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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:18.0pt">The Oral, the Written, and Other Verbal Media (OWOVM)</span></h1>
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<i style=""><span style="font-size:14.0pt">12-14 December 2011 — </span></i><a href="http://www.owovm.com">www.owovm.com</a>
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<span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:18.0pt">Early Bird Discounted Registration Extended!!!!!</span></h2>
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We’re sure you’ll all be excited to know that we have extended the date for the Early Bird discounted registration fee! The date has been extended from the 17<sup>th</sup> of October to Monday the 7<sup>th</sup> of November! Register now to receive the discounted
price of AU$285!<span style=""> </span>Registrations after 7<sup>th</sup> November will be charged AU$315. You can find the registration form on the OWOVM website:
<a href="http://owovm.com/registration">http://owovm.com/registration</a>. </p>
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OWOVM is a conference about language-based arts and related media of expression.<span style="">
</span>It brings together composers and performers across creative fields including language, voice, and text, as well as scholars from a range of fields in the creative arts, humanities, and social sciences.<span style="">
</span>It expressly provides a forum for explorations of Indigeneity and autochthony, orality and literacy, and ideologies around cultural reproduction.</p>
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Please contact the organisers if you have any queries about registration for this conference:
<a href="mailto:owovm@vu.edu.au">owovm@vu.edu.au</a>.</p>
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There is also the option of joining our conference dinner on 13 December, for which we can accommodate up to 45 participants (on a first-come-first-served basis).<span style="">
</span>This is a banquet dinner at a famous Lebanese restaurant in Melbourne, Ablas, costing AU$55 per person.
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<i style=""><span lang="X-NONE" style="font-size:14.0pt; color:#943634">Confirmed keynote presenters:</span></i></h3>
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<b style=""><i style="">Gorkem Acaroglu</i></b> (Melbourne Workers Theatre)</p>
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<b style=""><i style="">Molly Andrews</i></b> (University of East London)</p>
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<b style=""><i style="">Larissa Behrendt</i></b> (University of Technology, Sydney)</p>
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<b style=""><i style="">Scott Rankin</i></b> (Ngapartji Ngapartji, Alice Springs)</p>
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<b style=""><i style="">Alex Kelly </i></b>(NgapartjiNgapartji, Alice Springs)</p>
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<b style=""><i style="">Chris Meade</i></b> (Institute for the Book, London/Brisbane)</p>
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<b style=""><i style="">John Milloy</i></b> (Trent University, Ontario)</p>
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