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Conferences
THE SYDNEY SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
AND THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN GREEK
(UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY)
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
ON
THE PROJECT OF AUTONOMY AND THE LEGACY OF CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, DECEMBER 4-5, 2009
REFECTORY ROOM, MAIN QUAD
CALL FOR PAPERS
Autonomy represents one of the most paradoxical projects after Enlightenment.
Cornelius Castoriadis is one of the most challenging thinkers who struggled
with
the antinomic nature of the need to become autonomous within social
structures that impose and institute heteronomous subjects. The workshop
wants to discuss the ambiguities of the autonomy project through its problematisation
in Castoriadis' work. It invites papers on autonomy, heteronomy, politics,
psychology and citizenship within the context of contemporary philosophical
discussions and political
discourse.
DEADLINE JUNE 30st, 2009
PAPER PROPOSAL UP TO 300 words can be forwarded to
Vrasidas Karalis: Vrasidas.Karalis@usyd.edu.au
Suzi Adams: Suzi.Adams@arts.monash.edu.au
Craig Brown: craig.browne@usyd.edu.au
CONFERENCE ON CREATIVE FANTASY IN RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION
The Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics
and
The Society for Studies in Religion, Literature and the Arts
Friday-Saturday, September 26-27, 2008.
Draft Timetable.
Excepting Keynotes (45min), paper length is 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.
Woolley Building Common Room
FRIDAY
9.00AM – 9.30AM – Registration
9.30AM – 10.15AM
Key-Note Address: Associate Professor Norman Simms
University of Waikato
10.15 – 10.45
Raymond A Younis,
Head of Academic Programs,
CQU (Sydney)
Space, Time, Being and Estrangement
10.45AM-11.15AM
Morning Tea
11.15AM-11.45AM
Edwin A. Scribner
Eschatology and Unfinished Business
11.45AM-12.15PM
Roslyn Weaver
God and His Angels: Religion and Fantasy from Lewis and Tolkien to Pullman
and Harland
12.15PM-12.45PM
Sarah Penicka
University of Sydney
Fantasia on a Nexus: Robert Graves, Igor Stravinksy, and Thomas Pynchon’s
V
12.45PM-1.15PM
Andrew Wearring
University of Sydney
Xenophobia as the source of horror in the use of minor religious cults in H.
P. Lovecraft’s Weird Fiction
1.15PM – 2.00PM
Lunch
2.00PM-2.25PM
Zoe Alderton
University of Sydney
Nick Cave: from an Anglican God to the Creative Christ
2.25PM-2.50PM
Roland Boer
Monash University
Nick Cave's Trinity: Love, Pain and Women
2.50PM-3.15PM
Siv Jansson
Victoria University Wellington and Massey University
Charles de Lint, Environment and Fantasy
3.15PM-3.40PM
Jennifer Bennett
University of Sydney
Belief as a creative force in the Discworld
Afternoon Tea
3.40PM-4.00PM
4.00PM-4.25PM
Lauren Bernauer
University of Sydney
'Elune be praised!' World of Warcraft, its people, religions and their real
world inspiration.
4.25PM-4.50PM
Venetia Robertson
University of Sydney
Deus ex Machina? Witchcraft and the Techno-World
4.50PM-5.15PM
Alex Norman
University of Sydney
The Disappointing Real: Negotiating Fantasy and Reality on the Road to Santiago
6.30-7.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
SATURDAY
9.00AM-9.45AM
Vrasidas Karalis
University of Sydney
Is technology the spiritual consummation of human evolution?
Notes on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey (1968)
9.45AM-10.10AM
Markus Ekkehard Locker
Monash University
Ateneo de Manila University
Talking Science, Speaking of Faith: Religious Imagination through Scientific
Paradoxes
10.10AM-10.35AM
Carole M. Cusack
University of Sydney
'Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land and the Church of All Worlds'10.35AM-11.00AM
Christopher Hartney
University of Sydney
With Spain in our Hearts: Centres, Imperial and Otherwise, in two films of
Guillermo Del Toro.
11.00AM-11.25AM
Morning Tea
11.25AM-11.50AM
Shyamalika Heffernan
University of Sydney
Fantasy as Faith
11.50AM-12.15PM
Dominique Beth Wilson
University of Sydney
Counterfactual Christianity: Myth and Re-Imagined Religion in Jacqueline Carey’s
Kushiel’s Legacy.12.15AM-12.40PM
Annabel Carr
University of Sydney
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From Lewis Carroll to CS Lewis: Playing Padre Incognito
12.40PM-1.20PM
Lunch
1.20PM-1.55PM
Jessica Garrahy
University of Queenland
Pullman and the Golden Compass
1.55PM-2.20PM
Darshana Jayemanne
University of Melbourne
The Virtual and the Fantastic: Play and Ritual Online
2.20PM-2.55PM
Heather Johnson
The University of Sydney
The decorative religious.
