OCTOBER 2002 SSLA CONFERENCE

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

The Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics  is supported by the University of Sydney Sesquicentenary Awards and the Chancellor’s Committee

Wednesday, October 2, 2002

2:00pm  Dr Rick Benitez (Syd): “The Aesthetics of Piety in Plato and Confucius”
Chair: Dr Will Christie

3:00pm Dr Michael Hill (UNSW/Syd): “Bernini’s Love for Costanza”
Chair: Patricia Rovik

3:30pm  TEA/COFFEE

3:45pm Dr 'Okusitino Mahina (Auckland): “Psychoanalysis and Tongan Poetry”
Chair: Prof Garry Trompf

4:45pm  Dr Vrasidis Karalis (Syd): “Goodness Beyond Morality: the Ethical Imagination of Iris Murdoch”
Chair: David Brooks

5:15pm Mairead Costigan (Syd): “Censoring Poetry from the Republic”
Chair: Dr Rick Benitez

6:15 pm CLOSE

Thursday, October 3, 2002

9:30am Anthony Bond (Art Gallery of New South Wales): “Imagining the Void”
Chair: Dr Michael Hill
10:30am TEA/COFFEE

10:45am Omid Tofighian (Syd): “Rethinking Plato’s Theory of Art After the Timaeus”
Chair: Mairead Costigan

11:30am Dr Rex Eakins (UNE): “Rhetorical Gesture and Illusion in the Missa Or Sus Or Sus by Johannes Martini” Part 2
Chair:Dr Rick Benitez

12:00 noon Dr Alistair Rolls (Newcastle): “Does Existence Precede Essence: Dreaming of Anny in Sartre’s Nausea”
Chair: Prof Paul Crittenden

12:45pm LUNCH

2:15pm Em Professor Paul Crittenden (Syd)  “Philosophy and Metaphor: The Philosopher’s Ambivalence”
Chair: David Brooks

3:15pm TEA/COFFEE

Deborah Walker (Auckland): “The femme fatale in French film noir”
Chair: Dr Alistair Rolls

4:45pm CLOSE

Friday, October 4, 2002

9:30am Pamela Bell (Syd): “Artists Can Paint Writers: Can Writers Portray Artists?”
Chair: Dr Catherine Runcie

10:00am Dr Jennifer McFarlane (ANU): “Visionaries, Australian Artists and the Theosophical Society”
Chair: Pamela Bell

10:30am TEA/COFFEE

10:45am Dr James Acheson (Canterbury): “Kinds of History in Graham Swift’s Waterland”
Chair: David Brooks

11:30am Dr Jean?Philippe Deranty (Macquarie): “Hegelian Perspectives on Cinema”
Chair:Dr Deborah Walker

12:30pm LUNCH

2:00pm Dr Franca Tamisari (Qld): “Dancing into Presence: Northeast Arnhem Land Performance”
Chair: Dr John Bacon

3:00pm Patricia Rovik (Syd): “A Nobler Revenge: The Nicholson Niobe Vase”
Chair:Dr Catherine Runcie

3:45pm TEA/COFFEE

4:15pm Professor Garry Trompf: “D.W. Prall and Primal Aesthetics”
Chair: Dr Rick Benitez

5:15pm CLOSE
 

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