2nd
International Conference
Consciousness, Theatre, Literature
and the Arts
Aberystwyth, Wales, UK,
5-7 May
2007
Draft Schedule (last updated 14 April 2007--final update before the conference)
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Saturday 5 May |
Sunday 6 May |
Monday 7 May |
08.30-09.00 |
Registration
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09.00-09.30 |
Registration |
Keynote Lancaster |
Plenary Hathaway |
09.30-10.00 |
Welcome |
Plenary Youtt |
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10.00-10.30 |
Keynote
Mangan
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10.30-11.00 |
Break |
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11.00-11.30 |
Keynote Grace |
Keynote Bonshek |
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11.30-12.00 |
Break
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12.00-12.30 |
Plenary paper |
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12.30-13.00 |
Book signing |
Book signing |
Book signing |
13.00-13.30 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
13.30-14.00 |
Lunch |
Lunch |
Lunch |
14.00-14.30 |
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Parallel Sessions |
Parallel sessions |
14.30-15.00 |
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15.00-15.30 |
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15.30-16.00 |
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16.00-16.30 |
Break
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Break |
Break |
16.30-17.00 |
Piano recital / lecture Emilie Crapoulet |
Parallel sessions |
Parallel
sessions |
17.00-17.30 |
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17.30-18.00 |
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18.00-18.30 |
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Conference
Dinner |
18.30-19.00 |
Dinner |
Dinner
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19.00-19.30 |
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19.30-20.00 |
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Performance Mangan |
20.00-20.30 |
Reading William T Hathaway |
Reading Harry Youtt |
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20.30-21.00 |
Saturday 5 May
Saturday 5 May 8.30 - 9.30
Saturday 5 May 9.30 – 10.00
Welcome and introduction to the conference Hugh Owen, A12
Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, Conference Director
Professor Noel Lloyd, Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of Wales Aberystwyth
Saturday 5 May 10.00 – 11.30
Keynote Lecture Hugh Owen, A12
Michael Mangan, University of Exeter, UK
KEYNOTE LECTURE
Conjuring, consciousness and magical thinking
Chair: David Ian Rabey, University of Wales Aberystwyth, UK
Saturday 5 May 11.30 – 12.00
Break
and Book Stalls
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room
Saturday 5 May 12.00 – 12.30
David Ian Rabey, University of Wales Aberystwyth
The Theatrical in the Sexual, the Sexual in the Theatrical: Some Parallels and Provocations
Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK
Saturday 5 May 12.30-13.00
Book Signing, Hugh Owen A12
Saturday 5 May 13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
and Book Stalls
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room
Saturday 5 May 14.00 – 16.00
Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12.
Theme: Art 1
Chair: Fred McVittie, UK
Papers:
Randee Lipson Lawrence, USA
Visual Metaphors: Awakening Consciousness Through Intuitive Painting
Durgadas Mukhopadhyay, India
Arts for Transformative Dialogue for Peace and Harmony
John Danvers, UK
Drawing, emptiness and presence
nathaniel stern, Ireland
From the Explicit to the Implicit (and back again)
Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14.
Theme: Visual Media / Film 1
Chair: Mahesh Nair, UK
Papers:
Trisha Rhodes, UK
A hermeneutics of the film text: representation “for” and representation “as”
Uwemedimo Atakpo, Nigeria
Class and Gender Consciousness in the Nigerian Home Video Film Case of Onome and Abuja Connections
Ananya Ghoshal, India
Apu’s journey and a consciousness in the making…
Christian J. Gay, USA
Consciousness in the Works of Filmmaker Tacita Dean
Panel
3
Theme: Theatre 1
Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK
Papers:
Manfred Milz, Turkey
Staging Mental Landscapes: Self-Reflexions of Beckett and Magritte within the Mirror of Nature
Manisha Anand Patil, India
The Presence of European Drama in Bombay Theatre: A Study in Consciousness.
Ajayi Adewale, Nigeria
Ritualisation as pragmatic deployment of revolutionary consciousness in the drama of Femi Osofisan
Vicky Angelaki, UK
Structuring Consciousness through Objects: Fluctuating Roles and Selves in Crimp, Pinter and Ionesco
Panel 4: Hugh Owen C 165
Theme: Theatre 2
Chair: Karoline Gritzner, UK
Papers:
L.C.Prigge, South Africa
ACTivation: Playing your Self
Samantha Pienaar, , South Africa
Enchanted Bodies: The Performer as Urban Shaman
Jessica Bockler, UK
Art as Vehicle: Ritual Expeditions into the Psyche
Jade R McCutcheon, USA
Automatic
Transmission:
Are
you receiving me?
