Program

PROGRAM

9.00 to 9.30	Introduction, welcome, housekeeping
9.30 to 10.00	Ripping the Hero’s Bodice: Straight Characters in Queer Romance and Reactions to Anna Cowan’s Untamed (Jodi McAlister, Macquarie University)
10.00 to 10.30	An Imagined Community in Melbourne: on the Pleasures of (re-)reading Kerry Greenwood’s Corinna Chapman (Frances Bonner, University of Queensland)
10.30 to 11.00	Dislocated Wildflowers: Australian Popular Women’s Fiction and US Idiom (Kim Wilkins, University of Queensland)
11.00 to 11.30	MORNING TEA
11.30 to 12.00	Ubby’s Underdogs: Transformative Visions of Community (Clare Bradford, Deakin University)
12.00 to 12.30	The Digger’s Comic Legacy: The Australian Superhero-Soldier in the work of Paul Mason (Oliver Chadwick, University of Queensland)
12.30 to 1.00	Crits and Criticism: Australian Writers and Tabletop Role-playing Games (Catriona Mills, University of Queensland)
1.00 to 2.00	LUNCH
2.00 to 2.30	Rapunzel in the Antipodes: Recent Retellings of Maiden in the Tower Tales by Contemporary Australian Authors (Kate Forsyth, University of Technology Sydney)
2.30 to 3.00	The Absences of Australia in Fantasy Fiction (Helen Young, University of Sydney)
3.00 to 3.30	Creative Translation: Old Norse Mythology in Australian Fantasy Fiction (Lisa Bennett, Flinders University)
3.30 to 4.00	AFTERNOON TEA
4.00 to 4.30	The Cultic Milieu in Australia: Deviant Religiosity in the Novels of Carmel Bird (Carole M. Cusack, University of Sydney)
4.30 to 5.00	Reading for Earthly Survival: science fictional responses to climate change (Helen Merrick, Curtin University)