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, Hlderlin, 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 Hlderlin 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)