Day 1
Registration 9.30-10.00
10.00 -10:05
Ann Vickery
10:05 -11:05
Break 11:05 - 11:30
11:30 -12:30
Melinda Jewell (Western Sydney University)
Writing and Aged Care in Western Sydney
Ed Creely (Monash University)
“Embracing positive aging in a small poetry-writing community: Writing and Sense of Belonging”
Lunch 12.30-1.00
1:00 - 2:00
Evonne Miller (QUT)
'Research Poetry in Practice: Amplifying Lived Experience Through Arts-Based Research'
Cassandra Atherton (Deakin University)
‘Poetic Portraits for Older Australians’
Afternoon Tea 2.00 - 2:30
2:30 - 3.15
Peta Murray (RMIT)
‘How to Dress for Old Age’
Day 2
9.30 - 10.00
Registration
10.00 - 11:00
11.00-11.30 Morning Tea
11.30 -1:00
Gina Ward (independent scholar) and Ika Willis (University of Melbourne)
“Old Adult Fiction? Over-Sixty Protagonists in Twenty-First Century Australian Fiction”
Ann Vickery (Deakin University)
Reading Dementia and Climate Change in Speculative Fiction
Lucy Egan (University of Newcastle), “Unearthing Vulnerability in our connections and care with
elderly people and other-than-human beings.”
1.00-1.30 Lunch
1.30 - 2:30
Led by Sara James (La Trobe University) and Juliane Roemhild (La Trobe University)
2.30-3.00 Afternoon Tea
3.00- 3:30
Reading
Robyn Rowland (AO), Steep Curve
Thank yous and Symposium Close