Conference Program

Please note all times listed in the program below are in Australian Central Standard Time (ACST)

Current Australian Central Standard Time

*Please note all other conference sessions will take place at Charles Darwin University’s Waterfront campus

TIME (ACST)	SESSION INFORMATION
2:00pm-2:30pm	Conference Registration
2:30pm-2:45pm	Opening Address and Welcome to Country
2:45pm-3:50pm	KEYNOTE 1: Dr Eleanor Hogan ‘Space, silence and hybridity in Ernestine Hill’s northern vision of Australia’

TIME (ACST)	SESSION INFORMATION
10:00am-11:30am	Journal of Language, Literature and Culture Editorial Workshop
11:30am-12:30pm	Welcome & Lunch Level 5, Waterfront Darwin Campus
12:30pm-1:30pm	Session 1a: SHAME Room: 3.19 ‘No stranger to Fiery Waters’ Heather Neilson ‘A Town’s shameful Secret’ Rebecca Johinke	Session 1b: DARK CHARACTERS Room 3.13 ‘Open Secret’ Tony Hughes -d’Aeth ‘Eleanor Dark’s Chronotypes’ Michael Griffiths ‘Mapping Massacre Site’ Robert Clarke
1:30pm-3:00pm	Session 2a: EROTICISATION Room 3.19 ‘On the limits of imagination’ Natalie Kon-yu ‘Identity formation of the Manipuri’ Rajmoni Singha	Session 2b: LOVE & LOSS Room: 3.13 ‘Double Exposures’ Mark Azzopardi ‘The Two Kings’ Roxanne Bodsworth
3:00pm-3:30pm	Afternoon Tea
3:30pm- 5:00pm	KEYNOTE 2: Professor Georgina Heydon Level 5 Lecture Theatre, Waterfront Darwin Campus ‘Forensic linguistics: How bad spelling uncovered a secret signature in a murder investigation’

TIME (ACST)	SESSION INFORMATION
9:30am-11:00am	KEYNOTE 3: Thomas Mayor Level 3 Room 3.19, Waterfront Darwin Campus
11:00am-11:30am	Morning Tea Level 5
11:30am-1:00pm	Session 3a: SURFACE AND DEPTH Room 3.19 ‘Beneath the Sea’ Theodora Galanis ‘Listening to Silence in Christina Rossetti’s Sing-song’ Veronica Alfano	Session 3b: DIGITAL DECEPTIONS Room 3.13 ‘Elisions of Labour’ Paddy Gordon ‘Secrets and Silences of the Digital Literary Archive’ Tully Barnett
1:00pm-2:00pm	Lunch Level 3
2:00pm-3:30pm	Session 4a: GENDER ANXIETIES Room 3.19 ‘Truth be told’ Rebecca Carpenter-Mew ‘Depicting the unnarrativisable’ Elizabeth Bellamy	Session 4b: TRUTH TELLING Room 3.13 ‘Saving Lives telling stories’ Jiva Nath Lamsal ‘Political Taboos’ Stephen Miller, Richard Curtis & Rifka Sibarani
3:30pm-4:00pm	Afternoon Tea Level 3

TIME (ACST)	SESSION INFORMATION
9:30am-11:00am	GUEST PANEL: SECRETS IN PLAIN SIGHT Kieran Finnane, Caroline Graham, Kylie Stevenson Level 3 Room 3.19, Waterfront Darwin Campus
11:00am-11:30am	Morning Tea Level 3
11:30am-1:00pm	Session 5a: POETIC UTTERANCES Room 3.19 ‘The Secret to Poetic Precision’ Paul Magee ‘Curtains blow in and out’ Rose Lucas	Session 5b: HEROES AND STRANGERS Room 3.13 ‘Leaks and Archives’ Peta Jeffires ‘The demands on secrecy’ Nishtha Pandey and Avishek Parui
1:00pm-2:00pm	Lunch Level 3
2:00pm- 3:30pm	Session 6a: NORTHERN EXPOSURE Room 3.19 ‘Working Cosmologies’ Leonie Norrington ‘Hansen’s Disease in Northern Australia’ James Gourley ‘A Character Study of the Enuma Elish’ Jacob Kingston	Session 6b: QUEER CLOSETS Room 3.13 ‘Angry, fury, rage, and action’ Adam Gall ‘Infamous Inscriptions’ Frances Di Lauro ‘Unknowable Things’ Vanessa Berry
3:30pm- 4:00pm	Afternoon Tea Level 3
6:00pm-10:00pm	Conference Dinner Charlie’s Darwin

TIME (ACST)	SESSION INFORMATION
9:30am-11:00am	KEYNOTE 4: Mary Anne Butler Level 3 Room 3.19, Waterfront Darwin Campus
11:00am- 11:30am	Morning Tea Level 3
11:30am- 1:00pm	AULLA AGM Room 3.19
1:00pm- 2:00pm	Lunch Level 3
2:00pm- 3:30pm	Session 7a: GHOST WRITERS & PSYUEDONYMS Room 3.19 ‘Summoning the ghost writers’ Raelke Grimmer & Jillianne Segura ‘David Malouf and the secret of literature’ Chinmaya Lal Thakur	Session 7b: ARCHITECTURAL EVIDENCE Room 3.13 ‘Promising More War’ Sertan Saral ‘No faces and no names’ Alastair Whyte
3:30pm- 4:00pm	Conference Close