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2022

DIAGNOSIS: Late Antique Taxonomies in Medicine and Healing

The conference seeks to explore how late antique practitioners and patients approached, explained and classified illness.

Time and place: Oct. 27, 2022 2:00 PM – Oct. 29, 2022 12:00 PM, Central European University, Room 106, Nador u. 15, Budapest
Location
The conference takes place in Budapest at the Central European University, room 106. For online participation, please register at Eventbrite.

Programme
Thursday, October 27
14.00 - 15.30
Keynote by Heidi Marx (University of Manitoba): What Did it Mean to be Healed in Late Antiquity

Coffee break

16.00 - 18.00
Markéta Preininger (University of Würzburg): Taxonomies of Healing in the Coptic Magical Corpus

Antonio Ricciardetto (HISOMA): "But these things are more plausible than true": Gender prediction in the gynaecological and obstetrical tradition, from Soranus’ Gynaecia to the late antique texts

Ortal-Paz Saar (Utrecht University): Migraine and Other Headaches in the Mesopotamian Incantation Bowls

Friday, October 28
09.00 - 11.00
Véronique Dasen (University of Fribourg): Medical metaphors and therapeutic agency

Nils Hallvard Korsvoll (University of Agder): What’s in a Noun? Identification and Externalisation of General Ills in Iraqi Magic Bowls

Anne Grons (Philipps-Universität Marburg): How to understand Coptic medical terms? The case of “knocking” and “eating” in Coptic medical prescriptions

Coffee break

11.30 - 13.00
Fabio Spadini (Free University, Berlin): When the animal hides the power of the planet: the case of the Cyranides

Árpád M. Nagy (Palladion/ University of Pécs): Ancient Healing Gems - a historical perspective

Lunch

15.00 - 16.30
Keynote by Andrew Crislip (Virginia Commonwealth University): Pain, Passion, and Disease in Late Antique Asceticism

17.00 - 18.30
Joseph E. Sanzo, Alessia Bellusci, Paolo Lucca, and Sandrine Welte (University Ca’ Foscara): Wicked Rituals and Demonic Diseases: Taxonomies of Bodily Harm in the Early Jewish and Christian Magical Traditions

Lennart Lehmhaus (Free University, Berlin): Because of sin, hunger or witchcraft – moral, religious and physiological disease etiologies and the many medical roles of the rabbis in Jewish traditions of late antiquity

Saturday, October 29
09.00 - 10.30
Ildikó Csepregi (University of Vigo): Wrongdoing, ritual offence and sin as causes of illness

Anna Rebecca Solevåg (VID Specialized University): Infectious disease/infectious discourse: Taxonomy and rhetoric in Ignatius and Cyprian

Coffee break

11.00 - 12.00
Ágnes T. Mihálykó (University of Oslo/Austrian Academy of Sciences): “Ague or harm from people or powers of the adversary”: cataloguing sources of evil in liturgical and magical texts

General discussions and final remarks

Organizer
Agnes Mihálykó Tothne (University of Oslo/Austrian Academy of Sciences), Nils Hallvard Korsvoll (University of Agder) and Árpád M. Nagy (Palladion/ University of Pécs)

Exploring the Nature of Moral Vulnerability

Workshop at the University of Oslo. The workshop is open to the public. All welcome.

Time and place: Aug. 27, 2022 9:30 AM – Aug. 28, 2022 3:15 PM

Topic
To be vulnerable is to be fragile, to be susceptible to harm and suffering. In the Introduction to their Vulnerability: New Essays in Ethics and Feminist Philosophy (2015) the editors Catriona Mackenzie, Wendy Rogers and Susan Dodds distinguish between four kinds of vulnerability - some of them we share with non-human animals: As embodied creatures, we have physical and material needs; we are vulnerable to physical injuries, physical illness, disability, and death.

As social and affective creatures, we are emotionally and psychologically vulnerable, vulnerable to personal loss and grief, neglect, abuse, lack of care, rejection, ostracism, and humiliation. As socio-political beings, we are vulnerable to exploitation, manipulation, oppression, political violence, and rights abuses. As inhabitants of the natural and technically shaped world, we are vulnerable to our environment and to the consequences of past and present technologically and culturally induced changes.
Moral vulnerability does not figure on this list. However, we are not only vulnerable to these four kinds of harm, we are also morally vulnerable, that is, vulnerable to moral wrongdoing.

Workshop Program
Saturday, August 27
09.30 – 10.00
Coffee and introductions

10.00 – 11.15
Corinna Mieth, Universität Bochum, Germany
Blind Spots in Kant’s Formula of Humanity: Moral Vulnerability Beyond Instrumentalization

11.30 – 12.45
Carla Bagnoli, Università degl Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy
Hope and Moral Vulnerability

14.00 – 15.15
Josep E. Corbí, University of Valencia, Spain
Moral Vulnerability in the Arrow of Time

15.30 – 15.45
Maria Seim, University of Oslo, Norway
Vulnerable Blamers and the Limits of Forgiveness

Sunday, August 28
10.00 – 11.15
Christel Fricke, University of Oslo, Norway
Understanding Moral Vulnerability

11.30 – 12.45
Andreas Brekke-Carlsson, Inland Norway University of Applied Science, Lillehammer, Norway
Forgiveness and Blameworthiness

14.00 – 15.15
Monika Betzler and Jonas Vandieken, LMU Munich, Germany
Moral Indifference

Symposium Aristotelicum 2022

The 22nd Symposium Aristotelicum: Aristotle’s Categories.

Time and place: Aug. 8, 2022 5:00 PM – Aug. 14, 2022 5:30 PM

The Symposium Aristotelicum is a three-yearly symposium of proven Aristotle’s researchers. The conference series was founded in 1957 by the Aristotelian scholars Ingemar Düring, from Sweden, and Gwilym Ellis Lane Owen, from Great Britain. It is a closed event organized by experts, which can only be attended by invitation from the scientific committee. Since 1969 every symposium has been dedicated to a specific work by Aristotle.

The 22nd Symposium Aristotelicum should have taken place in 2020, but it was postponed to 2022 because of Covid-19. It is organized by Professor Panos Dimas and the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oslo. The Symposium takes place in Norway for the first time. Its present topic is Aristotle’s Categories.

Program
Monday, August 8th
Afternoon session / Chair: Oliver Primavesi
17.00 – 20.00: Francesco Ademollo: Chapters 1-3
20.00 – 22.00: Welcome Dinner

Tuesday, August 9
Morning session / Chair: Laura Castelli
10.00 – 13.00: Christof Rapp: Chapter 4 (and Top. I 9)
Afternoon session / Chair: Gábor Betegh
15.30 – 18.30: Riccardo Chiaradonna: Chapter 5 (1), 2a11-3a6

Wednesday, August 10
Morning session / Chair: Marwan Rashed
10.00 – 13.00: Ursula Coope: Chapter 5 (2), 3a7-4b18

Afternoon session / Chair: Orna Harari
15.30 – 18.30: Christian Pfeiffer: Chapter 6

Thursday, August 11
Morning session / Chair: Katerina Ierodiakonou
10.00 – 13.00: Marco Zingano: Chapters 9 and 10 (1), 11b1-12b16

Afternoon session / Chair: Francesco Ademollo
15.30 – 18.30: Laura Castelli: Chapters 10 (2) and 11, 12b16-14a25

Friday, August 12
Morning session / Chair: Francesca Masi
10.00 – 13.00: Marko Malink: Chapter 7 (1), 6a36-7b14

Afternoon session / Chair: Sylvain Delcomminette
15.30 – 18.30: Orna Harari: Chapter 7 (2), 7b15-8b24

Saturday, August 13
Morning session / Chair: Hendrik Lorenz
10.00 – 13.00: Paolo Fait: Chapter 8, 8b25-10a26

Afternoon session / Chair: Ursula Coope
15.30 – 18.30: Stephen Menn: Chapter 8, 10a27-11a37

Sunday, August 14
Morning session / Chair: Paolo Crivelli
10.00 - 13.00: Katerina Ierodiakonou: Chapters 12-15

Afternoon session / Chair: Panos Dimas
14.30 – 16.30: Benjamin Morison: Concluding Remarks
16.30 – 17.30: General assembly
19.00 – 22.00: Farewell Dinner

Monday, August 15
Departure

Speakers

Francesco Ademollo, Florence
Laura Castelli, Munich
Riccardo Chiaradonna, Rome
Ursula Coope, Oxford
Paolo Fait, Oxford
Orna Harari, Tel Aviv
Katerina Ierodiakonou, Geneva / Athens
Marko Malink, New York
Stephen Menn, Montreal
Benjamin Morison, Princeton
Christian Pfeiffer, Toronto
Christof Rapp, Munich
Marco Zingano, São Paulo / Cambridge
Participants
Gábor Betegh, Cambridge
Paolo Crivelli, Geneva
Sylvain Delcomminette, Bruxelles
Panos Dimas, Oslo
Hendrik Lorenz, Princeton
Francesca Masi, Venice
Oliver Primavesi, Munich
Marwan Rashed, Sorbonne

Attendants

Panagiotis Pavlos, Oslo / Cambridge
Gabriel Shapiro, Princeton
Hilde Vinje, Agder

Organizer

Panos Dimas, Oslo

Secrétariat

Panagiotis Pavlos, Oslo / Cambridge

2021

[CANCELLED/POSTPONED] Understanding Language

Time and place: Dec. 6, 2021 11:00 AM–Dec. 7, 2021 4:15 PM, Asker
'Understanding Language' is a 2-day workshop on philosophy of language and pragmatics, with short presentations from researchers from the Oslo area and other parts of Norway.

Day 1

1100: Welcome
1120: Talk 1 - Mirela Fuš: The Speech Act Approach to Ameliorating Pernicious Generics
1140: Talk 2 - Olav Gjelsvik: Is Logic Exceptional?
1200: Lunch
1320: Talk 3 - Anders Nes: A paratactic theory of mental representation of meaning. Prospects and problems.
1340: Talk 4 - Anna Drożdżowicz: On voice and speaker
1400: Talk 5 - Jonathan Knowles: Anti-representationalism and realism
1430: Break/check-in
1600: Talk 6 - Nicholas Allott: Work in progress
1620: Talk 7 - Camilo Rodriguez Ronderos: Expressive adjectives help anticipate referents during language comprehension: An eye-tracking study
1640: Talk 8 - Joey Pollock: The role of communication in testimony and peer disagreement
1700: Talk 9 - Carsten Hansen: Sense & Reference and Thoughts & Truth Conditions
1720: End
1900: Dinner

Day 2

0800: Breakfast
0930: Talk 10 - Rebecca Kvisler Iversen: Sense conventions and non-literal uses of language
0950: Talk 11 - Fintan Mallory: Common ground between Stalnaker and Davidson
1010: Talk 12 - Paula Rubio Fernandez: Pragmatics is more than reading in between the lines
1030: Break
1100: Talk 13 - Kim Pedersen Phillips: Directed Duties in Conversation
1120: Talk 14 - Sigurd Jorem: Against Amelioration as Revelation
1140: Talk 15 - Bjørn Ramberg: Language activism and philosophy: Conceptual engineering versus pragmatist redescription.
1200: Lunch
1330: Networking
15:00: End

For more information, contact Joey Pollock (joanna.pollock@ifikk.uio.no)

This event is funded by the CSMN Afterlife funds.

