Conference on Art and Morality - A Human Endeavor

Audience: 
Open to the Public
Building: 
Nador u. 9, Faculty Tower
Room: 
809
Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 9:00am
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Wednesday, June 4, 2014 - 9:00am to Thursday, June 5, 2014 - 7:00pm

Conference on Art and Morality - A Human Endeavor

June 4-5, 2014, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary

Organized by the research group What is it to be human?

Keynote speaker: Jesse Prinz, CUNY, New York

Conference Schedule:

Wednesday,  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

 

Thursday, 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