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Sisonke Msimang is the author of two books and the columnist behind Ms Understanding, which tackles race and racism in the Guardian on a bi-weekly basis. Sisonke has also published widely, including in the New York Times, Washington Post, Al Jazeera, and a range of other publications, focusing on questions of belonging, home, motherhood, and politics. She has been a fellow at Yale University, the Bellagio Centre, the Aspen Institute and is a long-term associate at WISER in Johannesburg. Sisonke has also worked as a long-term collaborator with the Centre for Stories where she heads up storytelling and curated the Perth Writer’s Festival from 2020 - 2023. Sisonke has told stories on the MOTH main stage and her TED Talk If a story moves you act on it has been watched over a million times. |
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Presented by: Associate Professor Jo O’Mara, Deakin University; Associate Professor Amanda McGraw, Federation University; Dr Fleur Diamond, Monash University; Associate Professor Graham Parr, Monash University; Associate Professor Scott Bulfin, Monash University; Dr David Hicks, University of Tasmania Sustaining the English teaching profession in Victoria: Stories of resilience, tensions, despair and commitment This keynote reports on an ongoing mixed methods study supported by the Victorian Association for the Teaching of English (VATE). The study, conducted by researchers across four institutions, investigates how English teachers are experiencing their work and what enables them to sustain themselves in challenging professional circumstances. Through a combination of a survey, semi-structured interviews, and participatory writing workshops, the study is generating multi-faceted data about the experiences and perceptions of English teachers with respect to workload, professional practice, subject expertise, professional identity, the intensification of accountability measures, and assessment practices. This workshop will draw upon poetic representations of teacher voice to highlight stories of resilience, tension, despair and commitment. |
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Dr Eve Mayes is an educator and researcher who lives on unceded Wadawurrung Country. She is a Senior Research Fellow at Research for Educational Impact (REDI) within the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University, Australia. She has ten years of experience as an English and English as an Additional Language Teacher and Head Teacher (Teaching and Learning) in government secondary schools in New South Wales.
Eve’s research centres around questions of voice, agency and justice in and beyond formal schooling. Her book The Politics of Voice in Education (2023, Edinburgh University Press) critiques the liberal humanist and late capitalist logics of student voice in educational reform, whilst affirming other possibilities for transformative pedagogical relations in and beyond schooling. She is currently leading the project: Striking Voices: Australian school-aged climate justice activism (Australian Research Council, Discovery Early Career Research Fellowship, 2022-2025): a participatory project centring young people’s experiences of climate change, activism and schooling, and exploring what a negotiated forms of climate justice education might look like. Eve has been a co-convenor of the activist-scholar Earth Unbound collective since 2021; she is co-editor of a collection of the collective’s work (forthcoming 2024, Bristol University Press). |
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Kgshak Akec is a South-Sudanese writer, performing artist, storyteller, and a lover of words. Since the moment she learned how to write in English at the age of six, Kgshak has been writing out the stories that live inside her mind. As a migrant and non-native English speaker, Kgshak is fascinated by the unspoken words and unsung songs of the day-to-day, she finds herself drawn to stories that challenge perception and go against the grain of the expected while also being grounded in truth. Her debut novel Hopeless Kingdom, inspired by her own journey of migrating to Australia, explores the relationship of a mother and daughter as they settle, break, evolve, and adapt in new lands through multiple heartaches and triumphs. |
Jeanine Leane in conversation with Neika Lehman |
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Jeanine Leane is a Wiradjuri writer, poet and academic from southwest New South Wales. Her poetry, short stories, critique, and essays have been published in Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women’s Liberation Australian Poetry Journal, Antipodes, Overland and the Sydney Review of Books. Jeanine has published widely in the area of Aboriginal literature, writing otherness, literary critique and creative non-fiction. She teaches Creative Writing and Aboriginal Literature at the University of Melbourne.
Neika Lehman is a writer and RMIT Vice Chancellor’s Indigenous Pre-Doctoral Research Fellow in Creative Writing, School of Media and Communication. Their poetry, essays and criticism appear in un Mag, Art + Australia, The Saturday Paper, Cordite, Overland, Australian Poetry Journal, Best Australian Poems among others. Neika descends from the Trawlwoolway Peoples of Tebrakunna Country, lutruwita (Tasmania) and currently resides in
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Conference Day 1Thursday 23 November 9.00am - 10.15am: 2.45pm - 3.45pm: |
Conference Day 2Friday 24 November 9.00am - 10.00am: 2.40pm - 3.40pm: |