News and Events
- Forthcoming Events
- Recent conferences
- Recent CLCS research seminars
- Staff news
- Recent staff publications
Forthcoming Events
'Walter Benjamin and the Politics of the Present' Seminar
- 15 / 07 / 2008
- 01 : 00 pm
- Japanese Studies Centre, Clayton Campus
- Event Inquiries: Gail Ward, Phone: +61 3 990 52208; Email: Gail.Ward@arts.monash.edu.au
A seminar organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University.
Chaired by: Andrew Benjamin (Monash University).
Speakers: Graeme Gilloch (Lancaster University), Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College), Elina Staikou (Goldsmiths College), Tara Forrest (UTS).
Walter Benjamin was one of the most significant thinkers of the 20th Century. His work continues to play a vital role within the Humanities. This seminar brings together leading Benjamin scholars in order to investigate different aspects of his work. Howard Caygill and Elina Staikou will concentrate on his paper the Critique of Violence, while Graeme Gilloch and Tara Forrest will concentrate on Benjamin's writings on the City and on Film.
A Future Humanities: An International Colloquium
- 16 / 07 / 2008
- 03 : 00 pm
- Link Theatre, S Building, Level 2, Caulfield Campus
- Event Inquiries: Gail Ward, Phone: +61 3 990 52208; Email: Gail.Ward@arts.monash.edu.au
A Colloquium organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies, Monash University.
Chaired by Andrew Benjamin (Monash University). Speakers: Howard Caygill (Goldsmiths College), Catherine Malabou (Université Paris), Graeme Turner (University of Queensland), Pauline Nestor (Monash University), Martin McQuillan (University of Leeds). The Colloquium will be opened by Professor Rae Francis, Dean of the Faculty of Arts, Monash University.
The Colloquium marks the launch of the newly created Centre for Critical Inquiry.
As a beginning to the Centre's activities the Colloquium will look at the position of the Humanities within the University today. At the same time as the structure of research operative within the sciences is applied to the Humanities, economic models more appropriate to commercial enterprises are being used to regulate their overall funding. While there have been important and at times radical transformations within the Humanities these developments are not in synch automatically with these external transformations within the academic world.
The aim of this International Colloquium will be to think through possible futures for the Humanities. Given their overall development, equally given the pressure to which they have been subjected, the question to be addressed is straightforward: What does a defence of the Humanities involve today?
Research Seminars
Unless otherwise indicated, all seminars are held on Wednesdays from 3.00-5.00 pm in Room SG02, Menzies Building (Building 11), Monash University, Clayton Campus. All are welcome. Seminar Program
Recent Conferences
- Demanding the Impossible: The Third Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction, 5th - 6th December, 2007
- The 2007 Postgraduate Colloquium abstracts and programme
- The 2006 Postgraduate Colloquium abstracts and programme
- IMAGINING THE FUTURE: UTOPIA, DYSTOPIA AND SCIENCE FICTION, 6th - 7th December 2005.
Recent CLCS Research Seminars:
- Andrew Benjamin, 'The Illusion of The Future: Notes on Benjamin and Freud'.
- Roland Boer, 'An Un-Original Tale: Utopia Denied in Enuma Elish'.
- Roland Boer, 'Political Myth'.
- Axel Fliethmann, 'The Right of Passage'.
- Kevin Hart, 'Poetry and Revelation: Hopkins, Counter-Experience and Reductio'.
- Svend Erik Larsen, ' “To See Things for the First Time”: Before and After Ecocriticism'.
- Andrew Milner, 'Framing Catastrophe: The Problem of Ending in Dystopian Fiction'.
- Andrew Milner, ‘Archaeologies of Science Fiction: Jameson’s Utopia and Orwell’s Dystopia’.
- Kate Rigby, '(Not) by Design: Utopian Moments in the Creation of Canberra'.
- David Roberts, 'The Sublime in Politics: the Fascist Aestheticization of Politics Revisited'.
- Robert Savage, 'My Own Private Swabia: On the Idiocy of Heidegger's Nationalism '
- Dimitris Vardoulakis, 'The Politics of Impassivity in Agamben and Spinoza'.
Staff News
Congratulations are in order, yet again! Another sizable ARC grant has been awarded to members of the CCLCS staff for 'Demanding the Impossible: Utopianism in Philosophy, Literature and Science Fiction'.
Recent Staff Publications
Andrew Benjamin
- Style and Time: Essays on the Politics of Appearance, North Western University Press, Evanston, 2006
- Walter Benjamin and Art, Continuum Books, London and New York, edited collection, Continuum Books, London and New York, 2005.
- Walter Benjamin and History, edited collection, Continuum Books, London and New York, 2005.
- Disclosing Spaces: On Painting, Clinamen Press, Manchester, 2004.
- 'Being Roman Now: The Time of Fashion: A Commentary on Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History" XIV', Thesis Eleven, No. 75, pp. 39-53, 2003.
- 'Judging Terrorism' Parallax, No. 26, 2003.
