19-20 June, 2003
Venue: The Woolley Common Room, The Woolley Bldg, Science Road

PROGRAMME

Thursday, June19, 2003

8:30 am REGISTRATION tea/coffee

9:00 am  Dr Timothy O'Leary (Hong Kong)
    "Literature and the Communication of Experience"
      Chair: Dr Rick Benitez

10:00 am  Assoc Prof Vras Karalis (Sydney)
    "Reading T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets"
      Chair: Dr Barry Spurr

11:00amTEA/COFFEE

11:15 am  Panel Discussion
    (Robert Gray, Judith Beveridge, Rick Benitez,
        Max Deutscher, Catherine Runcie)
    "The Relevance of Poetry"
     Chair: John Nijjem

12:30 pm LUNCH (available now only in student outlets)

2:00 pm  Dr Heather Neilson (ADFA)
    "In Epic Times: Gore Vidal's Creation in 2003"
      Chair: Assoc. Prof. Helen Fulton

2:45 pm  Dr Michael Carter (Sydney)
    "Roland Barthes and the Aesthetic Explanation of the Origins of Clothing"
      Chair: Dr Ron Goodrich

3:30 pm TEA/COFFEE

3:45 pm  Marshall Ma (James Ruse)
    "The Devastated Self: Heidegger and T.S. Eliot's The Waste Land"
      Chair: John Nijjem

4:15 pm  James Smith (Sydney)
    "The Humour of Terry Eagleton"
       Chair: David Brooks

4:45 pm Dr Liberato Santoro-Brienza (Auckland)
    "Laughter, Comicality, Humour"
      Chair: Dr  Heather Neilson

5:30 pm CLOSE

OPTIONAL EXTRA:   "Kafe Mache"
Dinner and Philosophy Play at STEKI taverna
(click on link for details)
 
 

 Friday, June20, 2003

9:00 am REGISTRATION tea/coffee

9:30 am  Patrick Hutchings (Melbourne)
    "The Shield of Pallas  and the Objects in it --
        the Aesthetics of Arthur Little , S. J."
      Chair: Dr Mick Carter

10:00 am Mihai Vacariu (Adelaide)
    "The Aesthetics of  Andrei Tarkovsky"
      Chair: Dr Heather Johnson

10:30 am TEA/COFFEE

11:00 am  John Nijjem (Sydney)
    "The Truth in Poetry or the  Poetry in Truth --
        Towards a Re-thinking of Aristotleís Concept of Anagnoresis"
      Chair: Vras Karalis

11:45 am   Dr Elizabeth Rechniewski (Sydney)
    "The Significance of Aesthetic Prejudice
        in French Enlightenment Commentaries on 'Savage Peoples'"
      Chair: Prof Garry Trompf

12:30 pm LUNCH (available now only in student outlets)

2:00 pm Dr Ann Galbally (Melbourne)
    "Charles Conder and the Aesthetics of the 1890's"
      Chair: Catherine Runcie

2:40 pm  Dr Ron Goodrich (Deakin)
    "Perspectives on Nietzsche on Music"
      Chair: Timothy O'Leary

3:30 pm TEA/COFFEE

3:45 pm  Derek Allan (ANU)
    "Andre Malraux and the Function of Art"
     Chair: Dr Elizabeth Rechniewski

4:30 pm CLOSE

OPTIONAL EXTRA:
Informal drinks/dinner in nearby Glebe

I enclose a cheque for
$35 Conference Registration fee only [   ];
$30 SSLA Members Conference fee [   ];
$12 Pensioners and Students Conference fee [   ];
$20 for single issue of April journal, Literature and Aesthetics  [    ];
$55 for 2003 SSLA Membership plus two issues of journal (April and October) of Literature and Aesthetics [    ].
 
 

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