May 4, 2007
William Angliss Conference Centre Melbourne
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 Margaret Somerville is Professor of Education (Learning and Development) at Monash University Gippsland. After raising four children, she began her academic career with teaching Aboriginal adults returning to education in northern NSW. Margaret has always been interested in questioning academic knowledge and writing. Two of her four books, Ingelba and the Five Black Matriarchs, and The Sun Dancin’, were published with Aboriginal co-authors. Body/landscape journals and Wildflowering: the life and places of Kathleen McArthur continue her exploration of experimental writing and alternative knowledges. More recently this experimentation has led her into digital technologies using visual and aural forms. Place literacy is a major research focus. She believes that new technologies radically challenge our understanding of basic print literacy in ways that value the alternative and tacit knowledges that underpin our human desire to communicate with each other. |
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Arnold Zable is an award winning writer, storyteller, educator, and human rights advocate. Formerly a lecturer in the Arts Faculty in Melbourne University, Zable has worked in the USA, Papua New Guinea, China, and many parts of Europe and Southeast Asia. His books include Jewels and Ashes, Wanderers and Dreamers, and the best selling novel, Café Scheherazade depicting the lives of former refugees who now meet in a coffee shop in a seaside suburb in Melbourne. His most recent novel, Scraps of Heaven, is set in the post-war immigrant community of the Carlton.
