Konferenzprogramm

ERÖFFNUNGSVERANSTALTUNG

MITTWOCH, 28 SEPTEMBER - RAUTENSTRAUCH-JOEST-MUSEUM, KÖLN

13:00

 

ab 16.30

17.00-17.30

 

18.00-19.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19.30-20.30

 

GASt Mitgliederversammlung (Geographisches Institut Köln, Otto-Fischer-Str. 4, Südbau Gebäudenummer: 303, Übungsraum 4S, 1. Stock)

Registrierung (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Köln, Foyer)

Vorprogramm: Corinna Erckenbrecht: The Australian Collection of the Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum - Introduction & Highlights

Eröffnung der Konferenz

Willkommensansprachen:

  • Amelie Bernzen (GASt)
  • Manuela Günter, Prorektorin für Gleichstellung und Diversität (Universität zu Köln)
  • Australian Embassy
  • Beate Neumeier (Universität zu Köln)
  • Boris Braun (Universität zu Köln)

 

Helen Tiffin: Of Rats and Bats and the Conundrum of Indigeneity

Chair: Beate Neumeier

 

Getränke und Snacks


DONNERSTAG, 29. SEPTEMBER - NEUES SEMINARGEBÄUDE, UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN

8.00-9.00


9.00-9.45

 

 

 

9.45-10.00

10.00-10.45

 

 

 

10.45-11.00


11.00-13.00

Panel 1: Challenging Concepts of Nature

Chair: Eva Bischoff

Raum: Tagungsraum

 

  1. Corroborees, Collectors and Climate Change in a Settler Colony, through a Decolonising Prism; Anna Haebich
  2. Contesting Wilderness in a "Bush Walk": Unsettling Stories of the Land in Indigenous Tourism; Anke Tonnaer
  3. Toad Busting: A New Duty to Australia?; Libby Robin

Panel 2: Nature and Environment in Indigenous Film and Fiction

Chair: Barbara Schmidt-Haberkamp

Raum: Seminarraum S12

  1. Land and Environment in Warwick Thornton's Samson & Delilah (2009); Kerstin Knopf
  2. "The Whole World is Disintegrating" - The Effects of Mining and its Representation in Indigenous Filmmaking; Victoria Herche
  3. Watson's Lament, Walking the Land, and the Assertion of Sovereignty in Aboriginal Narratives; Geoff Rodoreda

13.00-14.15

14.15-15.00

 

 

15.00-15.15

Mittagessen (Buffet in der Cafeteria, Neues Seminargebäude)

Robert Freestone: The Emergence and Evolution of Environmental Planning in Australia

Chair: Bill Pritchard

Raum: Tagungsraum

Kaffeepause


15.15-17.15

Panel 3: Nature and Technology in Rural and Urban Australia

Chair: Robert Freestone

Raum: Tagungsraum

  1. Green Buiding Transition Pathways in  Brisbane; Sebastian Fastenrath
  2. Engineering Nature and Nature's Engineering: Reconstructing the Gippsland Lakes, 1860s-1950s; David Harris
  3. Between Sex and Death - Unearthing Charisma in Australia's Mycota?; Alison Pouliot
  4. Präsentation einer der prämierten Masterarbeiten: "The Majesty of Concrete“: Hume Dam and the Australian Modernity; Daniel Rothenburg

Panel 4: Nature and Environment in Indigenous Languages

Chair: Astrid Gabel

Raum: Seminarraum S11

  1. People of the Crocodile Islands & the Language of Spiritual Attachment; Bentley James
  2. Possessive Constructions in Two Varieties of Australian Kriol; Dany Adone & Christina Ringel
  3. Anchoredness in Nature and Environment - Linguistic Evidence from Aboriginal Australia; Dany Adone, E.L. Maypilama & Melanie Brück
  4. The Miriwoong Perspective on Land Rights; Christina Ringel & David Newry

17.30-19.00

 

 

 

Film und Diskussion: Big Boss: The Last Leader of the Crocodile Islands (2011); Bentley James

Chair: Dany Adone

Raum: Tagungsraum

 


FREITAG, 30. SEPTEMBER - NEUES SEMINARGEBÄUDE, UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN

9.00-9.45

 

 

9.45-10.00

Kate Rigby: Environmental (Post-) Humanities: The View from 'Down Under'

Chair: Norbert Finzsch

Raum: Tagungsraum

Kaffeepause


10.00-10.45

Videokonferenz: Alexis Wright: The Museumesque of Pristine Wilderness

Chair: Philip Mead

Raum: Tagungsraum

 