Organizers

Anna Drożdżowicz
Kim Pedersen Phillips
Joey Pollock

Sixth Annual Ancient Philosophy Conference: Virtue and Happiness

Workshop on Philosophy of Mind and Language
This is the closing workshop for the project ‘Language, Meaning and Conscious Experience’ funded by the Research Council of Norway between 2018-2021.

Time and place: Aug. 23, 2021 9:15 AM–6:30 PM, Georg Sverdrups hus, Stort møterom (2531)

The workshop features 6 work-in-progress talks from presenters who have been part of the project’s local network in the Oslo area.

The workshop will last one day (23.08.) and will take place at the University of Oslo, Blindern campus, Georg Sverdrups hus (library building), Stort møterom (2531).

Attendance is free and all are welcome.

Registration is required beforehand, following the rules for public events. To register, please send an email to: Anna Drożdżowicz

Organizer

Anna Drożdżowicz

Programme

09:15-09:30 Welcome + coffee

09:30-10:30 Anna Drożdżowicz (UiO), ‘“Sketchy” linguistic representations and (meta)linguistic communication’

10:40-11:40 Nicholas Allott (UiO), ‘What grammatical and semantic illusions don’t tell us about utterance interpretation, and some of what they do’

11:50-12:50 Ingrid Lossius Falkum (UiO) and Rebecca Iversen (UiO), 'Sense conventions, pragmatics, and the development of non-literal uses of language'

12:50-13:50 Lunch break

13:50-14:50 Hedda Hassel Mørch (HiNN), ‘Does panpsychism mean that “we are all one”?’

15:00-16:00 Anders Nes (NTNU), ‘The eyes of the listeners. Stimulus-control and perception’

16:00-16:20 Coffee break

16:20-17:20 Joey Pollock (UiO), ‘Testimony is not content-preserving’

17:30-18:30 Kim Pedersen Phillips (OsloMet), ‘Knowing What Is Said’

Abstracts

Nicholas Allott (UiO), ‘What grammatical and semantic illusions don’t tell us about utterance interpretation, and some of what they do’

While utterance interpretation is standardly understood as context-sensitive inference, there are prima facie reasons to doubt it is fully unencapsulated. Utterance interpretation is fast, while it has been argued that unencapsulated processes are slow; and certain illusions (see below) appear to show that the processing of utterances is unrevisable in light of further information. Such ‘unrevisability’ or ‘evidence-insensitivity’ is generally taken to be excellent evidence for cognitive impenetrability.

(1) * The man the girl the cat scratched died.
(2) * More people have been to Berlin than I have.
(3) No head injury is too trivial to ignore.
(4) How many animals of each kind did Moses take into the ark?

In this talk, I argue that ‘grammatical’ and ‘semantic’ illusions show less than one might think about the cognitive (im)penetrability of utterance interpretation. The illusions of acceptability in mismatched centre-embedding (1) and meaningfulness in the comparative illusion (2) don’t depend on reaching any stable interpretation. In the inversion illusion (3) an interpretation is reached which is hard to revise and not compatible with the compositional semantics. However, on standard accounts, this interpretation is due in part to background knowledge.
While the Moses illusion (4) is revisable, such revision may be performed by a distinct capacity, or by re-running the normal interpretation process with shifted attention, so is not clear evidence for cognitive penetrability of the normal utterance interpretation process. However, our repeated susceptibility to the illusion is evidence that the normal utterance interpretation procedure is fairly rigid. This helps to explain how it can be both unencapsulated and fast.

Anna Drożdżowicz (UiO), ‘“Sketchy” linguistic representations and (meta)linguistic communication’

How good are we at understanding what others tell us? It often seems to us, at least, that we understand each other quite well. However, a growing body of evidence from the psychology of language suggests that in many communicative settings comprehenders routinely form linguistic representations that are underdetermined, “sketchy” or “imprecise”. In this talk I will discuss some important consequences of this evidence. I will propose that the evidence is currently best interpreted as supporting a view on which operating at a certain level of imprecision and underdetermination is a functional feature of the system responsible for comprehension of linguistic utterances. That this kind of imprecision and underdetermination is part and parcel of linguistic interactions, makes the exact success rate of comprehension particularly hard to estimate. This poses a serious challenge for the quality of linguistic interactions and may lead to pessimism about how good we are at understanding what others tell us. However, as I will suggest in the second half of the talk, in various cases language users can be sensitive to some forms of imprecision in comprehension and make up for it by means of various forms of post hoc deliberation and negotiation. I will discuss some such cases, as well as the abilities that underlie this kind of (meta)linguistic communication and end by charting a map of issues that require further investigation.

Ingrid Lossius Falkum (UiO) and Rebecca Iversen (UiO), 'Sense conventions, pragmatics, and the development of non-literal uses of language'

Recent years have seen an increasing interest in children’s appreciation of conventions, that is, regularities in social behaviour on the basis of which we coordinate our actions. In the domain of language, sense conventions are regularities in the uses of words to convey particular senses. In lexical acquisition, they allow children to assume that for a certain sense there is a word that speakers expect to be used in a language community, and that when a speaker uses an unfamiliar word it has a sense distinct from words they already know (Clark, 1993). However, while an appreciation of sense conventions plays a crucial role in language acquisition, it may be a source of interpretive inflexibility when familiar words are used with unconventional meanings, as in non-literal uses of language (e.g., “I love you so much I could eat you up!”). We discuss the hypothesis that children’s growing sensitivity to sense conventions might impede their pragmatic reasoning with non-literal uses in the pre-school years, and present an experimental task that tests their flexibility/rigidity with conventions.

Hedda Hassel Mørch (HiNN), ‘Does panpsychism mean that “we are all one”?’

Panpsychism is the view that all (fundamental or otherwise appropriately unified) things are conscious. Some defend panpsychism as part of a solution to the mind-body problem. In this talk, I consider whether it would have significant (meta)ethical implications. In particular, I will consider whether panpsychism supports the idea that “we are all one”, in a sense that implies that egoism (understood as bias towards what we normally, but falsely, take to constitute the self) is irrational.

Anders Nes (NTNU), ‘The eyes of the listeners. Stimulus-control and perception’

It has widely been held to be characteristic of perceptions, as opposed to extra-perceptual cognitions, that they function to be causally sustained or controlled by proximal stimuli tracing back to their objects. Two related challenges to such stimulus-control accounts of the perception/cognition distinction are presented: from play-by-play announcing, and from a process of visualizing ongoing events under the guidance of play-by-play announcements. I argue, however, that an upgraded stimulus-control account can overcome these challenges by taking perceptions characteristically to be immediately controlled by proximal stimuli, in a sense of ‘immediate’ that is made clear.

Kim Pedersen Phillips (OsloMet), ‘Knowing What Is Said’

The claim that we typically come to know what speakers say when they speak to us in a familiar language seems plausible on its face. However, a new type of argument casts doubt on this claim. The gist of the argument is that the conditions for knowledge will, in many cases, not be satisfied due to the underdeterminacy involved in communication. The result is a moderate skepticism about knowledge of what is said. In this talk, I’ll argue against such skepticism. I’ll do so by giving an account of knowing what is said according to which such knowledge is understood as inexact. I’ll also provide some motivation for the view that knowledge of what is said plays a central role in communication.

Joey Pollock (UiO), ‘Testimony is not content-preserving’

The dominant view of the semantic dimension of testimony maintains both that (a) successful testimonial exchanges (either always or typically) preserve content and (b) the contents so preserved are rich enough to serve as appropriate contents of testimonial knowledge. In this talk, I draw on considerations from the debate between minimalists and Relevance Theorists in philosophy of language to argue that no notion of content can play both of these roles simultaneously. Thus, we must accept that testimonial exchanges are not often content preserving: the content that the hearer recovers is not (often) the same as the content that the speaker expressed.

Workshop on Predicativity

The aim of this workshop is to foster discussion on predicativity, especially, but not exclusively, on constructive predicativity from a number of perspectives.

Time and place: Apr. 9, 2021, Zoom

This workshop is within the project Infinity in Mathematics: a Philosophical Analysis of Critical Views of Infinity. This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No 838445.

Speakers

Stewart Shapiro (Ohio, USA), Michael Rathjen (Leeds, UK), Giovanni Sambin (Padua, Italy), Maria Emilia Maietti (Padua, Italy), Øystein Linnebo (Oslo), Laura Crosilla (Oslo)

Schedule

(all times are Oslo time, i.e. CET):

12:50 Opening
13:00-13:50 Laura Crosilla: Predicativity as invariance
10 minutes break
14:00-14:50 Giovanni Sambin: Predicativity from the perspective of dynamic constructivism
Break
15:15-16:05 Maria Emilia Maietti: What discriminates the Minimalist Foundation among predicative foundations for Bishop's constructive mathematics?
10 minutes break

16:15-17:05 Øystein Linnebo and Stewart Shapiro: Predicativism and potential totalities
Break
17:30-18:20 Michael Rathjen: Predicativity, polymorphism and function spaces
Organizers
Øystein Linnebo and Laura Crosilla

The workshop will take place via Zoom. Please write to Laura.Crosilla@ifikk.uio.no for a Zoom-invite.

2019

Sixth Annual Ancient Philosophy Conference: Virtue and Happiness

Time: Nov. 8, 2019–Nov. 9, 2019

Confirmed speakers

Paul Woodruff (UTexas)
Karen Magrethe Nielsen (Oxford)
Dhananjay Jagannathan (Columbia)
Miira Tuominen (Jyväskylä)
Alessandra Fussi (Pisa)
René Brouwer (Utrecht)
Øyvind Rabbås (Oslo)
Oda Tvedt (Uppsala)

For more information, please contact Franco Trivigno

Workshop: On its 60th birthday, is the Antarctic Treaty in good health?

What is the status of the Antarctic Treaty 60 years after its entry into force? This workshop is part of the Political Philosophy Looks to Antarctica project.

Time and place: Oct. 10, 2019 9:00 AM–Oct. 11, 2019 5:00 PM, Georg Morgenstiernes hus

About the workshop

In this two-day workshop, we critically interrogate the Antarctic Treaty System and its capacity to confront present and future challenges like the aforementioned climate change, the growing pressure from some countries to lift the prohibition on mining imposed by the Protocol, and the latent but not forgotten territorial claims. Does the ATS have the tools to tackle these challenges successfully? What aspects are in need of revision (if any)? What is improvable regarding its structure and functioning? Historians, legal scholars, archeologists, environmental experts and philosophers from four continents meet in this workshop to ask these questions and reflect upon them.

This workshop is part of the Political Philosophy Looks to Antarctica project. It is sponsored by The Oslo School of Environmental Humanities and The Research Council of Norway.

