CHL Flagship Event: Conference on ‘Ideals and Projects of Perfection’

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, ‘On perfection and realities: Quantification and scientification of social sciences and universities’

9:00-9:30: Chris Ballard, ‘The perfectibility of islands and the possibility of the complete survey’

9:30-10:00: Alan Libert (University of Newcastle), ‘Perfection and artificial languages’

10:00-10:30: Fengyuan Ji, ‘Language and integrating ideals of perfection in China since 1949’

10:30-11:00: morning tea

11:00-11:30: Adam Broinowski, ‘Nuclear technologies’

11:30-12:00: Verity Burgmann (University of Melbourne and Monash University), ‘The history of utopian communities: A case study of the New Australia settlement in 1890s Paraguay’

12:00-12:30: Andrew Milner (Monash University), ‘The utopian novel’

12:30-1:30: a delicious catered lunch

1:30-2:00: Assi Doron. ‘The perfect toilet’

2:00-2:30: Grazia Scotellaro, ‘Perfection and innovation’

2:30-3:00: Jaap Timmer and Anna-Karina Hermkens (Macquarie University), ‘Perfection, divinity, and sacred homelands’

3:00-3:30: afternoon tea

3:30-4:00: Meaghan Morris (University of Sydney), ‘Perfectibility in cinema’

4:00-4:30: Peter Friedlander, ‘Painting perfection: Visions of Varanasi’

4:30-5:00: Pandit Ananth Rao, ‘A perfect human?: A presentation from the Ramayana of Valmiki’

5:00-5:30: free half hour

5:30-7:00: keynote address by Hirokazu Miyazaki (Northwestern University)

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