British Society of Aesthetics

Events

The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Art School II, St Salvator's Quad, University of St Andrews, 21-22 June 2013 A Conference in Second-Order Aesthetics and Philosophical Methodology https://sites.google.com/site/secondorderaesthetics/ To register, e-mail second.order.aesthetics@gmail.com Registration is free Organisers: Dan Cavedon-Taylor and Miguel F. dos Santos Speakers: Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham), David Davies (McGill University), Stacie Friend (Heythrop College, London), Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews), Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), Dominic Lopes (University of British Columbia), Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University), Dan Cavedon-Taylor (University of St Andrews).
Patterns of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Conference The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 21-22 June 2013 The conference will consist of keynote talks and roundtable discussions with an important emphasis placed on group discussion and dialogue between disciplines. The conference is supported by the AHRC, the British Society for Aesthetics, and the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool. Confirmed speakers include Ayisha De Lanerolle (Conversation Agency), Eileen John (Warwick), Jane Sillis (Engage), Jeremy Newton (Prince’s Foundation) Morag Morrison (Cambridge), Nicola Shaughnessy (Kent), Peter Worley (Philosophy Foundation), Sara Liptai (SAPERE) and representatives from the Bluecoat, FACT, METAL, National Museums Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum, Tate Liverpool and the Whitworth Gallery, who will be highlighting innovative aspects of their educational programmes. The conference begins in the Auditorium of the Bluecoat Gallery at 10am on Friday 21 June and closes at c. 5pm on Saturday 22 June. Lunch and all refreshments are included and there is a conference dinner on the Friday evening. For more information please email Shaun May at shaun.may@liv.ac.uk, Dr. Panayiota Vassilopoulou atp.vassilopoulou@liv.ac.uk or visit the website: http://www.lyceumproject.com/patterns-of-thought
Patterns of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Conference The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 21-22 June 2013 The conference will consist of keynote talks and roundtable discussions with an important emphasis placed on group discussion and dialogue between disciplines. The conference is supported by the AHRC, the British Society for Aesthetics, and the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool. Confirmed speakers include Ayisha De Lanerolle (Conversation Agency), Eileen John (Warwick), Jane Sillis (Engage), Jeremy Newton (Prince’s Foundation) Morag Morrison (Cambridge), Nicola Shaughnessy (Kent), Peter Worley (Philosophy Foundation), Sara Liptai (SAPERE) and representatives from the Bluecoat, FACT, METAL, National Museums Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum, Tate Liverpool and the Whitworth Gallery, who will be highlighting innovative aspects of their educational programmes. The conference begins in the Auditorium of the Bluecoat Gallery at 10am on Friday 21 June and closes at c. 5pm on Saturday 22 June. Lunch and all refreshments are included and there is a conference dinner on the Friday evening. For more information please email Shaun May at shaun.may@liv.ac.uk, Dr. Panayiota Vassilopoulou atp.vassilopoulou@liv.ac.uk or visit the website: http://www.lyceumproject.com/patterns-of-thought
The Limits of the Aesthetic Durham University, 24 June 2013 Participants: Emily Brady (Edinburgh), Aaron Meskin (Leeds), Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham), Peter Lamarque (York), Greg Currie (Nottingham), Andrew Huddleston (Oxford), Alan Bowden (Durham). Recent years have seen sustained arguments being made for the pervasiveness and significance of aesthetic experience in everyday life, ranging from experiences of itches and scratches, domestic interiors and the weather, smells and tastes, sports and dance, and the commute to work, amongst others. These arguments and claims are intended to expand the domain of the experiences and objects we might legitimately regard as aesthetically significant. Perhaps unsurprisingly, such claims have met with opposition from theorists concerned to reserve the concept of the aesthetic for more traditional experiences involving valuing ‘for its own sake’, self-conscious appreciation and judgement, certain cognitive prerequisites which only a limited number of senses can provide, and the possibility of critical