Art and Identity: Challenging Philosophical and Psychological Perspectives

This two-day symposium focuses on art in relation to questions of identity and self-development while also addressing art’s implications for philosophical and psychological traditions.

The central questions of this symposium are: How is art linked to identity and self-development, seen from philosophical and psychological perspectives? What are the borders for these fields of inquiry when it comes to experiences with art? And how can philosophy and psychology inform each other in this mutual quest for understanding the functions of art in relation to questions of identity and self-development?

Program

Friday, May 7th

12:15 Registration 13:00 Welcome – Jan Riis Flor (Chairman of the Society for Philosophy and Psychology) and Tone Roald (main organizer). 13:30-15:00 Mark Johnson: Aesthetic Dimensions of Human Meaning 15:00 Coffee/Tea 15:45-17.15 Gerald Cupchik: I am, therefore I think, act, and express both in life and in art

Saturday, May 8th

09:00-10.30 Ciarán Benson: Acts in Art: Consequences for Identity 10:30 Coffee/Tea 10:45-12.15 Andrew Bowie (University of London): Aesthetics and Subjectivity Twenty Years On 12:15 Lunch 13:45-15.15 Judy Gammelgaard: The Little Shock Effects of Aesthetic Experience: Transformative Potentials in Proust 15:15 Coffee/Tea 15:45-17.15 Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht 17.15-17.30 Concluding remarks by Kasper Levin

Please register by sending an email with your name, address, and affiliation to registration.art@psy.ku.dk. Register no later than April 30th. The registration fee can be paid upon arrival and covers refreshments (but not lunch).

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