Conference Program
Time | Session |
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9.00 am |
Registration |
10.00 am |
Welcome and Opening Remarks Mr Ryan Stokes Chair, National Library of Australia Council |
10.00 am |
Session 1 - Kenneth Binns Lecture Murray Bail Chair: Anne-Marie Schwirtlich, Director General, National Library of Australia |
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 Chair: Marie-Louise Ayres, Assistant Director General, Resource Sharing, National Library of Australia |
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 Participating Chair: Andrew Croome, author of Document Z and Midnight Empire |
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 Felicity Volk Chair: Margy Burn, Assistant Director General, Australian Collections and Reader Service, National Library of Australia |
Time | Session |
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9.30 am |
Registration |
10.00 am |
Session 5 - Keynote Address Bill Gammage Chair: Mark Corbould, Assistant Director General, Information Technology, National Library of Australia |
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 Chair: Peter Rose, Editor, Australian Book Review |
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 Chair: Morag Fraser, Chair of Australian Book Review, former Miles Franklin Literary Award judge, and essayist on Australian landscape design |
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 Chair: Zoë Rodriguez, Copyright Agency Cultural Fund |
4.00 pm |
Closing Remarks Anne-Marie Schwirtlich Director-General, National Library of Australia |