Events 2009
THE SYDNEY SOCIETY FOR LITERATURE AND AESTHETICS
AND THE DEPARTMENT OF MODERN GREEK
(UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY)
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
ON
THE PROJECT OF AUTONOMY AND THE LEGACY OF CORNELIUS CASTORIADIS
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY, DECEMBER 4-5, 2009
REFECTORY ROOM, MAIN QUAD
CALL FOR PAPERS
Autonomy represents one of the most paradoxical projects after Enlightenment.
Cornelius Castoriadis is one of the most challenging thinkers who struggled
with the antinomic nature of the need to become autonomous within social
structures that impose and institute heteronomous subjects. The workshop
wants to discuss the ambiguities of the autonomy project through its problematisation
in Castoriadis' work. It invites papers on autonomy, heteronomy, politics,
psychology and citizenship within the context of contemporary philosophical
discussions and political discourse.
DEADLINE JUNE 30st, 2009
PAPER PROPOSAL UP TO 300 words can be forwarded to
Vrasidas Karalis: Vrasidas.Karalis@usyd.edu.au
Suzi Adams: Suzi.Adams@arts.monash.edu.au
Craig Brown: craig.browne@usyd.edu.au
Events 2008
CONFERENCE ON CREATIVE FANTASY IN RELIGIOUS IMAGINATION
CALL FOR PAPERS
The Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics
and
The Society for Studies in Religion, Literature and the Arts
Friday-Saturday, September 26-27, 2008.
Draft Timetable.
Excepting Keynotes (45min), paper length is 20 minutes plus 5 minutes for questions.
Woolley Building Common Room
FRIDAY
9.00AM – 9.30AM – Registration
9.30AM – 10.15AM
Key-Note Address: Associate Professor Norman Simms
University of Waikato
10.15 – 10.45
Raymond A Younis,
Head of Academic Programs,
CQU (Sydney)
Space, Time, Being and Estrangement
10.45AM-11.15AM
Morning Tea
11.15AM-11.45AM
Edwin A. Scribner
Eschatology and Unfinished Business
11.45AM-12.15PM
Roslyn Weaver
God and His Angels: Religion and Fantasy from Lewis and Tolkien to Pullman
and Harland
12.15PM-12.45PM
Sarah Penicka
University of Sydney
Fantasia on a Nexus: Robert Graves, Igor Stravinksy, and Thomas Pynchon’s V
12.45PM-1.15PM
Andrew Wearring
University of Sydney
Xenophobia as the source of horror in the use of minor religious cults in H.
P. Lovecraft’s Weird Fiction
1.15PM – 2.00PM
Lunch
2.00PM-2.25PM
Zoe Alderton
University of Sydney
Nick Cave: from an Anglican God to the Creative Christ
2.25PM-2.50PM
Roland Boer
Monash University
Nick Cave's Trinity: Love, Pain and Women
2.50PM-3.15PM
Siv Jansson
Victoria University Wellington and Massey University
Charles de Lint, Environment and Fantasy
3.15PM-3.40PM
Jennifer Bennett
University of Sydney
Belief as a creative force in the Discworld
Afternoon Tea
3.40PM-4.00PM
4.00PM-4.25PM
Lauren Bernauer
University of Sydney
'Elune be praised!' World of Warcraft, its people, religions and their real
world inspiration.
4.25PM-4.50PM
Venetia Robertson
University of Sydney
Deus ex Machina? Witchcraft and the Techno-World
4.50PM-5.15PM
Alex Norman
University of Sydney
The Disappointing Real: Negotiating Fantasy and Reality on the Road to Santiago
6.30-7.00 CONFERENCE DINNER
SATURDAY
9.00AM-9.45AM
Vrasidas Karalis
University of Sydney
Is technology the spiritual consummation of human evolution?
Notes on Stanley Kubrick's 2001 Space Odyssey (1968)
9.45AM-10.10AM
Markus Ekkehard Locker
Monash University
Ateneo de Manila University
Talking Science, Speaking of Faith: Religious Imagination through Scientific
Paradoxes
10.10AM-10.35AM
Carole M. Cusack
University of Sydney
'Robert A. Heinlein's Stranger in a Strange Land and the Church of All Worlds'10.35AM-11.00AM
Christopher Hartney
University of Sydney
With Spain in our Hearts: Centres, Imperial and Otherwise, in two films of
Guillermo Del Toro.
11.00AM-11.25AM
Morning Tea
11.25AM-11.50AM
Shyamalika Heffernan
University of Sydney
Fantasy as Faith
11.50AM-12.15PM
Dominique Beth Wilson
University of Sydney
Counterfactual Christianity: Myth and Re-Imagined Religion in Jacqueline Carey’s
Kushiel’s Legacy.12.15AM-12.40PM
Annabel Carr
University of Sydney
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From Lewis Carroll to CS Lewis: Playing Padre Incognito
12.40PM-1.20PM
Lunch
1.20PM-1.55PM
Jessica Garrahy
University of Queenland
Pullman and the Golden Compass
1.55PM-2.20PM
Darshana Jayemanne
University of Melbourne
The Virtual and the Fantastic: Play and Ritual Online
2.20PM-2.55PM
Heather Johnson
The University of Sydney
The decorative religious.
