[csaa-forum] CCLCS RESEARCH SEMINARS, SECOND SEMESTER 2010

[Andrew Milner]

Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
Monash University
Melbourne

RESEARCH SEMINAR, SECOND SEMESTER 2010

All seminars are held from 3.00-4.30 pm in Room W710, Menzies Building, 
Clayton Campus.


Wednesday 11 August

WALT DISNEY AND UTOPIAN VISIONS OF THE FUTURE
Angela Ndalianis

Angela Ndalianis is Associate Professor in Cinema and Cultural Studies 
at the University of Melbourne.  Her publications include Stars in Our 
Eyes: the Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era (2002), Neo-Baroque 
Aesthetics and Contemporary Entertainment (2004), Super/Heroes: from 
Hercules to Superman (2007) and The Comic Book Superhero (2009).


Wednesday 18 August

UNIVERSALITY AND PERSONALITY IN THOMAS MANN'S JOSEPH UND SEINE BRUDER 
TETRALOGY

Andrea Vestrucci
Andrea Vestrucci is Postdoctoral Fellow in Philosophy at the University 
of Milan. His PhD thesis Autonomia ed eteronomia, formalismo e 
concretezza. Analisi comparativa tra le filosofie morali di Agnes Heller 
e Eric Weil was a comparative analysis of the theory of morals in Heller 
and Weil.


Wednesday 25 August

FROM THE BEACH TO THE SEA: TWO PARADIGMATIC AUSTRALIAN DYSTOPIAS?
Andrew Milner

Andrew Milner is Professor in the Centre. His publications include John 
Milton and the English Revolution (1981), Cultural Materialism (1993), 
Class (1999), Re-Imagining Cultural Studies (2002), Contemporary 
Cultural Theory (2002), Literature, Culture and Society (2005) and 
Tenses of Imagination: Raymond Williams on Utopia, Dystopia and Science 
Fiction (2010).


Wednesday 8 September

THE AUDACITY OF THE UTOPIAN: ERNST BLOCH ON DEATH
Tom Moylan

Tom Moylan is Emeritus Professor in the School of Languages, Literature, 
Culture, and Communication and Founding Director of the Ralahine Center 
for Utopian Studies at the University of Limerick. His publications 
include Demand the Impossible (1986), Scraps of the Untainted Sky 
(2000), Dark Horizons (2003), Utopia Method Vision (2007) and Exploring 
the Utopian Impulse (2007). He serves on the editorial boards of Science 
Fiction Studies and Utopian Studies.


Wednesday 22 September

CATASTROPHIC INTENTIONS: BLOCH AND BENJAMIN
David Blencowe

David Blencowe is a postgraduate student in the Centre, researching an 
MA thesis on Bloch, Benjamin and utopia. He is a member of the editorial 
board of Colloquy.


Wednesday 13 October

ROMANTIC ECOLOGY REVISITED
Kate Rigby

Kate Rigby is Associate Professor in the Centre. Her publications 
include Transgressions of the Feminine (1991), Out of the Shadows: 
Contemporary German Feminism (1996), Ecology, Gender and the Sacred 
(1999) and Topographies of the Sacred: The Poetics of Place in European 
Romanticism (2004). She was Founding President of the Association for 
the Study of Literature and Environment, Australia-New Zealand.


ALL WELCOME
DRINKS AND NIBBLES PROVIDED

For further information please contact
Professor Andrew Benjamin <Andrew.Benjamin at monash.edu>


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Centre for Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies
School of English, Communications and Performance Studies
Monash University
Melbourne
Victoria 3800
AUSTRALIA

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