9.00-9.45 / Coffee; registration
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre (S05_Rm2.04)
9.45-10.00 / Welcome: Richard Bagnall, Dean (Research), Arts, Education and Law
Dell Theatre
10.00-11.00 / Keynote: Andrew Miller “Critical Vocabularies”, Chair: Kay Ferres
Dell Theatre
11.00-11.30 / Morning Tea
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre
11.30-12.30 / Bodies S07_2.16 Chair: David Ellison
Annette McLaren (UWS): “Charlotte Brontë’s vocabularies of the body”
Hyjungji Park (Yonsei): “Lineage and the vocabularies of blood in Dracula” / Celebrities S07_2.18 Chair: Tom McLean
Kay Ferres (Griffith): “Taking a closer look at celebrity”
Catherine Mathews (Indep): “Identities and vocabularies: interviews with visiting authors”
12.30-1.30 / Lunch
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre
1.30-2.30 / Natural Intimacies S02_6.37 Chair: Mandy Treagus
Katie Hansford (Deakin): “Louisa Lawson and ‘The Language of Flowers: Victorian sexuality and women’s poetic discourse’”
Bo-mi Jeon (Yonsei): “Expanding the realm of intimate possibilities: Howard’s End” / Aesthetics 1 S07_2.16 Chair: Michelle Smith
Yi-Ching Teng (NHUE, Taiwan): “Aesthetic vocabulary of subjectivation in Oscar Wilde”
Deborah Vander Plaat (Qld): Cosmopolitanism, analogy and orientalism in Oscar Wilde’s writings on art and architecture” / Slums S07_2.18 Chair: Geoff Ginn
Emily Duthie (ANU): Imperialism and the London Settlement House movement, 1880-1914”
James Nightingale (Canterbury): “The monstrous metropolis and apocalyptic vocabulary”
2.30-2.45 / Break
2.45-3.45 / Visual Languages S02_6.37 Chair: Judy Johnston
Isabel Seidel (Aberdeen): Victorian reviews of the realist novel and visual arts vocabulary
Barbara Pauk (UWA): “Words and pictures: The case of Paul and Virginia” / Words S07_2.16 Chair Tom McLean
Suzie Gibson (Griffith): “Henry James’s vocabulary”
Rose Lovell-Smith (Auckland): “Loquacious nature” / Acting and Observing S07_2.18 Chair: Christine Feldman
Shu-chuan Yan (Kaohsiung): “A people’s poet: Chartism, industrial labor and Eliza Cook”
Madeleine Seys (Adelaide): “Dress and female sexuality in George Moore’s “A Drama in Muslin”
3.45-4.15 / Afternoon Tea
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre
4.15-5.15 / Heroes S07_2.16 Chair: Hyungji Park
Geoff Ginn (Qld): “Spectacles remembered: The retrospective vocabularies of a Victorian childhood”
Han-Byul Lee & Chan-he Kim (Yonsei): “A corpus-based approach to finding a world full of heroes” / Contact Zones S07_2.18 Chair: Meg Tasker
Mandy Treagus (Adelaide): “’The Beach’, Apia and Stevenson”
Tom McLean (Otago): “Jane Porter and Venezuela”
THURSDAY 12 APRIL: PUBLIC EVENT: State Library of Queensland, Southbank (10 minutes riverside stroll from the conference venue)
6.15-7.15: “ “ with Regenia Gagnier, Michael Hollington, Cathy Waters and David Ellison
8.30-9.15 / Coffee, registration
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre (S05_2.04)
9.15-9.30 / Housekeeping
Dell Theatre
9.30-10.30 / Keynote: Cathy Waters “Specials, Spies and the Franco-Prussian War”
Dell Theatre
Chair: Jock Macleod
10.30-11.00 / Morning Tea
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre
11.00-12.30 / Neo-Victorians S07_1.23 Chair: Meg Tasker
Hannah Brunsdon (UNSW): “Gender, modernity and intertextuality in Tamara Drewe”
Erica Hateley (QUT): “Conan Doyle’s ‘Six Dirty Little Scoundrels’ and contemporary children’s literature”
Christine Feldman (Griffith): “Time Machine Couture: Neo-Victorian style in 21st century subcultures” / Streets and Crime S07_2.16 Chair: Judy Johnston
Wendy Parkins (Otago): “Idlers and Invalids: Resisting the value of speed in late-Victorian culture”
Duc Dau (UWA): Defining criminals”
Nicholas Cowley (LaTrobe): “The detective, the city, the reader” / Racial Languages S07_2.18 Chair: Hyungji Park
Veronica Hoyt (Canterbury): “Flesh and Blood: Corporeal vocabularies in racial discourse”
Michael Kidd (Indep): “Tasmania: A case study of the language of dispossession in C19 Australia”
Tomoko Hashino (Kansai Gaidai): “A consideration of the word ‘sensation’ in Wilkie Collins’s Basil and The Woman in White”
12.30-1.30 / Lunch
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre
1.30-2.30 / Home and Away S07_1.23 Chair: Wendy Parkins
Michelle Smith (Melbourne): “Colonial Australian heroines and the definition and transgression of the domestic ideal”
Megan Brown (Wollongong): “The Voices of Fortune: A Victorian Victorian” / Aesthetics 2 S07_2.16 Chair: Tom McLean
Julia Kuehn (HKU): :Marie Corelli’s Populist-Sublime Aesthetics”
Angie Dunstan (Sydney): “Victorian vocabularies and aesthetics in Thomas Woolner’s forgotten Royal Academy lectures” / Emotions S07_2.18 Chair: Kay Ferres
Jennifer McDonell (UNE): “Sentimentality and the Care Tradition in Animal Ethics”
Jessica Gildersleeve (Griffith): “The Language of Fear: Psychoanalytic vocabulary and the Victorian Gothic”
