Conference timetable
All sessions will be held in Building 25
Tuesday 6/12
8:00 - 9:00
REGISTRATION
9:00 - 9:15
WELCOME (S1)
Emeritus Professor Walter Veit, Monash University
9:15 - 10:45
S1
Teeuwen: 'Sabotaging Utopia'
Hwang: 'Utopia
and Violence in Late Capitalist Society'
G. Davidson:
'Samuel Delany, Post-Fordism and the Future'
S2
Vernay: 'Projections and Utopianism in Contemporary
Australian Fiction'
Cheater: 'Return to the Dreamtime'
R. Murray: 'The Australian Dream Becomes Nightmare'
ST1
Lu: 'Modernity
as Utopia'
Suslov: 'The Conservative Utopia'
Walton: 'Constructed Beauty, Performed Terror, 1884/1948'
11:00 - 12:30
S1
Buchanan: 'Ideology and Utopia in Jameson'
Burgmann: 'Cognitive Mapping and Anti-Capitalist Utopianism'
Cevasco: 'Jameson and Science Fiction'
S2
Panel: Perversely Persistent Visions
Greenwood, McEntee, Crogan
ST1
Blackford: 'Rendezvous with Utopia'
Pritchard/Russell: 'Exploring Utopias Through Star
Wars'
Kansal: 'Pratchett's Understated
Utopia'
12:30 - 1:30
LUNCH
1:30 - 3:30
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: 'The
Antinomies of Utopia' (S3)
Professor Fredric Jameson,
Duke University
4:00 - 5:30
S1
Barnett: 'Gen(r)e Splicing: Atwood's Oryx
and Crake'
Kelso: 'Writing a Feminist
Utopia' Baum: 'Becoming Men in Herland'
S2
Norris: 'The Manga Effect'
Wright:
'The Nature Vision of Sci-Fi Anime'
Moichi: 'Imagining Utopia in Contemporary Japanese Novels'
ST1
Salzani: 'Musil's
Utopia Without Qualities'
Sheehan: 'Beckett and
the Imagination of Disaster'
Blanchot: 'The Proper
Use of Science-Fiction'
ST2
Johnson: 'Scar Construction, Progress in Architecture'
Sala-Oviedo/Loo: 'Nanotechnology and the Emergence of Architecture'
A. Murray: 'Dystopia, Architecture and the Persistence
of Romanticism'
Wednesday 7/12
9:15 - 10:45
S1
Pieris: 'The Nation on the Net'
Younis: 'Towards (E-)utopia?'
Dieter: 'Peer-to-Peer
Pressure: Filetrading, Multitude and the Promise of Radical Democracy'
S2
Milner: 'Framing
Catastrophe'
Kawabata: 'Orwellian Mother Goose'
Vladiv-Glover: 'Russian Dystopias'
ST1
R. Davidson: 'Utopia and Transformational Strategy'
Rundle: 'Promethean politics'
Whyte: 'Preempting
Action'
11:00 - 12:30
S1
Chaffey: 'Uncharted Territories and Common Ground'
Holland: 'Utopian Thought in Deleuze & Guattari'
Mercer: 'The Utopia of Permanence and the Internet'
S2
Bloul: 'From
Utopia to Terrorism'
Ramos: 'The World Social
Forum'
Spoors: 'Enlightenment as Utopia?'
ST1
Cooke: 'Can
Children Dream of Electric Adulthoods?'
Savage: 'Space
Opera'
Vardoulakis: 'Politics of Science, Fictions
of the Political'
ST2
Welch: 'Marxist Utopia in Zukofsky'
Yang:
'Re-imagination of the Future in Le Guin'
Wheeler:
'Dystopian Futures in Ryman and Gee'
12:30 - 1:30
LUNCH
1:30 - 3:00
S1
Boer: 'On
the Legacy of "Primitive Communism"'
Goldsmith:
'Apocalyptic Narrative and the Waco Siege'
Garrett/Harding:
'Deconstructions of Babel'
S2
Rigby: 'Utopian moments in the creation of Canberra'
G. Pritchard: 'Ecotopias and Dystopias'
Jorgensen: 'The Indigenous Utopian'
ST1
McNeill: 'Jameson, Cyberpunk and "Exhausted"
Realism'
St. John: 'Rave Ascension'
Briggs: 'Gibson's Meta-Science-Fiction'
ST2
Bot: 'Dystopian
Urban Sublime'
Cole: 'The Wall: Utopian or Dystopian?'
Wight: 'Not My Kind of Place'
3:15 - 4:45
S1
Benjamin: 'The Future as an Illusion'
P.
Jones: 'Tragic Utopianism'
Parekh: 'The (Science
Fictional) Future to Hegel's System'
S2
Panel: Children in Dystopia
Dudek, Bullen, Parsons
ST1
Atkinson: 'Technology and the Vision of Utopia'
G. Jones: 'Imag(in)ing the Simulacrum'
Bagust: 'Flashing the Soul'
ST2
Dutton: 'Five French Futures'
Jack:
'Les Particules Elementaires'
Henderson: 'The Australian Lesbian Body'
5:00 - 6:30
S1
Marks: 'All-Seeing Eyes'
Nansen: 'Medical
Technology's Utopian Imaginary'
Sargent: 'Eutopias
and Dystopias of Science'
S2
O'Donnell: 'Jameson's Concept of Utopia'
Bendle: 'Zarathustra's Revenge'
Fitting:
'Jameson's Archaeologies of the Future'
ST1
Hall: 'Lost
Race Stories'
Gurney: 'The Fall to Dystopia'
Maxwell: 'Imagining a Future Aesthetics of Human Beauty'
ST2
C. Garrett:
'Possible Worlds'
Gonzlez-Casanovas:
'Primitivist Dystopias vs. Modernist Utopias'
Soares: 'Altman's Quintet'
6:30 - 6:35
CLOSING REMARKS (S1)
Dr. Kate Rigby, Monash University