Program
Thursday 3 November
8.30 – 9.00 Registration
9.00 – 9.05 Housekeeping
9.05 – 9.20 Launch
9.20 – 10.45
Blasphemy our troubled History, our uncertain future
Keynote address by David Nash, Oxford Brookes University
11.05 – 12.30
The Devil's centre of operation':
English theatre and the charge of blasphemy, 1689-1714
David Manning, Clare College, Cambridge
“Les fees ont soif”: Feminist, Iconoclastic
or Blasphemous?
Maria-Suzette Fernandes Dias, The Australian National University
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Parallel sessions
Negotiating
the Sacred: Silence as a Way of Knowing in Yolngu Indigenous
Australian Storytelling
Caroline Josephs
Negotiating the care of secret/sacred objects
David Kaus, National Museum of Australia
The
Body of Christ: Blasphemy, Eroticism and Transgression in Martin
Scorsese's The Last Temptation of Christ
Glenn & Carolyn D'Cruz, Deakin University
Sexing the Divine:
Writing Sacred, Erotic Theo-Poetics
Deborah J. Rasa, poet
3.00 – 3.30 Afternoon tea
3.30 - 5.00
Blasphemy and Sacrilege
in the Arts: The Challenge of Kim Scott's Benang
Veronica Brady, University of Western Australia
Shekhina: From Sacred
Texts to Plastic Culture
Jennifer Dowling, University of Sydney
5:30 - 6:30
Votive: sacred
& ecstatic bodies
Public lecture, Chris Braddock, Auckland University of Technology
7pm Conference dinner
Friday 4 November
9.00 - 10.30
The Status of Beliefs,
Paternalism and Openness to Criticism
Keynote address by Prof. Jeremy Shearmur, The Australian National
University
10.30 – 11.00 Morning tea
11.00 – 12.30
Paradoxical concepts:
a way out from blasphemy
Alireza Majazi Amiri, Iranian Academic Centre for Education,
Culture & Research, Mashhad
Negotiating the
Sacred in Iranian Cinema
Michelle Langford, University of New South Wales
12.30 – 1.30 Lunch
1.30 – 3.00 Parallel sessions
Disrupting the order of the world:
a Madonna and piano accordion
Elizabeth Coleman, La Trobe University
The ethical immanence
of Art and the anthropological dimension of the sacred
Yolanda Espina, Portuguese Catholic University
Materializing
the Sacred
Dianne McGowan, The Australian National University
Du Sublime au ridicule,
il n'y a qu'un pas: Blasphemy and Sacrilege in Grass, Bulganov,
Tournier, Achebe, Garcia Marquez, and Rushdie
Peter Arnds, Kansas State University
3.00 – 3.30 Afternoon tea
3.30 - 5.00
The Second Coming:
the sacred and secular rituals of the unknown warrior's return
Kingsley Baird, Massey University
Inviting the devil
to dance in the church': Reconciliation through sacrilege? A
case from New Ireland
Antje Denner, University of Basel
5.00 Farewells and drinks
