JULY 1-4, 2014 at THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
PROGRAM

July 1
Venue: Eastern Avenue Auditorium

11-1 registration
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

1-2.30
Session 1 Australian Imaginaries
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

Chair: Brigitta Olubas (UNSW)

Nicholas Birns, The New School,  'Letty Fox: Australianism and the Synchronic Prose of Late Modernity'

Brigid Rooney, Sydney,  ‘That hideous lighted tomb’: house and suburb in Elizabeth Harrower’s The Long Prospect (1958)

Monique Rooney, ANU, 'Mute Eloquence: Elizabeth Jolley’s The Well (1986) as encrypted melodrama'

2.30-4
Session 2 Obscured Novels
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

Chair: Guy Davidson (Wollongong)

Guy Davidson, University of Wollongong, ' James Baldwin and the Paradoxes of the Celebrity Novel'

Nicola Evans, University of Wollongong, 'Missing Books'

Ika Willis, University of Wollongong, 'Obscuring Genocide: Knowledge and Identity in Hard Yards and Daniel Deronda'

4-4.30 afternoon tea
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

5.00-5.45  Sharon Marcus, Columbia, ‘The Portable Perfomer’ (Chair Annamarie Jagose, Sydney University)
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

6.00-7.30 1st keynote
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

Julie Park, Vassar,  'Detachable Pockets, Handwritten Letters and Samuel Richardson’s Pamela: Portable Interiority and the Eighteenth-Century Novel (Chair Melissa Hardie, University of Sydney)

July 2:
Venues: New Law School and Eastern Avenue Auditorium

9-10.30
Session 1A Scripting the Prosaic
New Law School Lecture Theatre 024

Chair: Sarah Gleeson-White (Sydney)

David Fitzgerald, Sydney, 'Chigurh’s shopping list; objects and minutiae in Cormac McCarthy’s No Country For Old Men'

Chuang Ying Xuan, U of Adelaide, 'Novelising a genre—Japanese Animation: Gender-bending'

Christine Stanton, Sydney, 'Small Measures, Great World'

Session 1B Prosaic Histories
New Law School Lecture Theatre 026

Chair: John Plotz (Brandeis)

Stephanie Russo, Macquarie, 'Domesticating Charlotte Corday: Helen Craik's Adelaide de Narbonne (1800) and Private Vengeance'

Daniel Cook, Saginaw Valley State University 'Articles of War: The Fate of Everyday Objects in Captain Marryat’s Naval Adventure Novels'

Therese Taylor, CSU, ‘"Romantic and Pious Themes": Historical Novels about Saints'

10-30-11 morning tea
Eastern Avenue Auditorium
11-12.30
Session 2A Networks and Novel Objects
New Law School Lecture Theatre 024

Chair: John Frow (Sydney)

Michael Falk, Sydney, 'The World of Edgeworth’s The Absentee: A Network Analysis Approach'

Sam Dickson, Sydney, 'Realism and Everyday Mapping in Joseph McElroy’s Lookout Cartridge'

John McVey, Monserrat College of Arts, Cambridge, Mass 'Hardware and Fiction : Genre Intersections'

Session 2B Colonial imaginaries
New Law School Lecture Theatre 026

Chair: Brigid Rooney (Sydney)

Philip Steer, Massey, 'Strategic Banality: The Work of the Prosaic in Novels of Early Settlement'

Tamsin O’Connor, Sydney, 'Fictive History and the penal stations of New South Wales'


12.30-2 lunch
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

2-3.00
Session 3A Prosaic Bodies
New Law School Lecture Theatre 024

Chair: Melissa Hardie (Sydney)

Lydia Saleh Rofail, Sydney, 'The Prosaic and Phantasmagoric: Fictive Urban Bodies in Peter Carey’s The Tax Inspector'

Fiona Hile, U. Melbourne 'Generic Engineering in Michel Houellebecq’s Atomised'

Session 3B Prosaic Pathologies
New Law School Lecture Theatre 026

Chair: Kieryn McKay (Sydney)

Sophia Barnes Sydney 'Novel-worlds: Tracing the Ripples in Doris Lessing’s The Four-Gated City'

Emily Sutton, Victoria University of Wellington, 'Domesticating the Plague: Realism, History and the Everyday in AIDS Fiction'

