AULLA Congress 36 Program“Storytelling in Literature, Language and Culture” The University of Auckland, New Zealand, 7-9 February 2011
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Sunday 6 February
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5.30-7.00pm |
Informal pre-dinner get together and pre-registration (Pullman Hotel /Accor) Lounge Bar of Pullman Hotel /Accor (formerly Hyatt Hotel) (Cash Bar)
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Monday 7 February
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8.30-9.00am |
Registration (Lower foyer of OGGB - Caseroom level) All rooms are in the Owen G. Glenn Building (OGGB)
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9.00-9.15am |
Welcome to AULLA Congress 36 (Auditorium OGGB 3) Prof Christine Arkinstall, Head of School, European Languages and Literatures, University of Auckland Liam Semler, President of AULLA
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9.15-10.30am |
PLENARY 1: Ewan Fernie (Auditorium OGGB 3) “Redcrosse: Storytelling, Nation and Religion in England” Chair: Philippa Kelly
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10.30-11am |
Morning Tea (Lower foyer OGGB)
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11-12.30pm |
1) STORIES THAT MATTER: SPIRITISM, SPECTRALITY, AND TESTIMONIO IN SPAIN AND LATIN AMERICA (Auditorium OGGB 3) Chair: José Colmeiro Walescka Pino-Ojeda “Exorcising Guilt and Terror: Testimonios of Two Co-opted Female Victims of the Chilean Dictatorial Regime” José Colmeiro “Listening to Ghosts: Haunting Stories from the Spanish Civil War” Christine Arkinstall “Transcribing the Past, Writing the Future: Testimonio, Spiritism and Freethinking in Fin-de-Siècle Spain”
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2) FOLKTALES AND RITUALS (Case Room 2) Chair: Robert Smith Daryoosh Hayati “Little Black Fish: A Modern View from a Classical Story for Children” Khin Moe Moe Kyu “Taungpyone Pwe: motivating of the ritual in Myaqnmar” Chalermsri Chantasingh “From Oedipus Rex to the Thai Patricidal Folk Hero”
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3) ITALIAN LITERATURE AND CINEMA I (Case Room 3) Chair: Rosemary Huisman Eleanor Hamlyn “Romance or Crime Novel? Anticipations of the Mean Streets of Milan in Scerbanenco’s Elsa e l’ultimo uomo” Bridget Tompkins "The Role of the Insubstantial Female Character in Italo Calvino’s Gli amori difficili” Bernadette Luciano “Revisioning the Father’s Story: the Citation of Neorealist Cinema in Contemporary Italian Women’s Cinema”
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4) PHILOSOPHY, MYTH, AND TRUTH (Case Room 4) Chair: Ron Bedford Bob Hodge “Plato's Atlantis: Narrative Theory as Key to the Deep Past” Anneli Knight “I believe you, liar: Can truth be told in fiction?”
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12.30-1.30pm |
Lunch (Lower foyer OGGB)
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5) GERMAN IDENTITY AND LITERATURE (Case Room 2) Chair: Herman Beyersdorf Yannick Müllender “Storytelling in Contemporary German-Jewish Family Sagas” Stephen Resch "Do not resist evil: Stefan Zweig’s reception of Tolstoy’s pacifism" James Braund “‘Mit der Odyssee habe ich angefangen’: Re-telling the Tale(s) of Odysseus in Bernhard Schlink's Der Vorleser and Die Heimkehr"
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6) ITALIAN LITERATURE AND CINEMA II (Case Room 3) Chair: Deborah Walker-Morrison Ellen McRae “The Sicilian Literary Voice: Linguistic Experimentalism in the Works of Giovanni Verga and Andrea Camilleri” Alfio Leotta “Golpisti, Thugs and Psycho-killers: the Representation of Italian Neofascists in Contemporary Italian Cinema.” Daniela Cavallaro “Guilt and Solidarity in Fiction and Film: the Case of Gli occhiali d’oro”
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7) AUSTRALIAN STORIES I (Case Room 4) Chair: Tomoko AoyamaTom Clark “Testimonial Textures: Examining the Poetics of non-Indigenous Discourses about Reconciliation” Brenda Allen “The View from Down Under: Narrating the Antipodean in Australian Feature Film” Emma Dortins “Shooting Stars: A Castaway Story and the Reconciliation Narrative”
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3.00-3.30pm |
Afternoon Tea (Main foyer OGGB)
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3.30-5.00pm |
