GRIT Conferences & Workshops
2008 Workshops
8 August: Women, Islam and Social Inclusion
In collaboration with the Institute for the Advanced Study of Humanity (IASH)
The symposium will centre on the Australian findings of a cross-cultural ARC Discovery Grant that focussed on the issue of Islam and Australian Muslim women. It will also disseminate the findings from its partner study in Bangladesh and will take the opportunity to explore a range of updated research related to Islam and to Australian Islam in particular. A number of prominent Australian and international researchers of Islam will present on the day.
The symposium will start with an introduction by Prof Terry Lovat (University of Newcastle) and a keynote address by Dr Mohamad Abdalla (Griffith University Islamic Research Unit). Another keynote address will be delivered by Mehmet Ozalp (President Affinity Intercultural Foundation) in the afternoon. The day will conclude with a dinner and a meeting with members of the Newcastle Multifaith Association.
The convenors of the symposium are Prof Terry Lovat and Prof Hilary Carey. For information on the symposium please contact Dr Nadine Kavanagh (Nadine.Kavanagh@newcastle.edu.au ).
16–17 October: Indigenous Intellectual Traditions in Action
A workshop co-sponsored by the Research Group on Religious and Intellectual Traditions at the Ourimbah Aboriginal Education Consultive Group Sub-branch.
The workshop will commence with a barbeque for students, community and staff from 5pm on Thursday 16th October. This will be followed by the workshop launch at 6:30pm at Cs2-01 by:
Professor Terry Lovat - Vice Chancellor, Faculty of Education and Arts
and a Keynote Address by:
Lola Forrester - 2003 Aboriginal Broadcaster of the Year at the Deadly Awards
The barbeque and Public Lecture are free, although reservations are necessary. Cost of the workshop is $50 and includes the conference lunch on campus at the Preview Restaurant and the Bust Tucker afternoon tea by Original Aboriginal Creations.
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Enquiries and registrations to Kathleen Butler
4–6 December: Socrates, Alcibiades, and the Divine Lover & Educator
A Research Conference revolving round the Platonic Alcibiades I
Sponsored by the University of Newcastle’s Research Group on Religious and Intellectual Traditions and School of Humanities and Social Science
Held also under the auspices of the Australasian Society for Ancient Philosophy
The Alcibiades I is in many ways a mystery. Is it, or is it not, by Plato? What kind of an educator is Socrates trying to be here? Is the Socratic divine sign really being treated as god here? How is Socrates’ dual role as ‘lover’ (in some sense) of Alcibiades and as his educator supposed to work? And by what arguments or promises has the hitherto arrogant Alcibiades eventually been won over so as to return Socrates’ ‘love’? Its perplexing nature has seen it decline from its ancient position as the first dialogue that most ancient students read, to its modern position as a marginal text, seldom built on for our picture either of Socrates or of Plato. What is it doing and where does it fit?
The purpose of the conference is to address a variety of topics, philosophical, literary, and historical, which have a bearing on the interpretation of this dialogue, which may or may not be by Plato himself. Such topics may include the picture of Alcibiades and of his relationship with Socrates elsewhere; the figure of the lover/educator in ancient Greece; Socrates’ divine sign; Socratic pedagogy; Athenian views of Persian/Spartan aristocratic education; self-knowledge and the concept of the true self; the argument, rhetoric and drama of the dialogue; individual episodes in the dialogue; its overall coherence; contexts for its composition; the ancient commentaries on it; and other dialogues in the Platonic Corpus that relate to it.
Guest speakers will include:
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Professor Victoria Wohl, Classics, University of Toronto (tentative title ‘The Eye of the Beloved: opsis and eros in Socratic Pedagogy’);
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Professor Francois Renaud, Philosophy, Université de Moncton (topic relating to the late antique view of the dialogue).
A range of other topics has been promised, but the conference is open to all interested persons and further offers of papers are welcome up to 15th September.
Dates: 4th December 2008 p.m. to 6th December p.m.
Venue: University of Newcastle Union, Treehouse (Thurs, Fri), and Harbour View Room, Noah’s on the Beach Hotel, Newcastle (Sat)
Organisers:
Prof. Harold Tarrant, Harold.Tarrant@newcastle.edu.au
Dr. Marguerite Johnson, Marguerite.Johnson@newcastle.edu.au
Conference Fee: $50 (waived for overseas guests)
11–13 December, 2008: Church and State in Old and New Worlds
A Workshop sponsored by the Religious History Society in association with the Research Group on Religion and Intellectual Traditions and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Humanity at the University of Newcastle, NSW.
This workshop brings together national and international scholars to consider one of the central issues in western historiography - the relationship between church and state. This classic theme has never really gone away but is emerging to engage scholars in new ways in the wake of the colonial and postcolonial critique of the long history of the west and its imperial expansion from early modern times to the present. Within the West changing conceptions of the state, of marriage and family life, and the aftermath of 9/11 with an increase in Western-Islamic tension and the renewal of 'evangelical atheism' have all recently served to bring the issue into renewed focus.
The workshop will open on the evening of Thurs. 11 December with a keynote address from Frank Lambert (Purdue) on Church and State in the US.
Friday 12 Dec will be devoted to papers on the European background with the following speakers: Claire Walker (Adelaide): Early Modern England, David Cahill (UNSW): Early Modern Spain and Spanish America, David Garrioch (Monash): Old Regime France, Stewart J. Brown (Edinburgh): Modern Scotland and England, Jennifer Ridden (Latrobe): Modern Ireland and Judith Keene (Sydney): Modern Spain, In the evening there will be a workshop dinner.
The Sat. 13 Dec will focus on Church-State relations in colonial and post-colonial perspectives with papers by Rowan Strong (Murdoch) on Western Australia, Hilary Carey (Newcastle) on Colonial Missions, John Stenhouse (Otago, NZ) on New Zealand, Bruce Kaye (UNSW) on the Anglican Church in Australia, John Murphy (Melbourne) on the Australian churches and welfare and Troy Duncan (Newcastle) on Bishop Batty of Newcastle.
The workshop convenors are Hilary Carey and John Gascoigne
Could those interesting in attending contact Troy Duncan
Registration (which will cover the Thurs pm reception and lunches and teas on the Fri. and Sat.) will be $100 with an additional $50 for those wishing to attend the dinner on the Friday evening.
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2007 Workshops
Workshop on Religion, the Academy and the Public Sphere, Noah's On the Beach, Monday December 10, 2007
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