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Elisabeth
Study Group Convenor
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>Religion, Literature and the Arts (RLA) Seventh International Conference
>Programme 2002
>(4-6 October)
>
>Venue: Sancta Sophia College, 8 Missenden Road Camperdown, University of
>Sydney, 2006 (tel: 9577 2100)
>
>Registration is $180.00 for the whole conference ($120.00 pensioners,
>students, and the unemployed, proof must be supplied); $60.00 for either
>Saturday 5 October or Sunday 6 October ($45.00 concession); and
>$10.00/$5.00 for any single session/event and the Opening Keynote (with its
>preceding drinks and gamelan recital). Cheques must be made out to
>'Religion, Literature and the Arts'.
>
>Keynotes
>
>Friday 4 October, 7 PM: Prof. Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California,
>Santa Barbara:
>Terror in the Mind of God
>Professor Mark Juergensmeyer is director of Global and International
>Studies and Professor of Sociology and Religious Studies at the University
>of California, Santa Barbara. He is an expert on religious violence,
>conflict resolution and South Asian religion and politics, and has
>published more than two hundred articles and a dozen books. His widely-read
>Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence
>(University of California Press 2000), is based on interviews with violent
>religious activists around the world - including individuals convicted of
>the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, leaders of Hamas, and abortion clinic
>bombers in the United States - and was listed by the Washington Post and
>the Los Angeles Times as one of the best nonfiction books of the year.
>
>Saturday 5 October, Prof. Joan Kirkby, English, Macquarie University.
>Emily Dickinson and the Faces of God in Nineteenth Century New England.
>Emily Dickinson notoriously refused, at the age of 15, to give up her
>commitment to the world for a commitment to Christ: 'I feel that the world
>holds a predominant place in my affections. I do not feel that I could give
>up all for Christ, were I called to die.' (L13) And she remained the only
>member of her family and her school to refuse conversion during the
>revivals that swept New England in the 19thC. But was Emily Dickinson as
>irreligious as this brief sketch might suggest? Reading her 1800 poems one
>is aware that the significance of the idea of God cannot be occluded from
>her work and that the pressures that impelled her work can only be regarded
>as religious. The purpose of this paper will be to explore the other
>sources of religious thought that evolved in 19thC New England in which
>Emily Dickinson also participated, the unconventional faces of God that
>were being uncovered by naturalists, spiritualists and physicists.
>
>Sunday 6 October, 9 AM : Tony Bond, Art Gallery of New South Wales.
>The Terror of the Void.
>Twentieth century artists such as Malevich, Klein, Rothko, Kapoor and
>Turrell have all invoked the void. In this paper imagining the void will be
>linked with the condition of reverie implied by Michael Fried's
>interpretation of merger and absorption into an artwork. I will imply that
>the pictorial surface can be likened to a veil separating the material
>world from the imaginary space beyond and that this passage in reverie
>implies unconsciousness.
>Absorption according to Diderot can be so complete that a viewer may seem
>to be effectively absent from the real world of consciousness for the
>duration of their reverie. This opens up the specter of entrapment within
>the representation. While this terror is associated with primitive peoples
>a trace of unease can still resonate in the modern psyche. While the void
>is often considered in utopian terms as embodying unlimited potential when
>it is linked to a passage into the unconscious 'then what dreams may come'
>
>Other Events
>
>Performance (Saturday): Donna Jacobs Sife:
>Stories of the Dark Side
>Donna has been involved with Judaism as a teacher, performer, writer and
>contemporary interpreter with regards to creative, spiritual and
>ritualistic expression for 15 years. She has taught and told stories all
>around Australia, Jerusalem, the United Kingdom and the United States and
>was the winner of the National Storytelling Festival in 1997.
>
>Workshop (Sunday): Danah Zohar & Ian Marshall
>Angels and Demons
>Danah Zohar and Ian Marshall, visiting Australia this year from England,
>are both Visiting Fellows at the Macquarie University Graduate School of
>Management. They are the authors of The Quantum Self, The Quantum Society,
>and SQ: Spiritual Intelligence. Both Danah and Ian do extensive lecturing
>and give workshops globally. Ian is also a Jungian-oriented psychiatrist
>and psychotherapist.
>
>Performance (Sunday)
>Medea by Euripides: a solo performance by Jane Ahlquist
>'Medea' is presented as one artist's response to the events of September
>11, 2001. The dynamics of this tale, in which a foreign wife struggles to
>have her voice heard in a world dominated by the culture of her 'civilized'
>Athenian husband, mirrors faithfully the forces at play opn September 11,
>2001.
>Jane Ahlquist trained in drama at Flinders University, South Australia.
>After involvement with several experimental groups, plu a more conventional
>performing career, Jane abandoned the mainstream view of theatre and in
>1993 set up Bathhouse Arts (with the painter Marion van den Driesschen) to
>pursue the question: 'Is it possible to have a spiritually and socially
>regenerative theatre, such as was seen in Ancient Greece, in the modern
>world? If so, what would it look like?'
>
>Film (Sunday). 'Nada - A Journey' - a short film (23 mins) by Grania Kelly
>'Nada - A Journey' is a Saivite meditation on the spiritual journey from
>unconscious to conscious Godhead - seen through images which evoke Shiva,
>the Hindu God of destruction, and heard through the wrenching words of
>mystic poets - expressing the pain and suffering of their separation from
>God - and hauntingly beautiful instrumentations (including saxophone, oud,
>classical guitar and didgeridoo).
>
>Other
>
>In addition to this we have a book launch (previous conference proceedings,
>Seeking the Centre, edited by Colette Rayment and Mark Byrne), a gamelan
>recital, a dinner, poetry readings and a meditation session, and more than
>forty papers by people from all over the world. Hope to see you there!
>
>Full Programme Available at
>http://www.arts.usyd.edu.au/departs/religion/rla/index.htm
>
>Accommodation
>The conference organisors are not handling accommodation requests. Those
>requiring accommodation may contact Sancta Sophia College direct. The
>booking manager is Jeanette on telephone (02) 9577 2100 and her email is:
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>Dr Carole M. Cusack
>Studies in Religion A20
>University of Sydney NSW 2006
>AUSTRALIA
>Tel: +612 9351 6837
>Fax: +612 9351 7758
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Dr Elisabeth Arweck
Research Fellow, Warwick Religions and Education Research Unit (WRERU),
Institute of Education, University of
Warwick (2001-2003)
Co-Editor, Journal of Contemporary Religion
Convenor, BSA Sociology of Religion Study Group (2000-2003)
Research Associate, King's College London
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