If you would like to attend, please send an email to okdavang@iss.uio.no

Preliminary program

Thursday 10th of October

09.15-09.30 Welcome
09.30-10.20 Lize-Marie van der Watt
10.30-11.20 Julia Jabour, “Is the Antarctic Treaty Customary International Law: How will we know?”
11.20-11.50 Coffee break
11.50-12.45 Alejandra Mancilla
12.45-13.45 Lunch
13.45-14.35 Ximena Senatore
14.45-15.35 Øyvind Stokke
15.35-18:00 Visit to FRAM Museum (optional)
19.00 Dinner

Friday 11th of October

09.15-10.05 Yelena Yermakova
10.15-11.05 Kees Bastmeijer
11.05-11.20 Coffee break
11.20-12.10 Peder Roberts
12.20-13.10 Li Xueping
13.10-14.00 LUNCH
14.00-14.50 Cara Nine
14.50-15.10 Coffee break
15.10-16.00 Ricardo Roura
16.10-17.00 Wrap-up and goodbye
17.00-17.45 Meeting of the project’s members

Aristotle on Plato and the Presocratics

Time and place: Sep. 20, 2019 9:30 AM–Sep. 21, 2019 6:30 PM, George Morgenstiernes Hus 452, University of Oslo

Programme

Friday

9.30-11.00 Wei Wang (Fudan), 'The two "digressional" passages and Aristotle's criticism of his predecessors in Physics 3.1-3'
11.00-11.15 Tea/Coffee
11.15-12.45 David Ebrey (Berlin), ´Ascribing Matter to Aristotle’s Predecessors´
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Thomas Kjeller Johansen (Oslo), ´Monism in Metaphysics A.3-5´
15.00-16.30 Claire Louguet (Lille), ´εἴ τις ἀκολουθήσειε συνδιαρθρῶν ἃ βούλεται λέγειν: when Aristotle attributes to his predecessors arguments they did not articulate. Two different cases: Parmenides in Met. A 3 and Anaxagoras in Met. A 8´
16.30-17.00 Tea/Coffee
17.00-18.30 Shaul Tor (King´s College London), '(Aristotle on) Xenophanes on theogony'
19.30 Dinner for speakers

Saturday

9.30-11.00 Jason Carter (Edinburgh), 'Aristotle, Plato, and the Presocratics on the Origin and Destruction of Human Species'
11.00-11-15 Tea/Coffee
11.15-12.45 Gabor Betegh (Cambridge), ´The harmonia theories in De Anima 1.4´
12.45-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Dorothea Frede (Hamburg), ´The Form of the Good: Aristotle’s critique in Nicomachean Ethics I.6´
15.00-16.30 Wei Liu (Renmin), ´The Ugliness of the Most Beautiful City: Aristotle's Criticism of Plato's Political Agenda in the Republic´
16.30-17.00 Tea/Coffee
17.00-18.30 Wei Cheng (Peking), ‘Aristotle’s criticism of Plato: the invention of pleasure per accidens reconsidered’
19.30 Dinner for speakers

For further information contact t.k.johansen@ifikk.uio.no

Organizer: Ancient Philosophy Society

Self-blame and Moral Responsibility

The workshop will consist of 25 minutes presentation by the speakers, followed by 35 minutes of Q&A. The papers will be made available for attendants of the workshop.

Everybody is very welcome to join! In particular we encourage students to join us.

Time and place: Sep. 20, 2019–Sep. 21, 2019, Room 652, Georg Morgenstiernes hus, Blindern

20th of September

9.30 - 10.30 Justin D’Arms and Daniel Jacobson: The Motivational Theory of Guilt (and Responsibility)
10.30 - 10.45 Break
10.45 - 11- 45 Michelle Mason: Shame as a Self-reactive Attitude
11.45 - 12.00 Break
12.00 - 13.00 Douglas Portmore: A Comprehensive Account of Blame: Self-Blame, Non-Moral Blame, and Blame for the Non-Agential
13.00 - 14.00 Lunch
14.00 - 15.00 Derk Pereboom: Forward- looking Self- Blame
15.00 - 15.15 Break
15.15 - 16.15 Dana Nelkin: How Much to Blame? An Asymmetry Between the Norms of Self-Blame and Other-Blame
16.15 - 16.30 Break
16.30 - 17.30 David Shoemaker: The Trials and Tribulations of Tom Brady: Self-blame, Self-Talk, Self-Flagellation

21st of September

10.00 - 11.00 Coleen Macnamara: Guilt, Desert, Fittingness, and the Good.
11.00 - 11.15 Break
11.15 - 12.15. Michael McKenna: Guilt and Self-blame
12.15 - 12.30 Break
12.30 - 13.30 Andreas Brekke Carlsson: Guilt and Blameworthiness over Time
13.30 - 14.30 Lunch
14.30 - 15.30 Randolph Clarke and Piers Rawling: Reason to Feel Guilty
15.30 - 15.45 Break
15.45 - 16.45 Krista Thomason: Blame for Recalcitrant Emotions

Contact Andreas Brekke Carlsson in order to register.

Funded by CSMN and ConceptLab, University of Oslo

Workshop on Moral Conversations

Time and place: Aug. 22, 2019 9:00 AM–Aug. 23, 2019 4:45 PM, GM 652, University of Oslo

Thursday 22.08

09.00-9.15 Welcome and Coffee
09.15-10.30 Andreas Carlsson: “Guilt and Blameworthiness Over Time”
10.30-10.45 Coffee
10.45-12.00 Victoria McGeer: “Blaming the Dead”
12.00-13.00 Lunch
13.00-14.15 Maria Seim: “Blame, Protest and Anger”
14.15-14.30 Coffee
14.30-15.45 Michael McKenna: “Punishment and the Value of Deserved Suffering”
15.45-16.00 Break
16.00-17.15 Christel Fricke: “Moral Conversations”

Friday 23.08

10.00-11.15 Carla Bagnoli: “Moral Construction and Moral Conversation”
11.15-11.30 Coffee
11.30-12.45 Macalester Bell: “Conversation, Blame and Moral Dismissiveness”
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 Christopher Bennett: “Desert as Appropriate Expressive Dissociation”
15.15-15.30 Coffee
15.30-16.45 Per-Erik Milam: “Get Smart: An Act Consequentialist Theory of Being and Holding Responsible”

Organizer: Chrisel Fricke and Maria Seim

Truth versus the Rhetoric of Truth: Authority, Realism, and Power

Time and place: June 27, 2019 2:00 PM–June 29, 2019 12:30 PM, Georg Sverdrups hus, Grupperom 1

Truth and authority come as a package—but which of the two is the source of the other? Is truth a source of a special kind of authority? Or is what is true decided by whoever has the power and authority to dominate discourse? In recent years, theorists in the postmodernist and poststructuralist tradition have been accused of paving the way for the post-truth era in public discourse by weakening our conception of truth. Our intent in this workshop is not primarily to assess the rightness or wrongness of accusations made against theory in postmodern and poststructuralist tradition. Rather we are looking for theoretical positions that go beyond the dichotomous view of truth and power. To meet the backlash challenge, we need to acknowledge the constraints of a discourse-independent world while still keeping in view the power-mechanisms that structure truth-claims.

Programme

Thursday 27 June

14:00: Coffee, welcome
14:30-15:30: Veronica Tozzi: The Rhetoric Dimension of Truth
16:00-17:00: Tracy Llanera: Pernicious Truths: Pragmatism and Language Games

Friday 28 June

10:00-11:00: Giacomo Marramao: Towards an Ontology of Contingency
11:30-12:30: Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi: "Getting Things Right" without Substances or Essences—On Truth beyond the Scheme-Content Dividision
12:30-14:00: Lunch (at Georg Sverdrup)
14:00-15:00: Gabriella Bonacchi: Feminist Thought in Italy in the Last Decades
15:30-16:30: Federico Penelas: Post-Truth and Post-Verisimilitude: Strengths and Weaknesses of Conversationalism Facing the Decline of Public Opinion
17:00-18:00: Kristian Bjørkdahl: Back to the Future? What Fifth Century Pre-Truth Can Do for Our Post-Truth Present
19:30: Conference Dinner

Saturday 29 June in GM652

10:00-11:00: Elin Danielsen Huckerby: What Literary Studies Might Teach Us About Public Discourse in a Post-Truth Society
11:30-12:30: Bjørn Torgrim Ramberg: Truth versus the Rhetoric of Truth
12:30-13:00: Closing Session

Participants

Veronica Tozzi, University of Buenos Aires, Philosophy of History and the Social Sciences
Tracy Llanera, University of Connecticut, Philosophy
Giacomo Marramao, University Roma Tre, Theoretical and Political Philosophy
Yvonne Huetter-Almerigi, LMU Munich, Literary studies
Gabriella Bonacchi, Fondazione Basso, Social History
Federico Penelas, CONICET, Philosophy of Language
Kristian Bjørkdahl, University of Oslo, Rhetoric
Elin Danielsen Huckerby, University of Cambridge, Literary studies
Bjørn Ramberg, University of Oslo, Philosophy

Truth versus the Rhetoric of Truth: Authority, Realism, and Power

The first shock over Trump’s victory and the political effectiveness of “alternative facts” has passed and the debate around “Post-truth” seems to have lost some of its polemical momentum in academia and the wider public. Yet, the crisis in theory is far from resolved. Theorists in the postmodernist and poststructuralist tradition have been accused of paving the way for blatant lying by weakening our conception of truth. At the same time, a naïve insistence on and return to “objective facts” may endangers some of the major political successes of postmodern and poststructuralist theories, which lie in seeing a value in and in taking account of the constant development of cultures and ways of living.

Our intent in this workshop is not primarily to assess the rightness or wrongness of accusations made against theory in postmodern and poststructuralist tradition (though we think they are often simplistic and misdirected) but to use this moment of crisis to challenge dichotomies which structure the discussion on both sides. Truth and authority come as a package in both camps and it depends on your training and your inclination which of the two you take as the source for the other– whether what is true is decided by who has the power and authority to dominate the discourse, or whether truth is a source of a special kind of authority. Respectively, there is the call for more truth, and the call for more deconstruction of power-mechanisms. We want to go beyond these possibilities, break open the package, and search for genuinely new possibilities that depart from the well-trodden paths of these polemics. Therefore, we intend to individuate approaches that avoid both the current realist backlash and the postmodern relativist trap. We hope to develop theoretical positions that take account of the resistance of the human-independent world, but also of the power-mechanisms that structure every truth-claim. This also seems the perfect moment to finally move past the analytic-continental divide, and we are especially interested in seeking fruitful dialogues between these two traditions.

We start from the assumption that deciding between realism and antirealism, truth and relativism, subjectivity and objectivity, and further alleged counter-positions are not exhaustive of the options for intellectual progress. We intend, therefore, to strive for a fusion of realist, materialist and adjacent perspectives with poststructuralist investigations into power-mechanisms and investigate positions which strengthen the entanglement of description and prescription, of objective truth and political agendas. Our aim is to use the workshops to produce a volume of papers that move past the polarity that now seems to characterize much of the debate regarding Post-truth.

The two pillars of the workshop are theoretical elaborations and the evaluation of the political effectiveness and practical applicability of the respective theories. We assume that the current rise of authoritarianism with its rhetorical strategies speak to the ineffectiveness of current truth-concepts, both in their strong, realist and their weak, poststructuralist and postmodern forms. We believe that it is time for a change of vocabulary, and our workshop strives to be a first investigation in this new semantic territory.

