Program

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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	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
Dinner	19.30 onwards