SYMPOSIUM: Hybrids Symposium

The Institute of Advanced Studies invites you to

A symposium to celebrate the work of Professors Gillian Beer and John Beer during their visit to the University of Western Australia in 2005

Convened by Associate Professor Daniel Brown, English, UWA

Abstract: Hybrids: outrages against nature, bizarre progeny born of mythological matings, the consequences of cross-fertilisation, of hot-house passions and calculations, robust but sterile, evolutionary cul-de-sacs, marking the biological limits to parallellisms between species, mules and hinnys, the entropic degradation or the reinvigoration of fixed forms, products of miscegenation or of multi-culturalism, ‘art improving upon nature’, secondary colours, green carnations, artists without halos, perfectly resolved montages and unhappy cyborgs, a little chaos amongst the categories.

Participants:

Professor John Beer;

Professor Don Bradshaw;

Professor Richard Yeo:

Dr Vanessa Smith;

Associate Professor Yasmin Haskell:

Associate Professor Daniel Brown.

Professors Gillian Beer and John Beer will present free public lectures as part of their visit to the University of Western Australia. For more details consult the IAS website.

Registration Fee: Full registration (includes lunch and refreshments) $45;

Student and concessions (unemployed, seniors and HCC holders) $10.

Registration information, including downloadable registration forms and online registration are available at the IAS website www.ias.uwa.edu.au

Registrations must be received by 14 October 2005.