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)

Saturday 5 May

Saturday 5 May 8.30 - 9.30                  

Registration, Penbryn Halls of Residence, Reception

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

Plenary Session, Hugh Owen A12

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             

Parallel sessions

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 , Hugh Owen C 164

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                          

Reading: William T. Hathaway

Venue: Hugh Owen, A12

Sunday 6 May

Sunday 6 May 9.00 – 10.30               

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

Sunday 6 May  11.00-12.30                

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 

Sunday 6 May 12.30 – 13.00

Book Signing, Hugh Owen A12

Sunday 6 May 13.00 – 14.00             

Lunch and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Sunday 6 May  14.00 – 16.00

Parallel sessions

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.

Sunday 6 May 16.00 – 16.30             

Break and Book Stalls

Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room and Wasdell Room

Sunday 6 May 16.30 – 18.00

Parallel Sessions

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?

Christine Mast, Germany

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

Sunday 6 May 20.00 Hugh Owen A12
Public Reading

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  

Monday 7 May 12.30 – 13.00

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             

Conference Dinner, Penbryn Halls of Residence, Upper Dining Room

Monday 7 May

20.00 Arts Centre, Teatr y Werin

The Varadi Foundation presents Scenes from the Phantasmaglossia. Written by Mick Mangan.
Devised and performed by Mick Mangan and Sarah Goldingay