Wednesday, April 19, 2006

First Annual Conference on Politics, Criticism, and the Arts

Posted by Jonathan Neufeld on April 19, 2006 at 02:14 AM in noteworthy | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

Vanderbilt Philosophy Department will be hosting the first annual Conference on Politics, Criticism, and the Arts. It will be this weekend, April 21-23 in Nashville. The speakers and talks are listed below.

Keynote Addresses
Lydia Goehr, Columbia University
"Der Amerikamüde or the Actuality of American Opera"
Commentary by Joy Calico, Vanderbilt University

Christoph Menke, University of Potsdam
"A Critique of Judgment: Aesthetic Negativity in Tragedy"
Commentary by Barbara Hahn, Vanderbilt University

Plenary Speakers
Matthew Kieran, University of Leeds, "Literature, Politics, and Analytic Aesthetics"
Lawrence Kramer, Fordham University, "The Great American Opera"
Pamela M. Lee, Stanford University, "Death by Media: Warhol's State of Exception"
Miriam Hansen, University of Chicago, "Vernacular Modernism: Tracking Cinema on a Global Scale"

Roundtable: Politics, Art, and the Disciplines
Roundtable participants will also include:

Looks like it is going to be a lot of fun.