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SUMMARY:The Spontaneity of Freedom - Summer Workshop 2025
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LOCATION:UCL\, London\, United Kingdom
DESCRIPTION:<p>The ERC research project The Spontaneity of Freedom (SPONT) investigates a familiar but under-theorized variety of freedom. Spontaneous freedom is the freedom of unplanned\, unscripted\, unalienated activity. It is the freedom we feel when we set off to explore a city we have never visited before\, open a sketchbook to a blank page\, or quit a job to take up a new vocation.</p>\n<p>The first Summer Workshop of the project will take place in London July 4-5th on the topic of &lsquo\;Spontaneity.&rsquo\;</p>\n<p><u><strong>Programme</strong></u></p>\n<p><u>Friday 4 July</u></p>\n<p>10.30: Light breakfast and Opening Remarks</p>\n<p>11.00-12.15 Emily McTernan (University College London) - &lsquo\;Don&rsquo\;t Google me: Freedom\, Spontaneity\, and the Right to an Open Future&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>12.15-13.30 Lunch</p>\n<p>13.30-14:45 Pablo Fernandez Velasco (University of Stirling) - &lsquo\;The Aesthetics of Being Lost: Spontaneous Freedom and Environmental Experience&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>15.00-16.15 Karl Schafer (University of Texas) &lsquo\;The Principle of Insufficient Reason and the Possibility of Freedom&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>16.15 Coffee break</p>\n<p>16.45-18.30 Tom Whyman (University of Liverpool) - &lsquo\;Fanon\, Violence\, and Spontaneous Freedom&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>19.00 Conference dinner (location TBA)</p>\n<p><u>Saturday 5 July&nbsp\;</u></p>\n<p>9.00 Light breakfast and coffee</p>\n<p>9.30-10.45 Ting Fung Ho (Duke University) &lsquo\;Spontaneous Freedom in Perception: Mindfulness Beyond Categorization&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>11.00-12.15 Elena Holmgren (University of British Columbia) &lsquo\;Group Flow as Spontaneous Collective Agency: A Phenomenological Account&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>12.15-13.30 Lunch</p>\n<p>13.30-14:45 Brian O&rsquo\;Connor (University College Dublin) - &lsquo\;Idleness as Spontaneity without Autonomy&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>15.00-16.15 Eric Yang (Santa Clara University) &lsquo\;Ritual and Spontaneity&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>16.15 Coffee break</p>\n<p>17.65-18.30 Xiaochen Zhao (Independent Scholar) &lsquo\;Freedom as Ontological Spontaneity: Heidegger&rsquo\;s Aesthetic-Phenomenological Recasting of Kant&rsquo\;</p>\n<p>19.30 Conference dinner (location TBA)</p>\n<p>Commentators:</p>\n<p>David Chandler (University College London)</p>\n<p>Isabelle Herburger (Rutgers University)</p>\n<p>Lizzy Holt (University College London)</p>\n<p>Kirstine la Cour (University College London)</p>\n<p>Ethan Nowak (Stanford University)</p>\n<p>Charles Petersen (Stanford University)</p>\n<p><strong><em>Space is limited\, and attendance requires registration. Please contact philosophy.spont@ucl.ac.uk to check availability and secure an invitation.</em></strong></p>
ORGANIZER;CN=Jonathan Gingerich;CN=Kirstine La Cour:
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