School of English, Communications and Performance Studies Monash University

ECPS Colloquium 2010 Programme All sessions will be in L 1 and L 4 of the Law Building (downstairs) Catering in the Law Building Foyer (downstairs) Thursday, 9 December 9.15 9.30 Opening address (L 4) Stream 1: (L 4) 9.30 11.00: Nathaniel Avery David Blencowe Sean McQueen (Chair: Conall Cash) Stream 2: (L 1) Diane Molloy Camilla Reestorff Paulus Sarwoto (Chair: Sam Cuff)

11.00 11.15: Morning tea (L 4) 11.15 12.45: Mark Howard Stephanie Rocke Jeff Stewart (Chair: Camilla Reestorff) 12.45 1.45: Lunch 1.45 3.15: (L 4) Ohad Kozminsky Catherine Noske Andrew Sims (Chair: Sam Cuff) 3.15 3.30: Afternoon tea 3.30 4.30: (L 4) Conall Cash Stephen Palmer (Chair: Nathaniel Avery) 4.30 5.00: Colloquy Launch 5.00 Late: Dinner and Drinks (L 1) Matthew Lockitt Nita Moghaddam (Chair: Catherine Ryan) (L 1) Tim Chandler Anne Melano (Chair: David Blencowe) (L 1) Sam Cuff Gene Flenady Catherine Ryan (Chair: David Blencowe)

Friday, 10 December (L 4) 10.15 11.45: Whitney Monaghan Lenise Prater Aida Wan Wan Yahaya (Chair: Lauren Bliss) 11.45 12.00: Morning tea 12.00 1.00: Keynote Address from Justin Clemens: Obscenity as education: the Earl of Rochester's libertine poetry. (Chair: Conall Cash) Justin Clemens is most recently the co-editor of Alain Badiou: Key Concepts (Acumen 2010) with A.J. Bartlett and of The Jacqueline Rose Reader (Duke 2011) with Ben Naparstek. He teaches at the University of Melbourne. 1.00 2.00: Lunch 2.00 3.30: (L 4) Julie Banks Lauren Bliss Janice Loreck (Chair: Whitney Monaghan) (L 1) Glenn Gordon Prashanth Pillay Botond Vitos (Chair: Tim Chandler) (L 1) Shafizan Mohamed Rina Tung (Chair: Gene Flenady)

There will be a $200 book voucher prize awarded to the best paper presented, and publication in the Schools postgraduate journal Colloquy. All presenters are encouraged to submit their papers for consideration to Colloquy.

TITLES: Nathaniel Avery David Blencowe Sean McQueen Diane Molloy Camilla Reestroff Paulus Sarwoto Jamesons Uneasy Inheritance Not as if, but what is: the Invariance of Becoming in Ernst Blochs Ontology Fearful Symmetry: J.G. Ballards and David Cronenbergs Crash Cultural Memory and Literature: The Australian Experience Rebranding Denmark Surviving Dutch Colonialism and its Aftermath: Javanese Priyayi in Umar Kayams Para Priyayi and Pramoedya Ananta Toers Bumi Manusia The Function of Aesthetic Experience in Social Movement Theory Accounts of Attraction to Radicalism The Mass Re-visioned: Proselytising Peace in Place of Dogma Tattooed Useful or Useless Suffering The Pathos of Impossibility: Derrida and Rancire on What You Can and Cant Do Foucault Creates Problems: History, Problematisation and Transformative Force Silua resonans, arbor inscripta: Materials of Virgils Eclogues The Grove as Crossing Point: Recovering a Spiritualised Nature Reading the Song of Songs and its Tradition The God Story: Narrative, Religion and the Context of Self The Constituents of Interpretation: Charity and Linguistic Authority On not Seeing Films: Experience and Ideas in Criticism Another Voyage on the North Sea: Artwork and Document I Sing, Therefore I Am! Stripping Bare and Sam Shepard

Mark Howard Stephanie Rocke Jeff Stewart Sam Cuff Gene Flenady Catherine Ryan Tim Chandler Ann Melano Ohad Kozminsky Catherine Noske Andrew Sims Conall Cash Stephen Palmer Mathew Lockitt Nita Moghaddam Whitney Monaghan Lenise Prater

Queer Girls as Producers: Mashup as Minority Video Gender Difference: Magic and the Feminist Potential of Fantasy Literature Aida Wan Wan Yahaya The Representation of Modern Women in Historical Films: Struggles for Emancipation in two Films Based on Japanese History Shafizan Mohamed Rina Tung Blogging Malaysia Effects of the (In)voluntary Codes within Popular Culture

Julie Banks Lauren Bliss Janice Loreck Glenn Gordon Prashanth Pillay Botond Vitos

Blinded by Sensation: Sombre Pregnancy in the Cinema: Some Stories, Figures and Motifs Establishing Motive: Epistemophilia and Womens Violence in Lars von Triers Antichrist Home Literature and the Bibliotherapeutic Value in Faithbased Young Adult Fiction An Insight into Australian Youth Political Communication: The Institutional Framing and Rationalisation of Every Day Cultural Youth Politics in Australia Discursive Demarcation and Identity Construction in the Czech Psytrance Scene: Experiential versus Ideological Motivations