[SydPhil] Spinoza's Artes

[Moira Gatens]

Registration is free but essential.

SPINOZA’S ARTES

An International One Day Conference that will explore the influence of Spinoza on literature, music, poetry, and theatre along with the role that these arts play in the art of living well.

Friday August 11, 2017
9 am – 5 pm
CCANESA Boardroom,
Madsen Building F09
Eastern Avenue,
University of Sydney

Program

9:00am Welcome

9:10-10:10am
Jonathan Israel (IAS, Princeton)
The theatre and the Cercle Spinoziste: the significance of the society ‘Nil volentibus arduum’ for Spinoza and the Arts

10:10-11:10am
Anthony Uhlmann (Western Sydney University)
Percy Shelley, Queen Mab, Spinoza

11:10-11:30am Morning Tea

11:30am-12:30pm
Susan James (Birkbeck, University of London),
On Self Transformation:  Ovid’s Warning to Spinoza

12:30-1:30pm Lunch

1:30-2:30pm
Marie Thompson (University of Lincoln)
Power over/Power to: Spinoza, musical politics and contestations of social space

2:30-3:30pm
Moira Gatens (The University of Sydney)
Mary Shelley, Spinoza, and the Exemplar

3:30-4:00pm Afternoon Tea

4:00-5:00pm
Panel discussion

Enquiries

inja.stracenski at sydney.edu.au<mailto:inja.stracenski at sydney.edu.au><mailto:inja.stracenski at sydney.edu.au>

Registration
Only those who have registered will be admitted.
To register please go to:
http://sydney.edu.au/arts/philosophy/research/conferences.shtml
This project is funded by an Australian Research Council Grant [DP 170102206]







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