Szeged, Hungary, June 26-28th, 2017
The conference is organized by the MTA SZAB Filozófiai és Történettudományi Szakbizottság, the Hungarian Philosophical Association, the Philosophy Department of the University of Szeged and the Pro Philosophia Szegediensi Foundation.
Conference Venue: MTA SZAB, conference room 110 (6720 Szeged, Somogyi utca. 7.) Session lectures are 20 minutes long, and we have 10 minutes per lecture for discussion.
JUNE 26 (Monday)
9:00-9:15: Opening words: Zoltán Gyenge, Chair of the Philosophy Department, University of Szeged
9:15-10:00: Keynote speech: Richard Shusterman (USA): Ethics and Aesthetics: From Somaesthetics to the Art of Living
10:00-10:30: Discussion
10:30-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-11:45: Presentations (Chair: Thomas Telios)
– Massa Manuela (GE): The Political Role of the Body
– Matthew Crippen (Egypt): Cultural, Political and Bodily Aesthetics of Mandalay’s Water Festival
LUNCH: 11:45-14:00
14:00-15:00: Presentations (Chair: Attila Horanyi)
– Katalin Vermes (HU): Whose body? Phenomenology of Somatic Groupdynamics
– Dimitris Apostolopoulos (USA): Aesthetic Reflection: Merleau-Ponty and Somaesthetics Reconsidered
15:00-15:15: Coffee break
15:15-16:45: Presentations (Chair: Dimitris Apostolopoulos)
– Éva Podlovics (HU): The Role of Others to Become Ethical in Heideggerian Sense
– Silvia Giurgiu (RO): Somatic Reader Facing Phenomenology
– Kristóf Zámbó (HU): Experience Through Pathos: The Phenomenology of Bodily Experience and Somaesthetics
17:30-18:00: Dance performance
18:00-22:00: Welcome dinner
JUNE 27 (Tuesday)
9:00-10:00: Presentations (Chair: Katalin Vermes)
– Nóra Horváth (HU): “The Play of Limit Transgression” in the Dance Philosophy of Pál Frenák
– Anne Tarvainen (FI): Vocal Somaesthetics as a Way to Democratize the Use of Human Voice
10:00-10:15: Coffee break
10:00-11:15: Presentations (Chair: Güncel Önkal)
– Carsten Friberg (Denmark): Aesthetic Education and Practice
– Attila Horanyi (HU): The Poetics of Touch
LUNCH: 11:15-14:00
14:00-15:00: Presentations (Chair: Carsten Friberg)
– László Márfai Molnár (HU): The Expansion of the Aesthetic Experience
– Botond Csuka (HU): The Aesthetics of Competing Bodies: Somaesthetics and the Aesthetics of Sport
15:00-15:15: Coffee break
15:15-16:45: Presentations (Chair: Botond Csuka)
– Stefano Marino (IT): A Somaesthetic Approach to Popular Music
– Güncel Önkal (TURKEY): Design, Transcendence and Somaesthesis in Interactive Post-Art
17:00-19:00: WALKS AND TALKS WITH A FILM “Philosophical Encounters with Richard Shusterman” (Delos Film, 26:20; 28:37; 27:18 min.)
JUNE 28 (Wednesday)
9:00-10:00: Presentations (Chair: Matthew Crippen)
– Yanping Gao (China): Winckelmann’s Somaesthetics
– Alexander Kremer (HU): Somaesthetics as Ethics?
10:00-10:15: Coffee break
10:15-11:15: Presentations (Chair: Anne Tarvainen )
– Swathi Elizabeth Kurian (India): Homo Sacer as a Somaesthetic Pun in the 36th Chamber of Shaolin
– Gergely Tari (HU): Neurochemical Interventions in Human Relationships – Love as a Neuroethical Issue
11:15-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:30: Presentations (Chair: Gergely Tari)
– Thomas Telios (Switzerland): The Soma As The Core of Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics
– Robert Smid, Robert (HU): Bodily Techniques of the Digital: Some New Practices of Ordering and Interacting
12:30: Closing word: Alexander Kremer