10.45-11.00

Kaffeepause


11.00-13.00

Panel 5: Nature and Environment in Indigenous Writing

Chair: Julia Hoydis

Raum: Tagungsraum

  1. Nature as a Living Agent - Reading Nature and Envionment in Mudrooroo's Dr. Wooreddy's Prescriptions for Enduring the Ending of the World; David Kern
  2.  "I Said it's a Promise from the Earth's Core" - The Ethics of Car[ing] for Country in Aboriginal Fiction; Dorothee Klein
  3. Uncanny Anthropocene: The Ecogothic in Peter Weir's the Last Wave; Kathrin Bartha
  4. The Literary Geography of Brisbane in Sam Wagan Watson's Poetry; Katrin Althans

Panel 6: Natural and Cultural Heritage in North-Western Australia

Chair: Anna Haebich

Raum: Seminarraum S11

  1. The Walmadany / James Price Point Conflict and its Implications for a new Environmental Awareness in Australia; Carsten Wergin
  2. Kimberley Rock Art: 'Living Heritage' in a Contested Landscape; Juliane Breitfeld
  3. Hidden Frontiers: Anew Look at Pearling on the Northwest Coast of Australia from the Other Side; Bart Pigram & Sarah Yu

13.00-14.15

14.15-15.00

 

 

15.00-15.15

15.15-16.00

 

 

16.00-16.30

Mittagessen (Buffet in der Cafeteria, Neues Seminargebäude)

Helen Gilbert: Deep Time, Slow Violence, Haunted Lands

Chair: Beate Neumeier

Raum: Tagungsraum

Kaffeepause

Angharad Wynne-Jones: "REFUGE"

Chair: Sarah Youssef

Raum: Tagungsraum

Kaffeepause


16.30-18.30

Panel 7: Aboriginal-European Encounters and Land Resources

Chair: Katrin Althans

Raum: Tagungsraum

  1. The Settler Contract and Aboriginal Jurisprudence Material Violence and Law; Bronwyn Lay
  2. Old and New: Indigenous Caring for Country in Contemporary Landscapes; Rod Kennett
  3. Reverence versus Rampage: Contrasting Traditional Australian Aboriginal Care for Country with non-Aboriginal Failure to Recognize the Distress of the Land (Reading of Catherine Laudine's paper)

Panel 8: (Trans) National Perspectives in Australian Literature

Chair: Hayley Moore

Raum: Seminarraum S11

  1. Undercountry: Some Early Thematics of Mining in Settler Literature; Philip Mead
  2. Australian Ecopoetry in Transnational Perspective; Philipp Reisner
  3. Christina Stead and the Erasure of Antipodean Nature; Michael Ackland

19.00

Konferenz-Dinner


SAMSTAG, 1. OKTOBER - NEUES SEMINARGEBÄUDE, UNIVERSITÄT ZU KÖLN

9.00-9.45

 

 

 

 

9.45-10.00

10.00-10.45

 

 

 

10.45-11.00


11.00-13.00

Panel 9: Historical Perspectives on Environmental Change

Chair: Patricia Plummer

Raum: Seminarraum S11

 

  1. Settler Imperialism, Ecocide and Social Ecological Systems; Norbert Finzsch
  2. The York Agricultural Society: Ecocide in the Avon River Valley; Alexander Bräuer
  3. Moving Trees and Trading Melons: Reconstructing Local Knowledge and Settler Practices in 1840s South Australia; Eva Bischoff
  4. 'An Area of Disillusionment' World War One Soldier Settlement Schemes and the Australian Interwar Environmental Sensibility; Jayne Regan

Westermann-Fachtag für Englisch- und Geographielehrer / Teachers' Workshop for English and Geography Teachers

Chair: Susanne Braun-Bau

Raum: Tagungsraum

 

1. Klimawandel in Australien; Reinhold Grotz

2. Ecodidactic Perspectives in the EFL Classroom: Australian Nature and Environment as a Paradigm; Andrea Gutenberg

3. Australian Tropes of Nature: Representation and Appropriation in EFL teaching; Konstanze Kutzbach


13.00-14.00

Mittagessen (Buffet gesponsert beim Westermannverlag im Stehkonvent, Neues Semiargebäude)


14.00-15.00

Award ceremony und Abschluss der Konferenz

Laudationes für Herrn Rothenburg und Frau Leitold, Überreichung der "Preise"

Laudatio für Frau Affeldt, Überreichung des "Preises" (Gerhard Stilz)

Stefanie Affeldt, die diesjährige Preisträgerin des GASt Förderpreises, präsentiert: "'Making Black White'. Sugar Consumption and Racial Unity in Australia"

Chair: Amelie Bernzen

Raum: Seminarraum S11

Westermann-Fachtag für Englisch- und Geographielehrer / Teachers' Workshop for English and Geography Teachers

Chair: Susanne Braun-Bau

Raum: Tagungsraum

 

4. Stadtentwicklung in Australien - auf dem Weg zur Nachhaltigkeit?; Boris Braun



Gastgeber der Konferenz:

Universität zu Köln

Albertus Magnus Platz

50923 Köln

Deutschland

Host institution:

University of Cologne

Albertus Magnus Platz

50923 Cologne

Germany