<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Dear CSAA list members,</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV style="font-size: 14px; "><B>Symposium Announcement: Registration still open</B></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 14px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20.9px; line-height: normal;"><I>Ta(l)king Pleasure in German Culture</I></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20.9px; line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 20.9px; line-height: normal;"><I> A Day in the Dialectical Playground</I></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 15px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="6"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 19.2px;">Saturday 20 October</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 18px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.5px; line-height: normal;">School of English, Media and Performing Arts </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.5px; line-height: normal;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.5px; line-height: normal;"> The University of New South Wales</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;">‘Nothing needs less justification than pleasure.’ (Bertolt Brecht, 1948)</SPAN><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.5px;"></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="text-align: auto;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">This symposium brings together academics, artists, writers, and performers for a day of dialogue and an evening of performance focused on the many ways in which play, playfulness, pleasure, fun and enjoyment have circulated through German culture since the Enlightenment to the present day. In particular, participants will consider how artists and cultural critics have evoked the figure of the child and the metaphor of the playground in order to create new ways of seeing the world, and thereby set in motion a ‘play’ of ideas and contradictions in order to inspire cultural change. Throughout the day presenters will address these issues as they are played out in German theatre, performance, film, media, literature, poetry, popular culture, music, and visual art, drawing on the work of a range of cultural producers, including Bertolt Brecht, Walter Benjamin, Alexander Kluge, Pina Bausch and Christoph Schlingensief. The event will conclude with an evening of entertainment in the Io Myers Studio at the University of New South Wales where a number of contemporary Australian performers and artists including </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/dialectical_playground/artist_bios.html"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#DD6F4C"><B>Martin del Amo</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">, </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/dialectical_playground/artist_bios.html#Gazzola"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#67246D"><B>Paul Gazzola</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">, </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/dialectical_playground/artist_bios.html#Heilmann"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#3B80B6"><B>Regina Heilmann</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">, </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/dialectical_playground/artist_bios.html#L%C3%B6hr"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#ABA024"><B>Heidrun Löhr</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> and </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/dialectical_playground/artist_bios.html#Stein"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#116F78"><B>Jeff Stein</B></FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"> will present a lively series of short works. Both the day and evening events are open to the public.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;">Symposium papers will be presented by:</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><BR></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11px;"><B>Andreas Aurin, Joe Couch, Dominic Fitzsimmons, Hamish Ford, Tara Forrest, Ulrike Garde, Jen Gilmer, Su Goldfish, Katie Hepworth, Michelle Langford, John Milfull, Meg Mumford, Kris Plummer, Ralf Räuker, Gert Reifarth, Anna Teresa Scheer, Bryoni Trezise, Denise Varney.</B></SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.5px;">For more information go to our website:</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/dialectical_playground/index.html">http://www.arts.unsw.edu.au/news/conferences/dialectical_playground/index.html</A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#002952" face="Verdana" size="5"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 16.5px;"></SPAN></FONT></P><BR><DIV> <SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><DIV>Dr Michelle Langford</DIV><DIV>Lecturer</DIV><DIV>School of English, Media and Performing Arts</DIV><DIV>The University of New South Wales</DIV><DIV>Sydney 2052 Australia</DIV><DIV>Room: Webster 311O</DIV><DIV>Phone: + 61 2 9385 4489</DIV><DIV>Fax: + 61 2 9385 6812<SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 16px;"><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></SPAN></DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN></SPAN> </DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>