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| Welcome to Country
Opening Keynote |
9 -10.30 |
Thomey Cohen |
Welcome and Opening Stowaways on Noah’s Ark |
| Panel 1
Monsters and Space |
11-12.30 | Felton
Ryan
Bond |
Monsters and the Dangers of Highway Travel in Classical Antiquity
144 Million Hermaphrodites: The Fantastic Anthropology of Gabriel de Foigny Monstrous Frontiers |
| Panel 2
Monsters across Time |
13.30 – 15 | Stolte
Musharbash Onnudottir |
Heart of the Monster: Understanding the Relationship between Land, Story and Monsters
Pankarlangu Come to Yuendumu ‘Margt býr í þokunni’ – “What dwells in the mist?” |
| Panel 3
Monsters, Art & Gender |
15.30 – 17.30 | Lebedinsky
Lilley
Hawkins
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Marvellous Unicorns, Magical Materials
Drawing in the Margins: My Son’s Arsenal of Monsters – (Autistic) Imagination and the Cultural Capital of Childhood The ‘Other’ Woman: Living the Monstrous Feminine |
| Movie | 18.30 -20.30 | The Darkside | With an introduction from director Warwick Thornton. |
| Panel 4
Monsters & Belief |
9-10.30 | Saenong
Funk
Presterudstuen |
Poppo’, Parakang, and Kongkong: Bugis-Makassar Cross-generational Perceptions of Monsters
How Monsters Come into Existence: Socialization Practices, Moral Affects, and Anito Spirits among the Tao in Taiwan The Seeing, Believing, and Making of Ghosts and Demons in Fiji |
| Panel 5
Monsters, Good & Evil |
11-12.30 | Arumugan
High Tizzoni |
Gods and Monsters: Insatiate Divinities and Insufficient Sacrifices in Rural Tamil Nadu
Territorial Terror in Monsoon Asia The Strange (Judicial) Case of Mr. Maliqueo |
| Panel 6
Monsters in the Desert |
13.30 – 15 | Batty
Curran Thurman |
The Policeman and the Kurdaitcha: Enforcing Australian Law in an Aboriginal Community with the Power of Monsters
People, Birds, Monsters The Nine-night Siege |
| Panel 7
Monsters & Economics
DISCUSSANT |
15.30 – 17.30 | Mabefam
Possamai Tomlinson
Felton |
How to become a Sakawa Boy: magic and modernity in Ghana
The Branding of the Devil: A Sociology of Exorcism How to Brand Your Monster
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| Dinner | 19.30 onwards |
