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26 – 27 June: Aesthetics, Normativity, and Reason

26th June – 27th June 2015

Sophie-Grace Chappell (r), Sara Janssen (l)
Sophie-Grace Chappell (r), Sara Janssen (l)
Graeme A Forbes
Graeme A Forbes
Levno Plato
Levno Plato
Maria Alvarez
Maria Alvarez
Aaron Ridley
Aaron Ridley
Nils-Hennes Stear
Nils-Hennes Stear
María José Alcaraz León
María José Alcaraz León
Andrew Huddleston
Andrew Huddleston
Conference dinner (clock-wise from left to right) Elisabeth Schellekens-Dammann, María José Alcaraz León, Graeme A Forbes, Aaron Ridley, Michael Newall, Michael Smith, Sara Janssen, Katrien Schaubroeck, Hans Maes, Dan Cavedon-Taylor, Murray Smith
Conference dinner (clock-wise from left to right) Elisabeth Schellekens-Dammann, María José Alcaraz León, Graeme A Forbes, Aaron Ridley, Michael Newall, Michael Smith, Sara Janssen, Katrien Schaubroeck, Hans Maes, Dan Cavedon-Taylor, Murray Smith

Keynote Speakers

Maria Alvarez (King’s College London)
Carla Bagnoli (University of Modena and University of Oslo)
Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open University)
John Hyman (Oxford University)
Aaron Ridley (University of Southampton)
Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann (University of Uppsala and University of Durham)
Michael Smith (Princeton University)

More information

www.anr-conference.uk

Sara Janssen, Postgraduate Research student History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent
Simon Kirchin, Reader in Philosophy, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, University of Kent, s.t.kirchin@kent.ac.uk
Hans Maes, Senior Lecturer History and Philosophy of Art, Director of the Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent
Paloma Atencia-Linares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)

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Shunga & Philosophy

The Sackler Rooms, British Museum 10am-5pm
Free admission, limited seating

In early modern Japan, thousands of sexually explicit paintings, prints, and illustrated books
with texts were produced, euphemistically called ‘spring pictures’ (shunga). Frequently tender, funny and beautiful, shunga were mostly done within the popular school known as ‘pictures of the floating world’ (ukiyo-e), by celebrated artists such as Utamaro and Hokusai. This colloquium aims to answer some key philosophical questions about the nature of shunga and how its ethical and artistic value is best understood.

Includes content of a sexually explicit nature. Parental guidance advised for under 16s.

Speakers include:
Prof. David Davies (McGill University) Dr. Emily Caddick (Cambridge University) Dr. Simon Fokt (University of St Andrews) Dr. Hans Maes (University of Kent)
Dr. Petra van Brabandt (St Lucas Antwerp) Louise Boyd (University of Glasgow)