The  Jungian  Society for Scholarly Studies

2005  Conference

 

University of Rhode Island

Alan Shawn Feinstein College of Continuing Education

Providence, RI

August  4 - 6, 2005

Thursday, August 4

2:00Pm -       Session I:  Chair -- Margarete Landwehr, West Chester University, West Chester, PA

  4:00pm

                   The Rosarium Philsosphorum: A Jungian Perspective on Shakespeare’s The Tempest

                             Gustav Arnold, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND

 

Crossing Borders in Alex de la Iglesia’s Dances with the Devil: A Jungian Reading

                             Alicia Quiroz Woodruff, Chicago State University, Chicago, IL

 

                   Cyrano de Bergerac’s Gnostic Voyage

                             Carol MacKay, University of Southern Indiana, Evansville, IN

 

                   The Role of Synchronicity in the Process of Individuation: Sebald’s Novel Austerlitz

                             Margarete Landwehr

 

Business Meeting and Dinner:  To Be Announced

 

6:00    To Be Announced

 

Friday, August 5

8:30am -       Session II:  Chair -- Sally Porterfield, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

  10:30am

                   The Anthropos: An Ancient, Recurring Image of the Archetype of the Divine-Human Being,

                   And Its Reemergence in Contemporary Times

                             Chaz Gormley, Sonoma State University, Santa Rosa, CA

 

                   The Lost Boys (And Girls) on Main Street, USA: Contemporary American Culture and Its

Threat to Individuation

          Sally Porterfield

 

10:30am -     Coffee Break

  11:00am

 

11:00am -     Session III:  Chair -- Christine Herold, The College of St. Rose, Albany, NY

  1:00pm

                   Synchronicity in Thomas Pynchon’s The Crying of Lot 49

Jaime Buchanan, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

 

                   Me and My Shadow: Dana’s Journey in Octavia Butler’s Kindred

                             Barbara A. Silliman, Providence College/University of Rhode Island,

                                      Providence, RI

 

                   Return to Nature: Tolkien, Jung and the Elemental Myth

                             Christine Herold

 

1:00pm -       LUNCH

  2:00pm

 

2:00pm -       Session IV:  Chair -- Roberta Staples, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT

  4:00pm

                   Anima Archetypes in Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings Film Series

                             Judith Caesar, American University of Sharjah, Sharjah, UAE

 

                   Voldemort as Villain in the Harry Potter Series

                             Glenna M. Andrade, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI  

 

                   The Shadows Know: The Many Shadows of Harry Potter

                             Roberta Staples

 

Keynote Dinner:  McCormick & Schmick’s in the Biltmore Hotel, Providence, RI

                             Topic:  Grief Dreams: How They Help Heal Us After the Death of a Loved One

6:00pm -- 7:00pm                  Ann Back Price, IAAP, Jungian Analyst, Providence, RI

          Cocktails (Cash Bar) 

7:00pm -- Dinner

 

Saturday, August 6

8:30am -       Session V:  Chair -- Matthew A. Fike, Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC

  10:30am

                   Serendipity and Synchronicity: The Bookends of Creativity?

                             Roxanne O’Connell, Roger Williams University, Bristol, RI

 

                   Two-Million-Year-Old D.J.s, Mashing in the Dataverse

                             Derek Owens, St. John’s University, Queens, NY

 

                   An Experiment with Time: The Dark Lady in Shakespeare’s Sonnets

                             Matthew A. Fike

 

 

10:30am -     Session VI:  Chair -- Darrell Dobson, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  12:30pm

                   Jungian and Post-Jungian Interpretations of Religion and New Age Philosophy

                             Tina Ban, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, EU

 

                   Jung’s Empty Self: A Buddhist and Postmodern Perspective

                             Lee Robbins, New York University, New York, NY

 

                   “No Mere Source of Pleasure:”  A Jungian Response to the Banishment of the Poets

                             Darrell Dobson