Arts Faculty Events

• Sunday, November 29th, 9am - Tuesday, December 1st, 5pm

Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong
Monash University
Victoria

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference: Philosophy and the Work of Art

Keynote speakers include:

• Tina Chanter, De Paul University, Chicago
• Miguel de Beistegui, Warwick University, UK
• Rosalyn Diprose, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Steven Crowell, Rice University, Houston

The Conference will also include special sessions on the work of:

• Genevieve Lloyd, Macquarie University, Australia
• Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Paul Redding, University of Sydney, Australia

The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy was established in 1995 as the revamped Australasian Society for Phenomenology and Social Philosophy. Its original aims were to provide a broad intellectual forum for academics, writers, artists, and postgraduates researching topics in Contemporary European philosophy, and to thereby become the region’s premier reference point for people working within the diverse fields of Continental/European Philosophy. The Society currently holds an annual conference hosted by different Universities across the Australasian region.

Further information

http://www.conferences.monash.org/ascp2009/
http://www.ascp.org.au/

Produced by Research Unit in European Philosophy, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies

• Thursday, December 3rd, 9am - Friday, December 4th, 5pm

Performing Arts Precinct
Clayton Campus
Wellington Road
Monash University
Victoria

To be or not to be… asking questions of Performance as Research

A two-day symposium and masterclass

This event has a specific focus on how questions are asked within, and of, performance as an integral part of the research process. The symposium brings academic and professional practitioners together through performance presentations and discussion panels. It also presents an opportunity for honours and postgraduate students to present and discuss their own work.

Visit the symposium page for further information and to register.

Produced by the Performance Research Unit, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies

• Monday, December 7th, 9:21am

Room H784, Level 7, Building H
Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong
Monash University
Victoria

Aesthetics: An International Colloquium on Art, Aesthetics and Imagination

Presenters

• Agnes Heller, “The Contemporary Historical Novel” (Keynote Paper)
• Massimo Leone, “Afterlife and Second Life—The Virtual Varieties of Religious Experience”
• David Roberts, “The Image and its Double. Three Theses on Illusion”
• Elizabeth Burns Coleman, “Esthetic Appreciation as a Normative Ideal”
• Peter Murphy, “Living in a Kitsch World: An Aesthetic Anthropology of Contemporary Infantilism”
• Eduardo dela Fuente, “Georg Simmel and an Artefactual Theory of Communication”
• Dimitris Vardoulakis, “Kafka’s Aesthetics of Imprisonment”
• Thomas Ford, “Nineteenth-Century Climate Change”

A Colloquium Dinner will begin at 7.45pm, and will be held at “Django, Django” restaurant, 356 Brunswick Street Fitzroy (corner of Kerr and Brunswick Streets).

View the program and speaker biographies on the Social Aesthetics Research Unit site.

Register online

Enquiries: Peter.Murphy@arts.monash.edu.au

• Thursday, December 10th, 9am - Friday, December 11th, 5pm

Rooms L2, G08 and G09, Law Building
Clayton Campus
Wellington Road
Monash University
Victoria

How Do I Look?  Aesthetics Through Theory

Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies 2009 Postgraduate Colloquium

Keynote speaker: Dr Alison Ross

While contemporary research in the humanities considers a broad range of questions, aesthetics arguably remains a central concern for us all. The colloquium organisers invite potential participants to reflect on their own research with regard to contemporary considerations of aesthetics. The overall intention remains the sharing of original ideas and research; accordingly, participants are under no obligation to narrow their focus.

The annual postgraduate colloquium provides a forum for sharing ideas to postgraduate students from the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies and the wider Faculty. The colloquium is an opportunity for postgraduate students and emerging scholars, conducting research in literary studies, cultural studies or critical theory, to present aspects of their work. The colloquium seeks to provide a relaxed and supportive atmosphere for stimulating academic exchange.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided.

Prospective participants are invited to present a paper of 25–30 minutes length (plus discussion). Proposals should include a title and an abstract of 100–150 words. Presentations incorporating audiovisual media are welcome. Please mention any technical requirements and preferences as to date and time.

Enquiries and submissions: colloquium09@arts.monash.edu.au
Submission deadline for abstracts: 30 October 2009

Produced by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies.