Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living Conference

Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics

December 12-14, University of Sydney, Main Quad

 

 

Monday, December 12

9.00-10.00 Conference Registration and Welcoming Addresses

10.00-11.00am

 

Keynote Address:

Chair: Paolo Bartoloni

Prof. ANDREW BENJAMIN

(University of Technology, Sydney)

TBA

11.00-11.30am Morning Tea

 

11.30am-1pm

Session 1:

L. SANTORO-BRIENZA: "Techne, Physis, Mimesis: Heidegger's Aristotelian Poetics"

T. STEPHENS: "Cutting Poets to SizeŃHeidegger, Hšlderlin, Rilke"

V. KARALIS: "Heidegger and the Aletheia of the Greeks"

1-2pm LUNCH

 

2-3.30pm

Session 2:

J. MUMMERY "The Interpretation of Da-sein as a Transformative, Poetic, and Ethical Being-with"

P. MURPHY:  "Aesthetic Life and Nature: A Critique of Heidegger's 'The Origin of the Work of Art'"

J. PHILLIPS: "The Place of Action and the Place of Capital"

3.30-4pm Afternoon Tea

4-5.30pm

 

Session 3:

B. BOLT: "Heidegger, Handleability and Praxical Knowledge"

D. GRIFFITHS: "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and the Question Concerning Authenticity"

D. JOHNSTON: "Brecht and Heideggerian Temporality

 

5.30-7pm

 

Drinks/Reception

Nicholson Museum

Main Quad

 

Tuesday, December 13

9.00-9.30 Conference Registration

Tuesday, Dec. 13

9.30-10.30am

 

Keynote Address:

Chair: T. Stephens

Prof. GIANNI VATTIMO

Heidegger and the Philosophy of Emancipation

(University of Turin)

TBA

10.30-11am Morning Tea

11-12.30pm

 

Session 4:

E. GRIERSON: "When We Talk of Art: A Search for Meaning

P. BARTOLONI: "Renunciation: Heidegger, Agamben, Blanchot"

A. T. NUYEN: "The Art of Living in the Age of Biological Control: Heidegger versus Foucault

 

12.30-1.30pm LUNCH

1.30-3.00

Session 5:

P. WILLIAMS: "Moods that Matter: Heidegger and Affect"

G. VASSICOPOULOS: "Dasein and Property Ownership: Towards an Appreciation of the Historical Significance of Heidegger's Thought"

R. SINNERBRINK: "A Heideggerian Cinema? On Terrence Malick's The Thin Red Line"

 

3.00-3.30 Afternoon Tea

3.30-5pm

 

Session 6:

M. HEWSON: "Aesthetics and Ontology in The Space of Literature"

J. FINNEY: "The Receptivity of Landscape and the Australian Architectural Object"

 

5.15-6.45pm

 

Film Screening:

The Ister (Part I) directed by David Barison and Daniel Ross

 (based on Heidegger's Wartime Hšlderlin lectures)

 

Wednesday, December 14

9.00-9.30 Conference Registration

9.30-10.45am

Keynote Address:

Chair: V Karalis

Prof. JEFF MALPAS

(University of Tasmania)

TBA

10.45-11.15am  Morning Tea

11.15-12.45pm

 

Session 7:

J. PACKER: "Gemeinschaft and Unheimlichkeit: Political Dimensions of Heideggerian 'Abode'"

A. WRIGHT: "The Barrier of Incoherence: The Poetics of Singularity and Dante's Inferno"

J. DALTON: "The Work and the Promise of Technology""

12.45-1.45pm LUNCH

1.45-3.15pm

 

Session 8:

J. WU:  "The Aesthetics of Decay: Heidegger and Daimonion"

A. WOODWARD: "The An-Denken of Existentialism: Weak Thought and the Aesthetics of Living"

R. TULLIP: "The Place of Ethics in Heidegger's Ontology"

3.15-3.45pm Afternoon Tea

3.45-5.15pm

 

Session 9:

C. HEARFIELD: "Categorial Vision

R. TILLEY: "Beauty, Being, and Dissimulation: Theology contra Heidegger"

R. YOUNIS: "The End of Philosophy and the [Endless] Task of Thinking"

 

5.30-7pm

Film Screening:

The Ister (Part II) directed by David Barison and Daniel Ross

 (based on Heidegger's Wartime Holderlin lectures)