Conference Program
Perversions of Prejudice - How Bias Distorts
Fourth Floor Conference Room
National Library of Australia
Thursday 3 November - Friday 4 November
Thursday 3 November
Revealing prejudices
Perry McIntyre: The Rovers and The Royals - respectable?
Wendy Michaels: Parodic perversions: Jane Austen's distortions of literary conventions in Northanger Abbey.
Tricks of the trade
Auriol Weigold: The fine art of propaganda.
Patricia Clarke: Bias for good or ill? Australian Government overseas propaganda in the 1950s.
History and context
John Greenwell: European anti-Semitism in the 20th century-a failure of the Enlightenment?
Christine Jennett (with Lance Smith): Hate crimes.
The rule of law
Bill Rowlings: Images of 11/11: are you afraid of who's watching you?
Fr Frank Brennan: Asylum seekers
6.00 Annual Lecture
Antony Loewenstein: Why WikiLeaks forces accountability on the insular journalistic and political club.
Antony Loewenstein is a freelance journalist, author, documentarian and blogger. He has written extensively in a range of national and international media, written several books and is a regular commentator on radio and TV. His 2010 ABC Radio National documentary was a finalist in the UN Media Peace Awards.
7.30 Conference dinner
At Choices Vietnamese Restaurant, Shop 5, Palmerston Lane, Manuka.
Friday 4 November
Contested territory
Janette Lindesay: The Climate Change conversation in Australia.
Ken McLeod: Trouble with the truth.
Human nature
Ron Wells: Perverse sex ratios in human births.
Gaynor Macdonald: Why white horses are not horses and Aboriginal Australians are not Australians.
Different Prisms
Sybil Jack: A modest defence of prejudice.
Hans Goodman: Science, faith and prejudice.
ISAA AGM
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