AUSTRALIAN TEMPERANCE: A MINI-CONFERENCE ON THE VIRTUES OF SELF-CONTROL AND MODERATION IN AUSTRALIAN LIFE PAST AND PRESENT



 



Our draft conference program is now available – please see below. If you would like to attend, please email Cathy Legg ([log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> ). Registration is free. 



 



This conference is funded by the ARC Discovery Grant: "Restraint: Recovering the Virtue of Self-Control or Temperance to Strengthen the Australian Social Fabric". For further information, please see our website: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/restraintproj.html 



 



 



----- ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR REGISTRATIONS -----



 



Date: Saturday December 6th, 2008



 



Location: Sydney, University of NSW, Old Main Building 144A (enter through east end of Red Centre Building)



 



Draft Program: 



 



9:00 – 9.45       “Welcome. Overview of the Project”



James Franklin (UNSW) 



                     



9:45 – 10.30      “Addiction and the Elements of Self-control”



                        Jeanette Kennett (ANU and Monash University) 



 



10:30 – 11:00     “Mistakes in restraining petrol sniffing”



Jenness Warin



 



11:00 – 11:30      MORNING  TEA 



 



11:30 – 12:20      “From the Culture of Wowserism to the culture of Healthism: 



 Law, Custom, Fashion and Etiquette in Australian Smoking, 1900-1990s”



Ian Tyrrell (UNSW)



 



12:20  – 1:10      “A Case of Life and Death: Crime & Self-Control in Gin Lane”



                        Judy Stove (Research Assistant, Restraint Project)



 



1.10 – 2:10        LUNCH  BREAK   (lunch provided) 



 



2:10  –  3.00      “Restraint, Art and Moralism”



                        Craig Taylor (Flinders University)



 



3.00  –  3:50      “Pornography, Censorship and Strategies for Self-Regulation”



                        Gerald Keaney (University of Queensland)



 



3:50 – 4:20         AFTERNOON  TEA 



 



4:20 – 5.00         “The Phenomenon of Extended Childhood Incontinence: 



  Abandonment of Toilet-training of Today’s Infants & Toddlers”



Anna Christie



 



5.00 – 5:45         “Where to From Here?”



Catherine Legg (University of Waikato)  



 



6:30                CONFERENCE DINNER   (venue TBA) 



 



 



Please see the conference website: http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~jim/restraintconf.html for paper abstracts and further information.