Roland Boer
- 'A Level Playing Field? Metacommentary and Marxism' in On Jameson: From Postmodernism to Globalization, edited by Caren Irr and Ian Buchanan, SUNY Press, Albany, NY, 2005.
- Marxist Criticism of the Bible, Continuum Books, London and New York, 2003.
- Redirected Travel: Alternative Journeys and Places in Biblical Studies, (co-edited with Ed Conrad) Continuum, London and New York, 2003.
Kevin Hart
- Postmodernism: A Beginner's Guide Oneworld, Oxford, 2004.
- The Dark Gaze: Maurice Blanchot and the Sacred University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2004.
- The Power of Contestation: Perspectives on Maurice Blanchot(co-edited with Geoffrey Hartmann) Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, 2004.
- Derrida and Religion: Other Testaments (co-edited Yvonne Sherwood) New York, Routledge, 2004.
Helmut Heinze and Christiane Weller
- Worlds of Reading: On the Theory, History and Sociology of Cultural Practice, Festschrift for Walter Veit, edited collection, Peter Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 2004.
Andrew Milner
- Imagining the Future: Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction,(co-edited with Matthew Ryan and Robert Savage) Arena Publications, Melbourne, 2006.
- 'Theorise This! Cultural Studies versus Utilitarianism', Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 20, No. 1, 2006
- Literature, Culture and Society, second edition, Routledge, London and New York, 2005.
- Postwar British Critical Thought, 4-volume edited collection, Sage Publications, London, Thousand Oaks and New Delhi, 2005.
- 'When Worlds Collide: Comparative Literature, World-Systems Theory and Science Fiction', Southern Review, Vol. 37, No. 2, 2004.
- 'Darker Cities: Urban Dystopia and Science Fiction Cinema',International Journal of Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2004.
- 'Utopia and Science Fiction in Raymond Williams', Science Fiction Studies, No. 90, 2003.
Brian Nelson
- Practising Theory: Pierre Bourdieu and the Field of Cultural Production, (co-edited with Jeff Browitt) University of Delaware Press, Newark, 2004.
David Roberts
- Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism, (co-authored with Peter Murphy) Continuum Books, London and New York, 2004.
- Elias Canetti's Counter-Image of Society: Crowds, Power, Transformation (co-authored with Johann P. Arnason) Camden House, Rochester, NY, 2004.
Kate Rigby
- “Tragedy, Modernity and Terra Mater: Christa Wolf Recounts the Fall,” New German Critique 101 (Summer 2007), 115-141.
- “Ecopoetics of the Limestone Plains,” in C.A. Cranston and Robert Zeller, The Littoral Zone. Australian Contexts and their Writers. Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2007: 153-75.
- “Prometheus Redeemed? From Autoconstruction to Ecopoetics,” Catherine Keller and Laurel Kearns (eds), Eco-Spirit: Religions and Philosophies for the Earth. Fordham University Press, 2007: 270-94
- “Writing After Nature,” Australian Humanities Review, Issue 39-40 (Sept. 2006),
on-line at: http://www.lib.latrobe.edu.au/AHR/archive/Issue-September-2006/rigby.html - Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European Romanticism, University Press of Virginia, Charlottesville, 2004.
- 'Earth, World, Text: On the (Im)possibility of Ecopoiesis', New Literary History, Vol. 35, No.3, 2004.
Alison Ross
- 'The Work of the Art-Work: Art after Heidegger's "The Origin of the Work of Art"', Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology, Vol. 37, No.2, 2006.
- 'The Art of the Sublime: Lyotard and the Politics of the Avant-Garde',Philosophy Today, Vol.49, No.1, 2005.
- 'Historical Undecidability: The Kantian Background to Derrida's Politics',International Journal of Philosophical Studies, Vol. 12, No. 4, 2004.
Susanna Scarparo
- Across Genres, Generations and Borders: Italian Women Writing Lives, (co-edited with Rita Wilson) University of Delaware Press, Newark, 2004.
Millicent Vladiv-Glover
- “What is Classical and Non-Classical Knowledge?” Studies in East European Thought (2006) 58:205-238 (Springer 2006). DOI 10.1007/s11212-006-9004-5).
- “From Bread Dolls to Prostitutes: A Cultural Diagnosis of post-Soviet Russia,” Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (Issue 8.1, 2006): 87-94.
- 2005) “Is Pierre Bourdieu’s ‘Habitus’ Interpretable as Meaningful Practice in Charles Sanders Peirce’s Sense?” Intersubjectivité et Pratique: Contributions a l’edtude des pragmatisms dans la philosophie contemporaine. Ed. by Georg Bertram et al. (Paris, Budapest, Torino: L’Harmattan, 2005), pp. 247-256, 2005
- “Tolstoy's Mikhailov, The Painter Of Anna's Portrait, And Constantin Guys, Baudelaire's Painter Of Modern Life”, Facta Universitatis Series Linguistics And Literature, Vol. 3, No 2, 2005, Vol.3, No 2, 2005 pp. 151 - 160 UDC 821.161.1.09, 2005
- Postmodernism from Kis to the Present, Prosveta, Belgrade, 2003.
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