3- 3.30 afternoon tea
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

3.30-4.15 Vijay Mishra, Murdoch, 'The Sonic Imaginary in Salman Rushdie' Chair John Frow (Sydney)
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

4.30-6 Keynote 2
Eastern Avenue Auditorium
John Plotz, Brandeis, 'Prosaically Absorbed: Thomas Hardy, Willa Cather and Everyday Forms of Semi-Detachment' 
Chair Vanessa Smith (Sydney)
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

6.00 onwards- drinks, Eastern Avenue Auditorium

July 3

9-10.30
Session 1A Sentimental Objects
New Law School Lecture Theatre 024

Chair Julie Park (Vassar)

Sara Crouch, Sydney, 'Preserving the surface boundary; the veil as epidermis in eighteenth century 'everyday' texts'

Patrick Marland Sydney 'Dickens and Things'

Cressida Green Sydney 'A Jewel Between Sisters – Middlemarch and non-everyday objects'


Session 1B American Prosaics
New Law School Lecture Theatre 026

Chair Melissa Hardie (Sydney)

Jed Evans, Sydney, 'Thomas Wolfe and the Domestication of Culture'

Kate Montague, UNSW, 'Prosaic Drama and the Postwar American Novel'

Anastasia Nicephore Sydney 'Paroxysm, Sublimity and the Role of the Prosaic Imaginary in Don DeLillo's novels'

10-30-11 morning tea
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

11-12.30 Session 2A Novel Objects: the Unsettling life of Things in the novels of Philip K. Dick
New Law School Lecture Theatre 024

Chair Chris Rudge (Sydney)

Chris Rudge, Sydney, 'Doctored Images: Doctors and their Devices in Philip K. Dick’s 1960s novels’

Adam Hulbert, UNSW, 'The Persistent Elsewhere: Radio and the Alternate Worlds of Philip K Dick’

Patrick Cronin, Sydney, ‘California Kipple: Everyday Trash in the novels of Philip K. Dick’

Session 2B Prosaic Ethnographies
New Law School Lecture Theatre 026

Chair: Daniel Cook (Saginaw Valley State University)

Hayley Rudkin Sydney '“A craving cry I could not satisfy”: Hunger in Charlotte Brontë’s Villette'

 Yi Zheng, UNSW, 'The Prosaic History of a Provincial Revolution'

Frank Malgesini, Universidad Autonoma de Chihuahua, 'Life as We Know it: Finding Ourselves in Wildfell Hall'

12.30-2.00 lunch
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

2-3.30

Session 3 Prosaic Affects
New Law School Lecture Theatre 024

Chair Lee Wallace (Sydney)

Mimi Lu, Sydney, 'Pursuits of Happiness in Thomas Hardy’s Jude the Obscure'

Conall Cash, UNSW, 'Cruges in Sintra: Some Considerations on Affect and the Everyday in the Realist Novel, Following Jameson'

Naomi Milthorpe, U Tas, '“Fatigues and things”: Boredom and objects in Henry Green’s Party Going'


4.00-4.30 afternoon tea
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

4.30-6 Keynote 3
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

Maud Ellmann, Chicago, 'Everyday War:  Virginia Woolf and Sylvia Townsend Warner.' Chair John Frow (Sydney)

7 onwards: conference dinner

July 4:

9-00-10.30 Session 1 Theorising the Prosaic
New Law School Lecture Theatre 024

Chair Maud Ellmann (Chicago)

Elizabeth Pender, UNSW, 'Not your everyday novel: modernist novels and literary criticism in the early 1960s'

Siobhan Lyons, Macquarie,' Novels without Readers'

Jarrad Cogle, Sydney, 'Fredric Jameson, Affect and the Realist Novel'

10.30-11.30 Book Launch + morning tea
John Frow Character and Person (Oxford University Press, 2014).  Launched by  Julian Murphet (UNSW)
Eastern Avenue Auditorium

11.30- 1 Session 2 Visualising the Prosaic
New Law School Lecture Theatre 024

Chair Vanessa Smith (Sydney)

Alix Beeston, University of Sydney, 'Bad in Form: Photography and the Composite Novel in Modernism'

Omid Azadibougar, Göttingen University, 'The Novel after Cinema: Reality and Forms of Representation'

Melissa Hardie, Sydney, 'Cinematic Circulation and the Novel: Old Acquaintance, Rich and Famous, La Flor de mi Secreto.'

1-2 lunch and close
Eastern Avenue Auditorium