OzWallace

Draft Schedule Announced!

It is with great delight that the organisers of OzWallace 2017 announce the draft schedule for the September1, 2 and 3 conference. This will of course be subject to change, but things are getting decidedly exciting now.

Friday September 1

(All Friday sessions will be in 80.5.12)

9:30 Registration in the Alumni Courtyard

11:00 Acknowledgment of Country & Orientation at Ngarara Place

11:30 Panel 1

Tony McMahon: ‘Wallace Down Under: An American Author on the Fatal Shore’

Stephen Gaunson: ‘“Be a good guy”: Hagiography and adaptation in The End of the Tour’.

12:30 Lunch

1:30 Panel 2

Aisling Smith: ‘Shame Narratives in The Pale King’

Danny Sheaf: ‘Identity as Self-image in the fiction of David Foster Wallace’

Tasha Haines: ‘Something New That Matters: Hybridising Manoeuvres in The Pale King’

3:00 Panel 3

Ben Goodfellow: ‘Speech, Catastrophe and Creation – DFW reveals a little of what Lacan was on about’

Mitch Cunningham: ‘Love and the Lynchian Sitcom: The Perils of Psychoanalytic Reading in Wallace’

4:00 Welcome Drinks Atelier Space, level 4, building 9.

Evening The All Singing, All Dancing Howling Fantods Spectacular and Puppet Show, with a Cast of Thousands, including Nick Maniatis, Shelley Grieves-Zerkel and Tony McMahon. TBA

Saturday September 2

(All Saturday sessions will be located at 16.7.08)

10:30 Keynote

David Hering: ‘David and Dutch: Wallace, Reagan and the 1980s’

11:30 Plenary

Lucas Thompson: ‘Searching for Wallace’s Sincere New Rebels’

12:30 Lunch

1:15 Panel 4

Brigid Magner: '”A point of savage reference”': Desert Geographies in The Broom of the System’

Bill Lattanzi: ‘Cartographic Reconfiguration: A Brief Tour of Infinite Jest’s Boston with excursions into Wallace’s “Good Old USA,” Or, the Ordinary Places Wallace Turned into Art’

2:15 Panel 5

Duncan Driver: ‘Dave the teacher and the short story as a sort of lesson’

Grace Chipperfield: ‘Das ist komisch: Kafkaesque humour in Wallace’s fiction’

Thomas Renkert and Sebastian Krug: ‘Un/Following David Foster Wallace: A Theological Exploration Into His Work’

Evening AFLW State of Origin Game Etihad Stadium

Sunday September 3

(All Sunday sessions will be located at the Bowen Street Press space on level 2 of Building 9)

10:30 IDFWS Diversity Committee Q&A

11:30 IDFWS President & Vice-President Q&A

12:30 Panel 7

Clare Hayes Brady: ‘I am in here: David Foster Wallace and the body as object’

Rachel Short: ‘David Foster Wallace and Queer Theory – a criticism’

Oliver Jach: ‘Three Cheers for Cause and Effect: The Impact of Foster Wallace on The Self’

1:45 Lunch

2:30 Panel 8

Tajja Isen: ‘Legal Fictions and the Abyss of Total Noise: Wallace and the Problem of Genre’

Phillip Sayers: ‘Authors, Accountants, Students, and Cowboys in David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King’

Nathan Seppelt: ‘The Ghost in the Machine Learning’

3:30 Panel 9

Danny Sheaf: ‘Identity as Self-image in the fiction of David Foster Wallace’

Danielle Ely: ‘Women, the Resisting Readers of Infinite Jest’

Simon Gluskie: ‘Let’s Play Apocalypse’

4:30 Panel 10

James Ley: ‘the influence of Kierkegaard on Camus is underappreciated’

Tore Rye Andersen: ‘The First (and Second) Coming of Infinite Jest’

Corinne Scheiner: ‘With Senses on Full: The Construction of the Self in David Foster Wallace’s Fiction’

6:30 Conference Dinner ... See more