Western Sydney University, Australia
Friday, 7th December 2018
9:30am Conference convenes
9.45am Introduction: Peter Hutchings.
10.00 – 11.00am Opening keynote – Genevieve Lloyd
Spinoza: A Philosopher of the Sublime?
11.00 – 11.30am Morning tea
11.30 – 12.30pm Moira Gatens and Anthony Uhlmann
To Be Done with Hatred: Art as a Plan for Living
12.30 – 1.30pm Lunch
1.30 – 2.30pm Christopher Thomas
Spinoza on Music and Melancholy
2.30 – 3.30pm Aurelia Armstrong
Spinoza’s therapeutic aesthetics
3.30 – 4.00pm Afternoon Tea
4.00 – 5.00pm Closing keynote – Warren Montag
The Power of Imagining Nonexistent Things as Being Present: Spinoza’s Fictions