DANTO at 100: WHAT COMES NEXT? - A Workshop

November 15, 2024

Organizers: Lydia Goehr ([email protected]) and Francey Russell ([email protected])
Location:  Sulzberger Parlor, Barnard Hall, Broadway and 117th Street

Please RSVP to the conference by November 11th (hard deadline) via this form.
Due to heightened security measures, this is necessary to ensure that non-CU affiliate conference attendees will have access to campus. You will receive a QR code from Public Safety for campus access. You must bring your QR code and a valid ID for security. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Francey Russell ([email protected]) and Lydia Goehr ([email protected]).

A Zoom option will be offered for the entirety of the workship. Link is listed here.

Workshop Schedule:

9:15-10:45: PHILOSOPHY AND THE ARTS - EAST-WEST

  • Speaker: Hannah Kim (University of Arizona) "Fiction without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of Fiction."
  • Comment: Allison Aitken (Columbia University)
  • Comment: Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan at Ann Arbor)
  • Chair: Lydia Goehr

10:45-11:15: Coffee Break
11:15-12:45: EXISTENTIALISM AND WORLD-MAKING

  • Speaker: Sandra Shapshay (Hunter College & CUNY Graduate Center) “From Transfigured Boxes to the Transfigured Life in Jon Fosse’s Septology."
  • Comment: Taylor Carman (Barnard College)
  • Chair: Francey Russell

12:45-2:15: Lunch
2:15-3:45: POLITICAL ACTION AND PUBLIC ART

  • Speaker: John Miller (Barnard College) "Public Art and the Law of Unintended Consequences."
  • Comment: Gregg Horowitz (Pratt Institute, emer.)
  • Comment: Paul Taylor (University of California at Los Angeles)
  • Chair: Michele Moody-Adams

3:45-4:00: Coffee Break
4:00-5:30: WORLD, IMAGE, THOUGHT, EMOTION

  • Speaker: Richard Moran (Harvard University) "Photography, Memory, and Loss in Chris Marker’s La Jetée (1962)."
  • Comment: Jonathan Gilmore (Baruch College & CUNY Graduate Center)
  • Comment: David Albert (Columbia University)
  • Chair: Christopher Peacocke (Columbia University)

5:30-6:30: General Reception

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