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Conference Program

Provisional as of 6/7/2004

Please note that the Keynote Opening Addresses and the Panel Discussion and Public Forum to conclude the conference are public sessions and will be held in the Refectory at the Australian Lutheran College, 104 Jeffcott St, North Adelaide. Entrance is via Ward St. These sessions are in the evening and begin at 7.30.

The day sessions of the conference will be held at the University of Adelaide, North Terrace, Adelaide in the Margaret Murray Room, level 4, western end of the Students' Union Building. The day sessions begin at 9.30 am, with tea and coffee available at 9.00am.

Monday 19/7/2004
From 5pm:

Registration

Registrations will be received from 5pm until 7pm on Monday evening in the foyer of the refectory at the Australian Lutheran College. Day registrations for sessions at the university will be received between 9am and 9.30am in the Margaret Murray Room, Union Bldg, University of Adelaide.
7.30pm:
  • Keynote Addresses: Dr Engelhard Weigl (University of Adelaide) and Prof. Robert Jenson (Princeton University). Chair Dr. Wayne Cristaudo (University of Adelaide).
    PUBLIC SESSION
    entrance by gold coin donation

    Tuesday 20/7/2004
    9.30-11.00:

  • Paul Bishop (Glasgow University): The Battle between Spirit and Soul: Messianism, Apocalypse, and Redemption in the Thought of Ludwig Klages.
  • Martin Travers (Griffith University): 'The Self Styled to Transcendence': Aesthetic Fundamentalism in the Writings of Stefan George and his Circle.
    11.00-11.30:
  • morning tea
    11.30-1.00:
  • Lisa Marie Anderson (University of Pennsylvania): "In den Evangelien auffindbar und dort verhei�en": The Claims of Modernity and Christian Messianism in German Expressionist Drama.
  • Geoff Thompson (Trinity Theological College): Karl Barth.
    1.00-2.00:
  • lunch
    2.00-3.30:
  • Cecil Schmalkuche (St. Matthew's, Footscray): Martin Buber.
  • Wayne Cristaudo (University of Adelaide): Redemption and Messianism in Franz Rosenzweig.
    3.30-4.00:
  • afternoon tea
    4.00-5.30:
  • Koral Ward (Murdoch University): Apocalypse And Martin Heidegger's Augenblick. Kim Sorensen (University of Adelaide): Crisis, Redemption and Leo Strauss�s Meditation on the Revelation-Reason Question.
    7.00pm:
  • Conference Dinner
    ($30) Jah'z Caf� (off Rundle St).

    Wednesday 21/7/2004
    9.30-11.00:

  • Frances Daly (Australia National University): Ernst Bloch.
  • Engelhard Weigl (University of Adelaide): The Present as Interim: Kracauer's Critique of the Modern Age.
    11.00-11.30:
  • morning tea
    11.30-1.00:
  • Bram Mertens (Nottingham University): 'Hope, Yes, But Not For Us': Messianism And Redemption In The Work Of Walter Benjamin.
  • Trevor Maddock (University of Adelaide): Messianism, Apocalypse And Redemption In The Thought Of Theodor Adorno.
    1.00-2.00:
  • lunch
    2.00-3.30:
  • Max Champion (Melbourne): Redemption after Nietzsche? The 'Acceptance of Guilt' in Bonhoeffer's Christology.
  • Denis Edwards (Flinders University): Karl Rahner's Eschatology.
    3.30-4.00:
  • afternoon tea
    4.00-5.30:
  • Discussion of conference proceedings and setting up a journal
    7.30 pm:
  • informal gathering and dinner
    venue to be announced

    Thursday 22/7/2004
    9.30-11.00:

  • Erich Renner (Australian Lutheran College, Adelaide) : Gerhard von Rad, the Heilsgeschichte, and the Notion of Apocalypse.
  • Chris Mostert (UCA Theological Hall, Melbourne): The Horizon of the Future in the Theology of Wolfhart Pannenberg.
    11.00-11.30:
  • morning tea
    11.30-1.00:
  • Joanne Cho (William Paterson University of New Jersey): Apocalypse and Redemption in Karl Jaspers.
  • Thomas Pekar (Gakushin University, Tokyo): Hiroshima - Figuration of the Apocalypse. Referring to the Atomic Bomb Discourse by G�nther Anders, Karl Jaspers and Others.
    1.00-2.00:
  • lunch
    2.00-3.30:
  • Wes Campbell (St John's Congregation, Melbourne): Moltmann's Political theology: Hope Grounded on the Resurrection of a Crucified Jew.
  • Lee Kersten (University of Adelaide) : Guenter Grass' Drummer, Oskar Matzerath And The Messianic And The Apocalyptic.
    3.30-4.00:
  • afternoon tea
    4.00-5.30:
  • Peter Morgan (University of Western Australia) : The Sign Of Saturn: Melancholy, Homelessness And Apocalypse In W.G. Sebald's Prose-Narratives.
  • John Milfull (University of New South Wales): History as Emergency: Benjamin contra Fukuyama.
    7.30pm:
  • Panel discussion and open forum
    public session

    Friday 23/7/2004
    Trip to the Barossa Valley, a wine-growing area approximately one and a half hours north of Adelaide, originally settled in the nineteenth century by German Lutherans fleeing persecution in their homeland.

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