discourse. The aim of this workshop is, therefore, to clarify and explore the issues surrounding contemporary attempts to extend the range of the aesthetic. The workshop will consist of a number of formal and informal talks, panel discussions, and open discussion. Lunch and refreshments will be provided as part of the registration fee of £5. If you would like to attend this please let me know as soon as possible. We have a small number of Analysis Bursaries for postgraduates which will cover up to 50% of accommodation and registration costs up to a value of £17.50. Please indicate your interest when you register. (There is limited bed and breakfast accommodation available at St. John’s College). To register to attend, please e-mail a.m.bowden[at]durham.ac.uk. Places are limited, so please e-mail to reserve a place. There will be a workshop fee of £5. We ask that attendees pay the fee on the da
Arts and Humanities: Of(f) Course University of Groningen, 25-26 June 2013 This year the Department of Arts, Culture and Media of the University of Groningen celebrates its 10th anniversary with the programme Arts and Humanities: Of(f) Course, which is organized together with the Research Centre Arts in Society on 25-26 June 2013. Confirmed speakers are Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago), the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker, Jean- Marie Schaeffer (EHESS), Murray Smith (University of Kent), Bernhard Darras (University Paris I), Vanessa Reinwand (University of Hildesheim), Mark Fisher (Goldsmiths London) and Jan Masschelein (University of Leuven). The title of this conference, Arts and Humanities. Of(f) Course points to the fact that both the arts and the humanities have lost their self-evidence in a world where economic standards are becoming increasingly dominant. Universities are confronted with the demand to ‘valorise’ academic research, but ways to do so are less obvious for the humanities than they are for (most of) the natural sciences. Whatever will be the outcome of this process, the arts and the study of the arts will not be able to carry on along the same path. How should the humanities deal with this problem? What kinds of theoretical frameworks and methodologies can be developed to respond to it? And, finally, what does it mean to be ‘off course’? Does it mean one has to steer back to familiar terrains, or does it mean steering away from the beaten track? More information on the program and registration can be found on the website: http://www.rug.nl/research/arts-in-society/actueel/offcourse
Arts and Humanities: Of(f) Course University of Groningen, 25-26 June 2013 This year the Department of Arts, Culture and Media of the University of Groningen celebrates its 10th anniversary with the programme Arts and Humanities: Of(f) Course, which is organized together with the Research Centre Arts in Society on 25-26 June 2013. Confirmed speakers are Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago), the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker, Jean- Marie Schaeffer (EHESS), Murray Smith (University of Kent), Bernhard Darras (University Paris I), Vanessa Reinwand (University of Hildesheim), Mark Fisher (Goldsmiths London) and Jan Masschelein (University of Leuven). The title of this conference, Arts and Humanities. Of(f) Course points to the fact that both the arts and the humanities have lost their self-evidence in a world where economic standards are becoming increasingly dominant. Universities are confronted with the demand to ‘valorise’ academic research, but ways to do so are less obvious for the humanities than they are for (most of) the natural sciences. Whatever will be the outcome of this process, the arts and the study of the arts will not be able to carry on along the same path. How should the humanities deal with this problem? What kinds of theoretical frameworks and methodologies can be developed to respond to it? And, finally, what does it mean to be ‘off course’? Does it mean one has to steer back to familiar terrains, or does it mean steering away from the beaten track? More information on the program and registration can be found on the website: http://www.rug.nl/research/arts-in-society/actueel/offcourse
Paul Ricoeur and the Future of the Humanities University of Groningen, June 27-29 During this conference the impact of the work of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) on humanities and the meaning of his work for the future of the humanities will be discussed. Keynote speakers are Don Ihde, SUNY at Stony Brook Richard Kearney, Boston College Paul van Tongeren, Radboud University Nijmegen For a description of the conference theme, a full programme and information on registration, please visit www.ricoeur.com
