Aesthetics: An International Colloquium on Art, Aesthetics and Imagination
Social Aesthetics Research Unit, Monash University
Monday December 7, 2009
9am-6pm
Caulfield Campus, Monash University
Building H, 7th floor, Room 84
Enquiries: Peter.Murphy@arts.monash.edu.au
Registration & Dinner
$40 for registration for the day
$15 registration for the day for postgraduates, students, and non-waged
$45 for 3-course meal (including coffee and tea, but excluding alcohol and other drinks) for the Colloquium dinner
Register online here.
Program
About the speakers
Agnes Heller is the author of over 40 books, including Immortal Comedy: The Comic Phenomenon in Art, Literature, and Life (2005), The Time is Out of Joint: Shakespeare as Philosopher of History (2002), A Theory of Modernity (1999), The Concept of the Beautiful (1999), An Ethics of Personality (1996) and A Philosophy of History in Fragments (1993). Awards for Heller’s intellectual achievements include the 2006 Sonning Prize, Denmark; Hannah Arendt Prize for Political Philosophy, Bremen, 1995; the Szechenyi National Prize in Hungary, 1995; the Lessing Prize of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg for Philosophical Activity, 1981. She is a Correspondent-Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences.
David Roberts is Emeritus Professor of German, Monash University and a former director of the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash. His books include Art and Enlightenment: Aesthetic Theory after Adorno, Dialectic of Romanticism (with Peter Murphy), Canetti’s Counter-Image of Society: Crowds, Power, Transformation (with Johann Arnason), and forthcoming The Total Work of Art in European Modernism.
Massimo Leone is Research Professor of Cultural Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Turin, Italy. Leone has been visiting scholar at the CNRS in Paris, at the CSIC in Madrid and Fulbright Visiting Professor at the Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley (USA). In 2009-2010, he will be Endeavour Research Visiting Scholar at the School of English, Performance, and Communication Studies at Monash University. His work focuses on the role of religion in contemporary cultures. Massimo Leone is the author of Religious Conversion and Identity (Routledge 2004) and Saints and Signs (Walter de Gruyter 2009) and more than 100 papers in semiotics and religious studies. He has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe and USA.
Elizabeth Burns Coleman is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, author of Aboriginal Art, Identity and Appropriation (Ashgate, 2005), and co-editor of Negotiating the Sacred II: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in the Arts (ANU, 2008) with Maria Suzette Fernandes Dias and of Negotiating the Sacred I: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in a Multicultural Society (ANU, 2006) with Kevin White. Coleman and White’s new edited collection Religion, Medicine and the Body is in press.
Eduardo dela Fuente is Lecturer in Communications and Media Studies at Monash University, a Faculty Fellow of the Yale Center for Cultural Sociology. and co-convenor of the TASA Cultural Sociology Thematic Group. He is author of a forthcoming work for Routledge on twentieth century classic music and cultural modernity.
Peter Murphy is Associate Professor of Communications at Monash University. He is co-author with Simon Marginson and Michael Peters of Global Creation (forthcoming 2010) and Creativity and the Global Knowledge Economy (Peter Lang, 2009). A further volume in the series is in preparation Imagination. Murphy’s other recent books include Dialectic of Romanticism: A Critique of Modernism with David Roberts (Continuum, 2004) and Civic Justice: From Greek Antiquity to the Modern World (Prometheus/Humanity Books, 2001).
Dimitris Vardoulakis is Lecturer in the University Western Sydney. His monograph The Doppelgänger: Literature's Philosophy is forthcoming by Fordham UP. Other edited or co-edited volumes include Spinoza Now (Minnesota UP, forthcoming), Benjamin and Heidegger (Continuum, forthcoming), Kafka's Cages (forthcoming) The Political Animal (in Substance journal, 2008), After Blanchot (Delaware UP, 2005), and The Politics of Place (in Angelaki journal, 2004). He is the author of numerous articles published in English and Greek and he has translated two books into Greek. His is currently writing a book on sovereignty based on a genealogy of the word “stasis”.
Thomas Ford has recently completed his PhD at the University of Chicago on The Language of the Crowd in British Romanticism, and has contributed articles to the volumes What John Berger Saw and Kafka’s Creatures. He has written on landscape photography, soma-technics, and Mary Wollstonecraft, and has translated the work of Boris Groys. His commentary has also appeared in the Australian Higher Education Supplement.