Symposium Agenda 

Friday Evening, November 1 - 
Stoneleigh Hotel

THE IMAGINATION OF MATTER

5:30 pm Registration

6:30 pm Cocktails

7:30 pm Dinner and Keynote Address by James Hillman: MOTHER EARTH: “Nobody Knows the Troubles I Cause”

 

Saturday Morning, November 2
Stoneleigh Hotel


THE IMAGINATION OF MATTER

8:30 am Continental breakfast

9:00-9:15 am Welcome: Larry Allums

9:15-10:00 am Session 1—Joanne Stroud, "Why Matter Matters"

10:00-10:45 am Session 2—Ed Casey, "To the Edge of the Earth and Back to Land: Bachelard and Beyond"

10:45-11:15 am BREAK

THE MEANING OF REVERIE

11:15 am—Noon Session 3—Ed Kaplan, "Reverie and Reverence: Gaston Bachelard and Martin Buber"

Saturday Afternoon, November 2
Dallas Museum of Art

12:30-1:45 pm Lunch— Dallas Museum of Art

2:00-2:45 pm Session 4—Lecture and Slide Show - Jean Lancri, "How One Can Soar Up as High as the Sky and Reach the Stars by Falling First to the Ground if not Beneath It, or the Anteus Complex in Bachelard"

2:45-3:30 pm Session 5—Rick Brettell, "Gaston Bachelard and the Visual Arts:

3:30 pm BREAK

4:00-4:45 pm The Dallas Institute
Session 6—Robert Sardello, "The Resonant Soul: Bachelard and the Magical Surface of Air"

5:00 pm Session 7—The Bachelard Bistro- "The Joys and Challenges of Translating Bachelard," Robert Scott Dupree, with Rainer Schulte, Kenneth Haltman, Eileen Rizo-Patron and Semee Ali

Dinner on your own

 

Sunday Morning, November 3
Stoneleigh Hotel

8:30 am Breakfast buffet

IMAGE AND THOUGHT

9:00-10:15 am Session 8—David Miller, "Légende-Image: the Word/Image Problem"

10:15-11:00 am Session 9—Mary McAllester Jones, "Adventures of Consciousness: Bachelard on the Scientific Imagination"

11:00-11:15 am BREAK

11:15-12:00 Noon—Final Panel Wrap-Up, Louise Cowan, James Hillman, Robert Sardello, Gail Thomas, Joanne Stroud

Noon Adjourn

 

 

Symposium locations: 
The Stoneleigh Hotel -
(see below)
Dallas Museum of Art -
1717 North Harwood, Dallas
Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture
2719 Routh Street, Dallas, Texas 75201 214 871-2440

Friday, November 1: 5:30 pm – Sunday, November 3, Noon  

Entrance fee:
before September 15, $250
September 15 - 30, $350
Saturday only, $175
At-door registration, $400

Lodging not included in above costs.
For reservations, contact The Stoneleigh Hotel,
2927 Maple Ave., Dallas, TX 75201, Tel. 1-800-255-9299.
A limited number of rooms will be available
at $89 group rate prior to Oct. 2