2008-11-09T01:19:00.000-08:00

8am-9am Arrival and registration
Venue: Room 327 Sir Robert Webster Building
School of English, Media and Performing Arts
University of New South Wales

GETTING TO UNSW
Please see bus travel guide here
Please see general travel information here

DIRECTIONS ON CAMPUS
Please see printable campus map here [building G14]
Or interactive map here [type in Sir Robert Webster]

*DRAFT PROGRAM*

Session #1 9am-9.40: Approaches to performing trauma
Keynote: Helena Grehan (Murdoch University)
Aalst: acts of evil, ambivalence and responsibility

Panel: 9.40-11am
Professor Michael Balfour (Griffith University)
No place like home: the (re)creating of identity in refugee performance

Xris Reardon (Third Way Theatre)
No right, no wrong: silencing or voicing disruptive truths; working with communities of memory

Jeff Stewart (University of Sydney)
With Others

Sarah Woodland (Griffith University)
Theatre, Autobiography and Trauma

MORNING TEA 11am-11.20am: lobby space Robert Webster Building 327

Session #2 11.20-12.20: Community, Memory, Geography
Keynote: Urban Theatre projects Roslyn Oades, Tim Carroll and Alicia Talbot
Title TBA

Panel: 12.20-1.30
Russell Rodrigo (UNSW)
Cultural Trauma & Urban Performance: Ground Zero, ‘Tribute in Light’ & the Spectacle of Memory

Sam Spurr and Adrian Lahoud (UTS)
Post-traumatic urbanism

Lycia Trouton (COFA)
The Linen Memorial as a 'national apology' and as architectonic and interactive, within the context of post-conflict (but still conflicted) Northern Ireland

LUNCH 1.30-2pm: lobby space Robert Webster Building 327

Session 3 2pm-2.40: Prosthetic memories and popular culture
Keynote 3: Paula Hamilton (UTS)
Title TBA

Panel: 2.40-4pm
Angela Campbell (Murdoch University)
Performance, Trauma and the Archive: Georgiana Molloy and the Code of Modernity

Emily Blayney
‘Waking up the Colours’: Trauma and performativity in Iranian rap

Louise Malcolm (UNSW)
Affective Intertext: films, performers and spectators

David Williams (University of Sydney, Version 1.0)
Deeply personal national traumas: the “disgusting and opportunistic farce” of version 1.0’s From a distance… (2006)

AFTERNOON TEA 4pm-4.30pm: NIDA (National Insititute of Dramatic Art)
4.30pm Remembering Nick Enright Book Launch with Professor Peta Tait (La Trobe)

5.30pm informal drinks at a venue nearby [TBA]

After Effects: Trauma, Memory, Performativity