Mimesis, Movies and Media: Conference Program

The document provides the program for the 3rd Annual Conference of the Australian Girard Seminar held on January 18-19, 2013 at the University of Western Sydney. The conference focused on the theme of "Mimesis, Movies and Media" and featured keynote addresses, paper presentations, and discussions on how René Girard's mimetic theory can be applied to understanding representations in art, literature and popular culture. Over the two day event, speakers addressed topics such as the scapegoating of cheerleaders in media, mimeticism in Woody Allen films, and Girardian interpretations of television shows and films.

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The 3rd Annual Conference of the

Australian Girard Seminar

Mimesis, Movies
and Media

18th-19th January 2013

Parramatta Campus, University of
Western Sydney
Conference Program
Friday, 18th January, 2013
3-3.30pm (Foyer outside Lecture Theatre EA.G.19)
Registration

3.30-4.45pm (Lecture Theatre EA.G.19)

"Introduction to René Girard's Mimetic Theory".
Rev. Canon Dr. Scott Cowdell (Charles Sturt University).

5-6pm (Boilerhouse Restaurant)

Book Launch of Violence, Desire, and the Sacred: Girard’s Mimetic Theory
Across the Disciplines (edited by Scott Cowdell, Chris Fleming and Joel
Hodge; published by Continuum/Bloomsbury).
Speaker: Rev. Professor Anthony Kelly CSsR (Australian Catholic
University).
MC: Dr. Joel Hodge (Australian Catholic University).

6-7.30pm (Boilerhouse Restaurant)

Conference Dinner

7.30-9pm (Lecture Theatre EA.G.19)

Keynote Address: "Mirrors of Nature: Artificial Agents in real life and virtual
worlds”.
Professor Paul Dumouchel
Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences
Ritsumeikan University, Japan.
Chair: Dr. Chris Fleming (University of Western Sydney).

Postgraduate Gathering and Drinks immediately follows the

lecture (Venue TBC).
Saturday, 19th January, 2013
9-10.15am (Lecture Theatre EA.G.19)
Keynote Address:“The Scapegoating of Cheerleading and Cheerleaders”.
Dr. Emma A. Jane, Senior Lecturer at the University of NSW and
award-winning journalist, broadcaster and author.
Chair: Rev. Canon Dr. Scott Cowdell (Charles Sturt University).

10.15-10.45am: Morning Tea (Foyer of Building EA)

10.45am-12.15pm: Paper Session 1 (EA.G.19)

Dr. John O’Carroll (Charles Sturt University), “The All-Too-Human
Machine: Mimesis, Scapegoat, Medium”.
Rev. Canon Dr. Scott Cowdell (Charles Sturt University), “Against
Romantic Love: Mimeticism and Satire in Woody Allen’s Vicky, Cristina,
Barcelona and To Rome With Love”.
Dr. Rosamund Dalziell (Charles Sturt University), “Media, Murder and
Memoir: Girardian Baroque in Robert Drewe’s The Shark Net (2000)”.
Chair: Rev. Rebecca Newland (St Philip's Anglican Church, O'Connor
ACT).

12.15-1.30pm: Lunch (Foyer of Building EA)

1.30-3pm: Paper Session 2 (EA.G.19)

Dr. Joel Hodge (Australian Catholic University), “Superheroes,
Scapegoats and Saviours”.
Dr. Matthew Tan (Campion College), “Conversion in Dexter”.
Dr. Nigel Zimmermann (University of Notre Dame Australia), “The
Butler did it: A Girardian reading of the problem of class in the
popular British period drama, Downton Abbey”.
Chair: Assoc. Prof. Marie Joyce (Australian Catholic University).
3-3.30pm: Afternoon Tea (Foyer of Building EA)

3.30-4.30pm: Paper Session 3 (Concurrent Sessions)

Concurrent Session 1 (Lecture Theatre EA.G.19)
Carly Osborn (University of Adelaide), “Dreams Decaying: American
Utopias and Tragic Violence”.
Debra MacDonald (University of Auckland), “The Dark Knight and My
Community Gotham”.
Chair: Dr. Jo de Groot (The Academy of the Word).

Concurrent Session 2 (Room EA.G.10)

Rev. Assoc. Prof. Bruce Stevens (University of Canberra), “Sleeping
Beauty (2011) ‘Once upon a perverse time...’”.
Rev. Nikolai Blaskow (Radford Anglican College, ACT), “24 frames per
second: ‘aporia’ as an act of God”.
Chair: Rev. Canon Dr. Scott Cowdell

4.30-5pm (Room EA.G.10)

Business Meeting for the Australian Girard Seminar (all welcome).

5pm: Departure
(If you would like to share a taxi to the airport, please let the confer-
ence organisers know).
Thank-you for your participation and safe travels.