[csaa-forum] Re: Colloquium on Siegfried Kracauer

[Tara Forrest]

Film and Television Studies at Monash University and the Trans/forming 
Cultures Research Centre at UTS present: 


Provisional Insight: Siegfried Kracauer in the 21st Century

Fri, July 18 – Sat, July 19

Monash Conference Centre, 30 Collins Street, Melbourne


Colloquium Description

At the start of the 21st Century this colloquium will draw 
together scholars from a diverse range of fields to provide a forum in 
which  
the actuality of Siegfried Kracauer's writings can be analysed, debated 
and explored. Through a detailed engagement with his writings  
on topics as diverse as film, photography, architecture, 
popular culture and history, the colloquium will seek to illuminate the 
many  
continuities and shifts in Kracauer's thinking that span his 
early  Weimar writings, his work in the immediate post-war period, and 
the  
books that he wrote while living in exile in the USA in the 1950s 
and 1960s.


Speakers include:

	• 	Graeme Gilloch (Lancaster University)
	• 	Lesley Stern (University of California, San Diego)
	• 	Adrian Martin (Monash University)
	• 	Ian Aitken (Hong Kong Baptist University)
	• 	Helen Grace (Chinese University Hong Kong)
	• 	Andrew Benjamin (Monash University)
	• 	Jodi Brooks (UNSW)

For further details contact deane.williams at arts.monash.edu.au or 
tara.forrest at uts.edu.au


Dr. Tara Forrest
Lecturer in Cultural Studies
Humanities and Social Sciences
University of Technology, Sydney
PO Box 123, Broadway
NSW  2007  Australia
Ph. + 61 2 9514 2182


  

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