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Stay tuned for details of the 2008 Lilith Symposium, to be held at the

Gryphon Gallery, Graduate Centre, University of Melbourne
(Enter Via Gate 10, Grattan Street)


The annual Lilith Symposium is a valuable forum for new and established scholars to present research in feminist history and related areas. Following the 2006 symposium, A Feminist History Of Violence: History as a Weapon of Liberation?, the theme for 2007 was Her-story: Feminist Histories of Representation.

The symposium programme last year was as follows:

Symposium Programme

Time

Session

Papers

9.00-9.30

Registration

 

9.30-10.15

Keynote

Margaret Henderson
Her-story: Feminist Histories of Representation

10.15-11.00

Session 1
Women in public life

Terri Grote
(Mis)representing feminism: The images created by anti-feminists

Barb Lemon
Money and Influence: Australian women philanthropists and representations of feminism

Chair: Patricia Grimshaw

11.00-11.30

Morning tea

 

11.30-12.45

Session 2
Female icons: visual representations and iconography of the ‘modern’ woman

Claire Tanner
Shooting Hats, Bicycles and Tennis Racquets…(and Pussycat Dolls): Visual Culture and That Which Maketh a (Post) ‘Modern’ Woman

Fiona Kinsey
The Ladies Column, Letters to the Editor and Photographic Portraits

Miriam Thompson
Female Warriors in Contemporary French Film

Chair: Charles Sowerwine

12.45-1.45

Lunch at Animal Orchestra, a local café. Please RSVP to mcliskyc@unimelb.edu.au if you wish to reserve a place.

 

1.45-3.00

Session 3
Twenty-first century feminist cyber engagements

Kelly Butler
‘Not in my Fucking Name’: Representing young feminisms online and in print – the reception of Jessica Valenti’s Full Frontal Feminism (2007)

Perri Campbell
Neurotica: the Cyber-Self makes Her-Story

Shannon Woodcock
Romanian feminist communities and the contested relations of sex and state: Gay Pride parades as spatial text

Chair: Mary Tomsic

3.00-3.30

Afternoon tea

 

3.30-4.30

Panel responses, general discussion & wrap up

Respondents:  Ann Genovese
                         Maree Pardy
                         Zora Simic

4.30-5.45

Launch of Lilith 2007

Launch address by Margaret Henderson
Drinks and canapés provided

 

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