AHS International Symposia and Other Conferences
I. Aldous Huxley Centenary Symposium
Official Poster 1994
Date: 26 - 29 June 1994
Venue: Alexander-von-Humboldt-Haus, Münster
Convenor: Prof Bernfried Nugel (University of Münster)
For the proceedings see the table of contents in "Now More Than Ever": Proceedings of the Aldous Huxley Centenary Symposium Münster 1994, ed. Bernfried Nugel (Frankfurt am Main, 1995), ix-xi:
Robert Payne, "Aldous Huxley"
I. Biography:
David Bradshaw, "The Flight from Gaza: Aldous Huxley's Involvement with the Peace Pledge Union in the Context of His Overall Intellectual Development"
David King Dunaway, "Literary Correspondence: Aldous Huxley and Gerald Heard"
II. Genre and Beyond:
Werner von Koppenfels, "Themes & Variations: Aldous Huxley, Essayist"
James Sexton, "Huxley's Lost Play, Now More Than Ever"
Jean-Louis Cupers, "Huxley's Variations on a Musical Theme: From the Mendelssohnian Chord in 'Farcical History of Richard Greenow' to the (Syn)Aesthetic Experience of Music in Island"
Peter Firchow, "Huxley, Eliot and the Origins of Poetic Modernism"
Jerome Meckier, "Aldous Huxley, from Poet to Mystic: The Poetry of Ideas, the Idea of Poetry"
III. Society and Politics:
Guin A. Nance, "Dragons and Dragomen: Huxley's Heroines"
Sanford E. Marovitz, "Ape and Essence: Fright or Fantasy?"
Gerd Rohmann, "Island: Huxley's Ecological Novel"
Charles M. Holmes, "The Sinister Outer World: Aldous Huxley and International Politics"
IV. Aldous Huxley's Critique of Pure Utopian Thought:
Hans J. Rindisbacher, "Sweet Scents and Stench: Traces of Post/Modernism in Aldous Huxley's Brave New World"
Bernfried Nugel, "Aldous Huxley's Revisions in the Final Typescript of Island"
Robert S. Baker, "The Nightmare of the Frankfurt School: The Marquis de Sade and the Problem of Modernity in Aldous Huxley's Dystopian Narrative"
V. Religion:
Kirpal Singh, "Aldous Huxley through Asian Eyes: A Re-Consideration of Time Must Have a Stop"
Philip Tody, "Huxley and Religion: From Agnosticism to Mystical Disbelief"
Kulwant S. Gill, "Crisis of Double Consciousness in the Huxley Canon"
VI. Philosophy:
Pierre Vitoux, "Aldous Huxley on D. H. Lawrence's Philosophy of Life"
Christoph Bode, "Epistemological Inconsistencies in Aldous Huxley's Later Work"
Keith M. May, "Huxley's Marriage of Heaven and Hell"
Lothar Fietz, "The Fragmentariness of the Self: Continuity and Discontinuity in the Works of Aldous Huxley"
For a conference report see David King Dunaway, "Aldous Huxley Centenary Symposium in Germany," Anglistik: Organ des Verbandes Deutscher Anglisten, 5.2 (1994), 126-28: Conference Report
II. Brave new worlds: an international symposium
Official Poster 2000
Date: 28 December 2000 - 2 January 2001
Venue: Sheraton Towers Hotel, Singapore
Convenor: Prof Kirpal Singh (Singapore Management University)
Proceedings:
29 December 2000
Section A
Chair: Prof Peter Firchow (University of Minnesota)
9.30 - 10.30 Keynote Address: Prof Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky): "Aldous Huxley's Americanization of the Brave New World Typescript"
11.00 - 11.45 Prof George Watt (Nagoya University, Japan): "Huxley in the Early Vogue"
11.45 - 12.30 Prof Gerd Rohmann (University of Kassel): "Aldous Huxley's Early Journalism"
Section B
9.30 - 11.00 see Section A
Chair: Dr Janet Wilson (New Zealand/U.K.)
11.00 - 11.45 Prof James Sexton (Camosun College, Victoria, B.C.): "Aldous Huxley's Lecture on 'Utopias Positive and Negative' (1963)"
11.45 - 12.30 Prof Bernhardt Trout (Massachusetts Institute of Technology): "Revisiting Huxley: Modern Science and the Hope for Tomorrow"
Section A
Chair: Prof Gerd Rohmann (University of Kassel)
14.00 - 14.45 Dr Laili Dor (University of Le Mans): "Huxley and Women's Education"
14.45 - 15.30 Dr Ronald Ng (Singapore): "The New Millennium - Dawn of the Brave New World?"
