IT'S ALL DONE NOW. So if you wanna attend the lectures, read this posters copious amounts of text! It was SO much worse before, but this is still a lot. And don't say anything about the ALL CAPS; my hands were tied. I did my best under the circumstances.
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PS. Because I couldnt really make the poster legible, here is a cut-and-paste of the content: ENJOY!
ART and GOD SCHEDULE
22 March
Keynote Address: Art and God, A Global Update
Prof. Wayne Hudson Wayne Hudson is a Professor of History and Philosophy with the Faculty of Arts, Media and Culture at GU
Wayne will discuss why contemporary philosophers and theologians are abandoning theism and the significance interreligious theology and globalization for the contemporary arts.
29 March
Transtemporality, Transculturality and Liminality in aesthetics
Leah King-Smith Leah is a well know Indigenous Australian artist and a current PhD candidate at QUT.
Leah will present a paper on spirituality in photomedia through her philosophical and multidimensional approach to spirituality.
8 April
Diane Arbus
Anne O’Heir Anne O’Hehir is Assistant Curator of Photography at the National Gallery of Australia
Anne will examine the photographs of Diane Arbus in the context of Arbus’s worldview, seeing her as a humanist who’s able to imbue her sitters with a grace and presence that was able to takes them beyond their circumstances.
26 April
From the Sublime to the Vacuous
Christian Flynn and Arryn Snowball Christian Flynn (Master of Arts in Visual Arts -Honours) and Arryn Snowball (Doctor of Visual Arts) are current students at QCA, GU. Along with Prof. Pat Hoffie (Director of Research & Postgraduate QCA, GU)
Christian and Arryn will discuss the extent to which it is possible for God to exist in the contemporary world.
3 May
Inter-faith Dialogue for a Culture of Peace
To Swee-Hin Prof. Toh Swee-Hin is the foundation Director of the Multi-Faith Centre at Griffith Universities Nathan Campus
Prof Toh Swee-Hin presents a reflection on the vision and work of the Multi-Faith Centre in promoting dialogue among diverse faiths and spirituality traditions toward the building of a culture of peace at local, national and global levels of life.
10 May
Jesus and Muhammad: Art, Poetry and Experience
Julia Howell Julia Howell is Associate Professor in the Department of Asian and International Studies.
Julia’s paper will draw from her research on Religious movements in Asia and the West over the past thirty years
17 May
Spatialising the "Origin": Constructing Divinity
Dr Jondi Keane is an arts practitioner and critical thinker who teaches in the School of Creative Arts at the Griffith University Gold Coast Campus.
This lecture will examine the relation of art and God by looking at how we literally position God at the point of origin in our concept of space. Using examples from art and technology. Jondi will argue it is possible to see how contrasting ideas of space produce drastically different ways in which persons relate to objects, to others, to the world and to the divine
24 May
Beware of the God
Deborah Kelly Deborah Kelly is a well known Australian artist who’s works has recently been included in the Interesting Times exhibition at Sydney’s Museum of Contemporary Art.
Deborah will talk about her latest project Beware of the God in which she utilizes a variety of forms, including video advertising, postcards, a web site and a metal plaque to draw attention tot he highly contentious subject of the growing influence of religious thought over public institutions.
31 May
Art and God – Eat the snake and forget the apple
Rosemary Crumlin Rosemary Crumlin OAM is an art curator and is a lecturer ACU (National) Melbourne.
The shift to matters of the spirit is a growing trend in among artists even in Australia. This talk will explore works by artists (including indigenous artists) who habitually go beyond the realm of the certain and the expected in pursuit of their own questions of the spirit.
