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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
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
Before Pangaea: New Essays in Transcultural Aesthetics
Edited by Eugenio Benitez
Now available.
Contributors include: Derek Allan, Eugenio Benitez, Yasuko Claremont,
Elizabeth Burns Coleman, Patick Hutchings, Alice Jarratt, Vrasidas Karalis,
Babatunde Lawal, 'Okusitino Mahina, Grazia Marchiano, Sonja Servomaa, Masaru
Yoneyama, Richard Woodfield, Kitamura Tomoyuki, Keping Wang.
Contact Vrasidas.Karalis@arts.usyd.edu.au
to order your copy
To contribute to NEWS please send your information to: rick.benitez@arts.usyd.edu.au
