[MaFLa] Art & Morality -- A Human Endeavor

[Bárány Tibor]

*Art & Morality – A Human Endeavor*

*June 4-5, 2014*

*Central European University, Faculty Tower 809*

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





*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*



19:30 –

Conference dinner







*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*




You can find the conference program on our website:
http://humanproject.ceu.hu/events/2014-06-04/conference-on-art-and-morality-a-human-endeavor



Registration is free. For registration and more information contact Tibor
Bárány (barany.tibor at gmail.com), Zsolt Bátori (zsolt.batori at gmail.com) or
Anna Réz (rez_anna at ceu-budapest.edu).
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