Chair: Prof Bernhardt Trout (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
16.00 - 16.45 Ted Skewes (Adelaide, Australia): "A Whole Brave New World: The Farm Stay as Education"
16.45 - 17.30 Dr Sabine Menninghaus (University of Münster): "Toward a New Paradigm of Literature: Atoms, Quanta and Relativity in Huxley's Analogical Mode of Thinking"
Section B
Chair: Prof Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky)
16.00 - 16.45 See-Toh Wei-Min (National University of Singapore): "Aldous Huxley and the End of History: Brave New World as Ideological Critique"
16.45 - 17.30 Katja Reinecke (University of Münster): "Total Globalisation or Global Totalitarianism? - Huxley's Pareto-Based Criticism of the Social Aspects of the Managerial Revolution"
30 December 2000
Section A
Chair: Prof David Birch (Deakin University, Australia)
9.00 - 9.45 Prof Frank Smith (Laurentian University, Canada): "Pharmacological Manipulation in Brave New World : A Modern-Day Chemist's Perspective"
9.45 - 10.30 Prof Wladek Stankiewicz (University of British Columbia): "Aldous Huxley, Our Contemporary: A Political Theorist's View" (read by Prof Ian Ross)
Chair: Prof Frank Smith (Laurentian University, Canada)
11.00 - 11.45 Prof Peter Lavskis (University of South Australia): "Mystic Freedom Against Order in Huxley"
11.45 - 12.30 Michel Geday (General Manager, Sheraton Towers, Singapore): "Hotel Management in Tomorrow's Utopia"
Section B
9.00 - 11.00 see Section A
Chair: Prof David Birch (Deakin University, Australia)
11.00 - 11.45 Dr Gerhard Wagner (University of Münster): "Aldous Huxley as Anthologist: Texts and Pretexts and The Perennial Philosophy"
Section A
Chair: Prof John Williams (Singapore Management University)
14.00 - 14.45 Prof David Birch (Deakin University, Australia): "The Media and the Question of Transparency"
14.45 - 15.30 Michael Scholten, M.A. (Hamburg): "Aldous Huxley's Predictions about the Future of Cinema and Television: Facts and Fiction"
Section B
Chair: Prof Walter Schwager (Laurentian University, Canada)
14.00 - 14.45 Dr Claudia Olk (University of Münster): "Aldous Huxley as Screenwriter: Jacob's Hands"
14.45 - 15.30 Agatha Schwager (Toronto, Canada): "Huxley and the Barriers to Creativity"
Sections A/B
Chair: Prof Kulwant Gill (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana)
16.00 - 16.45 Prof Walter Schwager (Laurentian University, Canada): "Aldous Huxley and the Cross-Cultural Learning Experience"
16.45 - 17.30 Prof Donald Watt (State University of New York at Geneseo): "A Modest Proposal: Brave New World as Contemporary Film" (read by Prof Bernfried Nugel)
31 December 2000
Section A
Chair: Prof Jerome Meckier (University of Kentucky)
9.00 - 10.00 Keynote Address: Prof Peter Firchow (University of Minnesota): "Brave at Last: Huxley's Western & Eastern Utopias"
10.00 - 10.45 Prof Bernfried Nugel (University of Münster): "Aldous Huxley's Concept of 'Human Potentialities'"
Chair: Prof Peter Lavskis (University of South Australia)
11.15 - 12.00 Prof Kulwant Gill (Punjab Agricultural University, Ludhiana): "Nirvana for Agnostics: Aldous Huxley and the Asian Context"
12.00 - 12.45 Prof Ismail Talib (National University of Singapore): "Aldous Huxley and Language"
Section B
9.00 - 11.15 see Section A
Chair: Prof George Watt (Nagoya University, Japan)
11.15 - 12.00 Christian Berkemeier (University of Paderborn): "Dystopia on Video: American (P)Reviews of Huxley's Brave New World"
12.00 - 12.45 Dr James Hull (Zürich): "The Initiate: An Interpretation of the Final Chapter of Island" (read by Robin Hull)
Section A
Chair: Prof Ismail Talib (National University of Singapore)
14.00 - 14.45 Prof A.A. Mutalik-Desai (Dharwad, India): "Utopias: Berdiaeff's Caveat"
