Stanley Cavell'sa e s t h e t ics

UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO March 2nd - 4th 2012

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Papers will be distributed in advance on the conference website and the conference itself will consist entirely of discussion of the work of our primary participants and its relation to work by Cavell. To receive the papers, please register on our conference website:

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Persons with a disability who believe they need assistance are requested to call 773 . 7 0 2 . 8 274 in advance.

fr i day / 03 - 0210 : 00 - 12 : 00s t u a r t h a l l 101topic “The World Viewed and Issues of Medium

and Modernism”chair david wellbery (Chicago)presenter michael fried (Johns Hopkins)

2 : 00 - 4 : 00h ar p e r h a l l 14 0topic “Stanley Cavell and Philosophical

Film Criticism”chair dan morgan (Pittsburgh)presenter andrew klevan (Oxford)

4 : 30 - 6 : 30 h ar p e r h a l l 14 0topic “Passive and Active Skepticism in Nicholas

Ray’s In a Lonely Place”chair jim chandler (Chicago)presenter robert pippin (Chicago)

saturday / 03 - 03the f ranke ins t i tute r e g e n s t e i n 102

10 : 00 - 12 : 00topic “Shakespeare and Cavell: Acknowledging, Confessing, and Tragedy”chair christoph könig (Osnabrück)presenter sarah beckwith (Duke)

2 : 00 - 4 : 00topic “In the Environment of Tragedy: Three

Lectures on Ethics (Wittgenstein, Kafka, Coetzee)”chair richard neer (Chicago)presenter yi-ping ong (Johns Hopkins)

4 : 30 - 6 : 30topic “Stanley Cavell on Recognition, Betrayal,

and the Photographic Field of Expression”chair joel snyder (Chicago)presenter richard moran (Harvard)

sunday / 03 - 04 the f ranke ins t i tute r e g e n s t e i n 102

10 : 00 - 12 : 00topic “Cavell, Skepticism and the Idea of

Philosophical Criticism”chair david finkelstein (Chicago)presenter arata hamawaki (Auburn)

2 : 00 - 4 : 00topic “The Adventure of Reading” chair dan brudney (Chicago)presenter toril moi (Duke)

4 : 30 - 6 : 30topic “Art and Objecthood and Beyond”chair james conant (Chicago)panel dan morgan (Pittsburgh) david wellbery (Chicago) robert pippin (Chicago) richard neer (Chicago)

the conference wil l have a workshop format

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c e n t e r f o r i n t e r d i s c i p l i n a ry r e s e a rc h o n g e r m a n l i t e r at u r e a n d c u lt u r e t h e d e pa r t m e n t o f p h i lo s o p h y