Time: 11 October (Thursday), 2018
Venue: ANU China in the World Seminar Rooms
If you plan to attend any part of the conference (and we very much hope you do!), please do register here
Schedule:
8:15-8:30: welcome from Simon Haberle, school director
8:30-9:00: Tomoko Akami, âOn perfection and realities: Quantification and scientification of social sciences and universitiesâ
9:00-9:30: Chris Ballard, âThe perfectibility of islands and the possibility of the complete surveyâ
9:30-10:00: Alan Libert (University of Newcastle), âPerfection and artificial languagesâ
10:00-10:30: Fengyuan Ji, âLanguage and integrating ideals of perfection in China since 1949â
10:30-11:00: morning tea
11:00-11:30: Adam Broinowski, âNuclear technologiesâ
11:30-12:00: Verity Burgmann (University of Melbourne and Monash University), âThe history of utopian communities: A case study of the New Australia settlement in 1890s Paraguayâ
12:00-12:30: Andrew Milner (Monash University), âThe utopian novelâ
12:30-1:30: a delicious catered lunch
1:30-2:00: Assi Doron. âThe perfect toiletâ
2:00-2:30: Grazia Scotellaro, âPerfection and innovationâ
2:30-3:00: Jaap Timmer and Anna-Karina Hermkens (Macquarie University), âPerfection, divinity, and sacred homelandsâ
3:00-3:30: afternoon tea
3:30-4:00: Meaghan Morris (University of Sydney), âPerfectibility in cinemaâ
4:00-4:30: Peter Friedlander, âPainting perfection: Visions of Varanasiâ
4:30-5:00:Â Pandit Ananth Rao, âA perfect human?: A presentation from the Ramayana of Valmikiâ
5:00-5:30: free half hour
5:30-7:00: keynote address by Hirokazu Miyazaki (Northwestern University)