Upcoming Conferences and Seminars
That was then: this is now – Contemporary Archaeology in Australia
Image: Ursula Frederick
Februrary 16-17 2012
9:30am – 4.30pm
Eastern Avenue F19
Seminar Room 312
University of Sydney 2006
This two-day workshop explores the role of contemporary archaeology and the state of research in Australia. It is aimed at exploring the methods, theories and subjects currently informing this nascent field of study. What role might Australian scholars play in advancing this area of research?
This workshop is intended to be a platform for open conversation and
discussion of ideas. Students, scholars and professionals are welcome to offer presentations of 15 or 30 minutes.
Call for papers
Topics may include but are not limited to: autoethnography,
late twentieth and twenty-first century technologies, space archaeology, contemporary graffiti, urban landscapes, new methods of archaeological practice (social media, art, narrative, performance, re-enactment), the post-human, archaeologies of protest, anarchy, internment, migration and the cold war, the body, affect and the narrative turn, material culture of contemporary life.
Abstracts
Please send 100 word abstracts to the convenors.
Deadline: 31 January, 2012.
Convenors
Dr Annie Clarke
Department of Archaeology
University of Sydney
T +61 2 9036 9499
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Ms Ursula Frederick
School of Art
Australian National University
T +61 439 497 454
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This event is free, but please if you wish to attend.
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Conference program
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For more information
Please contact Sophie Morton
T +61 2 9114 0922
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The Sublime: A Re-Evaluation
Sponsored by the SHAPE Seminar and Research Group
21-22 February, 2011
The Refectory, Quadrangle Building, A14
University of Sydney
This event is free
This is the first conference sponsored by SHAPE (Social, Historical, Aesthetic, Political and Environmental Philosophy), a group dedicated to explorations in the philosophy of value broadly conceived. This conference brings together members of the Philosophy Dept at Sydney University who have a research interest in aesthetics with new and interesting voices from overseas who are involved with the SHAPE group.
The topic of the sublime, which was one of most widely discussed matters in C18 aesthetics, has received scant attention in Anglo-American philosophy, at least when compared with beauty. And when we turn to Kant scholarship we find the same asymmetrical treatment ? despite the fact that, for Kant, the sublime is akin to the beautiful in so far as it involves the disinterested response that he saw as central to aesthetic experience. But recently there has been a revival of interest in the sublime stimulated in large part by its apparently embracing various stimulating paradoxes (e.g. taking pleasure in pain; gaining insights by way of an apprehension of limitation; the understanding in a fraught relation with the imagination). In this conference we aim to re-examine the sublime and its importance for aesthetic experience and our appreciation of art.
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17th George Rudé Seminar in French History and Civilization, 14-16 July, 2010
Every two years, the George Rudé Seminar brings together specialists in French history and other areas of French studies from Australia and New Zealand with colleagues from around the world for a major conference. A selection of papers from the biannual conferences is now published in peer-reviewed format on H-France.
The 2010 Rudé Seminar will be held at the University of Sydney. Among the featured guests will be Professor Olivier Wieviorka from the Ecole Normale Supérieure (Cachan), author of numerous works on twentieth-century French history.
The general theme of the 2010 Seminar is ‘History and Memory’. However, paper proposals are invited on any area of French history, or on subjects in other areas of French studies with an historical perspective.
Proposals for papers should include a tentative title, a one-paragraph summary of the paper, a one-paragraph biographical note on the speaker and full contact details. They should be addressed by 1 October 2009 to: RUDE.2010@usyd.edu.au
If you have questions, please contact the Chair of the organising committee, Professor Robert Aldrich, Department of History, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
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Sydney Sawyer Seminar: The Atlantic World in a Pacific Field, 5-7 August, 2010
Convenors: Seminar Chair, Iain McCalman, and convening committee
Guest Speakers:
- Alison Bashford, Sydney
- Janet Browne, Harvard University
- Joyce Chaplin, Harvard University
- Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Texas
- Ann Curthoys, Sydney
- Sheila Fitzpatrick, Chicago
- Anita Herle, Cambridge
- Chris Hilliard, Sydney
- Julia Horne, Sydney
- Michael McDonnell, Sydney
- Joseph Meisel, Mellon Foundation
- Andrew Moutu, Adelaide
- Damon Salesa, Michigan
- Simon Schaffer, Cambridge
- Katerina Teaiwa, ANU
This major international conference will consider how scientific exchanges and cultural encounters between the peoples of the Atlantic world and the Pacific reshaped knowledge of humanity, human systems, and the environment. Where the earlier sessions showcased the research of many different scholars – from postdoctoral fellows to senior professors, mostly from the Australasian region – the conference aims to draw together international experts in relevant fields in order to connect our regional network to the rest of the globe.
The conference will focus on the pragmatics of comparison and analogy in the appraisal of new places and peoples. How does a strange place or people become comparable with those more familiar to the traveler or scientist? What does it take to relate a new plant or animal or person to those already well known? How does one standardize observations and mobilize things and people so they have meaning elsewhere? That is, how was the Pacific made into the obligatory site for exploring the issues that mattered in the Atlantic world? In particular, this conference will examine the ways in which both oceanic regions were co-produced through a complicated series of intellectual, cultural, and commercial interactions over many centuries. Moreover, it will seek ways in which to make the Pacific visible again in Atlantic and global scholarship.
Visit the Sawyer Seminar webiste for more information.