professor at the University of Naples \u201cL\u2019Orientale\u201d. Her\nresearch interests include Post-colonial, Whiteness and Gender Studies,\nAudiovisual and Translation Studies, Critical Discourse Analysis, and Media\nDiscourse. She is the author of Practices\nof Proximity: The Appropriation of English in Australian Indigenous Literature<\/em>\n(2010), which won the ESSE Book Award in 2012, of Global English, Transnational Flows: Australia and New Zealand in\nTranslation<\/em> (2012) and The Evaluation\nof Risk in Institutional and Newspaper Discourse: the  Case of Climate Change and Migration<\/em>\n(2018). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sawas St\u00e9phane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between Greece and\nAustralia: Alter\/Native Spaces of Cretan Music in A Family Affair<\/em> by Angeliki Aristomenopoulou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In her second\nfeature-length documentary A Family\nAffair<\/em> (Greece-Australia, 2014), the director Angeliki Aristomenopoulou\ndeals with intergenerational transmission of music in a Cretan family whose\nmembers live between Australia and Greece. Three generations of the famous\nXylouris clan promote the Cretan traditional music alternately in Australia and\nin Crete, both places considered as island-continents. The children are born to\nan Australian mother and a Greek father. This identity-related tension,\nenhanced by the coexistence of Australian English and Cretan Greek, is\ntherefore infranational as well as diasporic. Their repertoire evolves through\nfirst, an intergenerational dialogue with defenders of the tradition (father,\ngrandfather) and second, an intercultural dialogue with musicians who feel\nalien to such musical tradition like the Australian percussionist Jim White. In\naddition, Aristomenopoulou underlines the fact that women take possession of a\nmusic which was originally strictly for men. Thus, Cretan music undergoes a\nrenewal as it is decentred and polycentric. In this documentary, Cretan music\nreveals the multiple allegiances of Greek Australians and the hybridization of\ntheir musical practice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9phane Sawas is Full Professor at the INALCO (Institut National des\nLangues et Civilisations Orientales) in Paris. He is the Director of the CERLOM\n(Centre d\u2019\u00c9tude et de Recherche sur les Litt\u00e9ratures et les Oralit\u00e9s du Monde)\nand also teaches at the ENS (\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure). His research\ninterests include Modern Greek History and Literature, Mediterranean Cinema and\nMusic, Diasporic Cultures, especially in Australia. He is the author of the\nanthology Le Conseil de la cloche et\nautres nouvelles grecques<\/em> (2d ed. 2015) and was awarded the Gold Medal of\nthe Hellenic Society of Translators of Literature in 2013. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sawas St\u00e9phane<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Between Greece and Australia: Alter\/native spaces of\nthe Cretan music in A Family Affair<\/em>\nby Angeliki Aristomenopoulou<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans son deuxi\u00e8me long\nm\u00e9trage A Family Affair<\/em>\n(Gr\u00e8ce-Australie, 2014), la documentariste Angeliki Aristomenopoulou se penche\nsur la transmission interg\u00e9n\u00e9rationnelle de la musique au sein d\u2019une famille\ncr\u00e9toise dont les membres vivent entre l\u2019Australie et la Gr\u00e8ce. Trois\ng\u00e9n\u00e9rations du c\u00e9l\u00e8bre clan Xylouris, qui cultive et promeut la musique\ntraditionnelle cr\u00e9toise, y sont film\u00e9es alternativement en Cr\u00e8te et en\nAustralie, qui se pensent chacune \u00e0 sa mani\u00e8re comme une \u00eele-continent. Les\nespaces urbains (Melbourne) et ruraux (montagnes cr\u00e9toises, outback<\/em> australien) entrent en r\u00e9sonance\n\u00e0 travers les plans d\u2019ensemble qui scandent le film. Loin d\u2019\u00eatre fig\u00e9, leur\nr\u00e9pertoire se transforme et \u00e9volue dans un entre-deux identitaire en se\nperp\u00e9tuant aupr\u00e8s des jeunes g\u00e9n\u00e9rations. Australiens par leur m\u00e8re et Grecs\npar leur p\u00e8re, les enfants insufflent en effet \u00e0 leur pratique musicale une\nidentit\u00e9 \u00e0 la fois infranationale et diasporique d\u2019une part dans un dialogue\ninterg\u00e9n\u00e9rationnel avec les garants de la tradition (p\u00e8re et grand-p\u00e8re) et\nd\u2019autre part dans un dialogue interculturel avec des musiciens \u00e9trangers \u00e0\ncette tradition comme le percussionniste australien Jim White. Cette tension\nentre un ici et un l\u00e0-bas tant en Europe qu\u2019en Australie est en outre renforc\u00e9e\npar l\u2019usage successif de l\u2019anglais australien et du dialecte grec cr\u00e9tois, qui\ncr\u00e9e une int\u00e9ressante distorsion spatio-temporelle. La r\u00e9alisatrice souligne\nenfin combien les femmes s\u2019approprient progressivement, dans ce nouveau\ncontexte, cette musique traditionnellement r\u00e9serv\u00e9e aux hommes. La musique\ncr\u00e9toise se trouve ainsi renouvel\u00e9e en ce qu\u2019elle est d\u00e9centr\u00e9e et m\u00eame\npolycentrique ; elle r\u00e9v\u00e8le la pluralit\u00e9 d\u2019all\u00e9geances des Grecs Australiens\net l\u2019hybridation de leurs pratiques artistiques.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

St\u00e9phane est professeur\ndes universit\u00e9s \u00e0 l\u2019INALCO (Paris) dont il dirige le CERLOM (Centre d\u2019\u00c9tude et\nde Recherche sur les Litt\u00e9ratures et les Oralit\u00e9s du Monde). Il est aussi\ncharg\u00e9 de cours \u00e0 l\u2019\u00c9cole Normale Sup\u00e9rieure. Ses travaux portent sur\nl\u2019histoire du cin\u00e9ma grec et sur les expressions litt\u00e9raires et culturelles des\nGrecs en diaspora, en particulier en Australie. Il est notamment l\u2019auteur de\nl\u2019anthologie Le Conseil de la cloche et\nautres nouvelles grecques<\/em> (\u00e9d. Rue d\u2019Ulm, 2e<\/sup> \u00e9d. 2015). Il a\nre\u00e7u en 2013 la M\u00e9daille d\u2019Or de la Soci\u00e9t\u00e9 Grecque des Traducteurs\nLitt\u00e9raires.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwarz Anja<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alter\/Native Pasts in Berlin\u2019s Natural\nHistory Museum<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The past years have seen increasingly\nheated debates about the status of many of the collections held by European\nmuseums. This discussion has primarily focused on anthropological specimen from\noverseas with demands for the return of ancestral remains and sensitive objects\nof significant cultural value. The vast compilations of Australian flora and\nfauna held by European institutions, however, have only received scant\nattention to date. These plants and animals are habitually considered\nirrelevant in the struggle to redress the injustices and violence of the\ncolonial past and continue to be treated as objects of biological information\nonly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My paper builds on research into the archive of field journals, research notes and publications by Prussian migrants \u2013 among them William Blandowski and Richard Schomburgk, who travelled to Australia in the middle of the nineteenth century to record and collect information about the continent\u2019s natural history, and whose collections are now held by the Berlin Museum of Natural History. Alongside descriptive and taxonomical information on their collected specimen, these records contain important information on the oftentimes harsh and violent conditions that underpinned the production of knowledge in colonial Australia. They also show to what extent European knowledge production at the time depended on Indigenous collaborators as guides and \u201cAustralia\u2019s first naturalists\u201d (Russell and Ohlson 2019). A careful reading of these records, moreover, allows for important insights Indigenous life-worlds on the colonial frontier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dr Anja Schwarz\nis Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany. She has\npublished on re-enactments, multicultural politics and the Australian beach as\na postcolonial site of memory. Her most recent publication (with Lars Eckstein)\ndiscusses Tupaia’s Map, one of the most famous and enigmatic artefacts to\nemerge from eighteenth-century encounters between Europeans and Pacific\nIslanders.