Writing the Australian Landscape - Program

Conference Program

Saturday 3 August 2013
Time Session

9.00 am

Registration

9.50 am

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Mr Ryan Stokes

Chair, National Library of Australia Council

10.00 am

Session 1 - Kenneth Binns Lecture

Murray Bail

11.00 am

Morning Tea in the Foyer

11.30 am

Session 2: Droughts and Flooding Rains

In a country of bush fires, cyclones and floods, how do we record the impact of nature on the human experience?

Matthew Condon, Adrian Hyland and Anna Rose

12.30 pm

Lunchbreak

2.00 pm

Session 3: Imagining the Capital: Words about Canberra

What do we mean when we write about 'Canberra'?

Geoff Page, Matthew Higgins and Paul Daley

3.00 pm

Afternoon Tea in the Foyer

3.30 pm

Session 4: Crossing the Continent – Literary Journeys

Journeys have often featured in Australian writing. What happens when we travel across the continent into unknown or unfamiliar territory?

Sue Woolfe, Ros Moriarty and Robyn Davidson

Sunday 4 August 2013
Time Session

9.30 am

Registration

10.00 am

Session 5 - Keynote Address

Bill Gammage

11.00 am

Morning Tea in the Foyer

11.30 am

Session 6: Reshaping the Landscape: Gardens, Farms and the 'Burbs

What happens when human beings recreate the natural world – physically or imaginatively?

Lesley Harding, Kendrah Morgan, Charles Massy and Jennifer Harrison

12.30 pm

Lunchbreak

1.30 pm

Session 7 : Cityscapes

More than two-thirds of us live in cities and major towns – we think we know them. How do we recreate these 'known' spaces in our fiction and non-fiction? How well do we really know them?

Deborah Burrows, Steven Carroll and Kerryn Goldsworthy

2.30 pm

Afternoon Tea in the Foyer

3.00 pm

Session 8: The Wide Brown Land for Me

What does it mean to be 'Australian' and a 'writer' now? Do you have to write about Australia?

Patrick Allington, Jeanine Leane and Jane Gleeson-White

4.00 pm

Closing Remarks

Anne-Marie Schwirtlich

Director-General, National Library of Australia