Imagination: City, Country, Culture and Creativity
Date
18-19 April 2011
Venue
Monash University, Caulfield Campus
Education Room F110
Building F (adjacent to Monash University Museum of Art Foyer)
Program
Keynote speaker
- Professor Scott Lash, Goldsmiths, University of London
Confirmed speakers
- Professor Scott Lash (Goldsmiths, University of London), Keynote Speaker
- Dr. Trevor Hogan (La Trobe University)
- Dr. Janine Burke (Monash University)
- Associate Professor John Rundell (University of Melbourne)
- Professor Andrew Milner (Monash University)
- Associate Professor Peter Murphy (Monash University)
- Dr. Tom Ford (Australian National University)
- Oscar Zentner (University of Melbourne and psychoanalyst)
- Professor David Roberts (Monash University)
- Dr. Eduardo de la Fuente (Flinders University)
Schedule of Papers
Monday April 18
| 10am-11.30am | Scott Lash, Keynote. (Andrew Milner, Respondent) |
| 11.30am-12noon | Break |
| 12noon-1pm | Trevor Hogan, The Reporter, The Flâneur, and The Critic: the Urbanist as Outsider in the South Asian Mega-city |
| 1pm-2pm | Lunch Break |
| 2pm-3pm | David Roberts, Technological Imagination |
| 3pm-4pm | John Rundell, Imaging Others: Cities, Strangers, Fear and Contingency |
| 4pm-4.15pm | Short Break |
| 4.15pm-5.15pm | Peter Murphy, To Take One Thing For Another: Creation and the Historical-Political Imagination |
| 5.15 onwards | Drinks etc: Mama Duke’s, Basement Level, Building H, Caulfield Campus |
Tuesday April 19
| 10am-11.30am | Janine Burke, Recreating Eden: Creativity as Place in Claude Monet, Virginia Woolf and Jackson Pollock |
| 11.30am-12noon | Break |
| 12noon-1pm | Eduardo de la Fuente, Neomodernism: Anatomy of a style |
| 1pm-2pm | Lunch Break |
| 2pm-3pm | Tom Ford, Nephophile imagination and the atmosphere of poetry |
| 3pm-4pm | Sian Supski and Peter Beilharz, So Sharp You Could Bleed: Sharpies and Visual Culture, A Moment in the Seventies History of Melbourne |
| 4pm-4.15pm | Short Break |
| 4.15pm-5.15pm | Oscar Zentner, Imagination, between exactitude and rigour |
Contact
Imagination: City, Country, Culture and Creativity enquiries
Convenors
- Dr Peter Murphy (Monash University)
- Dr Andrew Milner (Monash University)