AESOPIC VOICES: Re-framing Truth in Twentieth-Century Folklore, Fairy
Tales and Fables
International Conference, Melbourne, Australia, February 21 - 23, 2008
Open Stage Theatre, University of Melbourne
Organised by Philip Morrissey and Gert Reifarth
Link: http://www.culture-communication.unimelb.edu.au/aesopic-conference/
Conference Plan
February 21
10:00 Welcome Addresses
10:15 Dr Gert Reifarth Aesopic Ways: An Introduction
11:30 Keynote Address 1: Prof Odile Cazenave: Dis-Enchanted,
Dis-Entangled Tales:
Francophone African Literature Today The Examples of Boubacar Boris
Diop and Véronique
Tadjo
14:00 Paper Session I: Aesopics and Theory. Session Chair: Dr Kevin Murray
1. Assistant Professor Gillian M.E. Alban ?Beyond the Other: A
Beautiful Beast: Angela
Carter?s Fairy Tales through her reading of the Marquis de Sade.?
2. Ophelia Jasmin Keys Beasts telling Stories: Bartabas? Equestrian
Displays as Aesopic
Texts
3. Dr Justin Clemens On the Enigma of Half-Truths
16:30 Paper Session 2: Aesopics in Africa. Session Chair: Prof Odile Cazenave
1. Betty Caplan Pre and Post Colonial Voices: A view from Kenya?s Heartland
2. Daria Tunca Ben Okri?s Starbook: A Magical Pathway to Reality, or
an Enchanted Road to
Nowhere?
3. Dr Kevin Murray Of Minks and Men: Mbulelo Mzamane?s Allegory for
post-Apartheid South
Africa.
February 22
10:00 Paper Session 3: Aesopic Resistance. Session Chair: tba
1. Prof Catherine Collins and Prof Patricia Varas Thrilling the
Audience, (Dis)tracting
the Censors: Suspense as Diversion
2. Dr Julia Vassilieva Beyond Aesopic: Religious Discourse in
Post-communist Russia as an
?Empty Signifier?.
3. Dr Gert Reifarth Aesop vs the Censor in the GDR: On the Power of
Fairy Tales
13:00 Keynote Address 2: Prof Greg Dening: Wayfinding. Dances on the
Beaches of the Mind.
15:00 Paper Session 4: Aesopic Theatre. Session Chair: Dr Peter Eckersall
1. Dr Catherine Fargher Bio-Ethical Issues As A Base For Fables
2. Dr Katsadoros George The Disfiguration of Aesop and Karagiozis:
Embodiment of Indirect
Expostulation and Resistance.
3.Dr Jeanne Clark Palestinian Theatre and the Aesopic Voice
4. Xan Colman and Tamara Searle "Once Upon a Time, Tonight:
Contemporary Application of
Aesopic Discourse in the Performance making of Makhampom Theatre
Group, Thailand."
19:00 Erwin and Elmire: An Opera Production in Progress. Excerpts from
an upcoming
production of this work by Anna Amalia (libretto by Goethe), presented
by IOpera.
Directed by Gert Reifarth. Featuring Lee Abrahamsen, Suzanne
Shakespeare, Chris Busietta,
Nick Jones.
February 23
10:30 Paper Session 5: Aesopics in Australia. Session Chair: Dr Justin Clemens
1. Marcus Waters ?Contemporary Urban Indigenous ?Dreamings?:
Connection, Ceremony and
Practice?
2. Marie Herbillon Murray Bail?s Eucalyptus: An Australian fairy tale?
3. Philip Morrissey Old Cobraboor: Colonial Violence and Aboriginal modesty.
13:00 Conference Conclusion and Contemporary Fable Presentation
Myron Lysenko and Kevin Brophy 'Dead Dog Dumped' or 'Fables on Tables
For any queries please contact:
Ms Johanna Simmons
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