Day 1 - Thursday 17 August 2006
Day 2 - Friday 18 August 2006
Day 3 - Saturday 19 August 2006

Day 1 - Thursday 17 August 2006

9.00am Registration, Foyer Level 3

10.30am - 11.00am Morning tea, Foyer Level 3

11.00am - 12.30pm Session 1

A - Level 4, Room 401

Chair: Charles Rice

Eduardo de la Fuente Macquarie University	Mobility as Central to the Modern Urban Experience
Ross Jenner University of Auckland	Interpenetrations and Overlaps
Jorge Tàrrago Mingo University of Navarra	To inhabit a refuge: 'Makartism: a pathological phenomenon of modernity'

B - Level 4, Room 407

Chair: Tara Forrest

Megan Carrigy UNSW	Things that quicken the heart: Chris Marker's Sans Soleil and "the unique appearance of a distance"
John Grech Macquarie University	The Work of Art in the Age of Global Culture
Jo Law Curtin University of Technology	Mourning and Loss: looking at Wong Kar-wai's 2046 through the lens of Walter Benjamin

C - Level 4, Room 403

Chair: Andrew Benjamin

Tim Flanagan University of Dundee	Physiognomy as Structure
Michael Mack University of Sydney	Walter Benjamin's modernity: Spinoza's legacy or Romanticism as the blueprint of the modern
Olaf Berg University of Hamburg	When Benjamin meets Deleuze at the Cinema: History Framed in Dialectical Time-Images

12.30pm - 2.00pm Lunch, Foyer Level 3

2.00pm - 3.30pm Session 2

 

A - Level 4, Room 407

Chair: Tara Forrest

Colin Chua Murdoch University	A Conversation with Benjamin on Radio
Deshpande Shekhar Arcadia University	Listening to Modernity: Walter Benjamin and Sound
James Donald UNSW	A Complex Kind of Training Cities, Technologies and Sound in Jazz-Age Europe

B - Level 4, Room 403

Chair: Teresa Stoppani

Melissa Hardie University of Sydney	Untidy Child: Mapping Interest in Walter Benjamin's Berlin Childhood
Alexander Regier University of Cambridge	Architecture of the Pavement: Street Maps and the Linguistic Cosmos
Raymond Spiteri Victoria University of Wellington	Walter Benjamin's Bildraum: Image-Space as Primordial Matrix

3.30pm - 4.00pm Afternoon tea, Foyer Level 3

4.00pm - 5.30pm Session 3

A - Level 4, Room 401

Chair: Andrew Benjamin

Tina Engels-Schwarzpaul Auckland University, AUT University	"A warm gray fabric lined on the inside with the most lustrous and colourful of silks*"
Mark Hiley University of Queensland	Le Corbusier & Benjamin: two accounts of the Modern subject and the collector
Teresa Stoppani University of Greenwich	A Dusty Project

B - Level 4, Room 407

Chair: Charles Rice

Stefani Bardin University of Buffalo	One Way Street: Mr Bungle Sends his regards (DVD/Video presentation)
Maria McVarish & Laura Hartman California College of Fine Arts Fernau +Hartman Architects, CA	Mining Figures: Work Structures of Appalachia

C - Level 4, Room 403

Chair: TBC

Robert Sinnerbrink Macquarie University	Deconstructive Justice and the 'Critique of Violence': On Derrida's Benjamin
Allen Meek Massey University	Benjamin's Theory of Historical Trauma

 

6.00pm - 7.30pm Key Note Speaker - Plenary Session 1 - Henry Sussman

"Booking Benjamin: The Fate of a Medium"

 
Guthrie Theatre, Level 3

Chair: Andrew Benjamin

7.30pm - 8.30pm Reception, Foyer Level 3

Day 2 - Friday 18 August 2006

8.30am-9.00am Registration, Foyer Level 3

9.00am - 10.30am Session 4

A - Level 4, Room 401

Chair: James Donald

Daniel Palmer Monash University	Walter Benjamin, Photography and Art Criticism
Erika Wolf University of Otago	The Author as Photographer: Soviet Writers and the Camera
Barbara Gabriel Carleton University, Ottawa	Alfred Hitchock's North by Northwest and the Benjaminean Haunting of the Cartesian Topographies of Modernity

B - Level 4, Room 402

Chair: Charles Rice

John Macarthur University of Queensland	Movement, Mimesis and Architecture: Wölfflin, Benjamin and the Picturesque
Joel Morris Northwestern University	Setting the Scene as a Mördergrube: The Beholder in Walter Benjamin and Alois Riegl

