Spinoza’s Artes Conference

Registration is free but essential

 

SPINOZA’S ARTES

An International One Day Conference that will explore the influence of Spinoza on literature, music, poetry, and theatre along with the role that these arts play in the art of living well.

 

Friday August 11, 2017, 9 am – 5 pm

CCANESA Boardroom, Madsen Building F09

Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney

 

Program

9:00am Welcome

9:10-10:10am Jonathan Israel (IAS, Princeton): The theatre and the Cercle Spinoziste: the significance of the society ‘Nil volentibus arduum’ for Spinoza and the Arts

10:10-11:10am  Anthony Uhlmann (Western Sydney University): Percy Shelley, Queen Mab, Spinoza

11:10-11:30am Morning Tea

11:30am-12:30pm Susan James (Birkbeck, University of London): On Self Transformation: Ovid’s Warning to Spinoza

12:30-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-2:30pm Marie Thompson (University of Lincoln): Power over/Power to: Spinoza, musical politics and contestations of social space

2:30-3:30pm Moira Gatens (The University of Sydney): Mary Shelley, Spinoza, and the Exemplar

3:30-4:00pm Afternoon Tea

4:00-5:00pm Panel discussion

 

Enquiries

inja.stracenski@sydney.edu.au<mailto:inja.stracenski@sydney.edu.au>

 

Registration

Only those who have registered will be admitted.

To register please go to: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/research/conferences.shtml

This project is funded by an Australian Research Council Grant [DP 170102206]

 

Spinoza Colloquium Leipzig

Spinoza Colloquium Leipzig, Friday, August 11th, 2017, 11 am to 8 pm

Whoever happens to be in the area: At Leipzig University there will be a sixth session of the Spinoza Colloquium. This activity is a cooperative project between the political science department at Leipzig and the philosophy department at Halle-Wittenberg (and with support from the German Spinoza Society).

This event will again take place at the Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Geisteswissenschaftliches Zentrum (GWZ), Beethovenstraße 15, 04107 Leipzig, room 4.1.16.

There will be four talks (three in German and one in English):

Dr. Timon Boehm (Zürich):„Ethik als Ausdruck von Metaphysik. Eine Explikation anhand der Problemkreise Autonomie und Normativität”

Dr. Beate Ulrike La Sala (Berlin): „Imaginationstheoreme in der arabischen Philosophie und in Spinozas Ansatz“

Dr. Johannes-Georg Schülein (Bochum): „Metaphysik und Staat bei Schelling und Spinoza“

Prof. Filippo Del Lucchese (London): „Normativity and Teleology in Spinoza“

 

For more info go to: http://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/cm/powi/martin-saar/

Contact: Martin Saar martin.saar@uni-leipzig.de

 

Spinoza’s Artes Conference

SPINOZA’S ARTES

An International One Day Conference

Spinoza has long exerted a profound influence on the arts. Goethe, the Shelleys, and George Eliot acknowledged the inspirational force of Spinoza’s philosophy. On the other hand, philosophers have all but dismissed Spinoza’s views on art. Why does Spinoza fascinate artists at the same time as his view of art is neglected by philosophy? This Conference will explore the influence of Spinoza on literature, music, poetry, and theatre along with the role these arts play in the art of living well.

 

Friday August 11, 2017

9 am – 5 pm

CCANESA Boardroom, Madsen Building F09

Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney

Sydney NSW Australia

 

Speakers:

*   AMY CIMINI University of California, San Diego

*   MOIRA GATENS University of Sydney

*   JONATHAN ISRAEL Princeton University

*   SUSAN JAMES Birkbeck College London

*   ANTHONY UHLMANN Western Sydney University

 

Enquiries: inja.stracenski@sydney.edu.au

 

Registration: This conference is free but registration is essential. Only those who have registered will be admitted.

To register please go to: http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/research/conferences.shtml

This project is funded by an Australian Research Council Grant [DP 170102206] <http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/aphil-l>