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Aesthetics Colloquium: Program

8.30-9.15 am Registration and Coffee
9.15-10.00 am

Thomas Ford

“Nineteenth-Century Climate Change”

10.00-11.15 am

Agnes Heller

“The Contemporary Historical Novel” (Keynote Paper)

11.15–11.45am Morning Break
11.45am–12.30pm

Elizabeth Burns Coleman

“Esthetic Appreciation as a Normative Ideal”

12.30-1.15pm

Eduardo de la Fuente

“Georg Simmel and an Artefactual Theory of Communication”

1.15–2.15pm Lunch Break
2.15-3.00pm

David Roberts

“The Image and its Double. Three Theses on Illusion”

3.00-3.45

Dimitris Vardoulakis

“Kafka’s Aesthetics of Imprisonment”

3.45-4.15pm Afternoon Break
4.15-5.00pm

Massimo Leone

“Afterlife and Second Life—The Virtual Varieties of Religious Experience”

5.00-5.45pm

Andrew Milner

“It's the conscience collective, stupid: philosophical aesthetics and the sociology of art”

5.45-6.00pm EARLY EVENING SHORT BREAK
6.00-6.45pm

Peter Murphy

“Living in a Kitsch World: An Aesthetic Anthropology of Contemporary Infantilism”

7.45pm

Colloquium Dinner

The dinner will begin at 7.45pm, and will be held at “Django, Django” restaurant (formerly “Idibidi”), 356 Brunswick Street Fitzroy (corner of Kerr and Brunswick Streets). http://www.menulog.com.au/idibidi

School of English, Communications and Performance Studies