The participants are coming from philosophy, social history, literary studies, and rhetoric and we are interested in strengthening the specialness of each of these disciplinary perspectives. Interdisciplinary exchange and mutual theoretic reinforcement are at the core of the workshop. The unity of the diverse approaches lies in their target to produce genuinely new and useful responses to what we call the backlash challenge.

Kant on Revolution

Time and place: May 29, 2019, 452 GM

The workshop is free and open to everyone. This is a read ahead workshop and papers will only be briefly presented. Sign-up is not necessary, but write to Reidar Maliks if you intend to participate and would like access to papers.

Program

10:00-10:15 Coffee, opening
10:15-11:15 Alice Pinheiro Walla (University of Bayreuth), ”What is a Right?”
11:25-12:25 Paola Romero (LSE), ”Kant and Hobbes on the necessity of state coercion”
Lunch 12:25-13:00
13:00-14:00 Philipp-Alexander Hirsch (University of Göttingen), "Judging the Sovereign and the Revolutionary. Kant on Political Obligation and Revolution"
14:10-15:10 Sofie Møller (Frankfurt), "Hindsight and foresight in Kant’s opposition to revolution"
15:20-16:20 Michael Morris (University of South Florida), "Kant and the Organization of the People: On revolution and social ontology"
16:30-17:30 Reidar Maliks (Oslo), "Kant’s French Revolution"

The workshop is supported by the Research Council of Norway and by the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo.

Organizer: Reidar Maliks

Sense-Perception in Ancient Philosophy

Time and place: Mar. 15, 2019 11:45 AM–5:30 PM, GM452

´Sense-perception in Ancient Philosophy´

15 March 2019, Georg Morgenstierne House Room 452, University of Oslo
11.45 - 13.00 Börje Bydén (Gothenburg), "Aristotle’s light analogy in the Greek tradition"
13.00- 13.30 Lunch
13.30 - 14.45 Mika Perälä (Helsinki), "Aristotle on perception and illusion"
14.45 - 16.00 Eyjólfur Emilsson (Oslo), "Sense-Perception, Reasoning and Forms in Plotinus"
16.00-16.15 Coffee
16.15 -17.30 Katerina Ierodiakonou (Geneva/Athens), "Theories of selective perceptual attention in antiquity"

Organizer: Society for Ancient Philosophy

2018

Plato and the Ancient Platonic Tradition

Time and place: Nov. 9, 2018–Nov. 10, 2018 2:00 PM, Room 452, Georg Morgenstierne's House

Friday 9th November

13.00 - 13.15: Welcome - Tea/Coffee
13.15 - 14.30: Klaus Corcilius – Universität Tübingen, ‘Practical Reasoning and Participation in the Timaeus’
14.30 - 15.45: Pauliina Remes – Uppsala Universitet, ‘From Conversational Virtues to Dialogical Epistemology: Plato and his Commentators’
15.45 - 16.15: Tea/Coffee
16.15 - 17.30: Riccardo Chiaradonna –Università degli studi Roma Tre, ‘‘Existence’ in Neoplatonist Metaphysics’
18.30: Dinner for speakers

Saturday 10th November

9.30 - 10.45: Alexandra Michalewski – Centre Léon Robin, ‘Perception, Recollection and Self-knowledge in Plotinus and other Platonists’
10.45 - 12.00: Jan Opsomer – Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, ‘Argumentative structures and strategies in Proclus’ Elements of Theology’
12.00 - 12.45: Lunch
12.45 - 14.00: Jonathan Beere – Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ‘Plato on Why Cities are Ruled’
14.00 - 15.15: Rusty Jones – Harvard University, ‘The Real Challenge of Plato’s Republic’
15.15 - 15.45: Tea/Coffee
15.45 - 17.00: Panos Dimas – Universitetet i Oslo, ‘False Pleasures in the Philebus’
17.00 - 18.15: David Ebrey - Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, ‘The Philosopher’s Courage and the Right Exchange’
20.15: Conference dinner for speakers and local researchers at the restaurant Olympen, Grønlandsleiret 15.

Practical Philosophy group Annual Workshop 2018

Time and place: Oct. 11, 2018 8:45 AM–Oct. 12, 2018 3:45 PM, GM 652 University of Oslo

Thursday, October 11

0845 – 0900 Coffee and Welcome
0900 – 0945 Jakob Elster: “Autonomy in political philosophy”
0945 – 1030 Hallvard Sandven: “Subjection, domination, and legitimacy in border regimes”
1030 – 1045 Break
1045 – 1130 Alejandra Mancilla: “A Normative Framework for Territorial Claims in Antarctica”
1130 – 1215 Yelena Yermakova: “Mineral Regime in Antarctica: Disaggregating Sovereignty”
1215 – 1300 Lunch
1300 – 1345 Johan Wibye: “One path to fulfilment or many - A sorting mechanism for positive and negative rights”
1345 – 1430 Carlos Joly: “Are money matters moral matters? A moral take on US and EC fiduciary duty regulation”
1430 – 1445 Break
1445 – 1530 Søren Wenstøp: “The moral psychology of corruption in orgnaizations”
1530 – 1615 Aksel Sterri: “The Ethics of Emergencies”

Friday, October 12

0945 – 1000 Coffee
1000 – 1045 Espen Dyrnes Stabell: “Hard Environmental Choices: Comparability, Justification, and the Argument from Moral Identity”.
1045 – 1130 Maria Seim: “Standing to blame in functional theories of blame”
1130 – 1215 Lunch
1215 – 1400 Key Note:Peter Railton: TBA
1400 – 1415 Break
1415 – 1500 Einar Duenger Bøhn: “AlphaMoral”
1500 – 1545 Jeroen Rijnders: “"Moral Agency, Automaticity, and Character: A Tripartite Model"

Art and Rhetoric in Roman Literature

Workshop for PhD-students and early career postdoctoral scholars at the Norwegian Institute in Rome

Time: Oct. 1, 2018–Oct. 3, 2018

The Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas at Oslo University invites applications for a 3-day workshop on Art and Rhetoric in Roman Literature at the Norwegian Institute in Rome. Both PhD-students (who can earn 5 ECTS credit points by active participation) and early career postdoctoral scholars (newly appointed postdoctoral fellows and PhDs preparing a postdoctoral fellowship) are invited to apply.

The workshop explores interconnections between visual culture and/or rhetoric in Roman literature (broadly defined: we also welcome papers on Neo-Latin topics). Possible topics include the many ways in which literature has shaped our memory of (sometimes now lost) artefacts, artworks, and architecturally crafted spaces; the semantics of monuments and architectural ornament; the interrelation between rhetoric, architecture, and imperial propaganda. We welcome all perspectives: philological, historical, theoretical.

The format benefits PhD-students and early career postdoctoral fellows by allowing generous time for presentations and discussions and one-to-one discussions with senior participants. Confirmed senior participants: Dr. Alexander Kirichenko (Humboldt-Universität Berlin), Dr. Bettina Reitz-Joosse (University of Groningen), Professor Siri Sande (Norwegian Institute at Roma), Professor Diana Spencer (University of Birmingham), and Professor Tara Welch (University of Kansas).

The structure is as follows: Prior to the course abstracts and papers by PhD-students and postdoctoral fellows (c. 20 pages) will be sent to all participants. Each PhD-student will be asked to comment on another student’s paper. There will also be time for a plenary discussion after each paper. In addition all PhD-students and postdoctoral fellows will have a one-to-one discussion with a senior participant with expertise relevant to the topic of their choice. We are planning for a joint publication of papers either in the Acta series of the Norwegian Institute in Rome or in the journal Symbolae Osloenses; in either case all papers submitted will be refereed.

Outline of the agenda

September 30: Day of arrival

Program for each of the three following days (October 1-3):

Lecture by senior participant including 15 minutes of discussion (09:00-10:00)
PhD- or postdoc-presentation including 30-45 minutes of discussion (10:00-11:30)
Coffee break (11:30-12:00)
Lecture by senior participant including 15 minutes of discussion (12:00-13:00)
Lunch (13:00-14:30)
PhD- or postdoc-presentation including 30-45 minutes of discussion (14:30-16:00)
General/plenary discussion (16:00-16:30)
Coffee break/refreshments (16:30-17:00)
Individual one-to-one discussions (17:00-18:30)
Dinner

October 4 (optional)

Half-day Excursion in Rome

How to apply

Please send applications consisting of (1) an academic CV, (2) a cover letter explaining your motivation, and (3) a concise proposal (max. 500 words) explaining how your topic relates to the course’s general subject to any of the organizers before 1 June 2018.

Please feel free to contact any of the organizers if you have any questions.

The workshop is free of charge. Lunch, dinner for the three days, and the excursion are included. Hotel and travel are not included. However, we do have some funds for PhD-students unable to receive funding from their institution. Please make clear in your application whether you want to be considered for this.
About the venue

Located at the Gianicolo hill with a breathtaking view over Rome, the Norwegian Institute provides a unique and vibrant platform for students and scholars at all stages of their careers. It facilitates collaborations and exchanges regarding all aspects of Mediterranean and Italian culture, both modern and premodern, and helps to create a diverse and stimulating research environment. The Institute has at its disposal a specialized library of books, maps, journals as well as a unique photo archive of late antique art, a quiet reading room, office spaces, and three meeting rooms. The staff gladly offers assistance in locating and accessing resources for both teaching and research, both inside and outside Rome. The Norwegian Institute in Rome is part of the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Oslo.

Healing, belief and placebo: Medical and religious plurality in late antiquity

International research seminar

University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas

Time and place: June 24, 2018 1:30 PM–June 26, 2018 4:00 PM, GM 652 and GM 452

A group of international researchers are coming together for three days to discuss how we can use insights from modern medicine, sociology and anthropology on the placebo effect and apply them to a range of sources from Late Antiquity (300-800 C.E.) in order to refine the understanding of this period’s wide array of healing practices. The group consists of young scholars that have already made a mark on different disciplines, like the history of medicine, religion, ritual, magic, liturgy, and more, to facilitate a broader, more holistic understanding of healing than earlier studies have allowed. They will briefly introduce their respective fields and contributions and then lead reading-session on specific primary sources.

If you would like to attend, please email either Ágnes T. Mihálykó or Nils H. Korsvoll.