International Summer School on Musical Understanding Department of Music, University of Sheffield, 8-11 July 2013 The Music Mind Machine research centre, Department of Music, University of Sheffield, will host an International Summer School on Musical Understanding: Philosophical, Psychological and Neuroscientific approaches. Confirmed speakers are Corrado Sinigaglia (University of Milan); Katie Overy (University of Edinburgh); Tuomas Eerola (University of Jyväskylä); Nikki Dibben and Renee Timmers (University of Sheffield). The school will focus on: 1) Interdisciplinary approach to musical understanding 2) Mirror neurons and the enactive aspects of musicality 3) Emotional feedback in musical experience What phenomenological experiences are connected to musical engagement and understanding? What is the role of the bodily motor knowledge in the sense-giving process of musical comprehension? What faculties underlie musical understanding and how are these reflected in neuroscientific and psychological findings? The summer school will investigate musical understanding from philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific perspectives and will address the raised questions through presentations, discussions, reading groups, and analysis of empirical work conducted before and during the summer school. The aim of the school is to provide an opportunity to engage with cutting edge research, interact with leading academics and participate actively in debate, research design, analysis and presentation. Open to graduate students with a clear interest and some prior experience with psychology of music. Please have a look at the official Summer School webpage for further information.
Summer School: Introduction to Nihilism FCSH - New University of Lisbon, 1-11 July, 2013 “Nihilism” is one of the most abused and misused philosophical concepts of present times. This notion has been referred to different phenomena such as futurism, Dadaism, postmodernism or even to punk music. Politicians in talk shows attack their opponents defining their ideas as nihilist and everyone knows that the often-mentioned contemporary crisis of moral values is a consequence of nihilism. But what is and what does nihilism exactly mean? The main aim of this course is to provide students with the necessary tools to understand how nihilism originated and developed through the 19th and 20th century. After a brief introduction to the historical, cultural and political context in which nihilism took shape, the attention will be firstly focused on Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. Afterwards, important passages of Dostoevsky’s and Nietzsche’s works will be analyzed in order to understand the diagnosis of nihilism provided by both authors and the solution they gave to this phenomenon. Finally, the last sections will be devoted to the development of the concept “nihilism” in two of the most important and influential authors of the 20th Century: Heidegger and Camus. Further information on the Summer School Contact: pgori@fcsh.unl.pt
Institute of Ideas Academy: Student Scholarship Programme Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire, 19-22 July 2013 For the second consecutive year, The Institute of Ideas will be running the Academy Scholarship Programme, which is open to full-time university students of any academic discipline. The scholarship will allow successful applicants to attend the Academy weekend for a fraction of the price. The Institute of Ideas Academy is a three-day residential retreat. This year, there are three parallel lecture series on Classics, Literature and History as well as a plenary History of Ideas series on the Human and Nature. The scholarship programme offers a limited number of full-time University students the chance to attend for the heavily subsidised price of £60 for three nights’ accommodation and full board at the luxury Wyboston Lakes complex in Bedfordshire. To apply for an Academy Scholarship, please submit a 500-word (max) essay on the question: “Should we celebrate the death of Western High Culture?” Please also submit a 300-word (max) motivation on why you in particular deserve to attend The Academy. Submit applications online by 11am Monday 13 May 2013. Applicants will be sent the reading list in order to start preparing while we evaluate all of the submissions. All successful candidates will be notified on Friday 31 May 2013. For more information on the Scholarship Programme, please email scholarship@instituteofideas.com To learn more about the Academy itself, and to see full details of the lectures and schedule, please visit: http://www.instituteofideas.com/academy2013.html