14.45 - 15.30 Peter Widmer (University of Basle): "Exploring Drugs and Mysticism: Huxley's Approach in the Light of Current Research"
Section B
Chair: Prof Rajeev Patke (National University of Singapore)
14.00 - 14.45 Prof A. Kumar Tripathy (Banaras Hindu University): "Huxley, Nirad Choudhari and Shri Aurobindo in the Context of the New Millennium"
14.45 - 15.30 Jennifer Mannall (Australian International School, Singapore): "Educating Towards Bardo: Conquering the New Paradigm Through Scenario-Based Education - the SIA Model"
Section A
Chair: Prof Robert Yeo (Singapore)
16.00 - 16.45 Prof Rajeev Patke (National University, Singapore): "Huxley's Utopias and the Challenges of Post-Modernism"
16.45 - 17.30 Prof Peter Reeves (National University, Singapore): "Huxley in Asia: A Historian's Perspective"
Section B
Chair: Dr Ronald Ng (Singapore)
16.00 - 16.45 Prof Ian Ross (University of British Columbia, Canada): Towards the Perennial Philosophy: A Meditation on Huxley's Essay 'Beliefs' (1937)"
16.45 - 17.30 Prof Matej Muzina (University of Zagreb): "Aldous Huxley: 'An Agnostic Who Wanted to Become a Gnostic', or, Scepticism vs Hope"
Sections A/B
Chair: Prof Ian Ross (University of British Columbia, Canada)
18.00 - 18.45 Prof John Williams (Singapore Management University): "Aldous Huxley and George Orwell: Making Dissent Unthinkable"
18.45 - 19.30 Keynote Address: Prof Kirpal Singh (Singapore Management University): "Challenging Norms: Aldous Huxley and Education in the Third Millennium"
1 January 2001: The Third Millennium
16.00 - 18.00 Panel: "Young Huxley Scholars and Their Brave New Worlds"
Chair: Dr Claudia Olk (University of Münster)
Gabriel Ernesto Abad (University of Málaga), "From 'Carpe Diem' to the Eternal Present: Time in the Novels of Aldous Huxley"
Jutta Ackermann (University of Münster), "Structural Analogies with Music in Aldous Huxley's Early Novels"
Janko Andrijasevic, M.A. (University of Montenegro), "Huxley's Apocalypse: Ape and Essence"
Cathy Cupitt (Curtin University, Australia), "Space Opera's Relationship to Science Fiction: A Case Study"
Anja Wiesner, M.A. (University of Münster), "Themes and Their Literary Representation in Aldous Huxley's Travel Essays"
Articles on the Conference in the Straits Times (8 January, 2001: "Life!", pp. 6-7)
III. THIRD INTERNATIONAL ALDOUS HUXLEY SYMPOSIUM: ALDOUS HUXLEY, MAN OF LETTERS: THINKER, CRITIC AND ARTIST
Official Poster 2004
Date: 25 - 29 July 2004
Venue: University of Latvia, Riga
Convenor: Prof Ingrīda Kramiņa (Faculty of Modern Languages, University of Latvia)
For the proceedings see Riga.
For a conference report see Sanford E. Marovitz, "The Third International Aldous Huxley Symposium: 'Aldous Huxley in Riga,'" The European English Messenger, 14.1 (Spring 2005), 91-92: Conference Report
IV. FOURTH INTERNATIONAL ALDOUS HUXLEY SYMPOSIUM: ALDOUS HUXLEY IN AMERICA
Official Poster 2008
Date: 31 July - 2 August 2008
Venue: The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA
Convenor: Prof Joan Wines (California Lutheran University, Los Angeles)
For the proceedings see Los Angeles.
For a conference report see Gerd Rohmann and Eva Oppermann, "Fourth International Aldous Huxley Symposium: 'Aldous Huxley in America,'" The European English Messenger, 18.1 (Spring 2009), 27-29: Conference Report
ROUND TABLE "Brave New World Re-Explored: Aldous Huxley's Critique of Utopian Thought"
at the 34th AEDEAN Conference in Almería (Spain), 11-13 November 2010
Speakers: Prof Bernfried Nugel (Chair; University of Münster); Prof James Sexton (Camosun College and University of Victoria, B.C.); Prof Jesús Isaías Gómez López (University of Almería), see AEDEAN.
