Faculty of English,
Adam Mickiewicz University,
Poznań, Poland
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
Friday
​1:00pm-2:30pm
REGISTRATION
​2:30pm-3:00pm
OPENING
3:00pm-3:45pm (Room 601 A)
KEYNOTE
Prof. Wolny
​6:45
Conference Dinner (Ptasie Radio Restaurant)
3:45pm-4:30pm (601 A)
Inez Baranay reading from and speaking of her works linking Europe and Australia, including her latest memoir Local Time: a memoir of cities, friendships and the writing life.Inez Baranay (reading of her latest memoir Local Time: a memoir of cities, friendships and the writing life.)
4:45pm-6:15pm (Room 601 A)
Europe and Australia in Literature - Transnational Perspectives (Chair: Prof. Jacek Fabiszak)
Dominique Seve "Australian literature and Europe: an impossible gap?"
Agnieszka Setecka "Gold … was certainly very attractive; but he did not like New South Wales as a country in which to live.” The representation of Australia in Trollope’s fiction"
Waldemar Skrzypczak "External vs Internal Perspectives on Australia: the Case of a Travel Journal 'Constellations 2005"
4:30pm-4:45pm
Coffee Break
Saturday
​9:00-12:00
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​18:30 - 20:00
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15:30 - 18:15
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​12:15-15:00
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NEW
10:00am-11:00am (Room 601 A)
Ethnicity in Australia (Chair: Zuzanna Buchowska)
Tarantini and Benatti "Dialect among young Italian-Australians: Italo-romance dialects as bridge to a migrants heritage"
Stefanie Affeldt "White Sugar: The production and consumption of 'Whiteness' in Australia"
11:15am-12:45pm (Room C1)
Student session on New Zealand (Chair: Tomasz Skirecki)
Anna Czerwińska "Between Waitangi Day and Anzac Day"
Beata Taborska "The history of the English language in New Zealand"
Klaudia Szwedek "Maori's unique status among Indigenous people"
1:45pm-3:35pm (Room 601 A)
Indigenous Australia (Chair: Elżbieta Wilczyńska)
Noah Riseman "Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander military service: Challenging national narratives?"
Sabrina Vetter "Mystery Roads: Aboriginal female bodies and stories in Ray Lawrence's Beneath Clouds (2002) and Ivan Sen's Jindabyne (2006)
Zuzanna Buchowska "The ANU Tjabal Centre for Higher Education - targeting the challenges of Indigneous students' transition to university"
Victoria Herche "'Listen to your tribal voice' - Embodying landscapes in German-Australian musical encounters"
3:35pm-3:50pm
Coffee Break
3:50pm-4:20pm (Room 601 A)
Yamani: Voices of an Ancient Land
Screening of Documentary by Thomas Dick, Q&A
4:20pm-4:40pm (Room 601 A)
CLOSING REMARKS
6:00pm
WALKING TOUR OF THE CITY
9:15am-10:00am (Room 601 A)
KEYNOTE
Prof. Witkowski
"Polish and Jewish Migrants from the Province of Posen in the Second Half of the 19th Century"
11:00am-11:15am
Coffee Break
12:45pm-1:45pm
Lunch Break