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Schwegler-Casta\u00f1er Astrid<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHelp destroy one of Australia\u2019s first fake news\nstories\u201d: Deconstructing sensationalism in the interactive story(re)telling of\nthe Eliza Fraser myth<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story of Eliza Fraser\u2019s stay on K\u2019gari \u2014now known\nas Fraser island\u2014 in 1836 has been retold across genres in a way that supports\nthe political ideologies of their time with long-lasting consequences (Schaffer\n1994; Turcotte 1996). One of the most impactful of those genres was the\ncaptivity narrative, which typically recounts the sufferings of a white woman\nbeing held captive by an uncivilized other (Biber 2005, 634). The sensational\naspects common to this kind of retelling such as cannibal claims were taken as\nanthropological truths, the repetition of which caused the story and those\nelements to gain \u201ca kind of historical legitimacy in [their] perpetual\nre-telling\u201d (Biber 2005, 634). The enduring influence of the story is captured\nby SBS\u2019s launch in 2017 of the interactive documentary \u201cK\u2019gari\u201d, whose aim is\nself-described as seeking to \u201cerase the myth that influenced history\u201d (SBS\n2017).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Firstly, I will briefly cover how Eliza Fraser\u2019s story\nwas used to characterize the indigenous population as uncivilized with the\nportrayal of cannibalism and other stereotypes in a manner that justified\ncolonialism. I will then analyse how those features are deconstructed in\n\u201cK\u2019gari\u201d to establish a new interpretation of the past that resonates with a\ncontemporary audience. I will do so by looking at the utilization of visual\nmetaphors, juxtaposed perspectives, and the \u201cillusion of interactivity\u201d\n(Appelgren 2017) as persuasive tools for a journalistic construction of\nreality.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Astrid Schwegler-Casta\u00f1er has a BA in English\nPhilology and an MA in Modern Languages and Literatures from the University of\nthe Balearic Islands. <\/strong>As a Predoctoral Research Fellow (FPU<\/em>), she is working on her PhD thesis on the topic of\nculinary discourses and multiculturalism in Asian-Australian writing. She is\nalso exploring how food is used in historical popular romance as part of the\nresearch project <\/strong>\u201c<\/strong>The\npolitics, aesthetics and marketing of literary formulae in popular women\u2019s\nfiction: History, Exoticism and Romance.\u201d She has published articles on the\nrepresentation of foodways in international journals such as Continuum<\/em><\/strong>\n<\/em><\/strong>and Feminist Media Studies.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Singeot Laura<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Museum, from a colonial institution to an\nalter\/native space: the construction of the globalised subject<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This paper aims at showing that while claiming their\nindigeneity in museums, Aboriginal contemporary artists have redefined their\nidentities from subjects to agents since the 2000s. Indeed, subjects were\nreconstructed in literature in the 60s thanks to Aboriginal novels and writers,\nbut another step was taken by museums which became the privileged \u201csite of\npassage\u201d from subjectivity to agentivity, thanks to new curatorial\npractices.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This redefinition of the role of museums, considered\noriginally as colonial institutions, combined with the integration of\ncontemporary art pieces in ethnographic exhibits lead to a redefinition of\nauthenticity as well. In that case, authenticity shifts from what was at first\ndescribed and considered as \u201cnative\u201d \u2012 following exoticized, occidental\nrepresentations of Indigenous populations \u2012 to its redefinition based on\nrevendication and performance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Focusing on specific artworks by Michael Cook, a\nphotographer from Aboriginal descent, this paper will demonstrate that it is\nnot so much about constructing an alter-native subject but as developing\nintersubjectivity thanks to diverse new practices focusing on the very\nredefinition of space: the subject in the museum becomes globalized. In the\nmuseum the subject-agent does not exist per\nse<\/em>, but it evolves in a world of relations, linking for example the\nartistic subject-agents to the audience: the museum best embodies this\nevolution as it becomes the place where intersubjectivity reigns. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laura Singeot has just defended her PhD dissertation\nunder the supervision of Professor Fran\u00e7oise Kral (Universit\u00e9 Paris Nanterre)\nand teaches English in an \u201cInstitut Universitaire de Technologie\u201d in the South\nof Paris. She wrote her dissertation on the representations of indigeneity from\nthe first accounts of explorers to contemporary literatures from Australia and\nNew-Zealand, focusing on Mudrooroo\u2019s tetralogy Master of the Ghost Dreaming<\/em>, and Alan Duff\u2019s trilogy, Once Were Warriors<\/em>. Her PhD thesis ends\non the appearance of new representations and on the study of museology and\nvisual arts, showing how today\u2019s curatorial and artistic practices have\nredefined the whole relation to indigeneity in the global sphere and even led\nto a redefinition of culture. She has also published articles on indigenous\nliteratures (\u00abAn Odyssey into the \u2018Black Pacific\u2019: A Reassessment\nof Mudrooroo\u2019s The Undying \u00bb, Commonwealth,\nEssays and Studies<\/em>, 2014)\nand on the representation of Australian history in contemporary Australian\nfiction, focusing on the historical figure of George Augustus\nRobinson as depicted in Mudrooroo\u2019s tetralogy (\u00ab Des carnets de G. A. Robinson\naux romans de Mudrooroo : la figure de l\u2019Indig\u00e8ne en marge de l\u2019histoire\naustralienne \u00bb, E-rea, 14.2, 2016). <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Wergin Carsten <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Nowhere Else But\nHere\u2019, Indigenous Tourism Experiences as Alter\/Native Spaces of Co-Becoming<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of the most prominent Indigenous tourism\nexperiences in the Kimberley region of Northwest Australia are the multi-award\nwinning Kooljaman at Cape Leveque of the Bardi\nJawi<\/em> communities and the Lurujarri Heritage Trail, which has been run\nannually since 1987 by the Goolarabooloo<\/em>.\nThe gateway to the Kimberley is the town of Broome, well known for its pearling\nhistory and unique Kriol culture that has brought about such iconic products as\nthe movie Bran Nue Dae<\/em> or the\ninternationally acclaimed Pigram Brothers<\/em>.\nIn their 1997 album those describe Broome and the Kimberley as a place \u2018Nowhere\nelse but here\u2019. In my presentation I will draw on this imaginary and how\nIndigenous tourism experiences cater for both non-Indigenous and Indigenous\ntravellers to become part of it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Based on long-term ethnographic fieldwork conducted\nbetween 2011 and 2018, I discuss the qualities of Indigenous tourism\nexperiences like Kooljaman and the Lurujarri Heritage Trail and how those\ndiffer from conventional tourist engagements with local people and\nenvironments. Drawing on the work of anthropologist Elisabeth Povinelli, I will\nargue that participation in them offers tourists and travellers means to\npermeate a place with their labour and sweat, and ultimately to become part of\nthe land themselves. Thus, by walking the land, sharing story, and\nparticipating in daily activities \u2018on country\u2019, Indigenous tourism experiences\noffer aesthetic means to rethinking Australian society in collaborative terms\nand beyond the late-liberal logics of settler-colonialism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carsten Wergin<\/a> (Dr. phil) is Research Group Leader in Transcultural\nStudies at the University of Heidelberg (Germany) and co-chairperson of the German Association for Australian Studies<\/a> (GASt). His anthropological works at the\nintersections of heritage, culture and ecology have resulted in journal\narticles for, among others, Australian Humanities Review<\/a>, Ethnos: Journal of Anthropology<\/a>, and Journal of Cultural Economy<\/a>. Further publications include the Special Journal\nIssue Materialities of Tourism<\/a> (with Stephen Muecke, 2014), and The Call of the Trumpet Shell<\/a> (with Corinna Erckenbrecht, 2018), a monograph on\nGerman anatomist and explorer Hermann Klaatsch (1863\u20131916) and his work in the\nKimberley.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Williams Michael<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Is the applicant of European (white) race or decent?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today\u2019s multicultural Australia was a long time in the\nmaking, especially when considered that it was preceded by a concerted effort\nto establish a \u201cwhite Australia\u201d.  