Panel 5: Hugh Owen A9
Theme: Literature and Music
Chair: William S. Haney II, UAE
Papers:
Razieh Eslamieh, Iran
The Concept of Self-Conscious Narration in John Barth's Lost in the Funhouse"
Elina Hytönen, Finland
Transcendence in jazz – professional musicians flow-experiences
Maya Higashi Wakana, Japan
Impression Management in Henry James’s “An International Episode”
Julio Francisco Dantas de Rezende, Brazil
The transpersonal experience with the music of Led Zeppelin
Saturday 5 May 16.00 – 16.30
Break
and Book Stalls
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room
Saturday 5 May 16.30 – 18.00
Piano Recital and Lecture by Emilie
Crapoulet
Venue: Arts Centre, Teatr y Werin
Saturday 5 May 18.30 – 19.30
Dinner,
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room
Saturday 5 May 20.00
Venue: Hugh Owen, A12
Keynote Lecture Hugh Owen, A12
Les Lancaster, Liverpool John Moores University
The unbound mind: A neurocognitive approach to consciousness and creativity
Chair: Jessica Bockler, UK
Sunday 6 May 10.30 –11.00
Break
and Book Stalls
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room
Keynote Lecture Hugh Owen, A12
Daphne Grace, University of the Bahamas
Self, Memory, Trauma: The Literature of Human Survival
Chair: William S Haney II, United Arab
Emirates
Book Signing, Hugh Owen A12
Lunch
and Book Stalls
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room
Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12.
Theme: Art 2
Chair: Maya Ozturk, Turkey
Papers:
John Danvers, UK
Five River Interludes
Ndubuisi Ezeluomba C., UK
From the Subreal to the Real: The Creative Process of Benin Olokum Shrine Sculptures
Tone Roald, Denmark
A psychology of aesthetic form
Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14.
Theme: Film and Lens-based Work
Chair: Mikel Koven, UK
Papers:
Lucy Bolton, UK
The Woman who saw The Man Who Cried: A Study of Female Consciousness On-Screen
Veronica Vossen, UK
Enactions and Envisions: A Discourse on Visual Consciousness and Lens-based work
Simon Stahli, UK
Dwelling in contingency: Hua Yen Buddhism and the photography of Raymond Moore
Aparna Sharma, UK
Inscription of the culturally specific in intercultural practice
Panel 3: Hugh Owen, C164.
Theme: Theatre 3
Chair: Alison Forsyth, UK
Papers:
Charles Whitehead, UK
Work versus Play: What recent brain research can tell us about play, theatre, and the arts, and why it is taking scientists such an unconscionably long time to realize their importance
Barbara Sellers Young, USA
Consciousness, Contemplative Practice and the Academy
Edward Spence, Australia
The Theatre of Philosophy: A Neo-Socratic Way of Performing Public Philosophy
Marie Kruger, South Africa
The puppet as mediator for social consciousness: an analysis of the role of puppets in traditional festivals and interventional theatre in Africa
Panel 4: Hugh Owen, C165
Theme: Theatre 4
Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK
Papers:
Ralph Yarrow, UK
The absurd as cognitive shift
Bill Hopkinson, UK
Lecoq’s Neutral Mask: Performing a Corporeal Model of Consciousness.
Sreenath Nair, UK
Neutral Presence: Breath and Consciousness in Performance
B. Ananthakrishnan, India
Belief, Performance and Mental Terrains of a Performer
Panel 5: Hugh Owen, A9
Theme: Literature 2
Chair: Willaim T Hathaway
Papers:
Nick Kimbro, UK
The Aesthetic Discourse of Joyce and Waugh: A Buddhist Critique.
Hervé-Pierre Lambert, France
Octavio Paz: illusion of the consciousness and altered states of consciousness
Paul Powell, USA
A Buddhist Response to David Bartholomae's Student "Situatedness" as the Real Work of the Academe.
Barine Saana Ngaage,
Nigeria.
Consciousness in the Novels of Amadi and Nwapa.
Break
and Book Stalls
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room
Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12.
Theme: Theatre 5
Chair: Sreenath Nair, UK
Papers:
Maya Oztürk, Turkey
The sit(d)e uncanny: On exposure, dark space, and structures of fear
Peter Aniago, UK
Vicious Performance, its aesthetics and the frame of mind
Dalila Honorato, Greece
Bullfight: embracing the animal, performing god
Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14
Theme: Theatre 6
Chair: Mick Mangan, UK
Papers:
Raymond Munro, USA
Staging 9/11
Alexander Mangold, UK
The unconscious ‘I’ – Echoes of subjectivity in Sarah Kane’s Crave
Alison Forsyth, UK
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Panel 3: Hugh Owen, C164
Theme: Philosophy 1
Chair: Tom O'Malley, UK
Papers:
Edward Willatt, UK
Art as Non-Knowledge: Gilles Deleuze on Consciousness and Apprenticeship
Colette Conroy, UK
Freud, Disability and Impairment.
Jeffrey Strayer, USA
Essentialist Abstraction
Panel 4: Hugh Owen C 165
Theme: Music / Literature / Theatre
Chair: Barbara Sellers-Young, USA
Papers:
Christiane Heibach, Germany
Richard Wagner’s Concept of the “Artwork of the Future” as a Model for a Contemporary Multimedia Art Theory
Valentina Franco, Italy
Mozart’s letters to his cousin Maria Anna Thekla as a possible epistolary libertine romance. Is Mozart an involuntary writer?
