From February 6-7, 2025, the conference The Power of Art: Aesthetics and Politics in the Contemporary World will be held at the New School’s Department of Liberal Studies.
The workshop is organized by Francesco Campana and Paul Kottman, as part of the MSC Project PolArt – Understanding the Function of Art in the Contemporary Social Space Through a New Interpretation of Classical German Philosophy (MSC grant agreement No 101066460).
To attend the workshop, please register here.
Program
February 6, Starr Foundation Hall
9.30 Reception
10.15-10.30 Francesco Campana, Paul Kottman, Greetings and Introduction
Chair: Paul Kottman
10.30-11.45 Giulia Bernard (University of Padova), Fielding the Political: Participation and Critique in Art and Philosophy
11.45-1.00 Kristin Gjesdal (Temple University), Germaine de Staël on Literature and Politics
1.00 Lunch
Chair: Laura Dequal
2.30-3.45 Yi-Ping Ong (Johns Hopkins University), The Hum of the Own: Kierkegaard, Knausgaard, and Nelson on Existence in the Present Age
4.00-5.15 Francesco Campana (University of Padova/NSSR), Art on the barricades (or, the end of art, but this time actually conceived as the possibility of its death)
7.00 Dinner
February 7, Wolff Conference Room
Chair: Giulia Bernard
10.00-11.15 Sandra Shapshay (Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Center), Monuments: Iconoclasm & Idolatry in America
11.15-12.30 Luca Illetterati (University of Padova), What does a work of art deal with? The ambiguity of communication
12.30 Lunch
Chair: Francesco Campana
2.00-3.15 Lydia Goehr (Columbia University), From uproar to outrage: on art, noise, and political bluster
3.15-4.30 Sohl Lee (Stony Brook University), Art for Decolonization and Democracy: The Minjung Art Movement in South Korea
4.30-4.45 Coffee Break
4.45-6.00 Laura Dequal (University of Padova), On the Political Role of Curatorship in Contemporary Art
6.00 Conclusion
6.30 Aperitif
The workshop is organized in collaboration with hegelpd – University of Padova. Classical German Philosophy Research Group.
Scientific Committee: Francesco Campana, Paul Kottman, Gabriele Tomasi.
For inquiries, email francesco.campana@unipd.it
You can download the flyer at this link.
