CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
CINEMA AND THE SENSES
VISUAL CULTURE AND SPECTATORSHIP
NOVEMBER 13-15, 1998
IO MEYERS STUDIO (GATE 2)
UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES
KENSINGTON, NSW
Cinema and the Senses will examine the interesections between different modes
of spectatorship and the historically shifting forms of cinema as a cultural
technology.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
PATRICE PETRO, (English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
ASHISH RAJADHYAKSHA (Center for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore)
MEAGHAN MORRIS (ARC Senior Fellow, Humanities, University of Technology)
ADRIAN MARTIN (Freelance Film Scholar and Age Film Critic)
FINAL DRAFT PROGRAM
Friday
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9.30-10am. Registration
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10-11.30 am (Io Myers Theatre)
Keynote
Patrice Petro (English, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
"Cultural Dispositions, Transitory Moods: Women and Visual Culture in Weimar
Germany."
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11.30-12pm
coffee break
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12-1.30pm (Io Myers Theatre)
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Helen Grace (School of Cultural Histories and Futures, University of Western
Sydney, Nepean)
"Sensuous Thought and the Decorporeality of Vision"
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Therese Davis (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, University of Newcastle)
"Name Without a Face: Cinema and the Trauma of Non-Recognition"
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1.30-2.30pm
lunch
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2.30-4.15pm
session a (Io Myers Theatre)
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George Kouvaros (School of Theatre, Film and Dance, UNSW)
"Twilight Memories: Cinema, Photography and the Afterimage"
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Paul Starr (English Department, University of Queensland)
"Still Images, Smoke and Affect"
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2.30-4.30pm
session b (C10)
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Leanne Downing (Department of Arts and Education, La Trobe, Bendigo)
"Spotting the Difference"
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Sue Gillett (Department of Arts, La Trobe University Bendigo)
"Just Between Us: The Mediation of Affects in Jane Campion's Sweetie"
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Anne Rutherford (School of Communications and Media, University of Western
Sydney, Nepean)
"Corporeality of Vision/Writing of Affect"
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4.30 -5.30: drinks (foyer of Io Myers Theatre)
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7pm: Screening of Four Chapters (Char adhyay) Kumar Shahani film, Chauvel
Cinema (tickets from cinema).
Saturday
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10-11.30am (Io Myers Theatre)
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Cathryn Vasseleu (Philosophy, University of NSW)
"The Moving Image and Spectacular Animation"
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Simon During "Occult relations: spiritualist encounters with optical
technologies"
(English Department, University of Melbourne)...
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11.30-11.45am
coffee
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11.45am-1.15pm
session a (Io Myers Theatre)
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Helen Macallan, (English Department, University of Newcastle)
"Modernity, Mooching and The Kid Stakes (1921)"
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Ning Ma (School of Communications and Media, University of Western Sydney,
Nepean)
"Will to Life vs Will to Power: History and Melodrama in the Fifth Generation
Chinese Cinema"
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session b (C10)
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Warwick Mules (Film and Cultural Studies, School of Humanities, Central
Queensland University)
"Film and machinic culture: a re-examination of early film and spectatorship"
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Bill Schaffer (School of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney)
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1.15-2.15pm
lunch
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2.15-3.45pm (Io Myers Theatre)
Keynote:
Ashish Rajadhyaksha (Center for the Study of Culture and Society, Bangalore)
"Who is Looking: Spectatorship and Democracy in the Cinema"
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3.45-4pm
coffee
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4-5.30pm (Io Myers Theatre)
Meaghan Morris (ARC Senior Fellow, Humanities, University of Technology)
"Style and Cynthia Rothrock ('you can take the girl out of Scranton...')"
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7pm Conference dinner
Sunday
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11am -12.15pm (Io Myers Theatre)
Adrian Martin (Freelance Film Scholar and Age Film Critic)
"Ball of Fire"
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12.15 - 12.30
Coffee
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12.30 -2pm
session a (Io Myers Theatre):
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Alan Cholodenko (School of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney)
"The Crypt, The Haunted House of Cinema"
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Lisa Trahair (School of Theatre, Film and Dance, University of NSW)
"A Taste for Murder: Aesthetic Practice in The Silence of the Lambs"
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session b (C10):
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Tara Forrest "Routine Operations: Benjamin, Habit and Experience"
(School of Theatre, Film and Dance, University of NSW)
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Roger Hillman (Art History and Visual Studies, ANU)
"German Songline or World Music? Beethoven's Ninth and European Cinema"
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2 - 2.45pm
lunch
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2.45-4.15pm (Io Myers Theatre)
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Ross Gibson, (Humanities, University of Technology, Sydney)
"If the Walls Could Tell - mise en scene and spatial consciousness"
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Laleen Jayamanne (Department of Art History and Theory, University of Sydney)
" A '40 acres and a mule filmworks' - Do the Right Thing - 'a Spike Lee joint':
blocking and unblocking The Block"
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4.15-4.30pm
coffee
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4.30-5pm Plenary (Io Myers Theatre)
Patrice Petro, Ashish Rajadhyaksha, and Kumar Shahani
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5pm-6pm
closing drinks, Io Myers Theater foyer
Registration (includes light lunch, morning & afternoon tea)
AUD120.
Concessions AUD60.
FOR ENQUIRIES
Contact: +61 2 9385 5635
+61 2 9351 4213
E-mail: j.brooks@unsw.edu.au
g.kouvaros@unsw.edu.au
Dr Helen Grace
Senior Lecturer
School of Cultural Histories and Futures,
University of Western Sydney, Nepean
PO Box 10, Kingswood NSW 2747
Tel: +61 (0)2 9678 7412; Fax: +61 (0)2 9678 7334
e-mail: h.grace@nepean.uws.edu.au
RCIS web page: http://www.nepean.uws.edu.au/research/Centres/RCIS.html
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Subject: Tagung: Cinema & the Senses, New South Wales Univ.,
13.-15.11.98
Date: 30.10.1998
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