Philosophy and Museums: Ethics, Aesthetics and Ontology University of Glasgow and the Burrell Collection, 24-26 July 2013 Keynote Speakers: David Brown (St Andrews), ‘Contexts and Experiencing the Sacred’ Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York), ‘The Museum of Big Ideas’ Garry Hagberg (Bard College, New York), ‘Word and Object’ Michael Levine (University of Western Australia), ‘Museums and the Nostalgic Self’ Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), ‘“A Sudden Surprise of the Soul”: Wonder in Museums and Early Modern Philosophy’ Graham Oddie (University of Colorado at Boulder), ‘What do we see in Museums?’ Julia Rosenbaum (Bard College, New York), ‘A Curious Case of Collecting’ Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes), ‘Replicas and the Role of Museums’ Charles Taliaferro (St Olaf, Minnesota) and Jil Evans (Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts), ‘How To Get Into A Work Of Art’ Philip Tonner (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow), ‘Museums, Ethics and Truth’ There has been much interest lately on the part of academics, museum professionals and policy makers on interactions between universities and museums. Critical theory, influenced by Continental philosophy, has had a shaping role on the discussions which have taken place; however, so far there has been little attention to what the insights of philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition might bring to the table. This conference will highlight the scholarship of philosophers in this tradition who have engaged with museums and taken seriously the philosophical questions they raise. This international conference will bring together philosophers from a spectrum of philosophical sub-disciplines, ranging from ethics, through aesthetics, to metaphysics and philosophy of religion. It will explore how their work contributes to the understanding of museums and what light it can shed on the philosophical questions raised by museum practices. The conference will address such questions under three main headings: Ethics,
Comics & Popular Arts Conference Atlanta, Georgia, August 30-September 2, 2013 The Comics and Popular Arts Conference (CPAC) is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media, comic books, manga, graphic novels, anime, gaming, etc. CPAC presentations are peer reviewed. with the support of The Institute for Comics Studies Comic Book Convention Conference Series and Dragon*Con http://dragoncon.org
Schopenhauer, Love, and Compassion Ghent University, 17-18 October, 2013 Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) offers a stunningly original and highly complex account of love. What we call romantic love, Schopenhauer sees as propelled by our sexual drives and interests, which are manifestations of the will-to-life of the human species. The real purpose of romantic love is ultimately biological: to produce and raise children. What we consciously think what is happening to us when we are in love, is illusory and ultimately irrelevant. Yet, although Schopenhauer undermines romantic love, and despite his critique of Christian faith, he also tells us that ‘all love (agape, caritas) is compassion’, and that compassion with all living beings is the very basis of morality. He argues that this kind of selfless love may ultimately lead to redemption and resignation, since it ‘sees through’ the deception of individuality. The goal of this conference is to investigate the relation and tensions between these two distinct types of love (eros and agapè) in Schopenhauer’s philosophy, and discuss its striking complexity and current relevance.
Barnes Philosophy Club timetable Barnes Philosophy Club, London Philosophy and the Arts (Includes music, film, theatre, literature, and art) 2013 11 September 2013: Nick Aldridge - Nietzsche 09 October 2013: Prof Derek Matravers – ‘Imagination’ 13 November 2013: Prof Chris Berry – ‘The Colour Red’ 2014 08 January 2014: Dr Daniel Barnes - 'The Reality that Forgot Itself' 12 February 2014: Dr Marije Altorf - 'Iris Murdoch: A Life of Philosophy and Literature' 12 March 2014: Professor Andrew Bowie - To be announced 09 April 2014 14 May 2014 Dr Sarah Cooper - To be announced 11 June 2014: Dr Barbie Underwood - Music - title to be announced
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The Philosophy of the Philosophy of Art
School II, St Salvator's Quad, University of St Andrews, 21-22 June 2013
A Conference in Second-Order Aesthetics and Philosophical Methodology
https://sites.google.com/site/secondorderaesthetics/

