TIPP>>> CONFERENCE >The Pleasure of Doubt in Art, Aesthetics and Everyday Life >>> ICI >>> Jun 19-21, 2014 #Conference #ArtTheory #Philosophy #KnowledgeProduction https://ici-berlin.org/event/600/ Doubt pervades our daily life, both emotionally and cognitively. And yet, modern philosophy and the humanities tend to trivialize it. They conceive doubt in purely negative terms, as a mere nuisance in the pursuit of knowledge. But the modern arts, and also a small number of philosophers, paint a much more nuanced picture: They meet doubt with curiosity and attention; they embrace it as a transformative power; they provoke it at will and even cultivate it in ordinary life. The international conference The Pleasure of Doubt in Art, Aesthetics and Everyday Life explores this alternative route to doubt, skepticism and scruples. It starts from the assumption that “living doubt” is not just a mental state of disbelief, but a conflicting experiential process. Doubt implicates the body as well as the senses; it stimulates just as much as it irritates; it discloses as well as it obscures. Renowned representatives from anthropology to philosophy are invited to discuss how doubt shapes our lives, and how the experience of doubt is or even ought to be dealt with. With Erika Fischer-Lichte, Berlin Dieter Mersch, Zürich Andrew Norris, Santa Barbara Matthijs Pelkmans, London Heidi Salaverria, Hamburg Richard Shiff, Austin Miriam Strube, Paderborn Uwe Wirth, Gießen Michelle Zerba, Alexandria (LA) Programme Thursday 19 Uhr Dieter Mersch: »Doubt, Skepticism, and Desperation. The Arrows of Paradox« 21 Uhr Reception Friday 10.00 – 11.00 Erika Fischer-Lichte: »Theatralität des Zweifelns« 11.15 – 12.15 Heidi Salaverría: »Critique of Aesthetic Doubts« 12.15 – 14.00 Lunch Break 14.00 – 15.00 Andrew Norris: »What is a Doubtful Situation?« 15.15 – 16.15 Mathijs Pelkmans: »Catching Doubt in Mid-Air? Reflections on the (Im)possibilities of the Empirical Study of Doubt« Saturday 10.00 – 11.00 Richard Shiff: »As it Feels« 11.15 – 12.15 Miriam Strube: »Moments of Sudden Rightness: On the Fragility of Truth in Wallace Stevens’ Poetry« 12.15 – 13.15 Lunch Break 13.15 – 14.15 Uwe Wirth: »Think Today -- Finish Tomorrow. Strategic Dilettantism and the Question of Knowledge in the Arts« 14.30 – 15.30 Michelle Zerba: »Reflections on Skepticism in Homers Odyssey and the Poetry of C.P. Cavafy« The conference is organised by Mark Halawa-Sarholz and Jörg Volbers of the International Research Group Interart Studies in cooperation with the ICI Berlin Contact: halawa(at)zedat.fu-berlin.de joerg(at)joergvolbers.de pleasure-of-doubt
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