Program & registration
Re/Making the Past: Historical Fictions and Identities Symposium
La Trobe University City Campus, 360 Collins St, Melbourne
Level 20, Teaching Rooms 3 and 4
Thursday
2 November 2017
Morning
10.15am Historical fictions masterclass
(For postgraduates, by invitation)
Afternoon Program: Writing Historical Fictions
2.15
– 3.30
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Panel
Gillian
Polack, ‘The author
identity and its relationship to history: an intimate analysis’
Gabrielle
Ryan, ‘Fleshing out the Ghosts’
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3.30
– 3.45
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Afternoon
Tea
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4.00
– 5.30
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Panel
Lucy
Sussex, ‘Writing the Female Detective (Before She Even Existed)’
Merran
Williams, ‘”A modern
conscience”: How historical writing informs the present’
Kelly
Gardiner, ‘Queering the past’
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Evening program
6.30 pm: Public event
Donkey Wheelhouse, 673 Bourke Street, Melbourne.
Friday 3 November 2017 Program: Historical Fictions and Identities
9.00
– 9.15
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Welcome
Professor
Susan Martin
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9.15
– 10.15
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Panel (via Zoom)
Jerome
de Groot, ‘”You ever think how
different life could be if you could change just one thing?”: experiment and
the historical novel’
Natasha
Alden, ‘Between the ancestral and the queer:
recent LGBTQ+ historical fiction’
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10.15
– 11.00
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Ali
Alizadeh
‘The
Revolution Will Not Be Fictionalised?’
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11.00
– 11.15
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Morning
Tea
|
11.15
– 12.45
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Panel: Medieval
Annie
Blachly, ‘The many faces of the Holy Maid of
Kent’
Louise
D’Arcens, ‘Tariq Ali,
historical fiction, and the decolonisation of the Third Crusade’
Anne
McKendry, ‘“There Are
No Jews in England”: The Racial and Religious Other in Medieval Crime
Fiction’
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12.45
– 1.30
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Lunch
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1.30
– 2.15
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Stephanie
Trigg
‘Chaucerian Voice
in Modern and Contemporary Historical Fiction: From Anya Seton to Chaucer’s
Twitter Feed’
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2.15
– 3.15
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Panel: Screen
Vannessa
Hearman, ‘Women at centre stage:
Historical fiction in Timor Leste’s first feature film, Beatriz’ War’
Catriona
Elder, ‘Class,
race and character: (re)narrating the Australian nation through the
historical television miniseries’
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3.15
– 4.15
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Panel: Digital
Tom
Sear, ‘”It’s up to you to keep this story alive”: Online identities,
temporality, and participatory social media reanimations of war’
Elliot
Patsoura, ‘Recapitulation
and the Recasting of History in Assassin’s Creed’
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4.15
– 4.30
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Afternoon
Tea
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4.30
– 6.00
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Panel: Cultural Phenomena
Stephanie
Downes and Helen Young, ‘The
Maiden Fair: Pre-Raphaelite Women and the Aesthetics of Whiteness in
HBO’s Game of Thrones’
Melanie
Myers, ‘Recovering from “Scarlett
Fever”: Is it time to get over Scarlett O’Hara?’
Cheryl
Morgan (via Zoom), ‘Combatting
Colonialism Through Steampunk’
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