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OCTOBER 2003 SSLA CONFERENCE
OCTOBER 1-3,  2003  SSLA CONFERENCE
Venue: The Woolley Common Room, The Woolley Bldg, Science Road
Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics (SSLA)
is supported by
The Chancellor's Committee
and is affiliated with
Australian and New Zealand Association for Literature and Aesthetics (ANZALA)


Wednesday, Oct 1, 2003
11:30 am  Registration

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

2:00 pm  Conference Opening and   Announcements
                 Dr Rick Benitez SSLA/ANZALA President

2:10 pm  Prof. R. Raj Singh (Brock, Canada):
    "Art and Worldhood: Heidegger and Schopenhauer"
    Chair: Dr Rick   Benitez

3:00 pm  Lesley Kinney (Macquarie):
    "Sequential Time in Ancient Egyptian Wall Art"
    Chair: Patricia   Rovik

3:45 pm  TEA/COFFEE

4:00 pm  Dr Catherine De Lorenzo (UNSW)and Dr Deborah Van der Plaat (UNSW):
    "Von Humboldt, Lindt and deCastella"
    Chair: Dr   Michael Hill

5:00 pm CLOSE
 

Thursday, Oct 2, 2003

9:00 am  Registration

9:30 am  Dr Elizabeth Coleman (ANU):
    "Approaching Aboriginal Art Aesthetically"
    Chair: Dr Morgan Thomas

10:30 am  TEA/COFFEE

11:00 am  Michael Turner (Australian Archaeological Institute at Athens,   Sydney):
    "The Woman in White Dionysos and the Dance of Death"
    Chair: Dr Mick   Carter

11:45 am  Dr James Acheson (Canterbury):
     "The French Lieutenant's Woman as Tragedy"
    Chair: Dr Rob   Jackson

12:30 pm LUNCH

2:00 pm  Dr Okusitino Mahina (Auckland):
    "The Tongan Performance Art of   Laughter: Faiva Fakakata or faiva fakaoli"
    Chair: Dr Jim   Acheson

3:00 pm  Dr Yasuko Claremont (Sydney):
    'Transcultural Ethics in the Work of Kenzaburo Oe"
    Chair: Prof Hugh Clarke

3:30 pm TEA/COFFEE

3:45 pm  Alison O'Harae (Sydney):
    "Biblical Aesthetics and The Pilgrim's Progress"
    Chair: Dr John Bacon

4:30 pm CLOSE
 
 

Friday, Oct 3, 2003

 9:30 am  Dr Heather Johnson
    "The Problem of the 'Aesthetics of Nursing'"
    Chair:Dr Will   Christie

10:15 am  Dr Jennifer Nevile (UNSW)
    "Early Seventeenth-Century Dance Figures: 'Moving Script' in English and French Court Festivals"
    Chair: Dr   Heather Johnson

11:00 am TEA/COFFEE

11:15 am  Derek Allan (ANU):
    "Malraux, Art and Time"
    Chair: Dr Jim Acheson

12:00 pm  Julie-Ann Robson (Sydney):
    "Origins, Stories, Myths: the 'Tradition' of Oscar Wilde"
    Chair: Derek Allan

12:30 pm LUNCH

2:00 pm  Omid Tofighian (Sydney):
    "Reality and Symbolism in Sufi Theology"
    Chair: Dr John Bacon

2:45 pm Michelle Kelly (Sydney)
    "A Fine Calibration: Francoise Sagan's Bonjour Tristesse"
    Chair:Julie-Ann   Robson

3:30 pm TEA/COFFEE

4:00 pm  Stuart Grant (Sydney):
    "Neither Subjective nor Objective"
    Chair: Dr Jennifer Nevile

4:45 pm  Hamish McDougall (Sydney):
    "Stasis ? Beyond a Structured Becoming"
    Chair: Dr Rick   Benitez

5:30pm CLOSE



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$35 Conference Registration fee only [   ];
$30 SSLA Members Conference fee [   ];
$12 Pensioners and Students Conference fee [   ];
$20 for single issue of Volume 13, Literature and Aesthetics  [    ];
$55 for 2003 SSLA Membership plus two issues of journal (April and October) of Literature and Aesthetics [    ].
 
 

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Enquiries: Dr Rick Benitez 9351 6658 or rick.benitez@philosophy.usyd.edu.au or Dr Catherine Runcie 9313 8563
 
 
 
 
 

 
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