June 4-5 2014, Central European University, Faculty Tower 809
Organised by the What it is to be human research group
Programme
June 4
13:15 – 13:30 Welcome
13:30 – 14:15 Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (Gulf University): Kitsch and Bullshit: An Ethical Fault in the Realm of Aesthetics?
14:15-15:00 Silvia Giurgiu (Babes-Bolyai University): The Evil of Bad Taste. Ethical Categories in Negative Literary Criticism (Case Study: Vulgarity in Literature by Aldous Huxley)
15:00 – 15:30 Coffee break
15:30 – 16:15 Alison Denham (Oxford University): Celan on Ethical Estrangement: Pictures, Poetry & Epistemic Value
16:15 – 17:00 Mihail Evans (Institute for Advanced Studies, NEC): Art in the Frame: Spiritual America and the Ethics of Images
17:00 – 17:30 Coffee break
17:30 – 19:00 Jesse Prinz (City University of New York): Ethics and Aesthetics: Parallels and Interactions
19:30 Conference dinner
June 5
10:00 – 10:45 Matthew Rowe (City & Guilds of London Art School): Where Architecture Sits – Moral Pillars to the Aesthetic Appreciation of Architecture?
10:45 – 11:30 Emily Holman (Oxford University): Form, content and attitude: use of language, the ‘literary’ and the ‘moral’
11:45 – 12:30 Kamila Pacovská (University of Pardubice): Beauty, Goodness and Love: Simone Weil’s Interpretation of the Iliad
12:30 – 13:30 Lunch break
13:30 – 14:15 Tóth Olivér István (Central European University): Yes, Spinozist Aesthetics is possible!
14:15 – 15:00 Christopher Wörner (University of St. Andrews): Fictive Externalism and the Ethics of Imagining
You can also find the conference programme on the website