8) MEDIEVAL STUDIES (Auditorium OGGB 3) Chair: Liam Semler Ailish McKeown “Travellers’ Tales: The Archangel Raphael and the Digby Mary Magdalene Play” Margaret Rogerson “The Two Noble Kinsmen: A Reading of ‘Chaucer in Parts’” Jan Shaw “Retelling medieval stories: Melusine in Byatt and Irigaray”
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9) TRAUMA I (Case Room 2) Chair: James Braund Erik Beyersdorf “Telling the Unknown - Imagining a Dubious Past in Marcel Beyer's 1995 Flughunde (The Karnau Tapes)” Irini Savvides “A Revisionist Story of ‘the Cyprus Problem’” Stuart Young and Hilary Halba “Stories of trauma, stories of hope: Hush, A Verbatim Play about Family Violence”
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10) ITALIAN STORYTELLING (Case Room 3) Chair: Tom Clark Barbara Pezzotti “Storytelling as ‘History-telling’: the Italian Risorgimento in Marcello Fois’s Crime Series” Antonius Jesensek “Censorship and Translation in Pre-Fascist, Fascist and Post-Fascist Italy” Sally Evans “Aporia and Epiphany, Obstruction and Revelation in If On A Winter's Night A Traveller”
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11) OLD STORIES, NEW THEMES, NEW MEDIA (Case Room 4) Chair: Robert Smith Lei Zhang (to be read by Michael Linzey) “The Task of Storytelling: Rereading Walter Benjamin in the Information Age” Kevin Veale “Comparing Stories: Affective Storytelling in New Media” Sarah Klenbort “Hot Earth, Cold Neighbours; How to Tell the Story of Global Warming” Kaiying Chen “A Study of Influence of Storytelling toward Organizational Cohesion”
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6.00pm |
Formal Welcome Reception (Old Government House, University of Auckland campus [OGH]) (wine and pre-dinner nibbles) Launch, Philippa Kelly, The King and I, Launched by Professor Ewan Fernie, general editor, SHAKESPEARE NOW! Series. Old Government House is opposite the Pullman Hotel (formerly Hyatt) on the edge of the campus. |
Tuesday 8 February
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8.30-9.00am |
Registration (OGGB, Main entrance foyer)
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9.00-10.30am |
12) SHAKESPEARE STUDIES (Auditorium OGGB 3) Chair: Philippa Kelly Richard Smith “Shakespeare's Spies Control the Plot” Mark Houlahan “Shakespeare & the Sea of Stories” Linzy Brady “’Telling the Story My Way’: Dialogism in the Shakespeare Classroom”
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13) STORIES OF SPACE AND TIME (Case Room 2) Chair: Jan Shaw James Bade “Contrasting Landscapes in Theodor Fontane’s Frau Jenny Treibel (1892)” Brent Downes “Space, time and Sandgate Road”: Exploring Themes of Space and Time in a Community Narrative and Communal Storytelling Project” Rosemary Huisman “Narrative Coherence”
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14) CONTEMPORARY STORYTELLING: BECKETT, LESSING, BENETT (Case Room 3) Chair: Mark Byron Mark Byron “’Change all the Names’: Revision and Narrative Structure in Samuel Beckett’s Watt” Sophia Barnes “Submitting to Chaos: Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Narrative Self in Doris Lessing’s The Golden Notebook” Carolyn Burns “Stories about the Storytellers: Literary Biography in Recent British Drama”
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15) FRENCH AND ALGERIAN WRITING AND FILM (Auditorium OGGB 4) Chair: Raylene Ramsay Joe Hardwick “This is the Story of a Man who Falls…”: Telling Stories in Mathieu Kassovitz’s La Haine (1995)” Ruth Diver “Changing Stories: Andreï Makine, Gabriel Osmonde” Trudy Agar “When Blood Dries on the Tongue: Trauma and the Limits of Storytelling”
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10.30-11.00am |
Morning Tea (Main foyer OGGB)
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11.00-12.15pm |
PLENARY 2: Meaghan Morris (Auditorium OGGB 3) “‘Jane has a brooding desire for…’: Community, Change and Cliché” Chair: Jan Shaw
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12.15-1.30pm |
Lunch (Main foyer OGGB) AULLA General Meeting (Auditorium OGGB 3) (all welcome: bring your lunch with you if you want to)
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1.30-3.00pm |
16) NARRATING OTHERNESS (Auditorium OGGB 3) Chair: Tomoko Aoyama Deborah Walker-Morrison “Science as Storytelling. Filmic Storytelling as Science” Julie Hawkins "Experiences of the Ineffable and the Numinous in Speculative Fiction Stories" Tanya Serisier “Speaking out as Telling Stories: Feminism and Women’s Narratives of Sexual Violence”
