CFP: (Re)Discovering Aesthetics
Stephen Clark
Date: Fri, 30 Jan 2004 15:09:43 -0000
From: "Jansen, Julia" <j.ja...@ucc.ie>
Reply-To: "Jansen, Julia" <j.ja...@ucc.ie>
Call For Papers
(RE)DISCOVERING AESTHETICS
Hosted by the departments of
Philosophy and Art History
In cooperation with the
Lewis Glucksman Art Gallery
University College Cork, Ireland
July 9-11, 2004
You are invited to join keynote speakers
Arthur C. Danto
(Columbia University New York)
Thierry De Duve
(Université de Lille 3)
James Elkins
(University College Cork/Art Institute of Chicago)
Diarmuid Costello
(Oxford Brookes University)
David Raskin
(Art Institute of Chicago)
Dominic Willsdon
(Tate Modern/Royal College of Art)
After a time in which artistic practice, art criticism, and theory of art
seemed
to focus on (political, social, artistic etc.) interpretations of art,
aesthetics has, once again, become a ‘hot topic’ for debate. Questions arise
about how the prioritisation of aesthetics can be understood: as a rediscovery
of the philosophical legacy of aesthetics in Artistic Practice, Art History,
and Philosophy itself; as the very denial of this heritage in favour of a
return to a connoisseurship of art.
This tension is to be examined from several different perspectives, as follows:
Arthur Danto’s plenary lecture (Re)Discovering Aesthetics will address the
central theme of the conference.
Thierry De Duve, James Elkins, Diarmuid Costello, David Raskin, and Dominic
Willsdon will give plenary talks on the following topics:
1. Art History and the Aesthetic Tradition
2. Philosophical Approaches to Art
3. Art, Science, and Aesthetics
4. Art Practice, Art History, and Art Museums
Each plenary talk will be followed by panel sessions on the respective topics.
The Conference will conclude with a Roundtable Discussion.
Papers of approximately 30 minutes reading time are invited.
Please send abstracts of 300 words suitable for anonymous review to
The deadline for the submission of abstracts is March 12, 2004
(Notification of acceptance by March 26, 2004).
Conference Papers will be considered for possible inclusion in a published
volume.
Advanced graduate students are encouraged to submit papers. The three best
student papers will receive bursaries to cover the cost of registration and the
conference dinner.
For further information visit
http://www.ucc.ie/ucc/depts/phil/rediscovery.htm
or contact
Francis Halsall
Art History
UCC
Cork
Ireland
f.ha...@ucc.ie
Tel: +353 21 490 3985
Julia Jansen
Philosophy
UCC
Cork
Ireland
j.ja...@ucc.ie
Tel: +353 21 490 2562
Tony O’Connor
Philosophy
UCC
Cork
Ireland
t.oc...@ucc.ie
Te: +353 21 490 2566
Fiona Kearney
Glucksman Gallery
UCC
Cork
Ireland
f.ke...@ucc.ie
Tel: +3253 21 490 2760
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