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>From: Amanda Crawford <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: CFP: Art and Time (Australia) (9/9/05; 11/3/05-11/4/05)
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>Call For Papers: Art and Time ñ An Interdisciplinary Symposium
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>5^th Annual School of Humanities Conference
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>Faculty of Arts, Australian National University
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>Canberra, Australia
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>3 ñ 4 November 2005
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>ëWhat then is time?í wrote St Augustine. ëIf no one asks me I know. If I
>wish to explain it, I know not.í
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>Time is a challenging concept for theologians and philosophers, but it
>is no less so for the artist, critic, and art theorist. This symposium
>will explore aspects of time in all forms of art ñ literature, visual
>art, and music.**
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>*Papers are invited on the general question of the relationship between
>art and time, or on particular works, styles or artistic movements in
>which time, in one of its guises, plays an important part.*
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>General questions might include: Does art transcend time? Is it a
>dimension of the eternal? Is art somehow embedded in historical time? Do
>works of art, as Terry Eagleton argues, offer ëa particular perspective
>in which to view the history of our times?í Does each new work, as T.S.
>Eliot suggested, transform the past as well as the present, changing and
>re-ordering our artistic heritage? Is the relationship between art and
>history, as some new historicists claim, in a constant process of
>ënegotiation and exchangeí? Is there a link between art and memory,
>nostalgia and forgetting? Are Hegel and Arthur Danto correct in
>foreshadowing the 'end of art'?
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>Participants may also wish to examine particular works, styles or
>movements in which the temporal dimension is of particular interest ñ
>such as the postmodern fascination with the contingent and its
>opposition to 'grand narratives', the existentialist emphasis on freedom
>and openness to the future, the Romantic urge to recapture the past or
>prefigure a radiant future, the confident Baroque joy in the present
>moment, the Elizabethansí bittersweet counsel to ëseize the dayí, the
>medieval preoccupation with death and eternityÖ
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>Papers should not exceed 20 minutes reading time.
>Abstract (about 200 words) should be emailed to Amanda Crawford at
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>September, 2005.
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>*Special grants for non-ACT postgraduates*: Two grants of $300 each will
>be offered to postgraduate students enrolled at institutions outside the
>ACT to assist with travel and accommodation expenses involved in
>attending the conference to deliver a paper.
>Applications should take the form of an abstract of the paper to be
>presented, and a letter outlining the academic situation of the student
>(institution, level and area of study etc) and his or her claim to the
>subsidy. Send to [log in to unmask]
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>*Enquiries*:
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>*Web-site:* http://www.home.netspeed.com.au/derek.allan/artandtime.html
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>Amanda Crawford, English, School of Humanities, ANU
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>Jan Lloyd Jones, English, School of Humanities, ANU
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