The seminar is funded by the Institute for Comparative Research in Human Culture

Programme

Sunday 24th June Meeting Room 652

13.30 – Arrival, welcome and coffee
14.00 – Introduction: The placebo effect and approaches to belief and healing
Introductory paper and group discussion on the theoretical framework for the seminar (Nils)
16.00 – Break
16.30 – Healing Strategies in Byzantine Egypt: The Testimony of the Greek Documentary Papyri (Antonio), Reading: Various literary and documentary papyri
18.30 – End
Optional dinner

Monday 25th Location: Meeting Room 652

8.30 – Healing Through Magic: The case of the Greek Iatromagical Papyri (Eleni)
Reading: P.Oxy.82.5308; SM I; SM 94 44-60; P. Yale 2.130; P. Yale 989; PGM VII 174-175; SM II; P.Gaal 86.3 (PGM CXV); PGM CXXIII 55-70; PGM XII; P.Koln. T.33 (Tablet) (Band 8 pp. 70-81); PGM XXIIa 2-9; SM 76 PGM VII 183-186
10.30 – Break
11.00 – Hermes Trismegistus (Christian), Reading: TBA
13.00 – Lunch
14.00 – Placebo, ritual and faith: incubation miracles in Late Antiquity (Hedvig), Reading: TBA
16.00 – Break
16.30 – Healing Traditions in Coptic Magical Texts (Korshi)
Reading: Coptic magical texts
18.30 – End
Dinner

Tuesday 26th Location: Meeting Room 452

8.30 – Healing in the church: the clergy, the monks, and the saints (Ágnes), Reading: TBA
10.30 – Break
11.00 – Summary Discussion: Main observations and points for further research (Anastasia,
Ágnes and Nils)
13.00 – Lunch
14.00 – Discussion of future collaborations and publications
16.00 – End

Programme Participants

Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo)
Ágnes T. Mihálykó (University of Oslo)
Nils H. Korsvoll (NTNU, Trondheim)
Christian Bull (Princeton University/University of Oslo)
Eleni Chronopoulou (University of Florence)
Korshi Dosoo (University of Strasbourg)
Hedvig von Ehrenheim (Uppsala University)
Antonio Ricciardetto (College de France)

Workshop with L.A. Paul

This workshop presents work that engage with themes from L.A. Paul's work.

Time and place: June 10, 2018 11:00 AM–6:00 PM, GM 652

11:00-12:00 L.A. Paul (UNC) "Preference Capture"
12:00-13:00 Lunch
13:00-14:00 Joey Pollock (UiO) "Extended knowledge and epistemic rationality"
14:00-15:00 Herman Cappelen (UiO) “Empathy and Understanding of Others”
15:00-15:30 Coffee Break
15:30-16:30 Andrew Y. Lee (NYU) “Objective Phenomenology”
16:30-17:30 Rachel Sterken (UiO) “Speaking authentically”

Gray on Gray

Time and place: May 22, 2018–May 23, 2018, Domus Academica: Theologisk eksamenssal, University of Oslo

The very title of this conference comes from a famous passage in the philosopher G.F Hegel’s preface to the Philosophy of Right: ”When philosophy paints its grey in grey, one form of life has become old, and by means of grey it cannot be rejuvenated, but only known. The owl of Minerva, takes its flight only when the shades of night are gathering.”

This passage is derived from an utterance by Mephistopheles in Goethe’s Faust, ”Gray, my dear friend, is all theory, and green is the golden tree of life.” Hegel’s phrase has been taken up in various ways by Marx, Adorno, and others in the 20th century. The colour gray also features strongly in notions of boredom, the everyday, and indifference as articulated by Heidegger, Blanchot and Beckett. In art and art history there has been a similar interest in the colour grey, perhaps beginning with use of grisaille technique in classical, renaissance, and post renaissance art, as well as in the art historian Aby Warburg’s account of how grisaille is supposedly a way to absorb and dampen the intensities and pulsions of the past, and by artists such as as Vilhelm Hammershøi, Gerhard Richter, and various practitioners of what might be called deadpan photography.

The common interpretation of the colour gray—stemming from Hegel’s passage—is that it is the color of belatedness, a perpetual coming on the scene too late to do justice to the rich colour and intensity of the world, or that it drains that immediacy and life through abstraction, interpretation, and theorization. This conference is an attempt to question this common interpretation of the colour grey, and to explore the important issues that the colour grey raises in terms of the relationships between abstraction and immediacy, color and colourlessness, life and death, nuance and flattening out, difference and repetition, finite and infinite, boredom and wonder. The papers will draw upon those working in the fields of philosophy, art history, music, ecology, and literary studies.

Participants and Paper Titles (Abstracts)

Hegel’s Shadow Theatre

Rebecca Comay, Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada

Grey Time: Waiting for Beckett

Laura Salisbury, English and Medical Humanities, University of Exeter

Out of the Polar Night: Climate Phantasms and the Image of Ice

Amanda Boetzkes, Art History, University of Guelph, Canada

Against the Grey: Working with Density and Detail in Contemporary Musical Composition

Wieland Hoban, composer and translator, Frankfurt

The ’Grey-Point’: Deleuze on Klee

Kamini Vellodi, Art History, University of Edinburgh

Monochrome aesthetic. On philosophy’s belatedness

Ingvild Torsen, Philosophy, IFIKK, Univeristy of Oslo

An Obituary on Living Stones

Per Sigurd Styve, Art History, IFIKK, University of Oslo

Grey is (not) Grey. Some Considerations on an Ethics of Attentiveness

Hana Gründler, Art History and Philosophy, Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz / Max-Planck-Institut

Surface: On gray as the Melancholy of Silence in Hammershøy

Bente Larsen, Art History, IFIKK, University of Oslo

Barthes’ Tendencies: On Radical Indifference, Adiaphora, and Tone on Tone

Aron Vinegar, Art History, IFIKK, University of Oslo

Conference Schedule

Tuesday, May 22

9:30 to 10:00 Coffee
10:00-10:20 Introduction to Gray on Gray, Aron Vinegar
10:20-11:10 Monochrome Aesthetic. On Philosophy’s Belatedness, Ingvild Torsen,
11:10-12:00 The ‘Grey Point’: Deleuze on Klee, Kamini Vellodi
12:00 to 1:30 Lunch
1:30 to 2:20 Grey is (not) Grey. Some Considerations on the Ethics of Atttentiveness, Hana Gründler,
2:20 to 3:10 Barthes’ Tendencies: On Radical Indifference, Adiaphora, and Tone on Tone, Aron Vinegar
3:10-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:20 Out of the Polar Night: Climate Phantasms and the Image of Ice, Amanda Boetzkes
6:20-7:00 Drinks at Galleri Riis, Vernissage, Stein Rønning
8:00 Dinner for Speakers at Solsiden

Wednesday, May 23

10:00 to 10:30 Coffee
10:30-11:20 An Obituary on Living Stones, Per Sigurd Styve
11:20-12:10 Surface: On gray as the Melancholy of Silence in Hammershøy, Bente Larsen
12:10 to 1:30 Lunch
1:30 to 2:20 Hegel’s Shadow Theatre, Rebecca Comay
2:20 to 3:10 Grey Time: Waiting for Beckett, Laura Salisbury
3:10-3:30 Coffee Break
3:30-4:20 Against the Grey: Working with Density and Detail in Contemporary Musical Composition, Wieland Hoban
4:20-4:30 Concluding Remarks
7:00 Get together at Aron Vinegar’s Apartment

Workshop on The Right of Necessity

Time and place: Apr. 20, 2018 9:30 AM–5:15 PM, GM 652, University of Oslo

Program

9.30-9.45 Introduction and welcome, Garrett Brown (Leeds)
9.45-11 The theoretical framework

Is there a right of necessity? If there is, how does it relate to the basic right to subsistence? Does it make sense to apply an old idea such as this to the contemporary problem of global poverty?

Panel: Jesse Tomalty (Oxford/Bergen), Saladin Meckled-Garcia (UCL)

11.00-11.30 Coffee break
11.30-12.45 Property rights and the right of necessity: friends or foe?

Medieval and early modern natural law theorists saw the right of necessity as limiting property rights: it was a natural right that trumped human-made laws—like property laws—in exceptional situations. But, may property rights be coherently limited in this way?

Panel: Chris Bertram (Bristol), Grethe Netland (Oslo)

12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-15.15 The right of necessity: A remedy worse than the disease?

That the disorganized exercise of the individual right of necessity of thousands might create unfair, and even worse outcomes than those trying to be remedied is one forceful objection against its moral acceptability. What is the relationship between the right of necessity and fairness? How to avoid the overdemandingness of the duties correlated to its exercise?

Panel: David V. Axelsen (LSE), Lars Christie (Oslo/Oxford)

15.15-15.45 Coffee break
15.45-17.00 The right of necessity: theoretically empowering, practically powerless?

Even if we recognize that millions may legitimately exercise their right of necessity today, to get out of their chronically deprived situations, in practice most of them will not be able to—because the resources are too far, or too difficult to obtain. So, what is the point of theoretically empowering individuals with this right if they won’t be able to realize it? How may cosmopolitan duties be reconceptualized through the lens of the right of necessity?

Panel: Michael Neu (Brighton), Scott Wisor (Minerva Schools)

17.00-17:15 Closing Remarks, Alejandra Mancilla (Oslo)

The workshop is open to all, but registration is required. To register, please email Lina Tosterud: lina.tosterud@ifikk.uio.no by 17th April. This event is sponsored by CSMN.

2017

Practical Philosophy Working Group: Annual Workshop 2017

Practical Philosophy Working Group is an umbrella group for research cooperation within four fields: Political and Legal Philosophy, Applied and Normative Ethics, History of Ethics and Political Philosophy, and Metaethics and Moral Psychology.

Time: Nov. 23, 2017 9:15 AM–Nov. 24, 2017 4:00 PM

The goals of the Practical Philosophy Working Group (PPWG) is to create a productive working environment for research collaboration on current research topics within the respective fields; to facilitate funding applications; and to organize regular and irregular research activities and events.

Programme

Thursday November 23

Room 652 (GM)

09.15 – 09.30 Welcome and Coffee
09.30 – 11.00 Key Note: Daniela Cutas: “Dangerous Liaisons: Parents, Children, and Third Party Reproduction”
11.00 – 11.45 Aksel Sterri: “Sexist Sex Selection”
11.45 – 12.30 Jakob Elster: “You don’t know what it’s like!” – Personal Experience in Moral Argument”
12.30 – 13.30 Lunch
13.30 – 14.15 Andreas Føllesdal: The Legitimacy Critiques of International Courts – Beyond a Taxonomy”
14.15 – 15.00 Alejandra Mancilla: “When Rights are Just claims, and this is Unjust”
15.00 – 15.15 Coffee
15.15 – 16.00 Nadim Khouri: “Narrative Negotiation: Political, not Personal”
16.00 – 16.45 Lars Christie: “The Case against Criminalizing Participation in Terror Organizations”

Friday November 24

Room 652

09.15 – 09.30 Coffee

Parallel Session I

Room 652

09.30 – 11.00 Key Note: Robert Sparrow: “Genetic Technologies and the Future of Mankind”

[Session I continues in Room 652. Session II starts in Room 452, 11.15.]

11.15 – 12.00 Ole Martin Moen: “Brave New Farm”
12.00 – 12.45 Robert Huseby and Kim Angell: “Affected Interests and Weighted Votes”
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 14.30 Andreas Eriksen: “Reclaiming Responsibility”
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee
14.45 – 15.30 Espen Dyrnes Stabell and Daniel Steel: “Precaution and Fairness. A Framework for Distributing Costs of Protection from Environmental Risks”

Parallel Session II

Room 452 (GM)

11.15 – 12.00 Edmund Henden: “Autonomy and Addiction: A Dual-Process Account”
12.00 – 12.45 Andreas Brekke Carlsson: “Shame, Fittingness and Desert”
12.45 – 13.45 Lunch
13.45 – 14.30 Jerœn Rijnders: “Discrimination in the Bedroom: Sexual Preferences, Character Development, and Moral Responsibility”
14.30 – 14.45 Coffee
14.45 – 15.30 Ainar Petersen Miyata: “Blameworthy Bumping and the Duty to Nudge”
15.30 – 16.15 Mathias Slåttholm Sagdahl: “The Importance of Non-Comparability for Practical Reason”

Additional Event on Friday November 24

“Should we Welcome the Sex Robots?”