Luigi Nonos music theatre as „Theatre of consciousness“
Panel 5: Hugh Owen A9
Theme: Art / Visual Media
Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK
Papers:
Alfonsina Scarinzi , Germany
Traces of Phenomenal Experiences in the Brain: Consciousness and the Reception Process of the Literary Theme
Fred McVittie, UK
Symbols and Schemata: the use of visual and sensorimotor metaphors within knowledge acquisition in the arts
Mikko Pirinen, Finland
Interpreting Titles and Metaphors of Visual Art
Sunday 6 May 18.30 – 19.30
Dinner,
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room
Harry Youtt
Monday 7 May
Monday 7 May 9.00 - 10.30
Hugh Owen, A12
Plenary
William T Hathaway,
Harry Youtt,
William S Haney II
Chair: Ralph Yarrow, UK
Monday 7 May 10.30 - 11.00
Break
and Book Stalls
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room
Monday 7 May 11.00 – 12.30
Keynote Lecture Hugh Owen, A12
Anna Bonshek, Australia
Insight As Cognition or Darshana
Chair:
John Danvers, UK
Book Signing, Hugh Owen A12
Monday 7 May 13.00 – 14.00
Lunch
and Book Stalls
Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room
Monday 7 May 14.00 – 16.00
Parallel Sessions
Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12.
Theme: Theatre 7
Chair: Raymond Munro, USA
Papers:
Claire Altree, UK
The ‘divided self’: fragmentation of the psyche in Ewan MacColl’s The Other Animals.
Abder-Rahim Abu-Swailem Jordan
Native Mythology and Tomson Highway's The Rez Sisters
Miranda Young-Jahangeer, South Africa
Bringing in to play: Investigating the appropriation of Prison Theatre in Westville Female Prison, KwaZulu-Natal (2000 – 2005)
Alisa Joanne Tigchelaar, USA
El arte de hacer monjas” / The Art of Nun Making: The Dramatic Practice of Marcela de San Félix
Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14
Theme: Theatre 8
Chair: Roger Owen
Papers:
Anita Hammer, Norway.
Exploring Ritual Dynamics by Means of Fiction: Seven Tales of Misery at PLEX Theatre in Copenhagen.
A H Alabdullah, Kuwait
Popular Theatre: Puppet, Shadow plays and Traveling Troupes
Kimmika L. H. Williams-Witherspoon, USA
Why Black Folks Always Got to Sing and Dance: The Function of “Kuntu” in African American Theater
Daniel P. Sampey, Czech Republic
Metatheatre: A New Genre?
Panel 3: Hugh Owen, C164
Theme: Literature, Film and Music
Chair: Jessica Bockler, UK
Papers:
Elizabeth Lin, UK
The Enactment of Consciousness in The Waves
Emilie Crapoulet, France / UK
The music of the mind: music and the Modernist stream of consciousness
Ralf Hertel, Germany
The text speaks: Auditory strategies in John Berger’s To the Wedding
Magda Zena Sadurska, Poland
Orpheus’s calling – topos of music in fabular films
Panel 4: Hugh Owen C 165
Ethnography, Art and Theatre
Chair: Daniel Meyer-Dinkgräfe, UK
Papers:
Ayşegül Yarpuzlu ,Turkey
Customs And Beliefs Related To Death In Anatolia
Joanna Kurth , Finland
Death in Paintings. Recognizing Representations of Death.
Shiang-Jiun Chen, USA
Using Video Conferencing as an Improvisational Tool for Group Performance
The Lion Dance Project: Children’s Exploration of Self-Image through Creative Arts and Media
Monday 7 May 16.30 – 18.00 Hugh Owen A12
Parallel
Sessions
Panel 1: Hugh Owen, A12.
Theme: Philosophy 2
Chair: Jeffrey Strayer, USA
Papers:
Christa Zorn, USA
Cosmopolitan Consciousness and the Public Sphere: New International Citizen Subjectivity and the Public Intellectual in World War I
Nicole Ridgway (South Africa and Ireland)
Of the Between (Thinking the Im-mediate).
Christopher Gemerchak,The Netherlands
“Nothing is less animal than fiction”: Literature as the Heir of Sacrifice in the work of Georges Bataille
Panel 2: Hugh Owen, A14
Theme: Poetry and Theatre
Chair: Harry Youtt, USA
Papers:
Christiana Lambrinidis, Greece
“From conflict resolution to "Rehearsing Sex": a space of freedom among theory and the dead meandering to assist with resistance”
Nicholas O. Pagan, Eastern Mediterranean University (paper read by William S Haney II)
Geometrical Thinking and the Literary Mind
Eelco van Es, The Netherlands
‘I sat me down to spell them’: double scope integration in George Herbert’s Jesu.
Monday 7 May
18.00 – 19.30
Monday 7 May
The Varadi Foundation presents
Scenes from the
Phantasmaglossia. Written by Mick Mangan.
Devised and performed by Mick Mangan and Sarah Goldingay