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17) STORYTELLING AND COMMUNITY (Case Room 2) Chair: Tom Clark Abhimanyu Pabba “Cultural Interpenetration for Global Peace” Denise Cameron “Willingness to Communicate: The Stories of Three Iranian Women Refugees and their English Language Learning Experiences” Ann Pistacchi “This Is Not A Māori: Revisioned ‘Histories’ in Kelly Ana Morey’s Bloom” Adal Soomro Abdul Karim “Traditions of Storytelling in Sindhi Literature, Language and Culture"
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18) FILMIC AND VISUAL IDENTITY (Case Room 3) Chair: Margaret Rogerson Mark Swift “The Mythology of Good and Evil in Sergei Luk’ianenko’s Watch Series” Carolyn Skelton “Reciprocity and the Reconfiguration of Televisual Storytelling in Venicetheseries.com” Sally Hill “Worth a Thousand Words? Photographic Storytelling in Contemporary Italian Literature” Kristen Liesch “‘Black Stories’: The Woman Myth in By the Bog of Cats and Tea in a China Cup”
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19) TRAUMA II (Auditorium OGGB 4) Chair: Irini Savvides Penny Tucker “Tales of Freedom and Bondage: Narrating Complex Concepts in Historical Novels for Adolescent Audiences” William Cheng “Storytelling and Memory in La violencia del tiempo: Martín Villar’s personal atonement and collective political act” Jin-Ah Kim “Storytelling and Social Cohesion in Hyperbola of Youth”
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3.00-4.30pm |
20) ANCIENT STORIES TELL THE PRESENT (Auditorium OGGB 3) Chair: Peter Goodall Abigail Dawson “Grisly Bookends: Cyrus' Birth and Death Stories in Herodotus' Histories” Sue Thorpe “The Curious Incident of the King who Died in the Night – An Instructional Story” Lawrence Xu “The Tale of Wenamun: Making Fact out of Fiction”
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21) STORYART: VISUAL AND MUSICAL (Case Room 2) Chair: Bob Hodge Campbell Ewing “Blended Historico-Mythic sources in Wagner, Liszt and Manet's Old Musician” William Morris Welch “The Artist as Storyteller” Sandra Beckett “Visual Storytelling in Crossover Picturebooks”
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22) MODERN GOTHIC (Case Room 3) Chair: Ron Bedford Nell Cook “Ruins and Graves: Gothic Tropes in Contemporary Fiction I” Jenny Ledgar “Ruins and Graves: Gothic Tropes in Contemporary Fiction 2” Sue Neale “Fred Vargas, Un Lieu incertain: A Gothic Fairy Story for Adults”
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23) NARRATIVES AND NARRATIVE THEORY (Auditorium OGGB 4) Chair: Stephan Resch Mahrukh Khan “The Other Voice: J.M.Coetzee's Elizabeth Costello” Jean-Christian Pleau “Narrating in the Voice of the Other: Hubert Aquin and J. M. Coetzee” Ya-Ju Yeh “Telling Eyes?: The Uncanny Spectatorship in ‘The Man of the Crowd’”
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4.30-5.00pm |
Afternoon Tea (Main Foyer OGGB)
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5.00-6.30pm |
24) STORIES OF LANGUAGE LEARNING AND WRITING (Auditorium OGGB 3) Chair: Tomoko Aoyama Tianling Li “Selection for Story-based Reading Texts” Gabriella Brussino “Designing and Implementing a Language Teaching Task: The Story of Two Italian Beginner Courses” Sean Sturm “What’s the Story with Academic Writing? A Narratology of the Academic Essay”
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25) AUSTRALIAN STORIES II (OGGB 321) Chair: Brent Downes Michael Stuart Lynch “The Greatest Story Ever Told?: Faulkner, Richardson and Heidegger’s The Phenomenology of Religious Life” Michael Hyde “Narratives from the Sixties: Investigating their Apparent Absence and what they Might Offer” Robert James Smith “Local Histories as Storytelling: The Genre and its Community”
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26) Cancelled
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OR 5.00-6.00pm |
Walkabout, Talkabout, at the new National Library “Services to Schools” Centre, Auckland. An informal introduction and exploration of the wealth of resources onsite and online provided by the National Library. What can Digital New Zealand, Te Ara, TimeFrames, Matapihi offer to enhance language, literacy and storytelling?