2.30-2.45 / Break
2.45-3.45 / Measuring the Facts Chair: Jock Macleod
John Murray (Curry College): “Just the Facts”
Ailee Cho (KAIST): “Vocabularies of Measurement: Two big bodies of Alice in Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” / Occupations S07_2.16 Chair Geoff Ginn
Jenny Coleman (Massey): From alley-girls to wadler-wives: Victorian vocabularies of gendered occupations”
Rosemary Morel (Qld): “Gothic servants in Victorian Fiction” / Victorian Sounds 1 S07_2.18 Chair: Michelle Smith
Penelope Hone (UNSW): “Noise, modernity and Daniel Deronda”
David Ellison (Griffith): “Hard of Hearing: An-aesthetics and the language of mechanical noise”
3.45-4.15 / Afternoon Tea
4.15-5.15 / Plenary: Chip Tucker “Word Magic: Victorian charm in theory and practice”, Chair: David Ellison
Dell Theatre
Chair: David Ellison
SATURDAY 14 APRIL
8.30-9.15 / Coffee; registration
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre (S05_2.04)
9.15-9.30 / Housekeeping
Dell Theatre
9.30-10.30 / Keynote: Helen Groth “The Soundscapes of Henry Mayhew: Urban ethnography and technologies of transcription”
Dell Theatre
Chair: David Ellison
10.30-11.00 / Morning Tea
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre
11.00-12.30 / Colonial Translation S07_1.23 Chair: Meg Tasker
Kirby-Jane Hallum (Auckland): “The New Zealand ‘New Woman’: Translating a British cultural figure to a colonial context”
Judy Johnston (Sydney): “Poetic Vocabularies in the Colonial Writings of Richard and William Howitt”
Lydia Wevers (Victoria University of Wellington): “The Wellington Pickwick Club” / Music S07_2.16 Chair: Wendy Parkins
Paul Watt (Monash): “In search of a new vocabulary for musical criticism in late Victorian England”
Sarah Collins (Qld): Victorian critical vocabularies and the construction of musical modernism in inter-war Britain”
Christina Churchill (Griffith): “The symbolic lexicon of arcane and ancient knowledge in the music of Claude Debussy” / Spirits and Senses S07_2.18 Chair: Mandy Treagus
Anna Blanch (St Andrews): “The function of Biblical and Ecclesiastical vocabularies in E. Nesbit’s poetry”
Phoebe Poon (UNSW): “In After days: Death and immortality in Eliot and James”
Aiko Matsuura (Kushiro): “Authorship, the law, and the case of Dion Boucicault’s The Long Stroke (1866)”
12.30-1.30 / Lunch
1.30-2.30 / Feminisms S07_2.16 Chair: Mandy Treagus
Farzaneh Mayabadi (Wollongong): “The Vocabulary of Proto-Feminism in Hardy’s Tess of the d’urbervilles”
Deborah Logan (Western Kentucky): “Women writers, English literature and Indian nationalism” / Emotions 2 S07_2.18 Chair: Kay Ferres
Sharon Crozier-DeRosa (Wollongong): “A Vocabulary of Shame: Anti-feminist uses of shame across the Briotish Empire, 1890-1914”
Jock Macleod (Griffith): “Vocabularies of Hope: Human flourishing and the late Victorian liberal subject”
2.30-2.45 / Break
2.45-3.45 / Plenary: “Victorian Vocabularies”
Panel led by Regenia Gagnier
Dell Theatre
Chair: Jock Macleod
3.45-4.15 / Afternoon Tea
Undercover area outside Dell Theatre
4.15-5.15 / AVSA AGM
Dell Theatre
PROGRAM FOR GLOBAL DICKENS SYMPOSIUM, SUNDAY 15 APRIL. Location: S07_1.23
11.30 / Welcome11.45-1.00 / Keynote: Regenia Gagnier
“Charles Dickens and the Global Circulation Project”, Chair: David Ellison
1.00-2.00 / Lunch
2.00-3.30 / Angela Gehling (ANU): “Renaturalizing the English picaresque: Benito Pérez Galdós’s Las Aventuras de Pickwick and his novels of Madrid”
Michael Hollington (Indep): “Dickens and the Circus of Modernity”
Shale Preston (Macquarie): “Noble Savages and Undisciplined Hearts: Richard Flanagan’s Wanting”
3.30-4.00 / Afternoon Tea
4.30-5.00 / Michael Hollington reading Dickens
5.00- / Drinks: The Ship Inn
Further information:
All sessions for both "Victorian Vocabularies" and "Global Dickens" will be held at Griffith University's Southbank campus. The campus houses both the Queensland Conservatorium and the Queensland College of Art. The Conservatorium is next to the Queensland Performing Arts Complex at the western end of the Southbank parklands. The State Library of Queensland, the Queensland Museum and the Gallery of Modern Art are all at this end of the parklands. The conference will be held in Queensland College of Art buildings, which are at the eastern end of the parklands. Room designations refer to specific buildings on the Southbank campus. The welcome, keynotes and plenary sessions will be held in the Dell Theatre (building S05, room 2.04). On Friday and Saturday, all three parallel streams will be held in building S07 (across the courtyard), in rooms 1.23, 2.16 and 2.18. On Thursday, the parallel streams will be held in building S02 (also across the courtyard) room 6.37 (stream 1) and in building S07, rooms 2.16 and 2.18 (streams 2 and 3). Maps, information and directions will be available at the registration table in the undercover area outside outside the Dell Theatre.