Discussion between Robert Sparrow and Ole Martin Moen.

Time: 17.15 – 18.45.

Place: RF-kjelleren (Wilhelm Bjerknes Hus), Blindern.

Kinds of Knowledge in Ancient Philosophy

Ancient Philosophy Conference, University of Oslo, 3-4 November 2017

Time and place: Nov. 3, 2017 1:00 PM–Nov. 4, 2017 6:15 PM, Room 452, Georg Morgenstiernes Hus

Friday 3 November

13.00 - 13.15 Welcome. Tea/coffee
13.15 - 14.30 Sarah Broadie, University of St Andrews, ‘The Form of the Good in the Republic’.
14.30 - 15.45 Fiona Leigh, University College London, 'Self-knowledge and subjective states in Plato’
15.45 - 16.15 Tea/Coffee
16.15 - 17.30 Agnes Callard, University of Chicago, ’The Nature and Purpose of Socratic Refutation’
18.30 Dinner for speakers

Saturday 4 November

9.30 - 10.45 Anders Dahl Sørensen, University of Copenhagen, 'Techne and tradition: Alternative models for political expertise in Plato?'
10.45 - 12.00 Dimitri El Murr, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, ‘Plato, Aristotle, and late Platonic debates on the division of practical philosophy’
12.00 - 12.45 Lunch
12.45 - 14.00 Francesco Ademollo, University of Firenze, ‘The Anatomy of Primary Substance in Aristotle's Categories’
14.00 - 15.15 Miira Tuominen, University of Jyväskylä, ’Experience and Reason in Posterior Analytics 2.19 – Co-operation rather than Opposition’
15.15 - 15.45 Tea/Coffee
15.45 - 17.00 Hilde Vinje, University of Oslo, '"Complete life" in Aristotle’s Eudemian Ethics 1219a35-39'
17.00 - 18.15 Svavar Svavarsson, University of Iceland, ‘The Sceptical Notion of Epoché'
20.15 Conference dinner

For further information please contact Thomas Kjeller Johansen

Acquiring Figurative Meanings

The conference brings together researchers from different fields and theoretical backgrounds who work on figurative language development and related topics.

Time and place: Oct. 5, 2017–Oct. 6, 2017, Georg Morgenstiernes hus, Blindernveien 31, University of Oslo, room 652

Keynote speakers

Eve Clark (Stanford University)
Herbert Colston (University of Alberta)
Penny Pexman (University of Calgary)
Nausicaa Pouscoulous (UCL)
Gabriella Rundblad (King's College London)
Deirdre Wilson (UCL/CSMN)

Conference description

A central question in the field of developmental pragmatics is how children learn to understand and use figurative expressions, such as metaphor (She is my sunshine), metonymy (The violin is late for rehearsal) and irony ([on a rainy day] Lovely weather today!). Figurative language is challenging for children because what is said (the ‘literal’ meaning) differs from what is communicated (the figurative meaning). Previous developmental studies indicate that children understand metaphors and metonyms before ironical utterances. This difference is not explained by the standard pragmatic account that analyzes all kinds of figurative language as conversational implicatures triggered by blatant violations of the Maxim of Quality (Grice, 1967). However, contemporary pragmatic theories, which consider irony a form of echoic use (Wilson & Sperber, 1981, 2012) or pretense (Clark & Gerrig, 1984), set irony clearly apart from other kinds of figurative uses such as metaphor and metonymy.

The aim of the conference is to bring together researchers from different fields and theoretical backgrounds who work on figurative language development and related topics. One central question is whether metaphor, metonymy, irony and other kinds of figurative uses have a similar developmental trajectory and are processed in similar ways. We especially encourage papers that link theoretical and empirical research, for instance by conducting theoretically informed empirical studies or by empirically testing and comparing the predictions of existing pragmatic theories.

Conference program

Thursday, October 5, 2017

08:45-09:00 Registration and coffee
09:00-10:00 Keynote, Deirdre Wilson: Explaining figurative utterances: A
relevance theory perspective
10:00-11:00 Ingrid Falkum & Franziska Köder: Metonymy and irony acquisition: Evidence from eye-tracking and picture selection
11:00-11:15 Coffee
11:15-11:45 Márta Szücs & Anna Babarczy: Metapragmatic awareness training improves irony comprehension in young children but at a cost
11:45-12:15 Maity Siqueira: On the development of a comprehensive figurative language test
12:15-13:15 Lunch break
13:15-14:15 Keynote, Gabriella Rundblad: Thoughts on atypical figurative language comprehension
14:15-14:45 Ditte Boeg Thomsen: Irony understanding in young schoolchildren with autism or typical development
14:45-15:15 Francesca Panzeri, Beatrice Giustolisi & Laura Zampini: Irony comprehension in individuals with Down Syndrome
15:15-15:30 Coffee
15:30-16:30 Poster session with lightning talks
16:30-17:30 Keynote, Penny Pexman: Eyegaze and reaching reveal children’s grasp of ironic intent
19:00 Conference dinner

Friday, October 6, 2017

09:00-10:00 Keynote, Eve Clark: Perspective-taking, pretend-play, and figurative usage in young children
10:00-10:30 Line Sjøtun Helganger: ‘The ironical tone of voice’ from an intonological perspective
10:30-10:45 Coffee
10:45-11:15 Justine Paris: Assessing the development of children’s figurative language production: the case of a longitudinal study and a semi-guided protocol
11:15-11:45 Ruth Kessler & Claudia Friedrich: Lexical Processing of Idioms in Children and Adults
11:45-12:15 Sara D. Beck & Andrea Weber: Reading idioms literally and figuratively: The effects of literality and context on L2 idiom processing
12:15-13:30 Lunch break
13:30-14:30 Keynote, Nausicaa Pouscoulous: Developing pragmatic competence: super toddlers vs. sluggish verbal kids?
14:30-15:00 Mingling Xia: The ideas we sometimes buy: processing conventional metaphorical expressions by Chinese learners of English
15:00-15:30 Catrine Bang Nilsen: L2 figurative language processing: can individual differences in working memory capacity explain variation in Norwegian learner’s interpretation of metaphors in French as a foreign language?
15:30-16:00 Coffee
16:30-17:00 Simona Di Paola, Filippo Domaneschi & Nausicaa Pouscoulous: Metaphorical Developing Minds: The role of multiple Factors in the Development of Metaphor Comprehension
16:00-17:00 Keynote, Herbert Colston: What do Children Know and When do They Know it?: Figurative Thought and Language in Acquisition/Development

Making and Unmaking the Environment

Welcome to the Design History Society Annual Conference 2017. Call for papers: Deadline for submission of abstracts: 20 January 2017.

Time: Sep. 7, 2017–Sep. 9, 2017

Please submit your proposals in the form of anonymous MS Word documents to:
dhs-2017@ifikk.uio.no

Design is both making and unmaking the environment. Conversely, it might be argued that the environment is both making and unmaking design. The Design History Society Annual Conference 2017 explores how these processes unfold, across timescapes and landscapes, thus opening a new agenda for the field of design history.

2017 marks the 40th anniversary of the first Design History Society Annual Conference, held in Brighton in 1977, as well as the 30th anniversary of the Journal of Design History. In celebration of this landmark, we invite proposals for papers addressing the historiography of design and the history of the discipline, with the aim to curate a special anniversary strand on the making and unmaking of design history.

We are inviting proposals for individual papers of 20 minutes, or proposals for thematically coherent panels of three papers. Panel proposals must include abstracts for all three papers in addition to a short description of the panel theme.

Convenor: Kjetil Fallan (University of Oslo)
Co-convenors: Ingrid Halland, Ida Kamilla Lie, Gabriele Oropallo (University of Oslo), and Denise Hagströmer (The National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design)

Political Philosophy Looks to Antarctica

Time and place: Sep. 4, 2017 9:15 AM–Sep. 5, 2017 4:00 PM, Room 652, Georg Morgenstierne's House

Monday 4th September

9.15-9.30 Alejandra Mancilla, Introduction and welcome
9.30-10.20 Alejandra Mancilla, The moral limits of territorial claims in Antarctica: a preliminary analysis
10.30-11.20 Julia Jabour, The rules of engagement in the Antarctic
11.20-11.45 Coffee-break
11.45-12.35 Klaus Dodds, Post-colonial geopolitics and Antarctica
12.35-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.50 Adrian Howkins, Science and Politics in the McMurdo Dry Valleys: an Antarctic exception?
15.00-15.50, Dorottya Bognar, The mandatory Polar Code and shipping in Antarctic waters: history, challenges, and future directions

Tuesday 5th September

9.30-10.20 Eric Røsæg, Creating legal rights from nothing
10.30-11.20 Doaa Abdel-Motaal, The governance of Antarctica, past, present and future
11.20-11.45 Coffee-break
11.45-12.45 Anniken Krutnes and Jane Rumble, The State of Antarctic Governance – as seen from two Antarctic States
12.45-14.00 Lunch
14.00-14.50 Everyone, Wrap-up and discussion
15.00-16.00 Project members, Meeting to divide labor and decide future meetings

Workshop on Perceiving Representations

Time and place: Apr. 21, 2017, GM 652

Programme

9:30-9:45: Coffee
9:45-11:00: Rolf Inge Godøy (Department of Musicology, Oslo): Timescale Analysis for Musical Representations
11:15-12:30: Matthew Nudds (Department of Philosophy, Warwick): Sounds, Speech and Music: Representation in Auditory Perception
12:30-13:30: Lunch
13:30-14:45: José Zalabardo (Department of Philosophy, UCL): Truth and Interpretation
15:00-16:15: Solveig Aasen (Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, Oslo): Perceiving Representations: Structural Commonalities between Language, Pictures and Music

Abstracts

Rolf Inge Godøy: Timescale Analysis for Musical Representations

There are several distinct, but concurrent, features at different timescales in music, extending from those of the sub-milliseconds range to those of several minutes and beyond, hence ranging from basic features such as pitch, loudness, and timbre of single tones or sounds, to composite and complex textures that convey salient stylistic and affective sensations as experienced in large scale works of music. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate that choices of music-related representations should be based on the distinct salient perceptual features found at the different timescales involved in musical experience. This necessitates reflections on some basic music-related ontological and psychological issues, and on some constraints in the production and perception of musical sound, reflections that will converge in the idea of developing holistic representations of perceptually salient features of music by what we have called musical shape cognition.

Solveig Aasen: Perceiving Representations: Structural Commonalities between Language, Pictures and Music

I will present an outline of a project description on representation in language and pictures. These forms of representation have standardly been held to differ so significantly that a common approach to their nature is not forthcoming. But recent work within several disciplines on the perception of pictorial and linguistic representations casts doubt on this contrast. The project will examine the hypothesis that there is a common structure to the perception of pictures and language. This will provide a novel framework for addressing the issue of how representation works.