To register, e-mail second.order.aesthetics@gmail.com Registration is free

Organisers: Dan Cavedon-Taylor and Miguel F. dos Santos

Speakers: Gregory Currie (University of Nottingham), David Davies (McGill University), Stacie Friend (Heythrop College, London), Berys Gaut (University of St Andrews), Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), Dominic Lopes (University of British Columbia), Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham University), Dan Cavedon-Taylor (University of St Andrews).

Patterns of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Conference
The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, 21-22 June 2013
The conference will consist of keynote talks and roundtable discussions with an important emphasis placed on group discussion and dialogue between disciplines. The conference is supported by the AHRC, the British Society for Aesthetics, and the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool. Confirmed speakers include Ayisha De Lanerolle (Conversation Agency), Eileen John (Warwick), Jane Sillis (Engage), Jeremy Newton (Prince’s Foundation) Morag Morrison (Cambridge), Nicola Shaughnessy (Kent), Peter Worley (Philosophy Foundation), Sara Liptai (SAPERE) and representatives from the Bluecoat, FACT, METAL, National Museums Liverpool, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester Museum, Tate Liverpool and the Whitworth Gallery, who will be highlighting innovative aspects of their educational programmes.

The conference begins in the Auditorium of the Bluecoat Gallery at 10am on Friday 21 June and closes at c. 5pm on Saturday 22 June. Lunch and all refreshments are included and there is a conference dinner on the Friday evening.

For more information please email Shaun May at shaun.may@liv.ac.uk, Dr. Panayiota Vassilopoulou atp.vassilopoulou@liv.ac.uk or visit the website: http://www.lyceumproject.com/patterns-of-thought

The Limits of the Aesthetic
Durham University, 24 June 2013
Participants: Emily Brady (Edinburgh), Aaron Meskin (Leeds), Elisabeth Schellekens (Durham), Peter Lamarque (York), Greg Currie (Nottingham), Andrew Huddleston (Oxford), Alan Bowden (Durham).
Recent years have seen sustained arguments being made for the pervasiveness and significance of aesthetic experience in everyday life, ranging from experiences of itches and scratches, domestic interiors and the weather, smells and tastes, sports and dance, and the commute to work, amongst others. These arguments and claims are intended to expand the domain of the experiences and objects we might legitimately regard as aesthetically significant.

Perhaps unsurprisingly, such claims have met with opposition from theorists concerned to reserve the concept of the aesthetic for more traditional experiences involving valuing ‘for its own sake’, self-conscious appreciation and judgement, certain cognitive prerequisites which only a limited number of senses can provide, and the possibility of critical discourse. The aim of this workshop is, therefore, to clarify and explore the issues surrounding contemporary attempts to extend the range of the aesthetic.

The workshop will consist of a number of formal and informal talks, panel discussions, and open discussion.

Lunch and refreshments will be provided as part of the registration fee of £5. If you would like to attend this please let me know as soon as possible. We have a small number of Analysis Bursaries for postgraduates which will cover up to 50% of accommodation and registration costs up to a value of £17.50. Please indicate your interest when you register. (There is limited bed and breakfast accommodation available at St. John’s College).

To register to attend, please e-mail a.m.bowden[at]durham.ac.uk. Places are limited, so please e-mail to reserve a place. There will be a workshop fee of £5. We ask that attendees pay the fee on the da

Arts and Humanities: Of(f) Course
University of Groningen, 25-26 June 2013
This year the Department of Arts, Culture and Media of the University of Groningen celebrates its 10th anniversary with the programme Arts and Humanities: Of(f) Course, which is organized together with the Research Centre Arts in Society on 25-26 June 2013. Confirmed speakers are Martha Nussbaum (University of Chicago), the Dutch minister of Education, Culture and Science Jet Bussemaker, Jean- Marie Schaeffer (EHESS), Murray Smith (University of Kent), Bernhard Darras (University Paris I), Vanessa Reinwand (University of Hildesheim), Mark Fisher (Goldsmiths London) and Jan Masschelein (University of Leuven).

The title of this conference, Arts and Humanities. Of(f) Course points to the fact that both the arts and the humanities have lost their self-evidence in a world where economic standards are becoming increasingly dominant. Universities are confronted with the demand to ‘valorise’ academic research, but ways to do so are less obvious for the humanities than they are for (most of) the natural sciences. Whatever will be the outcome of this process, the arts and the study of the arts will not be able to carry on along the same path. How should the humanities deal with this problem? What kinds of theoretical frameworks and methodologies can be developed to respond to it? And, finally, what does it mean to be ‘off course’? Does it mean one has to steer back to familiar terrains, or does it mean steering away from the beaten track?

More information on the program and registration can be found on the website: http://www.rug.nl/research/arts-in-society/actueel/offcourse

Paul Ricoeur and the Future of the Humanities
University of Groningen, June 27-29
During this conference the impact of the work of the philosopher Paul Ricoeur (1913-2005) on humanities and the meaning of his work for the future of the humanities will be discussed.

