Bergen Network for Women in Philosophy: Symposium-Workshop in Art and Otherness

April 29, 2020 - May 1, 2020
Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen

Bergen
Norway

This will be an accessible event, including organized related activities

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University of Hertfordshire
Uppsala Universitet

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University of Bergen
(unaffiliated)

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** EXTENDED DEADLINE FOR CFP: March 15th, 2020

The Bergen Network for Women in Philosophy (BNWP) at the University of Bergen, Norway (UiB) will host its second graduate student workshop and symposium from April 29th - May 1st, 2020. We will discuss the relationship between art and otherness, broadly construed. Please see below for sample questions. Our keynote speakers are Danièle Moyal-Sharrock (University of Hertfordshire) and Sharon Rider (Uppsala University).

The event will comprise three kinds of sessions: Workshops will involve close discussion of a pre-circulated paper in small groups. Symposium presentations will be given by keynote speakers and interested workshop participants. Finally, there will be the opportunity to participate in a panel discussion. This panel will be held in cooperation with the Master’s in Fine Arts graduate exhibition at the local art museum, Kunsthall, where interested workshop participants, fine arts students, and professors from the fine arts and art history departments will converse and take audience questions on the topic of ‘otherness.’ Symposium presentations and the panel will be open to the whole department and the general public.

We welcome submissions from women (inclusively defined) who are currently enrolled in a graduate program (masters or doctorate) or have completed a graduate degree within the past year. Submissions must be in English. There is no registration fee. Some meals will be provided.

To submit a paper, please fill out this form [https://forms.gle/5fTfmFxeby8ZSx4aA] by March 1st. Successful applicants will be required to send a full paper by April 19th, 2020.


Discussion will include, but is not limited to, the following:

-- How does art disclose what is other -- that is, strange; new; foreign -- in the familiar? How does it delimit what ‘otherness’ is?

-- How does art reveal the ways in which we, its audience, are other to what the piece depicts or to whom created it? How does it make experiences of being ‘othered’ -- racism; sexism; expatriation; etc. -- vital to its audience? How do the arts -- and the philosophy of art -- deal with ‘otherness’ as it is present in our politics, in new technologies, and in legacies/studies of colonialism?

-- What does the creation of -- and engagement with -- art suggest about the relationship between self and other? How do artistic forms, movements, or mediums themselves become ‘other’ as practices of art and art-making technologies change?


We particularly welcome submissions in aesthetics and philosophy of art, phenomenology, philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, philosophy of anthropology, philosophy of language, and political philosophy. 


Please feel free to contact us [email protected] if you have any questions!

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