2016

New Perspectives on Religion, Education, and Culture at Christian Western Thebes (VI-VIII)

Time and place: Jan. 12, 2017–Jan. 13, 2017, Georg Sverdrups Hus, Meeting room 4236, University of Oslo, Blindern

For the past fifteen years or so the Christian phase of the Western Theban necropolis and its environs has been the object of intensive research and re-assessment in which papyrology and archaeology play a crucial joint role. Ongoing archaeological projects have brought to light hitherto unknown or less well-explored monastic establishments (Deir el-Bakhit, hermitage of Frange, hermitage of Cyriacus etc.) and have yielded some exciting new textual finds (e.g. the codices from the hermitage in TT1152). New important collections (Frange ostraca, Petrie ostraca, Cyriacus ostraca, ostraca from the topos of St. Mark in Gournet Mourraï) have appeared (or will appear shortly) to add to the old ones (Winlock & Crum’s The Monastery of Epiphanius, the Theban texts in Crum’s Coptic ostraca etc., the P.Pisentius) and some important publications or re-publication projects are in progress (the ostraca from the monastery of St. Phoibammon at Deir el-Bahari in Columbia, the texts from Deir el-Bakhit, the Pisentius papyri etc.). The recently recovered texts offer new perspectives on already known texts as well as on the chronology, prosopography and the monastic (social) networks in the area (and beyond).

Our aim with this workshop is to shed further light on the education, religion, and culture of Christian Western Thebes, in particular:

The religious life and culture in the monasteries of Western Thebes
Monastic writings and monastic readings
Educational activities (in a broad sense)
Connections with other monasteries/areas from the point of view of religious culture and/or education
Key figures in the area, their activities, connections and chronology

Programme

Thursdag, 12.01.2017

Chair: Alain Delattre

10.00-10.45 Anne Boud’hors (CNRS/Institut de recherche et d'histoire des textes, Paris) “How do the Theban Texts Contribute to the History of Coptic Literature?”
10.45-11.30 Andrea Hasznos (KOHD Projekt, Berlin – Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest) “To Read and What to Read–That Is the Question.”
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
12.00-12.45 Anastasia Maravela (University of Oslo) “Greek in Christian Western Thebes: a Fresh Look.”
12.45-14.00 Lunch

Chair: Anastasia Maravela

14.00-14.45 Renate Dekker (Leiden University) “Connecting Monastic Documents and Social Networks: Starting Points for Reconstructing a Chronological Framework for Eighth-Century Western Thebes.”
14.45-15.30 Frederic Krueger (Freie Universität Berlin)
“Introducing the Monastery of Apa Ezekiel in the Mountain of Armant - Report on the Edition of the Coptic Ostraca at the Papyrus Collection of the Leipzig University Library.”
15.30-16.15 Joanne Vera Stolk (University of Ghent) “Coptic Papyri in the Collection of the Oslo University Library.”
16.30- Presentation of the papyrus collection of the University of Oslo library

Friday, 13.01.2017

Chair: Anne Boud'hors

09.15-10.00 Jennifer Cromwell (University of Copenhagen) “Educating Western Thebes: Between Village and Monastery.”
10.00-10.45 Alain Delattre (Université Libre des Bruxelles) “Between Education and Religion: Psalm Quotations and Compositions in the Theban Area.”
10.45-11.15 Coffee break
11.15-12.00 Esther Garel (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften) “The Hand D and David the Monk.”
12.00-12.45 Matthias Müller (Universität Basel) “Scribal-office or Scriptorium? Texts and Contexts from the South Asasif.”
12.45-14.00 Lunch

Chair: Jennifer Cromwell

14.00-14.45 Frederic Krueger (Freie Universität Berlin) “»I Wonder about You!«– Encoding Emotions of Anger and Disappointment in Monastic Letters from the Theban Area.”
14.45-15.30 Elisabeth R. O’Connell (British Museum, London) “Prosphora Donations and the Care of the Dead in Late Antique Western Thebes.”
15.30-16.15 Ágnes T. Mihálykó (University of Oslo) “Reconstructing the Liturgy in Western Thebes.”
18.00 Dinner

Platonism and Christian Thought in Late Antiquity

International Workshop in Oslo on the Philosophy of Late Antiquity

Time and place: Dec. 1, 2016 1:00 PM–Dec. 3, 2016 5:00 PM, University of Oslo - Department of Philosophy, IFIKK - Arne Næss Auditorium (GM 103) and Room GM 452

The aim of this Workshop is to bring together in Oslo scholars at an early career stage for presenting papers on the encounter between Platonism and Christian thought in Late Antiquity.

The influence of Platonism on Early Christian thought is acknowledged to have been profound. Numerous studies have brought new knowledge both about Platonic ontology and ethics as well as on Christian metaphysics and anthropology, demonstrating how a number of Early Christian writers engaged with Platonism in their endeavours to deepen and systematize the Christian doctrine and faith.

Over the past three decades, the Department of Philosophy at the University of Oslo has become a pioneer in the research on the History of Philosophy. The study of Neoplatonism and Christian thought has been a distinct interest of some of the researchers in ancient philosophy.

List of confirmed participants*

Alexopoulos, Lambros: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Open University of Cyprus
Bieler, Jonathan: Department of Theology, University of Zurich - Switzerland
Brown Dewhurst, Emma: Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University - UK
Ekenberg, Tomas: Department of Philosophy, University of Uppsala - Sweden
Emilsson, Eyjólfur Kjalar: Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo - Norway
Gullino, Silvia: University of Padua - Italy
Hauer, Mareike: Department of Philosophy, KU Leuven - Belgium
Hecht, Christine: Department of Philosophy, University of Tübingen - Germany
Hoenig, Christina Maria: Department of Classics, University of Pittsburg - USA
Janby, Lars Fredrik: Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo - Norway
Mateiescu, Sebastian: Department of Philosophy, University of Bucharest - Romania
Morlet, Sébastien: University of Sorbonne, Paris IV - France
Moro, Enrico: Department of Philosophy, University of Padua - Italy
Pavlos, Panagiotis G.: Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo - Norway
Petkas, Alex: Department of Classics, Princeton University, New Jersey - USA
Pirtea, Adrian: Free University of Berlin - Germany
Pomeroy, Samuel: Faculty of Theology and Religious Studies, KU Leuven - Belgium
Robinson, Joshua: Department of Theology and Religion, Durham University - UK
Scott, Mark: Department of Religious Studies, Thorneloe University at Laurentian, Ontario - Canada
Strand, Narve: Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo - Norway
Tolan, Daniel: Clare College, Cambridge University - UK
Tollefsen, Torstein Theodor: Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo - Norway
Vasilakis, Dimitrios: Department of Philosophy, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, LMU Munich - Germany
Wood, Jordan: Boston College, Massachusetts - USA

* Due to an enormous amount of abstracts received, the Workshop Committee has - thanks to an additional generous support from the Department of Philosophy at UiO - been allowed to increase the total number of participants, as above.

Programme

Thursday, December 1 st , 2016

Arrival in Norway and Oslo

12.00 – 13.00:
- Arrival at the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas [IFIKK]
- Workshop Registration: Arne Næss Auditorium (GM 103)

Arne Næss Auditorium (GM 103)

13.00 – 13.10:
- Welcome address by the Head of IFIKK, Professor Mathilde Skoie
- Welcome on behalf of the Society for Ancient Philosophy, Professor Øyvind Rabbås
- Welcome address on behalf of the Workshop Committee, Professor Torstein Theodor Tollefsen

Workshop Session I, Chair: Lars Fredrik Janby

13.10 – 13.50: Sébastien Morlet, University of Sorbonne – Paris IV, The Harmony of Christianity and Platonic Philosophy from Justin Martyr to Eusebius
13:50 – 14:30: Samuel Pomeroy, KU Leuven ‘Those Loving Controversy’: John Chrysostom as a Witness to Porphyry’s Contra Christianos
14:30 – 14.50: Coffee Break
14.50 – 15.30: Christine Hecht, University of Tübingen Porphyry’s demons as a threat for the Christians
15.30 – 16.10: Adrian Pirtea, Free University of Berlin ‘Two Fountains Which Gush Out By Nature’s Impulse’ – Porphyry and Evagrius on Pleasure, Pain and the Soul’s Passions
16.10 – 16.20: Coffee Break
16.20 – 17.00: Alex Petkas, Princeton University, Local Identity, Ritual and Christian Platonism in Synesius’s Hymn 1
17:00: End of 1 st Day

Friday, December 2 nd , 2016

Meeting Room 452 (GM 452)

Workshop Session II, Chair: Samuel Pomeroy

09.00 – 09.40: Eyjólfur Kjalar Emilsson, University of Oslo, Matter as Evil in Plotinus
09.40 – 10.20: Enrico Moro, University of Padua, Augustine and Plotinus on corporeal Matter
10.20 – 10.40: Coffee Break
10.40 – 11.20: Tomas Ekenberg, University of Uppsala, Augustine on Eudaimonia as Life Project and Object of Desire
11:20 – 12.00: Christina Maria Hoenig, University of Pittsburgh, Augustine and the ‘Timaeus’
12.00 – 12.40: Lars Fredrik Janby, University of Oslo, Porphyry and Varro? Another look at Augustine's encyclopedic programme
12.40 – 13.30: Lunch
Workshop Session III, Chair: Christina Maria Hoenig
13.30 – 14.10: Joshua Robinson, Durham University, Creation and Emanation: What is the Difference?
14.10 – 14.50: Lampros Alexopoulos, Open University of Cyprus, The theory of non-existence of matter in Plotinus,Porphyry and Gregory of Nyssa
14.50 – 15.10: Coffee Break
15.10 – 15.50: Mareike Hauer, KU Leuven, Philoponus on Differentiae
15.50 – 16.30: Daniel Tolan, Cambridge University, Plato’s ζῷα, Philo’s νοητικὸς κόσμος, and the Hermeneutics of the Arian controversy
16.30 – 17.00: Discussion – Announcements
17.00: End of 2nd Day

Saturday, December 3 rd , 2016

Meeting Room 452 (GM 452)

Workshop Session IV, Chair: Emma Brown Dewhurst

09.30 – 10.10: Mark Scott, Thorneloe University at Laurentian, Origen’s Theological Story about God and Evil: A Platonist or Christian Theodicy?
10.10 – 10.50: Narve Strand, University of Oslo, Knowing Right, Doing Wrong: Augustine’s Case for the Will
10.50 – 11.10: Coffee Break
11.10 – 11.50: Silvia Gullino, University of Padua, The Propathe as Exemplum of Evil in Evagrius Ponticus’ thought
11.50 – 12.30: Dimitrios Vasilakis, LMU Munich, Neoplatonic Descent: A Proclean Analysis with a Dionysian Counterexample
12.30 – 13.20: Lunch

Workshop Session V, Chair: Panagiotis G. Pavlos

13.20 – 14.00: Emma Brown Dewhurst, Durham University, Knowledge as a Relationship of Impossibility and Intimacy in Maximus the Confessor
14.00 – 14.40: Jordan Wood, Boston College, Creation as Incarnation: the metaphysical peculiarity of the logoi in Maximus Confessor
14.40 – 15.10: Coffee Break
15.10 – 15.50: Jonathan Bieler, University of Zurich, Either – or? Apophaticism and Cataphaticism in Maximus the Confessor’s thought
15.50 – 16.30: Sebastian Mateiescu, University of Bucharest, The Doctrine of Immanent Realism in Maximus the Confessor
16.30 – 17.00: Discussion – Conclusions
17.00: End of 3 rd and last Day

Sunday, December 4 th , 2016

Free time in Oslo
Departures

Phenomenological Interpretations of Ancient Thought

International conference on the phenomenological reception of ancient philosophy.

