THE
DALLAS
INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS
presents
Matter, Dream
and Thought:
A Symposium on the Work of Gaston Bachelard
November 1-3, 2002
J.
Larry Allums, Glenn C. Arbery, Richard
Brettell, Edward
Casey, Robert Dupree,
James Hillman, Mary McAllester Jones,
Ed Kaplan, Jean Lancri,
David L.
Miller,
Robert Sardello, Joanne Stroud and Gail Thomas
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Celebrating its twentieth anniversary and the publication of its seventh translation of Gaston Bachelard’s works, The Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture presents "Matter, Dream, and Thought: A Symposium on the Works of Gaston Bachelard."
One of the most seminal thinkers of the twentieth century, Gaston Bachelard is widely known and appreciated in his home country of France. Through the translations of his works under the direction of Joanne Stroud and their publication by the Dallas Institute of Humanities and Culture, he is finding a large, enthusiastic audience in this country. His work spans scientific method and poetic image, architectural form and psychological space, reason and reverie, matter and memory, phenomenology and lyricism.
This symposium brings together depth psychologists, translators, philosophers, writers, artists, literary critics, and poets who have been profoundly influenced by the work of Gaston Bachelard. Exploring Bachelard’s vital and poetic engagement with matter, we will move away from the current, detached view of materialism and discover in ourselves a new level of response to our world.
Plans include lunch at the Dallas Museum of Art, a talk by a contemporary artist, and a Bachelard Bistro for informal anecdotes. The Stoneleigh Hotel will provide accommodations at group rates. Conference fees discounted for early registrants.
Presenters
J. Larry Allums, Ph.D., has been Director of the Dallas Institute since 1997, where he oversees all courses and events for its six program areas. His literature courses are often tailored for special audiences, such as recovering substance abusers. He is the editor of and a contributor to The Epic Cosmos, published by Dallas Institute Publications.
Glenn C. Arbery, Ph.D., has directed the Dallas Institute’s programs for schoolteachers, including the much-praised Summer Institute for Teachers, since 1997. His book Why Literature Matters was published last year, and he is currently editing a volume of essays entitled The Tragic Abyss.
Richard Brettell, Ph.D., is among the foremost authorities in the world on Impressionism and French Painting of the period 1830-1930. He is currently the Professor of Aesthetic Studies in the Interdisciplinary Program in Arts and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. His most recent published work is Impression: Painting Quickly in France, 1860-1900 for Yale University Press.
Edward Casey, Ph.D., is the author of five books, including the new Representing Place in Landscape Painting and Maps. His interest in Bachelard dates from his dissertation comparing Bachelard and Heidegger on poetic language. A recent chair of the Philosophy Department at Stony Brook, N.Y., he is now at work on The World at a Glance.
Robert Dupree, Ph.D., is Director of Libraries and University Research and Professor of English at the University of Dallas. He is a collaborator in editing the entire Bachelard series and translator of Lautréamont. He is the author of three books and is currently engaged in a study of urban planners and the poetic imagination.
James Hillman, Ph.D., is a psychologist, lecturer, and the author of more than twenty books including Re-Visioning Psychology, Healing Fiction, and The Dream and the Underworld.. He originated post-Jungian “archetypal psychology.” Teaching posts include Yale University, Syracuse University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Dallas. He is a co-founder of the Dallas Institute.
Mary McAllester Jones, Ph.D., has published widely on Bachelard and has lectured on Bachelard in the Department of French Studies at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. She has recently translated Bachelard’s La Dialictique de la Durée and is currently translating his La Formation de l’esprit scientifique.
Ed Kaplan, Ph.D., is Professor of French and Comparative Literature and Chair of the Program in Religious Studies at Brandeis University. He is an authority on 19th and 20th century authors often cited in Bachelard’s writings. He has written on Bachelard and Abraham Heschel, Martin Buber, Thomas Merton, and Howard Thurman.
Jean Lancri, Ph.D., painter and Professor Emeritus at the University of Paris 1 - Pantheon Sorbonne, he has devoted much of his career to the analysis of paintings, using aesthetics, semiotics, linguistics, psycho-analysis, phenomenology and the history of art.
David L. Miller, Ph.D., is a core faculty member at Pacifica Graduate Institute in Santa Barbara and the Watson-Ledden Professor of Religion, Emeritus, at Syracuse University. His teaching and writing are in the areas of religion and myth, depth psychology, and literary theory. He is editor of two books and author of five, including Hells and Holy Ghosts.
Robert Sardello, Ph.D., is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute and Director of its program in Spiritual and Cultural Psychology. He is also Founder and Co-director with Cheryl Sanders of the School of Spiritual Psychology in Greensboro, N.C. He is author of six books, including Freeing the Soul from Fear.
Joanne Stroud, Ph.D., is a Founding Fellow of the Dallas Institute. She has taught both literature and psychology at the University of Dallas. She is Founding Director of Dallas Institute Publications and creator of the Institute’s Forum Series, which presents distinguished speakers from widely varying fields of activity and interest. Currently on the faculty of the Institute, she is author of The Bonding of Will and Desire.
Gail Thomas,
Ph.D., Co-founder of the Dallas Institute, was its Director
for seventeen years. She founded and continues as Director of the Institute’s
Center for the City. A psychologist, she has conducted over fifty conferences
dealing with quality of life in the city. She teaches, lectures and consults in
the U.S. and abroad.
