Illuminate:The AHCCA Postgraduate Association 2005 Conference

The AHCCA Postgraduate Association 2005 Conference was held on Tuesday 8 th November 2005. Postgraduates from around Australia presented papers on topics including ancient to contemporary art history, curatorship and material culture, contemporary art practice, cinema management, Neighbours, Hollywood musicals, media censorship and more.

International Keynote Speaker

Julian Henderson
Professor of Archaeological Science, Nottingham University

Glass is a complex material with visual and other physical properties that sets it apart from other ancient materials. There is evidence that the first glass was manufactured in imitation of semi-precious stones which were believed to have had magical properties. Professor Henderson will examine cultural, historical (including alchemical), technological and ritual factors in the emergence of the first glass in the Bronze Age.

Conference Program

8.45-9.00	Conference registration, outside the Public Lecture Theatre, Old Arts Building
Room	Theatre B	Theatre C	PLT
	Session 1 Chair: TBA Thresholds: Secrets & Liminality	Session 2 Chair: Assoc Prof. Charles Green Display	Session 3 Dr Rhiannon Evans Animal House
9.00-9.30	Sandi Van Rompaey Art History Mandaen Symbolic Art	Emily Gray Art History Dr Eric Westbrook: A Modern Approach	Miriam Riverlea Classics Carved Creatures: The Wooden Horse and the Wooden Cow in Greek Myth
9.30-10.00	Andrew Saunders Cinema Notes on Abstract Form and the Film Viewing Experience	Brent Davis Archaeology So you walk into a roomful of artifacts: where do you start to read?	Benjamin Lazarus Classics Jonah and his big fish
10.00-10.30	Dave Collard Archaeology Function and Ethnicity: Ritual ‘Bathtubs' from Late Bronze Age Cyprus	Damien Lentini Art History Re-Imagining the Cube: The Framing of Art in the Contemporary Period	Timothy Ould Art History The Owl and the Crow: An Ancient Motif in Late Sixteenth Century Italy
10.30-11.00	Erin McGowan Archaeology Ashamed to be Shamans: an analysis of gesture and ‘ecstatic' experience within Minoan cave ritual		Anika Ervin-Ward Cinema Returning to a Fantastical World of Freaks: Nostalgia and Storytelling in ‘Big Fish'
11.00-11.20	Morning Tea
	Session 4 Chair: Dr Felicity Colman Defining Boundaries – Censorship and the Death of Art	Session 5 Chair: Dr Mark Nichols Cops and Robbers Law and Disorder?	Session 6 Chair: Dr Louis Hitchcock Illuminate
11.20-11.50	Tasma Minifie Cinema Management Policing the Internet: Can it be done?	Michael Farrell Art History Postcolonial Uncanny: Billycans in Arthur Boyd/ Ned Kelly in Sidney Nolan	Marcia Nugent Classics The Power of Flowers
11.50-12.20	Amy Zhou Cinema Management Chinese Censorship of Media and Films: Education, Morality and Politics	Tim Smith Art History Six Hundred Sheets of light writing on glass – Illuminating one of Australia 's unknown colonial photographers	Noel Hidalgo-Tan Archaeology And the moral of the story… (the story being China) Isobelle Fabian Archaeology The role of fertility in feminist archaeology
12.20-12.50	Gary Willis Fine Arts Art – Not Art	Alex Ling CinemaScreening Columbine: Cinema and the (Re)turn of Ethics Itself	Christine Dunn Archaeology A Dialogue Between Two Famous Figurines: The "Venus of Willendrof" of the European Upper Palaeolithic and "Barbie" of Modern north America Caroline Spry Archaeology Analysing Archaeology as Feminist Discourse
12.20-12.50	Gary Willis Fine Arts Art – Not Art	12.50-1.05 Ramon Lobato Cinema Crime, Concrete, Celluloid	12.50-1.05 Shannon Burton-Rushworth Archaeology Phallocentricity in Engendering the Past
12.50– 1.40	Lunch
	Session 7 Chair: Prof. Jaynie Anderson Shards and Fragments	Session 8 Chair: Dr Anthony White Bodies: Real and Imagined	Session 9 Chair: TBA Relationships
1.40-2.10	James Garrett Classics Tension Between Heraclitus and Aristotle	Roberta Crisci Art History Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and the feminist critique	Anna Drummond Art History Boccacio's Decameron and Marriage
2.10-2.40	Bronwyn Hughes Art History Collecting Stained Glass: the perils of politics and distance	Josephine Verduci ArchaeologyThe Wasp Waisted Minoans	Radha O'Meara Cinema A Certain Tendency of Australian Soap Opera: ‘Special' Episodes in Serial Narratives
2.40-3.10	Jennifer O'Neil Archaeology The Emergence of Complex Society on Mainland Greece : the ‘House of Tiles' and the Function of Sealing in Early Bronze in Early Bronze Age Lerna	Yee Hwan Yeoh Cinema Looking Through Vertigo	Donna Bailey Photography Unconditional
3.10-3.40	Jeff Stewart Fine Art Shangri-La		Zoë Willis Art History Bithiya or Thermutis? Medieval Representations of Pharoah's Daughter
3.40-4.00	Afternoon Tea
	Session 10 Chair: TBA Mobility	Session 11 Chair: Dr Wendy Haslem Aesthetics : The Beautiful and The Troubling	Session 12 Chair: Ass Prof. Chris Mackie Landscapes and Dreamscapes
4.00-4.30	Amelia Douglas Art History Pierre Huyghe's journey to the moon and other real and imagined places	Luisa Childs Cinema Management 'Pasolini's 'Salo': Political Allegory or Obscenity?	Jessie Birkett-Rees Archaeology Natural Selection: preservation, visibility and interpretation of the archaeological record, a Transcaucasian example
4.30-5.00	Silvio Kohs New Media The new mobility in filmmaking – accessing historical space through digital technologies	Natalya Hughes Art History Figuring the Decorative in the work of Kara Walker and Aubrey Beardsley	Sally Grant Art History “Giorgione and Arcady” Reconsidered
5.00-5.30	Diana Sanders Cinema Hip-Hip-Hop, Made the Musical Stip-Stip-Stop: The Effects of Hip-Hop on the Evolution of the Hollywood Musical	Zilia Papp Art History Monsters in Japanese Art – A Visual Evolution	Estelle Strazdins Classics Cultural Betrayal or Exemplary Hybridity? Becoming Roman in Lucian's Dream and Apology
5.30-6.20	Keynote Speaker: Dr Julian Henderson Chair: Assoc Prof Tony Sagona
6.20 on	Free Drinks and BBQ in the courtyard of the Elizabeth Murdoch Courtyard

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School of Art History, Cinema and Classics

Illuminate:The AHCCA Postgraduate Association 2005 Conference

International Keynote Speaker

Conference Program

Room

Theatre B

Theatre C

PLT