P A N G A E A

The Second Pacific Rim Conference in Transcultural Aesthetics

September 29^th to October 1^st, 2004

at 

The University of Sydney

Honouring the Work of Professor Grazia Marchiano

The University of Siena (Arezzo)

PANGAEA  honours the distinguished work in transcultural aesthetics of Professor Grazia Marchiano, the University of Siena (Arezzo). Grazia Marchiano received her Ph.D. from the University of Rome (1971), did her postgraduate studies in Indian philosophies and religions at Visva-Bharati University, Shantiniketan, India. A scholar in comparative philosophy and aesthetics, she has introduced transcultural and oriental studies in the Italian aesthetic community with her own writings, as editor of the series Aesthetics East and West with the Rubbettino Publishing House (Soveria Mannelli) (6 volumes), and Oriental Philosophies with the Istituti Editoriali Internazionali (Pisa-Rome) (2 vols) .Former Vice-president of the International Association for Aesthetics (IAA)(1994-1998), President of the Italian Association for Aesthetics (A.I.S.E.) since 1994, and Honorary President since 2000, she is Professor of Aesthetics and of History and Civilizations of Eastern Asia at the University of Siena-Arezzo, where she has established LORO, an International Study Group for Comparative Aesthetics, affiliating scholars from European and extra-European countries. She has published a dozen books and about a hundred essays in Italian, and translated and introduced works by Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Alain Danielou, and Nisargadatta Maharaj.

Prof. Marchiano is editor of "Hindu Aesthetics", New Observations, New York no. 64, 1989; The Major Trends in 20th Century Aesthetics, Guerini, Milan 1990; "Contemporary Aesthetics in Italy", The Journal for Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Jambalpur, vol. 14,1993; Humanisms Facing Each Other, Florence : Cadmo 1996; East and West in Aesthetics, Pisa-Rome: Istituti Editoriali Internazionali, 1997 (distributed by Motilal Banarsidass, Delhi); Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics (co-edited with R.Milani),Turin: Trauben, 2001 (distributed by Casalini Libri, Florence); The Aesthetic Plurality. Legacies and Offshoots beyond the XXth Century, Turin: Trauben 2001; Aesthetics and Chaos. Investigating a Creative Complicity, Turin: Trauben, 2002. She has contributed to the Proceedings of the Pacific Rim Conference in Transcultural Aesthetics, Sydney, 1997; to the International Yearbook of Aesthetics, vol.2, Lund 1998; to the Canadian Aesthetics Journal, vol.2, Ottawa 1998; to Filozofski Vestnik, 2, 1999, Ljubljiana, to the Journal for Comparative Literature and Aesthetics, Jambalpur, Special Issue 2000; to the volume Komparative Aesthetik, R.Elberfeld und G. Wohlfahrt (Hrsg.), Chora Verlag, Köln 2000 .

As guest of the Japanese Society of Aesthetics, she lectured at the University of Tokyo (1995), and as guest of the British Society of Aesthetics, she headed a group of four Italian participants in the Oxford annual Conference (1997), presenting the paper "The Enlarging of the Aesthetic Ecumene through Oriental Studies." Her scientific and educational activities aimed at promoting the encounter between Asian and western thought have involved academic circles in the National University of Kyoto where she acted as coordinator of the Kyoto-Siena symposia (from1991 through 1997); in the University of Sydney, as co-convener of the Pacific Rim Conference in Transcultural Aesthetics (1997); in the University of Bologna , as scientific advisor of the Intercontinental Conference Frontiers of Transculturality in Contemporary Aesthetics (October 2000), and at the XVth International Congress of Aesthetics, Mahukari, Tokyo, as Chairing person of the Indian symposium (August 2001). She has been invited speaker at the Eight East-West Philosophers' Conference, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, January 2000, and was recently invited as Visiting Scholar at the Indian Institute of Advanced Study, Shimla (India). She is recipient of a honorary doctorate from the Open University, Edinburgh 2004.

Programme (Proceedings will be published on this website . Selected papers will be published in Literature and Aesthetics  in 2005.)

