From jlrbentley at yahoo.com.au Mon Dec 12 16:36:50 2016 From: jlrbentley at yahoo.com.au (John Bentley) Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2016 16:36:50 +1100 Subject: [SydPhil] Philorum Group @ Central. 2016-12(Dec)-13 Tue. Open Forum Message-ID: <000401d25439$be8f3110$3bad9330$@yahoo.com.au> All welcome. Dates: 2nd Tuesdays of the month. 18:15 for a 18:30 Start. Finish 21:30 (Feel free to come and go at any point during the night.) The Members Bar, Floor 1 (Keep winding up to the top of the stairs.) The Gaelic Club 64 Devonshire Street Surry Hills 2010 NSW Sydney, Australia (100 metres from a Central railway station exit.) Cost: $3 donation. (This goes entirely to the venue). www.philorum.org View a google map at http://www.philorum.org/centralNextMeeting.html From john.sutton at mq.edu.au Tue Dec 13 12:49:42 2016 From: john.sutton at mq.edu.au (John Sutton) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 01:49:42 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Elizabeth Loftus, public lecture on memory, Sydney Uni, Tues 3 Jan 2017, 6-7.30pm Message-ID: Details and online registration: http://whatson.sydney.edu.au/events/published/sydney-ideas-professor-elzabeth-loftus This event is associated with SARMAC XII: http://www.sarmac.org/sarmac-xii-2017/ Contacts sydney.ideas at sydney.edu.au (for public lecture) or sarmac at sydney.edu.au (for conference). 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URL: From robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Wed Dec 14 09:31:46 2016 From: robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au (Robert Sinnerbrink) Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2016 22:31:46 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Cinematic Ethics 2: Emotion, Ethics, and Cinematic Experience, MGSM Conference Centre, MQ Uni, Dec 15-16 Message-ID: Dear All, The following item may be of interest: Cinematic Ethics 2 Symposium: Emotion, ethics, and cinematic experience A Two Day Workshop/Symposium, Thursday Dec 15 & Friday Dec 16, 2016 MGSM Conference Centre Macquarie University , North Ryde, Sydney The complex relationships between emotion, ethics, and cinematic experience provides the focus for this invited interdisciplinary workshop, the second 'Cinematic Ethics' symposium at Macquarie University, organised by Dr Robert Sinnerbrink as part of his ARC Future Fellowship project, 'Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film' (FT 130100334). The symposium brings together national and international researchers working on film from different disciplines, traditions, and theoretical perspectives. Particular attention will be given to developing the dialogue between phenomenological and cognitivist approaches to theorising emotion, ethics, and aesthetics in cinematic experience. Presentations with deal with topics such as moral psychology and narrative cinema; moral psychology and video games; neuroscientific and cognitivst approaches to emotion and cinematic experience; the ethics of empathy in film; phenomenology, ethics, and aesthetics of cinema; phenomenology and eco-aesthetics; phenomenology, ethics, and cinematic poetry; editing techniques and the expression of thought; the relationship between phenomenological and cognitivist approaches to emotion and mood in film. Cinematic Ethics 2: Emotion, ethics, and cinematic experience December 15-16, 2016 MGSM Conference Centre, MGSM Building, Theatre 101, MQ University Speaker Schedule Thursday December 15 Coffee: 9.15 Intro to Workshop 9.45 10am-11.00 Prof. Carl Plantinga (Calvin College): ?Moral Psychology in an Ethics of Engagement? 11.00am-11.30 morning tea 11.30am-12.30 A/Prof. Jane Stadler (University of Queensland): ?Intercorporeality: The Ethics of Empathy in Bryan Fuller?s Hannibal? 12.30pm-1.30 Lunch 1.30pm-2.30 Dr Saige Walton (University of South Australia): ?Heart of a Dog (2015): Merleau-Ponty?s Depth, Ethics and the Cinema of Poetry? 2.30pm-3.30 Ludo de Roo (Macquarie University): ?The four elements of ecocinema? 3.30pm-4.00 Afternoon tea 4.00pm-5.00 Dr Karen Pearlman (Macquarie University): ?Documenting Thoughts and Revealing Agency? Friday December 16 Coffee 9.00 9.30-10.30 Prof. Amy Coplan (California State University, Fullerton): ?Outside In: Film, Affect, and the Body? 10.30am-11.00 morning tea 11.00-12.00 Dr Paul Formosa, Malcolm Ryan, and Dan Staines (Macquarie University): ?Moral Psychology of Gaming? 12.00-1.00 Dr Ted Nannicelli (University of Queensland): ?Film Production and Ethical Criticism? 1.00pm-2.00 Lunch 2.00pm-3.00 Dr Robert Sinnerbrink (Macquarie University): ?Phenomenology meets Cognitivism: Notes on an Encounter? 3.00pm-4.00 Philip Martin (Macquarie University): ?Images of War and Wisdom Teeth: Aimless Bullet's Aesthetic-Social Imaginings? 4.00pm-4.30 Afternoon tea 4.30pm-5.30 Dr Mathew Abbott (Federation University): ?The Look of Silence and the Problem of Monstrosity? 5.30pm-5.45 Concluding remarks & wrap-up For further information or to express interest in attending please email Dr Robert Sinnerbrink: robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Dr Robert Sinnerbrink Senior Lecturer & Australian Research Council Future Fellow Department of Philosophy | Level 7, W6A Building Balaclava Rd Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia T: +61 2 9850 9935 | F: +61 2 9850 8892 | robert.sinnerbrink at mq.edu.au Staff Profile Academia Page New Book: Cinematic Ethics [Macquarie University] CRICOS Provider Number 00002J. 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Please indicate which of the units and semesters listed below you wish to be considered for and include a CV and the names of two referees. Depending on enrollments other units may also require tutors. The closing date for expressions of interest is Monday December 19. EOIs should be emailed to jeanette.kennett at mq.edu.au OUA tutoring PHIX131: S1 and S2 PHIX137: S1, S2, S3 PHIX201: S1 and S2 PHIX242: S1 and S3 PHIX246: S1 and S2 PHIX262: S1 and S2 PHIX357: S1 and S2 PHIX358: S1 and S2 PHIX365: S2 and S3. 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