Arts Faculty Events

• Thursday, November 26th, 8:30am - Friday, November 27th, 4:50pm

Monash University Conference Centre
Level 7, 30 Collins Street
Melbourne, Victoria

Keynote Speakers:

• Professor Massimo Leone
  Australian Endeavour Award Fellow in English, Communications and Performance Studies at Monash University, and Research Professor of Cultural Semiotics at the Department of Philosophy, University of Torino, Italy
• Professor Lori Beaman
  Canadian Research Chair in the Contextualisation of Religion in a Diverse Canada, and Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and Classics, University of Ottawa, Canada

Registration now open.

The conference will focus on religious communication and religious aesthetic forms. The underlying impulse is to bring into dialogue scholarly work undertaken in religious studies and theology with debates and research in the fields of communications and cultural studies, including performance, literary, visual and aesthetic analyses. The premise of the conference is that communication and aesthetic forms play an active role in shaping a religious culture’s sensibility rather than merely reflecting that religious community’s ideology, logic or worldview. In short, religious communication makes religious experience meaningful, possible and effective.

The conference is particularly interested in exploring:

• religious affect and its relationship to different media (e.g., song, prayer, architecture, film, performance, images in general)
• religious interpretation and textual hermeneutics (e.g., literalism versus symbolism)
• the use of communication media and art forms by religious groups to create a sense of community
• communication as a ‘portal’ or window to the ‘divine’ and/or the ‘sacred’
• cross-cultural adaptation and the creolisation of religious forms
• teligion and the sacred in popular culture
• modernity, post-modernity and religious communication.

This conference will be held immediately prior to the World Parliament of Religions, providing an opportunity for reflection on religious practice and the relationship between religious identity and the aesthetic forms of religious communication, and cross cultural communication.

Further information and registration at the Religious Communication Conference site.

• Thursday, November 26th, 9am - Friday, November 27th, 5pm

Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong
Monash University
Victoria

EU-ASEAN Relations in the 21st Century: Towards a ‘Strategic Partnership’?  26-27 November 2009

Keynote speakers

• Professor Martin Holland, Director, National Centre for Research on Europe, University of Canterbury
• Dr Yeo Lay Hwee, Director, European Union Centre, NUS, Singapore
• Professor Joergen Oerstroem Moeller, Visiting Senior Research Fellow, ISEAS, Singapore, Member of the Board of Governors ASEF
• Ambassador David Daly, Head of Delegation, Ambassador of the European Commission Delegation to Australia, Canberra
  or/and
• Ms Lynne Hunter, Adviser, Bilateral Relations, to the Ambassador

The major themes to be addressed are:

• Bridging the Perception Gap
• EU-ASEAN: In Search for Common Values
• ASEAN in the EU’s Asia Policy
• Commonalities and Differences in Security Perspectives

Scientific Committee

• Professor Marika Vicziany, Director, Monash Asia Institute, Melbourne
• Professor Pascaline Winand, Director, Monash European and EU Centre, Melbourne
• Professor Douglas Webber, INSEAD, France
• Dr Daniel Novotny, Endeavour Research Fellow, Monash European and EU Centre

Further information and registration

Visit Monash European and EU Centre

Produced by the Monash European and EU Centre and the Monash Asia Institute.

• Sunday, November 29th, 9am - Tuesday, December 1st, 5pm

Caulfield Campus
900 Dandenong
Monash University
Victoria

Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy Annual Conference: Philosophy and the Work of Art

Keynote speakers include:

• Tina Chanter, De Paul University, Chicago
• Miguel de Beistegui, Warwick University, UK
• Rosalyn Diprose, University of New South Wales, Australia
• Steven Crowell, Rice University, Houston

The Conference will also include special sessions on the work of:

• Genevieve Lloyd, Macquarie University, Australia
• Jeff Malpas, University of Tasmania, Australia
• Paul Redding, University of Sydney, Australia

The Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy was established in 1995 as the revamped Australasian Society for Phenomenology and Social Philosophy. Its original aims were to provide a broad intellectual forum for academics, writers, artists, and postgraduates researching topics in Contemporary European philosophy, and to thereby become the region’s premier reference point for people working within the diverse fields of Continental/European Philosophy. The Society currently holds an annual conference hosted by different Universities across the Australasian region.

Further information

http://www.conferences.monash.org/ascp2009/
http://www.ascp.org.au/

Produced by Research Unit in European Philosophy, School of English, Communications and Performance Studies

• Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 @ 10:29am AEST
• School of Arts and Social Sciences, Monash University Sunway
  Jalan Lagoon Selatan
  46150 Bandar Sunway
  Selangor Darul Ehsan
  Malaysia

Trauma, Memory and Transformation: The Malaysian and Southeast Asian Experience

Important Dates

• Submission of Abstract: Monday 2 November 2009
• Notification of Acceptance: Tuesday 1 December 2009
• Submission of Conference Paper: Monday 3 May 3 2010

In recent humanities and social science research there has been a cross disciplinary interest in notions of both trauma and memory. Trauma is seen as a moment of profound alteration and change in the lives of both individuals and communities. The range of catalysts for the assessment of trauma is wide, from the effects of war, terrorism, state violence and natural disaster through to the more personal instances of trauma such as illness, sexual identity acceptance and survivors of crime, including survivors of gender based violence.

The study of memory has also been an important development in the humanities and social sciences. Memory study complements more traditional historical discourse by offering alternative pathways to an assessment of personal and shared experience. Memory Studies provides subaltern communities with a distinctive opportunity to have their recollections and memories considered as a part of a living history—revealing narratives that might be alternative to the grand narratives of national and regional historic discourse(s).

This conference wishes to scrutinize localised Malaysian and Southeast Asian responses to trauma through an analysis of a variety of case studies that are informed by memory and that reveal as a result patterns of transformation that have arisen. How do individuals and communities in Southeast Asia respond to trauma? How is trauma overcome? What role does reflection play in the process of transformation? What particular features do the Malaysian and Southeast Asian experiences of a range of traumas add to our understanding of trauma and memory at a global level?

Participants for this conference can bring experience from a wide and diverse array of discipline backgrounds including, but not limited to:

• Southeast Asian Studies
• Cultural Studies
• International Relations
• Political Science
• History
• Literary Studies
• Film Studies
• Anthropology
• Sociology
• Psychology
• History of Medicine
• Development Studies
• Economics
• Gender Studies
• Law and Legal Studies
• Health Sciences and Medicine

As the conference wishes to explore the nature of applied practice in relation to the areas of trauma and memory we invite the participation of those outside the academy. The work of Non-Governmental and Civil Society groups in these areas is important in Southeast Asia and the conference anticipates their valuable participation and input. Proposals for papers that address gender and the diversities of sexuality will be warmly welcomed.

Abstracts and Panel proposals not exceeding 500 words should accompany a brief biography and be sent no later than Monday November 2, 2009 to:

Benjamin McKay
Lecturer, School of Arts and Social Sciences
Monash University Sunway
Jalan Lagoon Selatan
46150 Bandar Sunway
Selangor Darul Ehsan, Malaysia

Email: benjamin.mckay@sass.monash.edu.my
Fax: +60 3 5514 6365

• Monday, August 30th, 2010 @ 9am AEST
• Monash Conference Centre
  Level 7
  30 Collins Street
  Melbourne
  Victoria 3000
  Australia

The Fourth Australian Conference on Utopia, Dystopia and Science Fiction

30 August–1 September 2010

A conference organised by the Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies at Monash University.

Visit the ‘Changing the Climate: Utopia, Dystopia and Catastrophe’ conference site