WEDNESDAY, JUNE 7

9:00-10:00 AM
REGISTRATION/MORNING TEA

SESSION 1: FILM

10:00
Gordon Slethaug
Department of English
University of Hong Kong
"The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven, Smoke Signals, and Native-American Cinema"
Chair: Rick Benitez (Philosophy, Sydney)

11:00
Arturo Oujo Castelo/Maria Teresa Machado
Department of Architecture
Universidad Politecnica de Cataluña, Barcelona
"Ideas e Imagenes de los no-lugares  Una mirada a lo inmaterial y lo material de la Arquitectura en el Cine"
Chair: Michael Hill (Architecture, Sydney)

12:00
Deborah Walker
Department of French Studies
University of Auckland
"The Play's the Thing : The Role of Theatre in the Films of Alain Resnais"
Chair:  Paul Patton (Philosophy, Sydney)

1:00-2:00
LUNCH
UNIVERSITY STAFF CLUB

SESSION 2:  PHILOSOPHY AND PERFORMANCE

2:15
John Nigem
University of Sydney
"Performing Anagnoresis"
Chair: Professor Kevin Lee (Classics, Sydney)

3:15
Edward Spence
School of Communications
Charles Sturt University
"Philosophy Plays"
Chair: Jean Barrett (Sydney Art Theatre)
 

4:15
Bogdan Koca
Artistic Director
Sydney Art Theatre
"Theatre is the bridge between a high philosophical way of thinking and everyday life"
Chair: Rick Benitez (Philosophy, Sydney)
 

5:15
RECEPTION
University Staff Club BAR

THURSDAY, JUNE 8

9:00-10:00
MORNING TEA

SESSION 3: PERFORMANCE THEORY

10:00
Gay McAuley
Centre for Performance Studies
University of Sydney
"Theatre, film, performance: the role of the spectator"
Chair: Ian Maxwell (Performance Studies, Sydney)

11:00
Jennifer McMahon
Department of Education
University of Canberra
"A Philosophy of Performance for the Contemporary Visual Arts"
Chair:  David Braddon-Mitchell (Philosophy, Sydney)

12:00
Timothy O'Leary
Philosophy Program
Wollongong University
"Language, Culture and the Possibility of Post-Colonialism:  Brian Friel's Translations."
Chair:  Moira Gatens (Philosophy, Sydney)

1:00-2:00
LUNCH
UNIVERSITY STAFF CLUB

SESSION 4: HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE--THEATRE

2:15
Harold Tarrant
Department of Classics
University of Newcastle
"Can a blind man fall in love? Problems with Greek and Roman comedy's notion of sexual attraction"
Chair: Frances Muecke (Classics, Sydney)

3:15
Vrasidas Karalis
Department of Modern Greek
University of Sydney
"Against the Theatre:  Byzantine Attitudes to Performance"
Chair: Carole Cusack (Studies in Religion, Sydney)

4:15
Tim Fitzpatrick
Centre for Performance Studies
University of Sydney
"The Art of Elizabethan Theatre Historiography"
Chair:  Adrian Heathcote (Philosophy, Sydney)

5.15
DRINKS
UNIVERSITY STAFF CLUB BAR

CONFERENCE DINNER
STEKI TAVERNA, NEWTOWN
7.30

9:00-10:00
MORNING TEA

SESSION 5:  HISTORY OF PERFORMANCE--MUSIC

10:00
Rex Eakins
Department of Music
University of New England
"Variation in the Written Transmission of Polyphony from the 15th Century:  Performance Implications - The Case of a Mass by Cornelius Heyns."
Chair: Professor Roger Woodward AC (Music, UNE)

11:00
Olga Katchan
Department of Psychology
University of Sydney
"Gustav Mahler and Sigmund Freud on the royal road to the unconscious"
Chair: Goetz Richter (SSO/SCM/Philosophy, Sydney)

12:00
Richard Toop
Sydney Conservatorium
"Writing Music's Boundaries?"
Chair: Catherine Runcie

1:00-2:00
LUNCH
UNIVERSITY STAFF CLUB

SESSION 6 KINETIC ART

2:15
Patricia Rovik
University of Sydney
"Directionality in Indigenous Australian Myth, Art and Dance"
Chair:  Graham Pont
 

3:15
Rebecca Peabody
Department of Art History
UC Santa Barbara/UNSW
"A Kinesthetic Aesthetic: Sense, Art and Liminal Experience"
Chair:  Mick Carter (Art History, Sydney)
 

4.15
Carolyn Griffiths
Creative Arts
Edith Cowan University/WAAPA
"Tracing Image and Bodily Displacement in Early Modernist Dance Performance"
Chair: Lloyd Reinhardt (Philosophy, Sydney)

5:15
RECEPTION/CLOSE
UNIVERSITY STAFF CLUB BAR