strange you should ask, Paul - this arrived in my inbox today

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Another interesting group of speakers and topics assembled by Graham Seal for this years Folklore Conference.

Attendance at the conference is free but please contact Graham Seal at g.seal@curtin.edu.au so we can finalise numbers.


National Australian Folklore Conference, 2011


An annual conference facilitated by the Australian Folklore Network, the National Library of Australia, the National Folk Festival and the Centre for Advanced Studies in Australia, Asia and the Pacific, Curtin University.

National Library of Australia 9-4.30pm Thursday April 21


Building on the success of the previous Australian National Folklore Conferences, the Australian Folklore Network, the National Library of Australia and the National Folk Festival will again host a one-day conference immediately before the National Folk Festival.

This year's topics and speakers are:

Gwenda Beed Davey 'Was Lord of the Flies wrong? Cooperation, competition and aggression among unsupervised children'

June Factor 'Reflections on more than a century of collecting children's folklore in Australian suburbs'

Danny Spooner 'Hamish Henderson'

Adrienne L. Kaeppler 'Chanting Grief, Dancing Memories: Objectifying Hawaiian Laments'

Jennifer Gall and Morgyn Phillips 'Chasing shadows slipping in a magic lantern slide': re-Visioning the significance of the national Film and Sound Archive collection of illustrated song slides in Australian cultural history'

Robert James Smith 'The Second Bite: An Appraisal of the Meat Pie in Australian Folk Culture'

Graham MacDonald 'The Matilda Discography'

Helen Yunupingu and Lysbeth Ford. 'Crying songs of Arnhem Land'

Steven Patrick Jangala and Yukihiro Doi. 'Milpirri: A Response to Cultural Loss'


There will also be a lunchtime concert - Aquarius Revisited - in the Library Theatre organised by Rob and Olya Willis.


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