Keynote speakers are

Don Ihde, SUNY at Stony Brook Richard Kearney, Boston College Paul van Tongeren, Radboud University Nijmegen

For a description of the conference theme, a full programme and information on registration, please visit www.ricoeur.com

International Summer School on Musical Understanding
Department of Music, University of Sheffield, 8-11 July 2013

The Music Mind Machine research centre, Department of Music, University of Sheffield, will host an International Summer School on Musical Understanding: Philosophical, Psychological and Neuroscientific approaches.

Confirmed speakers are Corrado Sinigaglia (University of Milan); Katie Overy (University of Edinburgh); Tuomas Eerola (University of Jyväskylä); Nikki Dibben and Renee Timmers (University of Sheffield).

The school will focus on:
1) Interdisciplinary approach to musical understanding
2) Mirror neurons and the enactive aspects of musicality
3) Emotional feedback in musical experience

What phenomenological experiences are connected to musical engagement and understanding? What is the role of the bodily motor knowledge in the sense-giving process of musical comprehension? What faculties underlie musical understanding and how are these reflected in neuroscientific and psychological findings?

The summer school will investigate musical understanding from philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific perspectives and will address the raised questions through presentations, discussions, reading groups, and analysis of empirical work conducted before and during the summer school. The aim of the school is to provide an opportunity to engage with cutting edge research, interact with leading academics and participate actively in debate, research design, analysis and presentation.

Open to graduate students with a clear interest and some prior experience with psychology of music. Please have a look at the official Summer School webpage for further information.

Summer School: Introduction to Nihilism
FCSH - New University of Lisbon, 1-11 July, 2013
“Nihilism” is one of the most abused and misused philosophical concepts of present times. This notion has been referred to different phenomena such as futurism, Dadaism, postmodernism or even to punk music. Politicians in talk shows attack their opponents defining their ideas as nihilist and everyone knows that the often-mentioned contemporary crisis of moral values is a consequence of nihilism. But what is and what does nihilism exactly mean? The main aim of this course is to provide students with the necessary tools to understand how nihilism originated and developed through the 19th and 20th century. After a brief introduction to the historical, cultural and political context in which nihilism took shape, the attention will be firstly focused on Turgenev’s novel Fathers and Sons. Afterwards, important passages of Dostoevsky’s and Nietzsche’s works will be analyzed in order to understand the diagnosis of nihilism provided by both authors and the solution they gave to this phenomenon. Finally, the last sections will be devoted to the development of the concept “nihilism” in two of the most important and influential authors of the 20th Century: Heidegger and Camus.

Further information on the Summer School

Contact: pgori@fcsh.unl.pt

Institute of Ideas Academy: Student Scholarship Programme
Wyboston Lakes, Bedfordshire, 19-22 July 2013
For the second consecutive year, The Institute of Ideas will be running the Academy Scholarship Programme, which is open to full-time university students of any academic discipline. The scholarship will allow successful applicants to attend the Academy weekend for a fraction of the price.
The Institute of Ideas Academy is a three-day residential retreat. This year, there are three parallel lecture series on Classics, Literature and History as well as a plenary History of Ideas series on the Human and Nature.
The scholarship programme offers a limited number of full-time University students the chance to attend for the heavily subsidised price of £60 for three nights’ accommodation and full board at the luxury Wyboston Lakes complex in Bedfordshire.
To apply for an Academy Scholarship, please submit a 500-word (max) essay on the question: “Should we celebrate the death of Western High Culture?” Please also submit a 300-word (max) motivation on why you in particular deserve to attend The Academy.
Submit applications online by 11am Monday 13 May 2013. Applicants will be sent the reading list in order to start preparing while we evaluate all of the submissions. All successful candidates will be notified on Friday 31 May 2013.
For more information on the Scholarship Programme, please email scholarship@instituteofideas.com
To learn more about the Academy itself, and to see full details of the lectures and schedule, please visit: http://www.instituteofideas.com/academy2013.html

Philosophy and Museums: Ethics, Aesthetics and Ontology
University of Glasgow and the Burrell Collection, 24-26 July 2013
Keynote Speakers:

David Brown (St Andrews), ‘Contexts and Experiencing the Sacred’

Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center, New York), ‘The Museum of Big Ideas’

Garry Hagberg (Bard College, New York), ‘Word and Object’

Michael Levine (University of Western Australia), ‘Museums and the Nostalgic Self’

Beth Lord (University of Aberdeen), ‘“A Sudden Surprise of the Soul”: Wonder in Museums and Early Modern Philosophy’

Graham Oddie (University of Colorado at Boulder), ‘What do we see in Museums?’

