Conference Program


CONFERENCE OPENING

WEDNESDAY, 28 SEPTEMBER - RAUTENSTRAUCH-JOEST-MUSEUM, COLOGNE

13:00

 

from 16.30

17.00-17.30

 

18.00-19.00

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

19.30-20.30

General meeting for members of the GASt (Institute of Geography, Otto-Fischer-Str. 4, Südbau Building number: 303, Room 4S, 1st floor)

Registration (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne, Foyer)

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

Conference Opening

Welcome Addresses:

  • Amelie Bernzen (GASt)
  • Manuela Günter, Vice-Rector for Gender Equality and Diversity, University of Cologne
  • Australian Embassy
  • Beate Neumeier (University of Cologne)
  • Boris Braun (University of Cologne)

 

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

Chair: Beate Neumeier

 

Drinks and Snacks

 

 



THURSDAY, 29 SEPTEMBER - NEUES SEMINARGEBÄUDE, UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

11.00-13.00

Panel 1: Challenging Concepts of Nature

Chair: Eva Bischoff

Room: 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

Room: 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

15.15-17.15

Panel 3: Nature and Technology in Rural and Urban Australia

Chair: Robert Freestone

Room: 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. Presentation of the GASt-awarded master thesis by Daniel Rothenburg: "The Majesty of Concrete“: Hume Dam and the Australian Modernity

Panel 4: Nature and Environment in Indigenous Languages

Chair: Astrid Gabel

Room: 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 and Discussion: Big Boss: The Last Leader of the Crocodile Islands (2011); Bentley James

Chair: Dany Adone

Room: Tagungsraum



FRIDAY, 30 SEPTEMBER - NEUES SEMINARGEBÄUDE, UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

9.00-9.45

 

 

9.45-10.00

10.00-10.45

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

Chair: Norbert Finzsch

Room: Tagungsraum

Coffee Break

Video Conference: Alexis Wright:
The Museumesque of Pristine Wilderness

Chair: Philip Mead

Room: Tagungsraum


10.45-11.00

Coffee Break


11.00-13.00

Panel 5: Nature and Environment in Indigenous Writing

Chair: Julia Hoydis

Room: Tagungsraum

  1. Nature as a Living Agent - Reading Nature and Environment 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

Room: 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: A New 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


16.30-18.30

Panel 7: Aboriginal-European Encounters and Land Resources

Chair: Katrin Althans

Room: 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

Room: 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

Conference Dinner



SATURDAY, 1 OCTOBER - NEUES SEMINARGEBÄUDE, UNIVERSITY OF COLOGNE

11.00-13.00

Panel 9: Historical Perspectives on Environmental Change

Chair: Patricia Plummer

Room: 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

Room: 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

Lunch (Buffet in Stehkonvent, Neues Seminargebäude; sponsored by Westermannverlag)


14.00-15.00

Award Ceremony and Conference Closing

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

Room: Tagungsraum

 

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