Wednesday, September 29, 2004

9:50am Welcome: Dr Rick Benitez (President of SSLA/Executive of AANZALA)
10:00am Professor Grazia Marchiano (University of Siena (Arezzo)): "The Aesthetic Eye. Bridging the Gaps Between Heart and Mind: A Unitive Vision"
Chair: Dr Rick Benitez

11:15am Derek Allan (Australian National University): "An Aesthetic Revolution: Andre Malraux and the Modern Transcultural Concept of Art"
Chair: Dr Elizabeth Rechniewski
11:45am Dr Babatunde Lawal (Virginia Commonwealth University, Va.,USA): "Divinity, Creativity and Humanity: Art in Yoruba Thought"
Chair: Dr Lowell Lewis

2:00pm Dr Elizabeth Coleman (Australian National University): "Can There Be an Anthropology of Aesthetics?"
Chair: Prof. Garry Trompf
2:45pm Prof. Tomoyuki Kitamura (Fukui Prefectural University): "Clean, Clear Mind and Love for Nature"
Chair: Prof. Hugh Clarke

3:45pm Dr Ross Bowden (LaTrobe University): "Did Plato Have a Tribal View of Art? An Anthropologist Reads The Republic"
Chair: Dr Rick Benitez
4:30pm A/Prof. Vrasidas Karalis (University of Sydney) "Mr Gurdjief and his discontents: new age gurus and their philosophical legacy"

Chair: Dr Catherine Runcie
5:15pm Dr 'Okusitino Mahina (University of Auckland): "The Poetics of Exile: Love and Death in Tongan Poetry"
Chair: Dr Ross Bowden

Thursday, September 30, 2004

9:30am Professor Richard Woodfield (Nottingham Trent University): "Reflections on Writing the History of Aesthetics"
Chair: Dr David Macarthur
10:15am Dr Yasuko Claremont (University of Sydney): "Japanese Prose Poetry: Postcards to Donald Evans and Takashi Hiraide"
Chair: Dr Mabel Lee

11:00am Dr Liberato Santoro-Brienza (University of Auckland): "James Joyce's Aesthetics: Between Aquinas and Aristotle"
Chair: Dr Paolo Bartoloni
11:45am Professor Kiyohiko Kitamura (Hokkaido University): "A Work of Art as Realization of a Master Plan Without Its Planner: Isamu Noguchi's Last Work: 'The Moere-Numa Park'"
Chair: Prof. Hugh Clarke

2:00pm Prof. Garry Trompf (University of Sydney): "The Art of Payback"
Chair: Dr Elizabeth Coleman
2:45pm Patrick Hutchings (University of Melbourne): "Appreciating Aboriginal Art: (Disingenuously, Liberal, or Invincibly Ignorant? Or?...)."
Chair: Dr Elizabeth Coleman

3:45pm Professor Keijiro Suga (Meiji University): "Omniphone Exilography in Contemporary Japanese Writing"
Chair: Roman Rosenbaum
4:30pm Alice Jarratt ( Victoria University of Wellington): "Moral Evaluation of Emotional Responses to Fiction"
Chair: Dr Catherine Runcie

Friday, October 1, 2004

9:15am Dr Rick Benitez (University of Sydney): "Transculturality and the Chaos of Law"
Chair: Prof. Richard Woodfield
9:45am Professor Masaru Yoneyama (Nagoya University): "Beautiful Lotuses and Beautiful Roses"
Chair: Dr Yasuko Claremont

10:45am Dr Deborah Walker (University of Auckland/Executive ANZALA): "Representing the Self, Representing the Other, the Ethics of Ethnicity in Contemporary Film"
Chair: Prof. Dame Leonie Kramer
11:30am Dr Sondra Bacharach and Dr David Eng ( Victoria University of Wellington): "Museums for the Masses"
Chair: Dr Michael Carter

1:30pm - 4:30pm Ancient Mediterranean Music and Dance
Session Chair: Professor Peter Wilson (University of Sydney)
1:30pm Archibald McKenzie (University of Sydney): "Politics of Ecstasy in East and West: elements of shamanism in ecstatic dancing in ancient times"
2:15pm Michael Turner (University of Sydney): "Dancing for Dionysus: Satyric Transformations"

3:30pm Dr Boyo Ockinga (Macquarie University): "Dancing and Banqueting in 18th Dynasty Egyptian Tomb Painting"
4:15pm Lesley Kinney (Macquarie University): "Ancient Egyptian Dances"

4:30pm CLOSE