2013 Art, Social Justice, & Critical Theory Conference
Kalamazoo College
Olmsted Room, Mandelle Hall
May 16-18, 2013
Thursday, May 16th
Thursday Evening: Keynote Address, 8:00 p.m.
Active Passivity: On the Aesthetic Variant of Freedom. Martin Seel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main. [Video] [Request Text]
Friday, May 17th
Friday Morning: Theories of Art and Aesthetics: Focus Seel and Zuidervaart
Session One: 8:30–10:30 a.m.
- Paul Guyer, The Moving Appearance of Truth (Philosophy, Brown University) [Request Text]
- Richard Eldridge: Modernity, Art, and Expressive Freedom (Philosophy, Swarthmore College) [Request Text]
- Comments:
- Martin Seel (Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität)
- Lambert Zuidervaart (Philosophy, ICS and University of Toronto). [Request Text]
Coffee Break:
Session Two: 11:00 a.m.–1:00 p.m.
- Michael Kelly: True Just Art (Philosophy, University of North Carolina, Charlotte) [Request Text]
- Elizabeth Millán: Aesthetic Opportunities and the Spanish American Landscape: A Look at Alexander von Humboldt’s Aesthetic of Nature through the Lens of Seel’s Aesthetic of Appearing. (Philosophy, DePaul University, Chicago) [Request Text]
- Comments
- Martin Seel (Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität)
- Lambert Zuidervaart (Philosophy, ICS and University of Toronto) [Request Text]
Lunch, Banquet Room: 1:00–2:00 p.m.
Friday Afternoon: The Theory and Practice of Activating Art
Session Three: 2:00–3:45 p.m.
- Sandra Shapshay: (CUNY Graduate Center, NY): Schopenhauer on the Symbiotic Relationship between Artistic and Philosophical Truth, a Reconstruction and Defense [Request Text]
- Veronique Fóti: Art and Appearing: Reflections on the Missed Dialogue Between Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Martin Seel (Philosophy, Pennsylvania State University) [Request Text]
- Comments:
- Martin Seel (Philosophy, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität)
- Lambert Zuidervaart (Philosophy, ICS and University of Toronto) [Request Text]
Refreshments:
Panel Discussion: Mural as Public Art: Artist Dialogue, 4:15–6:00 p.m.
- Christine Hahn: [Moderator] (Art History, Kalamazoo College)
- Conor McGrady (Independent Artist, Belfast, Northern Ireland)
- Dan Wang (Artist, Madison, Wisconsin) [See Wang’s blog on the event]
- Sonia Baez-Hernandez (Praxis Center, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership, Kalamazoo College)
Dinner, Stone Room: 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Friday Evening: Keynote Address, 8:00–9:15 p.m.
Theses on Pictures and Films: Martin Seel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main. [Video]
Reception, Humphrey House Lounge
Saturday, May 18th
Saturday Morning:
Panel Discussion: The Aesthetics and Politics of Food, 9:00–10:30 p.m.
- Amelia Katanski (English, Kalamazoo College)
- Alison Geist (Director, Mary Jane Underwood Stryker Institute for Service-Learning, Kalamazoo College)
- David Strauss (Professor Emeritus of History, Kalamazoo College)
Coffee Break
Panel Discussion: Museums and Curatorship, 11:00–12:30 p.m.
- Lambert Zuidervaart [Moderator] (Philosophy, ICS and University of Toronto)
- Christine Hahn (Art History, Kalamazoo College)
- Paul Wittenbraker (Visual and Media Arts, Grand Valley State University)
- Alexandra Gravely (Art, K’13)
- Eeva Sharp (Art, K’13)
Lunch, Stone Room: 12:30–2:00 p.m.
Saturday Afternoon:
Panel Discussion: Performance Art, 2:00–3:30 p.m.
- Adriana Garriga-Lopez (Florida Atlantic University and formerly Anthropology/Sociology, Kalamazoo College)
- Shanna Salinas (English, Kalamazoo College)
Coffee Break:
Round Table Discussion and Closing Comments [Video] 4:00–5:30 p.m.
Reception, Stone Room: 5:30–6:00 p.m.
Dinner, Stone Room: 6:00–8:00 p.m.
Prior Events Leading to the Conference:
- September 22, 2012: Return of the Border Brujo (Guillermo Gomez-Pena) NB: Performance in Balch Playhouse
- October 4, 2012: Key Concepts in Critical Theory (David Ingram, Loyola University, Chicago)
- October 5, 2012: Critical Theory, Whiteness, and Race (David Ingram, Loyola University, Chicago)
- November 15, 2012: Cinematographic Art and Difference: The Picture of Abjection (Tina Chanter, DePaul University, Chicago)
- November 16, 2012: Art, Politics, and Ranciere: Seeing Things Anew (Tina Chanter, DePaul University, Chicago)
- February 13, 2013: Carcinoma le deuil impossible (Sonia Baez Hernandez, Arcus Center for Social Justice Leadership Visiting Fellow)
- February 28, 2013: Artistic Truth (Lambert Zuidervaart, University of Toronto)
- March 1, 2013: Public Art (Lambert Zuidervaart, University of Toronto)
- May 16, 2013: Active Passivity: On the Aesthetic Variant of Freedom (Martin Seel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, Germany) Watch the Keynote Address
- May 17, 2013: Theses on Pictures and Films (Martin Seel, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universitaet, Frankfurt am Main, German) Watch the Keynote Address