Forms of Authority | Humanities Research Centre | 2016
In conjunction with the School of Philosophy, the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, and the ANU College of Law
Image credit: Gustav Klimt, Pallas Athene, 1898.
Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien.
Divided Authorities and Dispossessed Peoples
Aesthetic Dimensions of Political and Critical Theory in the 21st Century
Conference Program | 20-22 July 2016 | The Australian National University
Forms of Authority | Humanities Research Centre | 2016
In conjunction with the School of Philosophy, the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, and the ANU College of Law
Wednesday
2:00—
3:30
Keynote
4:00—
6:00
Panel: The People, Theatrics and
Materialities
Davide Panagia (Political Science—UCLA),
Sympathy, Solidarity, and Montage: On Gilles Deleuze’s Cinematic Politics
Christian Sorace (China in the World—ANU),
Metrics of Exceptionality, Aesthetics of Intimacy
Carlos Morreo Borada (International Relations—ANU),
Material authority and the analytics of oil in Venezuela
Will Cameron (Melbourne),
Action, error, ethos: Political ontology as tragedy or comedy?
Tristan Bradshaw (Political Theory—Northwestern),
Another Oedipus: On the Critical Potential of Greek Tragedy
6:00
Welcome Drinks
Thursday
9:30—
11:00
Keynote
Dimitris Vardoulakis (Philosophy—Western Sydney),
Divided Sovereignty: Conflict and Democracy
11:30—1
Panel: Technologies of the Sacred
Liyan Gao (Arts, Political and Social Inquiry—Monash),
Myth of the mythless: reclaiming political myth for the left
Forms of Authority | Humanities Research Centre | 2016
In conjunction with the School of Philosophy, the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, and the ANU College of Law
Richard Mohr (Sociology and Social Policy—Sydney),
Float and Drift: How Things Work or How Things Use Law and Religion
Chris Tomlins (Law—Berkeley),
Why Law’s Objects Do Not Disappear: On History as Remainder
2:00—
3.30
Keynote
Louise Amoore (Geography—Durham),
Cloud Aesthetics: Computing, Perception, Sovereignty
4:00—
6:00
Panel: Embodiment and Authority’s
Forms
Fiona Jenkins (Philosophy—ANU),
TBA
Livia Cocetta (Architecture—South Australia),
Blended Contours and Mingling Bodies: Rancière and Burle Marx
Undine Sellbach (Media & Cultural Studies—Macquarie),
Authority and Dispossession in Uexküll's Pantomime Biology
Luis Gomez Romero (Law—Wollongong),
Contemptuous Resistance: Torture, Memory and Language in Jorge Luis
Borges’ “La Escritura del Dios”
7:00
Conference Dinner, Lemongrass Thai
Friday
9:30—
11:00
Keynote
Chiara Bottici (Philosophy—New School),
Forms of Authority | Humanities Research Centre | 2016
In conjunction with the School of Philosophy, the Research School of Humanities and the Arts, and the ANU College of Law
11:30—
1:30
Panel: Aesthetics of Testimony, Justice
and Witness
Jan Bryant (Fine Arts—Monash),
Is there an efficacious political-aesthetics for our time?
Leslie Barnes (French Studies—ANU),
Speaking as, Speaking for: Somaly Mam and the Silenced Victims of SexTrafficking in Cambodia
Therese Taylor (History—Charles Sturt),
How do critical approaches to international human rights regimes work
through aesthetic forms?
Honni van Rijswijk (Law—UTS),
Lars von Trier’s Dogville and the aesthetics of complicit witnessing
2:15—
4:15
Panel: Art and the Contemporary
Robyn Ferrell (Gender and Cultural Studies—Sydney),
‘Free Time: tourism captures art’
Eddie Synot (GUMURRII Student Support Unit—Griffith),
Untitled
Desmond Manderson (Law / Arts & Social Sciences—ANU),
TBA
William McClure (Independent Artist / School of Art – ANU).
Art of the Unknown
Conference End