[koglist] Invitation to a Conference on Art and Morality - A Human Endeavor - 4-5 June

The CEU Department of Philosophy and the Human Project cordially invite you to a Conference on Art and Morality - A Human Endeavor http://humanproject.ceu.hu/events/2014-06-04/conference-on-art-and-morality… 4-5 June, 2014, Nádor 9., Faculty Tower, Room 809 The conference investigates the current philosophical discussions about the various connections between art and morality. Program: 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 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 Registration is free. For more information contact Tibor Bárány (barany.tibor(a)gmail.com), Zsolt Bátori (zsolt.batori(a)gmail.com) or Anna Réz (rez_anna(a)ceu-budapest.edu).