Australasian Association for Literature Literature and Affect Conference Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne Wednesday 2 July Registration from 1:30pm Welcome 2pm Session 1: 2:30-4pm McMahon Ball Theatre North Lecture Theatre South Lecture Theatre Panel 1 Panel 2 Panel 3 Postcolonial Affect: Maternal Affect: Affective Fallacies: Chair: Kim L. Chair: Laura Saxton Chair: Joe Hughes Worthington R. Benedito Ferrao Elizabeth Towl Niklas Fischer Whiteness is a Feeling: “Hi thole this ded for thine Narrative, Empathy, and the Indo-Portuguese sake”: Explaining the Limits of Understanding: Colonization and the Atonement in Two Middle John Steinbeck’s The Grapes Affective Archive of Skin English Devotional Texts of Wrath and J.M. Coetzee’s The Life and Times of Michael K Jessica Gildersleeve Daniel Hourigan Penelope Hone The Best of All Possible Coraline, Psychoanalysis, Physiological Acoustics and Worlds?: Cultures of and the Other Mother Literary Form: the Emotion in Christos Nineteenth-Century Tsiolkas's The Slap and “Affective Turn” Barracuda Katie Hansord Ilona Urquhart Emotion and Critical ‘Deceit, to the point of Distance in Emily Manning’s diabolism’: The Danger of The Balance of Pain Humbert’s Narration in Lolita Afternoon Tea: 4-4:30pm Session 2: 4:30-6pm
Australasian Association for Literature Literature and Affect Conference Old Arts Building, University of Melbourne Wednesday 2 July Registration from 1:30pm Welcome 2pm Session 1: 2:30-4pm McMahon Ball Theatre North Lecture Theatre South Lecture Theatre Panel 1 Postcolonial Affect: Chair: Kim L. Worthington R. Benedito Ferrao Whiteness is a Feeling: Indo-Portuguese Colonization and the Affective Archive of Skin Jessica Gildersleeve The Best of All Possible Worlds?: Cultures of Emotion in Christos Tsiolkas's The Slap and Barracuda Panel 2 Maternal Affect: Chair: Laura Saxton Elizabeth Towl “Hi thole this ded for thine sake”: Explaining the Atonement in Two Middle English Devotional Texts Daniel Hourigan Coraline, Psychoanalysis, and the Other Mother Katie Hansord Emotion and Critical Distance in Emily Manning’s The Balance of Pain Panel 3 Affective Fallacies: Chair: Joe Hughes Niklas Fischer Narrative, Empathy, and the Limits of Understanding: John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath and J.M. Coetzee’s The Life and Times of Michael K Penelope Hone Physiological Acoustics and Literary Form: the Nineteenth-Century “Affective Turn” Ilona Urquhart ‘Deceit, to the point of diabolism’: The Danger of Humbert’s Narration in Lolita Afternoon Tea: 4-4:30pm Session 2: 4:30-6pm