Part\nof this journey to a multicultural Australia via a white Australia involved\ndefining not only what \u201cwhite\u201d meant but also what was \u201cEuropean\u201d. By examining\nthe Immigration files generated during the period of the Dictation Test\n(1901-1958) it is possible to trace the many layered and evolving meanings of\nthe concepts of \u201cwhite\u201d and \u201cEuropean\u201d as they were applied to people\noriginating in and near Europe within the context of Australia\u2019s desire to\nallow immigration but only of \u201cdesirables\u201d. \nHow to treat \u201cundesirables\u201d, even when they were as \u201ccore\u201d European in\nAustralian eyes as people who were British in origin was an issue that ranged\nfrom the administrative to the political to the public. This paper, based on a\nchapter to appear in a forthcoming history of the Dictation Test, discusses how\nefforts to categorise people for the purposes of maintaining a white Australia\ngrew increasingly fraught as pragmatic and individual concerns intersected with\nthe legal and bureaucratic. The paper concludes that this period covering the\nheight and beginning of the decline of the white Australia policy is important\nto understanding the gradual growth of a multicultural Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Michael Williams is a graduate of Hong Kong\nUniversity, a scholar of Chinese-Australian history and a founding member of\nthe Chinese-Australian Historical Society. He is the author of Returning\nHome with Glory <\/em>(HKU Press, 2018), which traces the history of peoples\nfrom south China\u2019s Pearl River Delta around the Pacific Ports of Sydney, Hawaii\nand San Francisco. Michael has taught at Beijing Foreign Studies and Peking\nUniversities and is currently an Adjunct Fellow at Western Sydney University.\nHis current research includes the Dictation Test, early Chinese Opera in\nAustralia and a history of the Chinese in Australia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Zhiqing Li<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Participation of Chinese migrants in Australian\npolitics and its discontent<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From the 1850s to the 1970s, Chinese laborers are marginalized\nfor low education and English proficiency, coupled with limited population. However, with the implementation of multiculturalism,\ndrastic change has taken place in the population of Chinese migrants. Along\nwith economic and educational improvement, they are no longer marginalized\ngroup.<\/a> Take the recent establishment of Liberal Party Chinese Youth Council\nfor example, more and more young Chinese Australians have come to realize the\nsignificance of participating in politics and started to safeguard their own\ninterests and the interests of community. Moreover, in the latest 2019\nAustralian federal election, for the first time in the history of Australia,\ntwo Chinese-Australian candidates participated in federal election\nsimultaneously. The candidates Jennifer Yang (Taiwan, China background) and\nGladys Liu (HKSAR, China background) run for the Chisholm constituency (20% of\nChinese) by respectively representing the Australian Labor Party and the\nLiberal Party of Australia; and in the NSW state election, 26-year-old Scott\nYung also ran for the Kogarah constituency in Sydney (50% Chinese). The common\nphilosophy shared by them is that other communities are as essential as\nAustralian Chinese community in the constituency. The Chinese-Australian\ncandidates from various backgrounds like China, Malaysia, Indonesia, etc. are\nto devote to serving every ethnic group regardless of color and religion,\ndemonstrating that Australia is a multicultural society. Hence one can see that\nthe participation of Chinese migrants in Australian politics can not only speak\nfor Australian Chinese community and other minority communities to strive for\nequal rights, but also serve the constituenc<\/a>ies, the\nentire community, in the reflection of pluralism of their political\nparticipation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Li Zhiqing is a ma candidate from East China Normal\nUniversity. She was a delegate of the Australia-China Emerging Leaders Summit\n(ACELS 8) and a Chinese-English translator of the International Tourism Boerse\n(ITB China). She has participated in the Global Professional Program of Monash\nUniversity, Melbourne, Australia in 2017, and attended the 6th<\/sup>\nFoundation for Australian Studies in China Conference where she received FASIC\nOutstanding Award in 2018. She is interested in cross-cultural and psychological\nresearch regarding the Sino-Australian relations, with the hope that the\ninteraction and understanding of two distinct cultures may promote the\ndevelopment of bilateral relations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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