The
Symposium is organized by the Aldous Huxley Society (AHS) and California
Lutheran University (CLU) through an organizing committee consisting of AHS
Chairman Prof. Dr. Bernfried Nugel (<nugel@uni-muenster.de>), AHS Curator Prof. Peter Firchow of the University of Minnesota
as American advisor (<pef@umn.edu>), and Prof. Joan Wines of California Lutheran University
as regional organizer (<wines@callutheran.edu>).
Download the detailed programme (pdf) here.
List of Speakers:
Dr Janko Andrijaševic (University of Montenegro):
“Interactive Presentation: Good Night, Mr. Huxley”
John Roger Barrie (Nevada City, CA):
“Gerald Heard and Aldous Huxley – Mystical Voyagers”
Prof Sanjukta Dasgupta (Calcutta University):
“Geographies and Gender: Ideological Shifts in Brave New World and Island ”
Prof David King Dunaway (University of New Mexico):
“Huxley in Hollywood: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly”
Prof Dr Lothar Fietz (University of Tübingen):
“Crossroads of Science and Religion: Aldous Huxley and Erwin Schrödinger”
Prof Peter E. Firchow (University of Minnesota):
“Huxley and Isherwood: The California Years”
Prof Kulwant Gill (Ludhiana, India):
“Attention to Here and Now: Aldous Huxley’s Calculus of Compassion”
Prof Holly Henry (State University, San Bernardino):
“Through Space and Time: Aldous Huxley’s Travel Narratives”
Prof David Leon Higdon (Albuquerque, NM):
“Huxley’s 1926 Discovery of the Zuñi and Hopi”
Michael Horowitz & Cynthia Palmer (San Francisco):
“Aldous Huxley and the Psychedelic Movement”
Robin Hull (Zürich):
“A Practical Approach to The Perennial Philosophy”
Prof David Garret Izzo (American Public University):
“Aldous Huxley's Time Must Have a Stop : A Mastery of Mysticism”
Prof Sanford E. Marovitz (Kent State University):
“A New Look at The Art of Seeing”
Prof Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky):
“On D.H. Lawrence and Death, Especially Matricide: Sons and Lovers, Brave New World, and Aldous Huxley’s Later Novels”
Dr. Grzegorz Moroz (University of Bialystok):
“Jesting Huxley: The U.S.A., India, Materialism and Spirituality in Jesting Pilate”
Prof A. A. Mutalik-Desai (Dharwad, India):
“Aldous Huxley’s Moral and Political Consciousness: The First Stirrings on His World Tour, 1925-1926”
Prof Guin Nance (Auburn University at Montgomery):
“Biblical Interpolations in Aldous Huxley’s The Perennial Philosophy”
Prof Dr Bernfried Nugel (University of Münster):
“Aldous Huxley’s Revisions of the Old Raja’s Notes on What’s What in His Final Typescript of Island ”
Prof Valery Rabinovitch (Urals State University):
“Aldous Huxley’s Reworking of Anti-Utopian Elements from Brave New World in His Positive Utopia Island ”
Prof Dr Gerd Rohmann (University of Kassel):
“Huxley on Life and Death”
Prof Dana Sawyer (Maine College of Art):
“Aldous Huxley, Environmental Prophet”
Dr Jörg Schulz (Berlin):
“Aldous Huxley’s Significance for the Psychedelic Era: A German Perspective”
Prof James Sexton (University of Victoria, B.C.):
“Fictional and Historical Sources for Aldous Huxley’s After Many a Summer”
Prof Kirpal Singh (Singapore Management University):
“East – West in the Balance: Huxley and the Question of Conflict Resolution”
Prof A. K. Tripathy (Varanasi, India):
“Aldous Huxley’s Literary and Spiritual Odyssey: From Euro-English to Indo-Eastern Shores via America”
Prof Bernhardt Trout (Massachusetts Institute of Technology):
“What Aldous Huxley Teaches Us About Higher Education in the Twenty-First Century”
Dr Gerhard Wagner (University of Münster):
“Aldous Huxley and the Desert”
Prof Joan Wines (California Lutheran University):
“‘This Timeless Moment’: Memories of Laura Huxley”
Prof Ron Zigler (Penn State Abington):
“Democratic Values and the Social Visions of Aldous Huxley: The SAT as our Brave New Test”
Panel for Young Huxley Scholars:
Chair: PD Dr. Claudia Olk (Humboldt University, Berlin)
Kerstin Kiehl (University of Münster):
“Aldous Huxley and the Music of the New World”
Dr Eva Oppermann (University of Kassel):
“The Role of the Snakes in Aldous Huxley’s Island and The Crows of Pearblossom”
Jake Poller, M.A. (University of London):
“‘Dangerously Far Advanced into the Darkness’: Aldous Huxley’s Californian Quest for Enlightenment”
Uwe Rasch, M.A. (University of Münster):
“Satire and satori: Parallels Between Aldous Huxley and William Blake”
Dr Katja Reinecke (University of Münster):
“‘Pareto’s Museum of Stupidity’: Aldous Huxley’s Re-Reading of Vilfredo Pareto’s Trattato di sociologia generale in the 1930s”
Anja Wiesner, M.A.(University of Münster):
“Aldous Huxley’s Concept of Travelling in Along the Road and Beyond the Mexique Bay”
Kathrin Wöstemeyer, M.A. (University of Münster):
“Utopia Revisited: Robert Graves’s Seven Days in New Crete as a Counterpoint to ‘Brave New Worlds’”
Registration Deadline:
30 April 2008; the conference fee will be Euro 150 / USD 225 for regular participants (including speakers);
this fee will cover documentation, CLU reception, HL reception, 3 lunches,
coffees. Graduates or accompanying persons are offered a reduced fee of Euro
100 / USD 150. After 30 April 2008 the fee will rise to Euro 180 / USD
270 or Euro 120 / USD 180 respectively. Cancellations before 15 June 2008
will incur a 30% administration charge; cancellations after 15 June 2008
cannot be refunded. Please download the registration form here (doc) or here (pdf).