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7.30pm |
Congress Dinner: Harbourside Restaurant (Upstairs at Ferry Building)
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Wednesday 9 February
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8.30-9.00am |
Registration (OGGB, main foyer)
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9.00-10.30am |
27) AFRICAN STORIES (Auditorium OGGB 3) Chair: Robert Smith Kouam Ngocka Valerie Joelle “A Colonial Italian Storytelling: Poema africano della divisione '28 ottobre' of Marinetti” Mark Amsler “From Plot Line to Episodic Space” Yoko Fujimoto “Inheritance of Stories and Invention of Storytelling in M. G. Vassanji’s Early Novels”
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28) CROSS-CULTURAL STORIES (Case Room 2) Chair: Philippa Kelly Roberto González-Casanovas “Colonial Brazil’s Frontier Identities in Mission Histories: Evolution and Revision” Bernard Andrès “The Figures of Cook and Bougainville and their Narrative Functions in English and French Accounts of the 1759 Battle of Quebec” Marcelo Mendes De Souza “Machado de Assis’ Dialogues with Dickens: From European to Latin American Irony”
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29) TRAUMA III (Case Room 3) Chair: Brenda Allen Herman Beyersdorf “The Question of German Guilt: The Palmnicken Massacre in Arno Surminski’s Winter Fünfundvierzig oder Die Frauen von Palmnicken” Narelle Fletcher “(Re)Telling the Story of the 1994 Tutsi Genocide in Rwanda: Une Saison de machettes [Machete Season] by Jean Hatzfeld” Kristin Doyle “Dreaming in Haitian: Truth & Recovery in Edwidge Danticat's The Farming of Bones” |
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30 AMERICAN STORIES (Case Room 4) Chair: Tom Clark Chen Yi “On Nature Writing in American Western Literature” Chen Xu “Black Women’s Quest for Wholeness” Lisa Balvanz “Oral to Written: Identifying Cultural Storytelling Features in Native Alaskan Writing”
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10.30-11.00am |
Morning Tea (OGGB, Main foyer)
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11.00-12.15pm |
PLENARY 3: Witi Ihimaera (Auditorium OGGB 3) “The State of the Nation’s Narratives” Chair: Raylene Ramsay
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12.15-1.15pm |
Lunch (Main foyer OGGB)
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1.15-2.45pm |
31) TELLING THE PAST (Auditorium OGGB 3) Chair: Nikolai Endres Pao-Hsiang Wang “Telling Self-Stories through Others: Strategies of Personal and Historical Narratives in Chay Yew’s Red” Julia Petzl-Berney “War, Wives and Whitewash: The Zookeeper and his Aryan Animals” Peter Goodall “Writing the Story of the German Occupation of the Channel Islands”
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32) CHILDREN’S STORIES (OGGB 5) Chair: Liam Semler Rachel Le Rossignol “Deconstructing the Lamp: Exploring 'Nature' Meta-Narratives in Children's Stories” Fadwa Mahmoud Gad “Wigwams Tell their Story: The House as a Setting of Louise Erdrich’s The Painted Drum” Nandan Choksi “Figures of Thought”
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33) INDIGENOUS STORYTELLING IN THE PACIFIC (OGGB 323) Chair: Tomoko Aoyama Raylene Ramsay “Indigenous Storytelling in the Pacific: The Question of the Didactic” Sina Vaai “Contemporary Stories from the Sacred Centre, Samoa: The 2009 Wave of Fire; The Aftermath of Crisis, Death and Dying, Living and Surviving”
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34) ) POETIC STORIES (OGGB 319) Chair: Rosemary Huisman Iain Twiddy “Myth in Contemporary Elegy” Dominic Griffiths “Four Quartets and the Ontology of Place”
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2.45-3.15pm |
Afternoon Tea (OGGB Main foyer)
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3.15-4.45pm |
35) NARRATING CONTEMPORARY CULTURE (Auditorium OGGB 3) Chair: Philippa Kelly Carody Culver “A Pinch of Salt and a Dash of Plot: The Power of Narrative in Contemporary Cookbooks” Patricia Huion “Reading Groups and the Need for Re-Storying” Mark Stewart “Television's Evolving Narrative”
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36) NARRATING IDENTITY (OGGB 5) Chair: Tom Clark Shou-Nan Hsu “Justice Brings Peace: Event and Storytelling in Graham Swift’s The Light of Day” Sabrina Achilles “More Than Meets the Eye/I; Literary Aesthetics and Ethics” Nikolai Endres “Storied Eros: Storytelling in Gay Literature and Culture” Alexandra Dumitrescu “Stories of Self-Realization”
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37) STORIES FOR/OF GIRLS (OGGB 323) Chair: Jan Shaw Francesca Calamita “Storytelling and Female Eating Habits at the turn of the Twentieth Century: Calvino’s ‘Zio Lupo’ and Neera’s ‘Uno Scandalo’” Tomoko Aoyama “Mad Old Woman Writes Back from an Attic of Her Own” Barbara Hartley “Weaving the Grandmother’s Tale”
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4.45-5.00pm |
Close of Congress (Auditorium OGGB 3)
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