2.55PM-3.20PM
Julie Kelso
University of Queensland
Origination and the Holy Mark of the Motherless Body: Pilate’s absent
navel in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
3.20PM-3.40PM
Afternoon Tea
3.40PM-4.05PM
Simon Theobald
University of Sydney
Youtube, Hate and Faith
4.05PM-4.30PM
Andrew Wearring
University of Sydney
Changing, Out-of-work, Dead and Reborn Gods in the fiction of Neil Gaiman
CALL FOR PAPERS
SYDNEY SOCIETY OF LITERATURE
AND AESTHETICS
PATRICK WHITE: THE AFTER-LIFE OF AN AUSTRALIAN ICON The Conference is dedicated
to the closer study and re-examination of Patrick White’s work a quarter
of century after his death. It will attempt to address the literary, philosophical,
moral and political implications of his work and discuss the values perpetuated
by his legacy. Is his work still of any consequence for contemporary readers,
artists and writers? What are the issues raised in his novels which have
significance for
contemporary audiences in the artistic realm or the public sphere? Has his
after-life as an Australian icon diminished since the rise of new cultural
establishment in the 90s? Is his work still controversial or has it been
relegated to the common places of the public domain? Is Patrick White provocative,
as
he wanted, to be or simply a reminder of an Australia lost forever in the
global supermarket of literary curiosities?
Deadline for submission of abstracts: June 29th, 2007
Convenors:
Dr Catherine Runcie
Email: caruncie@bigpond.com
Vrasidas Karalis:
Email: vras@arts.usyd.edu.au
Heather Johnson
Email: heatherjohnson@bigpond.com
Postal Address:
Department of Modern Greek A18
University of Sydney NSW 2006
Phone (02) 9351 7252 Fax: (02) 9351 3543
CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE LEGACY OF T.S. ELIOT
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
19-20th July, 2007
Under the Auspices of
The Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics,
The
School of Letters, Art & Media,
The Department of English,
The School
of Languages and Cultures,
And the Department of Modern Greek,
In the
University of Sydney
The influence of T.S. Eliot?s thought and art, during his life and the decades
since his death, has been wide-ranging and enduring. Now that his correspondence
and his collected prose are being edited, published scholarship on his work
and its influence in poetry, criticism, theatre and cultural and religious
theory
is poised to enter a new phase, in which Eliot?s legacy will be reviewed
and re-assessed.
Participants are invited to interpret the conference theme widely. What is
Eliot?s legacy in critical areas of artistic and intellectual production?
How is Eliot?s
work perceived today? Does his poetry continue to speak to the modern condition
and to contemporary readers and poets? Are his critical methods and perspectives
still valid? Is his cultural and religious thinking relevant to twenty-first
century social and theological concerns?
Papers should be 20 minutes long, with time for questions and discussion.
Abstracts (of between 100 and 200 words) should be submitted by 27 April,
2007, to the
convenors: Barry Spurr (barry.spurr@arts.usyd.edu.au) and Vrasidas Karalis
(vras@arts.usyd.edu.au) from whom further information is also available.
SSLA Conference, 20-21 July 2006
THE SYDNEY SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
SYMPOSIUM ON HANNAH ARENDT
at the
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
When Hannah Arendt stated that “forgiveness is the key to action and
freedom” and that “Love, by its very nature, is unwordly, and it
is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but
anti-political, perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces”,
she stressed the moral choices presupposed by all human emotions. And yet she
herself also said that her philosophy is concerned with “man in the singular” and
with “the real humans that inhabit the world”.
Her complex and to some degree contradictory political and moral philosophy
inspired heated debates about the subject, identity and ethics. What is
her legacy today? How do we see her political critique of modern totalitarianism
and the human condition? Was she only a controversial thinker of her times
or rather a conceptual pioneer of the future global subject?
These are some of the issues to be raised during the two-day symposium
to be organised at the University of Sydney on July 20-21, 2006
CONVENORS
Vrasidas Karalis, Paolo Bartoloni, and Robert Sinnerbrink.
Conference Program (as of 3 July 2006)
SSLA Conference, 12-14 December, 2005
Martin Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living
Conference Program
Conference Info pdf
Second Pacific Rim Conference in Transcultural Aesthetics, 29 September-1
October, 2004
An International
Conference Honouring the work of Grazia Marchiano.
Conference Info and Programme
SSLA Conference, 17-18 June, 2004
Programme
SSLA Conference, 1-2 October, 2003
Programme
SSLA Conference, 19-20 June, 2003
Programme
SSLA Conference, 2-4 October, 2002
Programme
SSLA Conference, 17-18 June, 2002
Programme
SSLA Conference, 27-28 September, 2001
Programme
SSLA Conference: Richard Wollheim - Understanding Life and Art 17-18
June, 2001
Programme,
Abstracts and Information
SSLA Conference: Film, Performance, Kinetic Art: June 8-9,
2000
Programme and Proceedings
SSLA Conference, 30 Sept.-1 Oct.ober, 1999
Programme
SSLA Conference, 17-18 June, 1999
Programme
SSLA Conference, 1-2 October, 1998
Programme
SSLA Conference, 18-19 June, 1998
Programme
SSLA Conference, 2-3 October 1997
Programme
The Pacific Rim Conference in Transcultural Aesthetics: June 18-20,
1997.
Co-convened by the Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics,
the British Society of Aesthetics, the Italian Aesthetics Association,
and the New Zealand Aesthetics Association, the Pacific Rim Conference
in Transcultural Aesthetics was held on June 18, 19 and 20, 1997, at the
University of Sydney. The conference was supported by the University of
Sydney Faculty of Arts.
Proceedings (pdf file )
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