From tbradshaw at uow.edu.au Mon May 2 10:32:58 2022 From: tbradshaw at uow.edu.au (Tristan Bradshaw) Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 00:32:58 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Critical Antiquities Workshop - Giulia Sissa Message-ID: Dear all, This week at the Critical Antiquities workshop, we are delighted to host Giulia Sissa (UCLA) for her paper, ?Forget Sexuality! Sensuality in Ancient Erotic Cultures.? The event will be held on Wednesday, May 4 10-11:30am (Sydney time). That translates to the following times elsewhere: Singapore: Wednesday, April 20 8-9:30am Tokyo: Wednesday, April 20 9-10:30am Los Angeles: Tuesday, April 19 5-6:30pm Mexico City: Tuesday, April 19 7-8:30pm Chicago: Tuesday, April 19 7-8:30pm New York City: Tuesday, April 19 8-9:30pm Here is the abstract: In all societies, a love life is complicated. It is shaped by ideas, norms, mores, emotions, sensations and manners of living the body. All this is a matter of concern, inquiry, regulations and representations across a variety of discourses (most of them normative, some of them performative), of domains of knowledge, of social practices and of inexhaustible aesthetic creativity. Ancient societies are no less complex. The erotic is a matter of desire, pleasure, bodies, institutions. By focusing on these aspects of the erotic experience as, precisely, an experience, we resolutely go beyond a pragmatic of the sexual acts; beyond the controversial notion of ?sexuality?; beyond sex as power and, above all, beyond the dogma of a premodern ?before? ? before an interpretive approach to what is felt, before the emergence of an erotic lifestyle, before the notion of erotic inclinations. This is not the quest for an ?already?. Quite the opposite, we should bring to the fore what was truly relevant in the erotic cultures of the ancient world: sensuality. In ancient societies, sensuality is far more important than sex. To be sensual, or sensuous, means to pursue the pleasure of the senses. Now, among the senses, there is touch, and touch is the essence of sex, as the congress of bodies. Think of Aristotle! Sensuality includes contact of the skin and the flesh, of course, but also the pleasures of all the other sense organs. A capacious attitude that encompasses all kinds of perceptions, sensuality is the overarching erotic experience. While it may well include coition, which is merely a kind of haptic interaction among others, it cannot be reduced to the execution of one particular sexual act. Sensuality involves caresses, embraces, kisses, gazes and any other wishful, mnemonic or imaginary, aesthetic approach to another person. It is about actual sensations, and about their possibilities. It vastly exceeds, therefore, the mechanics of penetration, an act that, although over-interpreted and overrated in contemporary scholarship, is seldom mentioned in ancient literary sources, and for a very good reason. Except in medical contexts, in comedy and in otherwise chastising genres of discourse, genital or anal penetration was irrelevant. Sensuality, on the contrary, captures the actual concerns of ancient thinkers and writers about eros and amor. Far from opposing love and sex, Homeric characters, Sappho and her Greek and Roman successors, Plato and Ovid understand the erotic / amorous life inseparably from a quest for the pleasure of all the senses. They offer either a sorrowful, hyper-realistic phenomenology of its failure, or a confident art of taking pleasure, or multihued -- comic, ironic, brutal, nuanced -- manners of praise and blame. We hope to see you there, Tristan and Ben Tristan Bradshaw Lecturer, School of Liberal Arts | Co-director, Critical Antiquities Network Faculty of the Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities | Building 19 Room 1085 University of Wollongong NSW 2522 Australia T +61 2 4221 3850 uow.edu.au Honorary Associate The University of Sydney School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences University of Wollongong CRICOS: 00102E -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pierrick.bourrat at mq.edu.au Mon May 2 11:46:10 2022 From: pierrick.bourrat at mq.edu.au (Pierrick Bourrat) Date: Mon, 2 May 2022 01:46:10 +0000 Subject: [SydPhil] Macquarie Philosophy WiP Seminar Tuesday 3rd May (tomorrow) Prof. Kristie Miller In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Dear All, Our next seminar will be on Tomorrow (Tuesday 3rd May) from 1-2pm. Attend in-person at 25C Wally's Walk, Room C326. Or, join us on zoom at this link: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/NWzXCk81N9tnqAKy9s2yIm0?domain=macquarie.zoom.us Zoom Password: seminar Prof. Kristie Miller (The University of Sydney) Title Temporal passage and the rationality of future-bias Abstract In this paper I argue that if future-bias (the preference to have pleasant events located in the future not past, and unpleasant events located in the past not future) is rationally permissible, then it?s permissibility is not grounded in our beliefs about, or experiences as of, time robustly passing as some have argued. Their idea is that because we believe that, or it seems to us as though, future events are coming towards us and past ones are over and done with and receding away from us, it is rational for us to discount the value of past events over future ones. I argue that (a) even if we have these beliefs and experiences, they are the wrong kinds of things to make future-bias rational and (b) even if they were the right kinds of things, as a matter of fact future-biased preferences are not sensitive to these beliefs or experiences, and so they cannot make those preferences rational. Find details of upcoming seminars on our department website: https://protect-au.mimecast.com/s/nD8cCmO5glu5R8gozfBAIsy?domain=mq.edu.au. For any queries relating to Macquarie Philosophy work-in-progress seminars please contact katrina.hutchison at mq.edu.au or pierrick.bourrat at mq.edu.au. 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