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THE INTELLECTUAL LANDSCAPE IN
THE WORKS OF J.M. COETZEE
A symposium on the works of J.M. Coetzee
Symposium Program
Wednesday 1 April
8.15
Venue: Customs House
Registration / Arrival Tea and Coffee
8.50 - 9.15 Welcome to Country / Welcome: Professor Tim Mehigan
Welcome: Professor Peter Høj, Vice-Chancellor and President, The University of Queensland
Symposium Introduction: Professor Christian Moser
9.10 - 10.10
Professor David Attwell: “J.M. Coetzee’s South African Intellectual Landscapes”
10.10 - 11.10
Professor Derek Attridge: “Coetzee’s Kafkan modernism? Character and Counterfocalization”
11.10 - 11.35
Morning Tea
11.35 - 12.35
Associate Professor Patrick Hayes: “Autobiography and Romantic Irony: Coetzee and Barthes”
12.35 - 13.35
Professor Alexander Honold: “Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus: Migrations into the Realm of Fiction”
13.35 - 14.30
Lunch
14.30 - 15.30
Professor Markus Winkler: “The Semantics of Barbarism in ‘Waiting for the Barbarians’”
15.30 - 15.55
Afternoon Tea
15.55 - 16.55
Dr Maria Boletsi: “In Praise of Contiguity: Faith, irony, salt, and possible impossibilities in J. M. Coetzee’s The Childhood of Jesus”
16.55
Professor J.M. Coetzee: Book Reading
Symposium Program
Thursday 2 April
8.30
Venue: Customs House
Registration / Arrival Tea and Coffee
8.45 - 9.45
Professor Robert Pippin: “Philosophical Fiction? The Case of Elizabeth Costello”
9.45 - 10.45
Professor Robert Stockhammer: “Coetzee’s Ethics of Languages”
10.45 - 11.05
Morning Tea
11.05 - 12.05
Professor Tim Mehigan: “Coetzee and Scepticism”
12.05 - 13.05
Professor Carrol Clarkson: “Force Fields”
13.05 - 13.40
Lunch
13.40 - 14.40
Professor Christian Moser: “J.M. Coetzee and the Poetics of Play”
14.40 - 15.40
Associate Professor Martin Woessner: “In the Heart of the Empire: Coetzee and America”
15.40 - 16.00
Afternoon Tea
16.00 - 17.00
Professor Simon During: “Coetzee as Academic Novelist”
17.00 - 18.00
Professor Anton Leist: “Cosmopolitanism, the Range of Sympathy and Coetzee”