Locations of Spirituality: ‘Experiences’ and ‘Writings’ of
the Sacred
Venue
Humanities Research Centre, Old Canberra House, ANU.
Dates
Date: 26-27 October 2002
Convener
Minoru Hokari
Email: mhokari@hotmail.com
DAY ONE (Saturday 26 October)
8:30 – 9:00 REGISTRATION
9:00 – 9:10 HOUSE KEEPING
9:10 - 9:30 OPENING
Mrs. Matilda House (Chairperson, Aboriginal Land Council
Ngunnawal)
Professor Iain McCalman (Director, Humanities Research
Centre, ANU)
9:30 –11:00 INDIGENOUS/CROSS-CULTURAL AUSTRALIA 1
(Chair: Stephen Muecke)
Michael Williams
“Journeying with Respect”
Diana James
“How can we sing our own songs in a strange land?”
Djon Mundine
“You can be the President, I’d rather be the Pope!”
11:00 –11:30 Morning Tea
11:30 – 1:00 STORIES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES 1
(Chair: Christine Watson)
Linda Bennett
“What's Spirituality got to do with it?”
Greg Dening
“An Archaeology of Believing or The Self as Another Country”
Jo Diamond
“Hinenuitepo: a Goddess, a calling, and me.”
1:00 –2:00 Lunch
2:00 – 3:30 WHEN EXPERIENCES MEETS THEORY
(Chair: John Docker)
Stephen Muecke
“Something Wrong? Oh, Must be Ghost”
Margo Weir
“Articulating Spirituality: Fundamental Problems and Considerations”
Debjani Ganguly
“Buddha, Bhakti and Superstition: A Post-Secular Reading of Dalit
Conversion”
3:30 – 4:00 Afternoon Tea
4:00 – 5:00 SPIRITUAL DIVERSITY IN AUSTRALIA
(Chair: Roland Boer)
Peter Read
“Foreign spirits in an Aboriginal landscape”
Deborah Bird Rose
“Calling Out: Shades, Shadows, and Intersubjectivities”
5:00 – 6:00 Open Discussion / Round Table
(Chair: Michael Williams)
Ann McGrath, Kaye Price
7:30 Dinner at Vivaldi, ANU (Union Court)
DAY TWO (Sunday 27 October)
9:30 – 11:00 INDIGENOUS/CROSS-CULTURAL AUSTRALIA 2
(Chair: Jinki Trevillian)
Richard Davis
“Dead Men Walking”
Christine Watson
“Reassurance, Fear and Laughter: Faces of Cross-Cultural Spiritual
Experience”
Janet Phillips
“Computer Rejected Me!”
11:00 – 11:30 Morning Tea
11:30 – 1:00 WHEN STORIES MEETS EXPERIENCE
(Chair: Ann Curthoys)
Minoru Hokari
“Locations of spirituality: where stories come from”
John Docker
“Scenes of Death, Hopes of Eternity: Socrates, Jesus, Spinoza”
Roland Boer
“Secularism, Utopia and the Discernment of Myth”
1:00 – 2:00 Lunch
(1:30 Story Telling by Caroline Josephs)
“Sacred Storytelling: Braiding Personal, Presentational and Experiential
Modes”
2:00 – 3:30 STORIES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES 2
(Chair: Linda Bennett)
Fiona Crockford
“Spirits of Resistance: East Timorese Youth in Western Sydney”
Jennifer Badstuebner
“Red Subjectivities: Blood, needles and the ethnographer’s body”
Andrew Jones
“Locating Passion – Melancholy Wonder and the Enigma of Be-longing”
3:30 – 4:00 Afternoon Tea
4:00 – 5:30 INDIGENOUS/CROSS-CULTURAL AUSTRALIA 3
(Chair: Deborah Bird Rose)
Franchesca Cubillo
“Politics of the Secret – Aboriginal mythological warrant”
Adam Shoemaker
“The Spirituality of the Memorial”
Jinki Trevillian
“Talking with Ghosts: a meeting with Old Man Crocodile on Cape
York Peninsula”
5:30 – 6:30 Open Discussion / Round Table
(Chair: Peter Read)
Lyn McCredden, Ann Thomas
Enquiries
Leena Messina, Programs Manager, Humanities Research
Centre, ANU
Email: Leena.Messina@anu.edu.au
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