2.55PM-3.20PM
Julie Kelso
University of Queensland
Origination and the Holy Mark of the Motherless Body: Pilate’s absent navel
in Toni Morrison’s Song of Solomon
3.20PM-3.40PM
Afternoon Tea
3.40PM-4.05PM
Simon Theobald
University of Sydney
Youtube, Hate and Faith
4.05PM-4.30PM
Andrew Wearring
University of Sydney
Changing, Out-of-work, Dead and Reborn Gods in the fiction of Neil Gaiman
Events 2007
CALL FOR PAPERS
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON THE LEGACY OF T.S. ELIOT
THE UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
19-20th July, 2007
Under the Auspices of
The Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics,
The School of Letters, Art & Media,
The Department of English,
The School of Languages and Cultures,
And the Department of Modern Greek,
In the University of Sydney
The influence of T.S. Eliot?s thought and art, during his life and the decades
since his death, has been wide-ranging and enduring. Now that his correspondence
and his collected prose are being edited, published scholarship on his work
and its influence in poetry, criticism, theatre and cultural and religious
theory is poised to enter a new phase, in which Eliot?s legacy will be reviewed
and re-assessed.
Participants are invited to interpret the conference theme widely. What is
Eliot?s legacy in critical areas of artistic and intellectual production?
How is Eliot?s work perceived today? Does his poetry continue to speak to
the modern condition and to contemporary readers and poets? Are his critical
methods and perspectives still valid? Is his cultural and religious thinking
relevant to twenty-first century social and theological concerns?
Papers should be 20 minutes long, with time for questions and discussion. Abstracts
(of between 100 and 200 words) should be submitted by 27 April, 2007, to
the convenors: Barry Spurr (barry.spurr@arts.usyd.edu.au) and Vrasidas Karalis
(vras@arts.usyd.edu.au) from whom further information is also available.
Events 2006
20-21 JULY 2006
SYMPOSIUM
ON HANNAH ARENDT
UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY
for more information see this website under conferences
CONVENORS
Vrasidas Karalis, Paolo Bartoloni, and Robert Sinnerbrink.
Enquiries:
Vrasidas Karalis, SLC, University of Sydney (02) 93517252
Email: Vrasidas.Karalis@arts.usyd.edu.au
Thursday, March 16, 2006, 17.00 to 19.00
Refectory Room, Main Quad, University of Sydney
Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
presents
Emeritus Professor Paul Crittenden
The Ethics of a Writer: Jean-Paul Sartre's first ethics'
All welcome / Entrance Free
Events 2005
December 12-14, 2005
Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
Presents
Heidegger and the Aesthetics of Living Conference
Sydney Society for Literature and Aesthetics
December 12-14, University of Sydney, Main Quad
See this website under Conference for details
August 11, 2005
Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics
Presents
A reading of Robert Adamson's
poetry by the poet himself
Thursday, August
11th, 2005, 5-7.30 pm at the Nicholson Museum.
The internationally acclaimed poet of the Australian generation of revolutionary
poets will read from his work and will discuss with the audience about
contemporary poetry and poetics.
Robert Adamson will be introduced by the poet John Tranter.
Light refreshments will be offered. All welcome.
On behalf of the Society
Vras
Karalis
2 JUNE 2005
The Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics is proud to present poet John
Tranter, who will be reading his own poetry, on Thursday, June 2nd, 2005,
5-7.30 pm, at the Nicholson Museum, Main Quad, University of Sydney.
The innovative and prominent contemporary Australian poet will read from
his work and will discuss with the audience about contemporary
poetry and poetics. Light
refreshments will be offered. All welcome.
On behalf of the Society,
Vras. Karalis
RSVP -17252
21 APRIL 2005
The Sydney Society of Literature and Aesthetics is honoured to host Les Murray
on Thursday, April 21st, 2005, 5-7pm, at the Nicholson Museum.
This most internationally recognised and prominent contemporary Australian
poet will read from his work and will discuss with the audience contemporary
poetry and poetics.A short function will follow at the Museum. All welcome.
RSVP 9351-7252
vrasidas.karalis@arts.usyd.edu.au
Events 2004
12 October 2004
Dominic McIver Lopes
Department of Philosophy, University of British Columbia
"Conceptual Art Is Not What It Seems"
Conceptual art is often presented as challenging the traditions and assumptions
of an art form, and resistance to it often springs from a judgement that
the challenge it mounts is pointless. According to influential philosophical
accounts of its theoretical impact, conceptual art challenges the traditions
and assumptions of representational visual art. Indeed, it is a fact
of history that conceptual art emerged from the painter's studio. However,
art forms are hybrid descriptive and historical kinds and their descriptive
component is at least in part aesthetic (in a very broad sense). Given
these assumptions, an argument can be constructed to show that conceptual
art is a distinct and new art form and is not representational visual
art.
If this argument is sound, conceptual art is not a challenge to the traditions
and assumptions of visual representational art and it cannot be correctly
appreciated (or resisted) as mounting such a challenge. Conceptual art
is not what it has seemed to be
Dom Lopes is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of British Columbia.
His research straddles philosophy of art and philosophy of mind, and particularly
concerns pictures, perception, and mental representation. He is now at
work on a book on the value of pictures. Lopes has lectured at Auburn University,
the Vancouver Art Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, the University
of North Carolina, and the University of Missouri St Louis. He is a member
of the Editorial Board of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and
has served as a Trustee of the American Society for Aesthetics. He is Programme
Chair of the 2004 ASA Annual Meeting and the 2005 APA Pacific Division
Meetings. Lopes is past fellow of the National Humanities Center and an
Associate of the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies. He holds two
Indiana University Teaching Excellence Awards and the 1997 Philosophical
Quarterly Essay Prize. In 2004 he was designated Distinguished Junior Scholar
at UBC.
TIME: 5:30pm to 7:30pm
VENUE Philosophy Common Room S413, Main Quadrangle, University of Sydney
COST: SSLA members free CONCESSIONS: $3.00 Non-members $5.00
REFRESHMENTS WILL BE PROVIDED.