Accommodation: Please apply with Prof. Joan Wines (<wines@callutheran.edu>) as early as possible. Participants
who wish to take part in the opening
reception at CLU on 30 July are advised to arrive on 29 July.
21 November 2006
Prof. Bernfried Nugel (University of Münster):
"'That Hideous Kind of Fundamentalism': Aldous Huxley's View of
'Righteous Indignation'"
3.15 p.m. (Aula im Schloß)
This talk is given as part of the conference "Fundamentalism and
Literature," held at the University
of Münster. For the
programme see http://www.anglistik.uni-muenster.de/Fundamentalism/Programme//
15 November 2005
Poetry Reading: An Evening with Singaporean Writer
Kirpal Singh
8.00 p.m. (Room R 031, Dept. of English)
16 November 2005
Prof. Kirpal Singh (Singapore Management University):
"Poetry and Politics: Going Beyond Niceties and the Problems of
Post-Colonial Honesty"
4.00 p.m. (Room R 031, Dept. of English)
18 November 2005
Prof. Bernfried Nugel,
Chairman of the Huxley Society and Director of the CAHS, celebrated his 65th
birthday this September and has now retired as a teacher from the Department
of English at the University
of Münster. There is a
link to the German text of the invitation to his Farewell Lecture and images
of the festivities under Links on this site.
Volume 7 of the Society's series "Human Potentialities" has been
dedicated to Bernfried Nugel on this occasion: Hermann J. Real, Peter E.
Firchow (eds): The Perennial Satirist. Essays in Honour of Bernfried Nugel,
Münster, 2005.
Vols. 6, 7, 8, and 9
of the series "Human Potentialities" are available now:
Vol.9: Bernfried Nugel, Uwe Rasch, Gerhard Wagner (eds.): Aldous Huxley, Man of Letters: Thinker, Critic and Artist. Proceedings of the Third International Aldous Huxley Symposium Riga 2004
, LIT: Münster, 2007.
Among others, this volume contains essays on Huxley and Education, the spiritual importance of art, Huxley and Mircea Eliade, and Huxley and Gerald Heard.
Vol. 8: Jerome Meckier: Aldous Huxley: Modern Satirical Novelist of Ideas,
ed. Peter E. Firchow and Bernfried Nugel, LIT: Münster, 2006.
This volume contains essays written by Jerome Meckier between 1966 and 2005.
Vol. 7: Hermann J. Real, Peter E. Firchow (eds):The Perennial Satirist. Essays
in Honour of Bernfried Nugel, LIT: Münster, 2005.
Among others, this volume contains new essays on Brave New World and
contemporary film, The Genius and the Goddess, an unknown stage
production of Brave New World in 1938, quantum physics and Huxley, and
Huxley's ideas on the "mind-body connection."
Vol. 6: Lothar Fietz: Aldous Huxley - Prätexte und Kontexte,
LIT: Münster, 2005.
This volume contains many
seminal essays on Aldous Huxley's work and structural similarities in such
writers as Durrell, Pinter, Bond, Shaffer, Mann, Frayn and Lawrence.
Recent Activities:
AHA, vol. 6 was published in July, 2008, featuring unknown Huxley essays
on architecture, applied arts, and sculpture.
AHA, vol. 5 was published in May, 2006, featuring unknown Huxley essays
on painting, sculpture and architecture.
AHA, vol. 4 was published in February, 2005, featuring Aldous Huxley's
1957 dramatized version of The Genius and the Goddess.
AHA, vol. 3 was published in December, 2003, featuring Aldous Huxley's
1956 musical version of Brave New World.
