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DAY ONE  

9.15–9.45am

Registration

9.45–9.50am

Welcome and Introduction
Sir James Gobbo AC
Chairman, National Library of Australia Council

9.50–10.10am

Opening Remarks
How do we travel? How do we write about such personal and often elusive experiences?
Ian Britain

10.10–11.00am

Session 1
‘Australian Women: Travel and Creating National and International Identities’
Australian women travel in a wide variety of ways, and have been changed by the experience.
Ros Pesman
Chair: Sir James Gobbo AC

11.00–11.30am 

Morning tea

11.30am–12.20pm

Session 2 (panel session)
‘Telling Journeys: Re-writing the Story’
Journeys continue to live in the imaginations of travellers. As they recount these journeys there is room for many kinds of storytelling.
The Myth of the Journey—Glenda Adams
Public Journeys, Private Stories—Penny Russell
Reporting the Journey—Myra Jean Bourke
Chair: Margy Burn

12.20–2.00pm

Lunch

2.00–2.50pm

Session 3
‘Voyaging South: Travelling to Antarctica’
In extreme conditions common assumptions about travel don’t always hold true.
Tom Griffiths
Chair: Pam Gatenby

2.50–3.20pm

Afternoon tea

3.20–4.20pm

Session 4 (panel session)
‘Latitudes and Longitudes’
On the various maps, and in the various terrain, of individual experience there are many ways of searching and many locations.
The Pathfinder—Tony Wheeler
The Explorer—Alan Gould
Relocating the Centre—Kim Mahood
Chair: Marion Halligan

6pm

Conference Dinner
The Lobby Restaurant
A superb meal at a fine restaurant.
Speaker: Linda Jaivin

DAY TWO  

10–10.50am

Session 5
‘The Exiled Voice’
Notions of exile and notions of language often go together as the outsider finds ways of connecting.
Arnold Zable
Chair: Helen Kon

10.50–11.30am

Morning tea

11.30am–12.20pm

Session 6 (panel session)
‘Leaving Home; Looking for Home’
Home and identity are fluid concepts, and are always being newly created and understood.
Voyage to Freedom—Diane Armstrong
Bringing Them Home—Anna Haebich & Doreen Mellor
Crossing Cultures—Barry Hill
Chair: Winnie Pelz

12.20–2.00pm

Lunch

2.00–2.50pm

Session 7 (panel session)
‘Life Journeys’
Patterns of leaving and returning define who we are and are often at the heart of how we live.
From Burma to Bowral—Colin McPhedran
The Mother Tongue—Delia Falconer
My Journey—Brij Lal
Chair: Bruce Bennett

2.50–3.20pm

Afternoon tea

3.20–4.10pm

Session 8
‘A Personal Passage’
In the work of every writer there are many ways of travelling and many places to explore.
Peter Steele
Chair: Paul Hetherington

4.10–4.15pm

Closing Remarks
Jan Fullerton
Director-General, National Library of Australia

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