Julia Rosenbaum (Bard College, New York), ‘A Curious Case of Collecting’

Constantine Sandis (Oxford Brookes), ‘Replicas and the Role of Museums’

Charles Taliaferro (St Olaf, Minnesota) and Jil Evans (Traffic Zone Center for Visual Arts), ‘How To Get Into A Work Of Art’

Philip Tonner (Hutchesons’ Grammar School, Glasgow), ‘Museums, Ethics and Truth’

There has been much interest lately on the part of academics, museum professionals and policy makers on interactions between universities and museums. Critical theory, influenced by Continental philosophy, has had a shaping role on the discussions which have taken place; however, so far there has been little attention to what the insights of philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition might bring to the table. This conference will highlight the scholarship of philosophers in this tradition who have engaged with museums and taken seriously the philosophical questions they raise. This international conference will bring together philosophers from a spectrum of philosophical sub-disciplines, ranging from ethics, through aesthetics, to metaphysics and philosophy of religion. It will explore how their work contributes to the understanding of museums and what light it can shed on the philosophical questions raised by museum practices. The conference will address such questions under three main headings: Ethics,

Comics & Popular Arts Conference
Atlanta, Georgia, August 30-September 2, 2013
The Comics and Popular Arts Conference (CPAC) is an annual academic conference for the studies of comics and the popular arts, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature, film, and other media, comic books, manga, graphic novels, anime, gaming, etc. CPAC presentations are peer reviewed.

with the support of The Institute for Comics Studies Comic Book Convention Conference Series and Dragon*Con http://dragoncon.org

Schopenhauer, Love, and Compassion
Ghent University, 17-18 October, 2013
Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) offers a stunningly original and highly complex account of love. What we call romantic love, Schopenhauer sees as propelled by our sexual drives and interests, which are manifestations of the will-to-life of the human species. The real purpose of romantic love is ultimately biological: to produce and raise children. What we consciously think what is happening to us when we are in love, is illusory and ultimately irrelevant. Yet, although Schopenhauer undermines romantic love, and despite his critique of Christian faith, he also tells us that ‘all love (agape, caritas) is compassion’, and that compassion with all living beings is the very basis of morality. He argues that this kind of selfless love may ultimately lead to redemption and resignation, since it ‘sees through’ the deception of individuality.
The goal of this conference is to investigate the relation and tensions between these two distinct types of love (eros and agapè) in Schopenhauer’s philosophy, and discuss its striking complexity and current relevance.

Barnes Philosophy Club timetable
Barnes Philosophy Club, London
Philosophy and the Arts
(Includes music, film, theatre, literature, and art)

2013

11 September 2013: Nick Aldridge - Nietzsche
09 October 2013: Prof Derek Matravers – ‘Imagination’
13 November 2013: Prof Chris Berry – ‘The Colour Red’

2014

08 January 2014: Dr Daniel Barnes - 'The Reality that Forgot Itself'
12 February 2014: Dr Marije Altorf - 'Iris Murdoch: A Life of Philosophy and Literature'
12 March 2014: Professor Andrew Bowie - To be announced 09 April 2014
14 May 2014 Dr Sarah Cooper - To be announced
11 June 2014: Dr Barbie Underwood - Music - title to be announced

MORE EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS
Misc.
See Calls For Papers page for details.

TO SEE YOUR AESTHETICS RELATED EVENT LISTED HERE:
Please email lucy.tomlinson[at]manchester.ac.uk
(replace [at] with @).