SSLA CONFERENCE: JUNE 17/18, 2004

VENUE: The Woolley Common Room, The Woolley Bldg, Science Road

The Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics is grateful for the support of a University of Sydney Sesquicentenary Award and a grant from the Chancellor's Committee of the University of Sydney.

CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND FEES

Conference Registration Forms are avaliable at the start of each day of conference

All Participants and Attenders are required to register

Guests for single papers are requested to make a donation to the SSLA

Registration Fee Schedule:
$30 SSLA Members Conference fee
$12 Pensioners and Students Conference fee
$55 for 2004 SSLA Membership plus two issues of journal of Literature and Aesthetics

Thursday, June 17, 2004 9am: REGISTRATION tea/coffee 9:30am: Dr Paolo Bartoloni (Sydney U): "Memory in Language: Benjamin and Ungaretti" Chair: Dr Rick Benitez 10:15am: tea/coffee 10:40am: Janelle K. Ravine (Sydney U): "Beethoven: the Absolute". Chair: Dr Catherine Runcie 11:30am: Sean Gurd (Sydney U): "The Beauty of the Undeciphered" Chair:Dr Paolo Bartoloni 12:30 pm: LUNCH (please note : only student luncheon outlets are available: the Women's Sports Union; the Holme Bldg and the Courtyard; and Manning). 2:00 pm:Dr Jean-Philippe Deranty(Macquarie U): "Jacques Ranciere: Aesthetics and Democracy" Chair: Dr Paul Redding 3:00pm:Dr Catharine Abell (Macquarie U): "The Picture/Text Analogy in Philosophy and Art History" Chair: Dr Rick Benitez 3:40pm:tea/coffee 4:00pm: Tara Forrest (UNSW): "On the Future of the Past in the Film and Literary Work of Alexander Kluge". Chair: Dr Michael Nelson 4:50pm: Chris Danta (Monash U): "The Absolutely Dark Moment of the Plot": Blanchot'sAbraham. Chair:Dr Luke Ferreter. CLOSE 5:30pm (Optional post conference dinner available in nearby Glebe on Friday)

Friday, June 18, 2004 9am: LATE REGISTRATION tea/coffee 9:30am: Phil Quadrio (Sydney U): "Idealism, Aesthetics and Mythology: Romantic Idealism and the Need for an Aesthetic Rationalism in Politics" Chair: Dr Will Christie 10:30am: tea/coffee 11:00am: Dr Jim Tulip (Sydney U): "Shakespeare, Bacon, and Jonson: theatre versus essay" Chair Dr Liam Semler 11:50am: Hamish McDougall (Sydney U): "A Short Word on the Absurd – Beckett, Ionesco and their Grappling with Irrationality in a Wayward World" Chair Dr Jim Tulip 12:30pm: LUNCH (ditto) 2:00pm:Dr Pamela Bell (Sydney U and, the Chancellor's Committee) to launch current Literature and Aesthetics. Response: Rick Benitez and Will Christie 2:20pm: Dr Alistair Rolls (Newcastle U): "Seduction, Pleasure and a Laying on of Hands: A Hands On Reading of Sartre's Nausea" Chair: Dr Elizabeth Rechniewski: 3:00 pm: Dr Morgan Thomas (Qld U): "Transatlantic Transfers: The French Connection and the Painting of the New York School" Chair: Dr Mick Carter 3:50pm: tea/coffee 4:15pm: John Nijjem (Sydney U): "Eros, Delight and the Image of Life in Plato and Heidegger" Chair: Dr Rick Benitez CLOSE:5:30pm Optional dinner in Glebe