C - Level 4, Room 403

Chair: Dimitris Vardoulakis

Jon Cockburn University of Wollongong	1920s - 1930s mechanical-flâneuse: Benjamin, Gustafsson and Lubitsch
Carlo Salzani Monash University	The Return of the Flâneur: Juan Goytisolo and Paris as Capital of the Twenty-first Century
Ya-Ju Yeh National Chengchi University	The Flâneur in the Dialectic of Time and Space

10.30am - 11.00am Morning tea, Foyer Level 3

11.00am - 12.30pm Key Note Speaker - Plenary Session 2 - Gyorgy Markus

"Benjamin's Critique of Aesthetic Autonomy"

Level 3, Room 320

Chair: Andrew Benjamin

12.30pm - 1.30pm Lunch, Foyer Level 3

1.30pm - 3.00pm Session 5

A - Level 4, Room 401

Chair: Charles Rice

Peter Schmiedgen Macquarie University	Interiority, exteriority and spatial politics in Benjamin's city-scapes
Jeff Malpas University of Tasmania	Heidegger in Benjamin's City

B - Level 4, Room 407

Chair: Daniel Palmer

Gevork Hartoonian University of Canberra	The Crisis of the Object
John Lechte Macquarie University	Benjamin and Barthes on Photography and Time
Carlos Lopez Galviz University of London	Object and Method in Walter Benjamin's Materialist History

C - Level 4, Room 403

Chair: Andrew Benjamin

Peter Banki New York University	Benjamin's Pure Language or Languages
Preciosa de Joya Ateneo de Manila University	Reflecting on the Relation Between Time and the Task of the Historian: Justice, Truth, and Anticipation
Amresh Sinha New York University & School of Visual Arts (SVA)	Benjamin on Mimesis and Translation

3.00pm - 3.30pm Afternoon tea, Foyer Level 3

3.30pm - 5.00pm Session 6

A - Level 4, Room 401

Chair: John Lechte

James Arvanitakis University of Technology, Sydney	Walter Benjamin's 'state of emergency" - or just another day in the life of an average Australian
Amir Ahmadi	Some remarks on Benjamin's 'Critique of Voilence'

B - Level 4, Room 402

Chair: John Macarthur

Nathaniel Bavinton University of Newcastle	Poetry in Motion: The flâneur verses the traceur
Ruth Walker University of Wollongong	'The art of citing without quotation marks': academic writing, acknowledgement practice, and Benjamin's textual flânerie

C - Level 4, Room 403

Chair: Andrew Benjamin

Thomas Crosbie La Trobe University	Illuminating Obscurity: Walter Benjamin's Dialectics in Patrick White's Voss
Dimitris Vardoulakis Monash University	Mechanical History: Silence in Walter Benjamin's Thesis 1

5.00pm - 6.30pm Key Note Speaker - Plenary Session 3 - Winfried Menninghaus

"From 'Kitsch' to Cognition"

Guthrie Theatre, Level 3

Chair: Tara Forrest

6.30pm - 7.30pm Reception, Foyer Level 3

7.30pm - 9.00pm Performance: Edit Metropolis by DKDC & Polite Fictions in conjunction with the Centre for Social Theory and Design, UTS

Day 3 - Saturday 19 August 2006

9.00am - 9.30am Registration, Foyer Level 3

9.30am - 11.00am Session 7

A - Level 4, Room 401

Chair: Tara Forrest

Uros Cvoro UNSW	Dialectical Image Today?
Thomas Mical Carleton University	Translucent Dwelling

B - Level 4, Room 402

Chair: Andrew Benjamin

Richard Dunn Sydney College of the Arts	Strolling to Now
Knut Ebeling Not attending in person, paper will be read out	In-Situ-Philosophie. Benjamin's Verraeumlichung der Geschichte
Anne Marie Freybourg	Concerning contemporary art and architecture/ Urban space

C - Level 4, Room 403

Chair: John Gretch

Alexis Briley Cornell University	Re-reading Old Benjamin
Warwick Mules Central Queensland University	Aura as Productive Loss: Re-reading Benjamin
Amresh Sinha New York University & School of Visual Arts (SVA)	Walter Benjamin's Politics of Redemptive Technology

11.00am - 11.30am Morning tea, Foyer Level 3

11.30am - 1.00pm Plenary Session 4 - Walter Benjamin and Criticism
Carol Jacobs, Tara Forrest & Charles Rice
Guthrie Theatre, Level 3

2.30pm - 4.00pm Performance: Edit Metropolis by DKDC & Polite Fictions in conjunction with the Centre for Social Theory and Design, UTS