Wednesday, 9 September 2009
Room ST 273, 274/275, 276 Stewart House

13.30 Registration

14.00 Welcome and Introduction

14.15  Keynote Lecture      
Michael Bell (Warwick): Moral Sentimentalism and the Emergence of the Aesthetic

15.15 Tea

15.45 PARALLEL SESSIONS: Genesis of the Aesthetic

Rajesh Heynickx (Antwerp/Brussels): ‘Allgemeine Kunstwissenschaft’ on Trial. The First International Congress on Aesthetics in Berlin (1913)

Paul Bishop (Glasgow): Artistic Distance and Existential Self-Sculpting: Classical Aesthetics and Hedonist Ethics

Maike Oergel (Nottingham): The Aesthetics of Historicity: Dialectical Dynamics in Schiller's and Friedrich Schlegel's Concepts of the Art of Modernity

15.45 Schiller’s Political Aesthetic

Johan Siebers (London): 'Die Sonne Schillers leuchtet noch, aber merkwuerdig': Bloch's Essay 'Die Kunst, Schiller zu sprechen' (1932)

Hans Kellner (North Carolina): The Historical Sublime and Modernity 

15.45 Aesthetic as Anti-Modernity I

Steve Giles (Nottingham): Realism after Modernism: Modernity and Representation in Brecht, Lukacs and Adorno

Martin Potter (Bucharest): Thomas Mann and the Refoundation of Art

Thursday, 10 September 2009
Room ST 273,274/275, 276 Stewart House

9.30   PARALLEL SESSIONS: Schiller and Freedom

Vladimir Cepciansky (Stockholm): Modern Satire and the Satisfactions of Self-Consciousness

Alexander Knopf (Heidelberg): Das artistische ‘Ich’: die Befreiung der Freiheit bei Schiller und Novalis

Marie-Christin Wilm (Berlin): Huizinga plays Schiller: zur Rezeption des Schillerschen Spielbegriffs in Huizingas Homo Ludens 

9.30    ‘Bildung’ and the Aesthetic

Manuel Clemens (New Haven): Schillers ästhetische Bildungstheorie nach den Verwirrungen von Törleß und dem beschädigten Leben Adornos

Loredana Niculet (Barcelona): Sensus communis aestheticus and the Project of Emancipation: the Utopian Frame of the Avant-Gardes

Norman Kasper (Halle): Schiller’s Concept of Innocence in Über naive und sentimentale Dichtung and the 19th-Century Aesthetic of the ‘Innocent Eye’

9.30    Miscellanea

Charles DeBord (Lexington): The Decline of Sensuous Divinity

Rachel MagShamhráin (Cork): Towards an Aesthetics of Postponement: on Prolepsis in the Works of Heinrich von Kleist

Fred Rush (Indiana): The Value of Language

11.30  Coffee

12.00  Keynote Lecture
Andrew Bowie (London): Why Aesthetics matters to Modern Philosophy

13.00  Lunch (own arrangements)

14.30  PARALLEL SESSIONS: Aesthetics of Experience 

Randall van Schepen (Rhode Island): 200 Years of Schiller’s Aesthetic Modernism: Criticism, Abstraction and Revolution

Martine Prange (Amsterdam): Tragic Joy as Principle of Society: Schiller, Nietzsche and Adorno

14.30  Benjamin et al. I

Bram Mertens (Nottingham): ‘Das System absolut zu erfassen’: the Concept of Medium in Benjamin’s Der Begriff der Kunstkritik in der deutschen Romantik

Arvi Sepp (Antwerp): Zwischen Politik und Ästhetik: die Avantgarde-Auffassungen Walter Benjamins und Theodor W. Adornos

14.30  PARALLEL SESSIONS: Aesthetic as Anti-Modernity II

Stephan Mühr (Pretoria): ‘Man muss die Dinge sich vor Augen halten ...’: Goethes ästhetisches Programm als Kritik der Moderne

Sebastian Hüsch (Basle): Von der Ästhetik zum ästhetischen Stadium: Sören Kierkegaards Kritik an der Moderne

Eric Sean Nelson (Massachussetts): Aesthetics, Nature and Modernity in Adorno and Habermas

16.30  Tea 

17.00  Keynote Lecture
Martin Swales (London): Tragedy and the Aesthetic Dialectic