Update (1.12): Due to two unfortunate cancellations, the program is slightly revised.

Time and place: Dec. 1, 2016 1:00 PM–Dec. 3, 2016 3:00 PM, Møterom 652, Georg Morgenstiernes hus

The phenomenological tradition has had a profound impact on the way ancient philosophy is understood, both within academic philosophy and in Western culture as such. Still, very few systematic explorations of this way of approaching ancient philosophy exist. Numerous studies focus on a single author's relation to Plato or Aristotle or on the relation between Heidegger and one of his heirs. But a comprehensive account of the entire movement that specifically targets the question of how the phenomenological approach affects their understanding of Greek philosophy is lacking. The conference aims to address this deficiency by treating of the movement in its breadth.

Initially inspired by the work of Edmund Husserl (1859–1938), in particular his notion of truth and the intentional structure of the mind, Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) developed a radically new interpretation of the relation between Greek thought and modern Western philosophy. By viewing Greek philosophy, in particular Plato and Aristotle, as the foundation upon which the European tradition rests, while also claiming that the tradition has distorted this foundation, Heidegger entered into a complex dialogue with what he regarded as the hidden roots of our tradition, the Greek interpretation of Being. According to Heidegger, this dialogue is of vital importance for rethinking our present situation, a situation he regards as characterized by a crisis in Western rationality. This dialogue in turn inspired thinkers such as Karl Löwith (1897–1973), Leo Strauss (1899–1973), Hans-Georg Gadamer (1900–2002), Hans Jonas (1903–1993), Hannah Arendt (1906–1975) and Jacques Derrida (1930–2004) to approach ancient philosophy in a radically new manner: to them ancient philosophy was not simply an object of the past to be studied historically, but a living part of our present and future culture. The impact of their various engagements with ancient thought on contemporary society can hardly be overestimated.

Conference programme

Thursday, December 1st, 2016, GM 652

Chair: Kristian Larsen

12.00 – 13.00 : Lunch
13.00 – 14.15 : Burt Hopkins (Seattle University) ‘Phenomenology and Ancient Philosophy: Methodological Protocols and Two Specimens of Interpretation’
14.25 – 15.40 : Charlotta Weigelt (Södertörn University) ‘An “Obscure” Phenomenology? Heidegger, Plato and the Philosopher’s Struggle for the Truth of Appearance’
15.50 – 17.05 : Pål Rykkja Gilbert (University of Oslo) ‘Virtue vs. Authenticity: Aristotle’s Ethical Concepts in the Hands of Heidegger’

Friday, December 2nd, 2016, GM 652

Chair: Hallvard Markus Stette

10.00 – 11.15 : Thomas Schwartz Wentzer (Aarhus University) ‘Heidegger’s Aristotle and the Problem of Philosophical Anthropology’
11.25 – 12.40 : Kristian Larsen (Copenhagen) ‘Counting (on) Being: On Jacob Klein’s Return to Platonic Dialectic’
12.40 – 13.40 : Lunch

Chair: Hege Dypedokk Johnsen

13.40 – 14.55 : Morten Thaning Sørensen (Copenhagen Business School)

Saturday, December 3rd, 2016, GM 652

Chair: Pål Rykkja Gilbert

10.00 – 11.15 : Hans Ruin (Södertörn University) ‘Strange Fate: Heidegger and the Greek Inheritance’
11.25 – 12.40 : Jussi Backman (University of Jyväskylä) ‘Plato against Pericles: Arendt on the (Anti-)Politics of Thinking in Greek Philosophy’
12.40 – 13.40 : Lunch

Protagonists of the Periphery

Mapping the Nordic factions and contributions in postwar CIAM and Team 10.
Time and place: Dec. 1, 2016 10:15 AM–5:45 PM, Auditorium 2, Georg Sverdrups hus

Program

10.15 Welcome. Opening talk by Ellen Rees, Vice-Dean for Research, Faculty of Humanities
10.25 Introduction to the seminar
10.30 - 13.10 Opening Session
10.30 - 11.30 Keynote: Panayotis Tournikiotis (National Technical University of Athens): "Remapping Post War Architecture: the Challenge of Collective History".
11.30 - 11.45 Break/coffee
11.45 - 13.05 Session 1: From CIAM to Team 10
11.45 - 12.05 Ruth Baumeister (Aarhus School of Architecture): "Menneskeboliger eller tankekonstructioner i jernbeton". The reception of the Unité d ́habitation among Danish artists and architects.
12.05 - 12.25 Espen Johnsen (University of Oslo): "Giedion ́s agenda for his visit to the Nordic countries 1948 and the establishment of PAGON". 12.25– 12.45 Leonardo Zuccaro Marchi (Delft University of Technology): "Sigtuna Inbetween. The generational and epistemological shift within CIAM".
12.45 - 13.05 Questions/comments
13.05 -13.45 Lunch
13.45 - 17.30 Session 2: Team 10 and beyond
13.45 - 14.45 Keynote: Tom Avermaete (Delft University of Technology): “Beyond Centers and Peripheries: Team 10 and the Expanded Field of Architecture”.
14.45 - 15.00 Break/coffee
15.00 - 16.00 Keynote: Eeva-Liisa Pelkonen (Yale University): “Le Carré Bleu and the Finnish Team 10”.
16.00 - 16.30 Thordis Arrhenius (Linköping University): "Ready Steady - City 67 - the transformation of Stockholm’s inner core in the post-war years; plans and protests".
16.30 - 16.45 Break/coffee
16.45 - 17.00 Christina Pech (Arkitektur- och designcentrum, Stockholm): "Constructing Erskine. The legacy of CIAM/Team 10 in the historiography of Swedish post-war architecture".
17.00 – 17.15 Talette Rørvik Simonsen (The National Museum – Architecture): “Geir Grung in the formative years of Team 10”. 17.15–17.30 Petteri Kummala (The Finnish Museum of Architecture): "Treasures from the Archives. Nordic CIAM and Team 10, and the Museum of Finnish Architecture".
17.30 - 17.45 Questions/comments

Please register before 28 November: panagiotis.farantatos@ifikk.uio.no

Translation in Antiquity, Translating Antiquity: methods and practices

Workshop at the Univ. of Oslo, December 1st-2nd, 2016.

Keynote speakers: Rachel Mairs, University of Reading; Siobhan McElduff, University of British Columbia; Oliver Taplin, University of Oxford.

The workshop addresses the issue of ‘translation’ in relation to Greek and Roman texts from a double vantage point: in antiquity (between Greek and Latin and/or other languages) and in modern times (from Greek/Latin to a modern language). It thus aspires to take part in an ongoing scholarly debate, important contributions to which have been made recently by Siobhán McElduff and Enrica Sciarrino’s Complicating the History of Western Translation: The Ancient Mediterranean in Perspective (2011), Maurizio Bettini’s Vertere: un'antropologia della traduzione nella cultura antica (2012) and Siobhán McElduff’s Roman Theories of Translation (2013). (BMCR reviews: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2012/2012-07-17.html; http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-04-26.html; http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-01-23.html).

The workshop’s agenda and proposed contribution to this debate is to take a ‘bird’s-eye-view’ and address ‘translation’ of Greek and Roman texts in and beyond antiquity in tandem and diachronically. The aim is to explore whether (and eventually in what manners and by means of what mechanisms) the method and practice of translation is transformed and to identify turning points in terms of both theory and practice. To this end submissions that have been accepted include both case studies and papers that are methodologically oriented. Among the former, several papers engage specifically with issues within either Translation Studies or reception studies. Moreover, to help expand the field into areas that have been less studied, papers have also been selected that deal with different texts and cultural traditions: thus, there are papers on, e.g., apocryphal and hagiographic texts, and on translations into, e.g., Slavic and Arabic.

The conference is organized by the thematic area Traveling Texts: Translation and Transnational Reception at the faculty of Humanities, University of Oslo. The organizers are: Prof. Anastasia Maravela, Prof. Mathilde Skoie, postdoc Tor Ivar Østmoe

For information, contact: Tor Ivar Østmoe, t.i.ostmoe@ifikk.uio.no

Programme

1 December

9.00-9.30: Coffee / Opening address (Maravela – Skoie – Østmoe)
9.30-10.30: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Siobhán McElduff (Univ. of British Columbia) Performing translations: orality, materiality and ancient Roman translation
10.30-11.00: R. Simms (Oslo) Livius Andronicus: Possessing the Past
11.00-11.30: break
11.30-12.00: M. M. Asztalos (Oslo) Catullus 51 and Sappho fr. 31
12.00-12.30: A.A. Raschieri (Milano) Necessity and practice of translation at Rome in the first century AD
12.30-13.00: L. Spielberg (Nijmegen) Graeco versu admonuit: translation and quotation in Roman historiography
13.0-14.00: lunch
14.00-15.00: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Oliver Taplin (Oxford) Yet another translation of Aeschylus' Oresteia into English? My personal priorities, and the comparison of a brief passage with ten other versions from the last 80 years.
15.00-15.30: N. Mindt (Wuppertal/Berlin) Screaming antiquity in translation – How to translate primary interjections in Greek tragedy?
15.30-16.00: J. Robson (Open University) Reselling, Reshaping and Repackaging Aristophanes: Translations and Adaptations of Lysistrata on the Modern Stage
16.00-16.15: break
16.15-16.45: J. Akujärvi (Lund) Greek drama and translating philologists: the case of Sophocles in 19th-century Sweden
16.45-17.15: A. Cullhed (Linköping) Moving Medea: Spatiality, Classicism, and the Transnational Stage of the Late Eighteenth Century
17.15-17.45: A. Kliszcz (Kraków) & J. Komorowska (Warsaw) Polish Sophocles: Kazimierz Morawski and the translation of the tragedies
17.45-18.15: C. Piantanida (Oxford) Translating Eros: the Representation of Sexuality in Contemporary Italian Translations of Sappho
20.00: Dinner

2 December

9.00-10.00: KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Rachel Mairs (Reading) Translation and Empire: Translations between Greek, Aramaic and Prakrit in Kandahar in the third century BCE
10.00-10.30: L.I. Lied (Oslo) In transit: Scholarly imaginations of Greek as language of transmission, and the translation of Old Testament Pseudepigrapha from Greek to Syriac
10.30-11.00: J. Eckstein (München): What Did the Translator Do? A Qualitative-Quantitative Approach to Assessing Translation Methods
11.00-11.15: break
11.15-11.45: T.I. Østmoe (Oslo) From assembly to manifesto: Lysistrata’s deliberative rhetoric in four Norwegian translations of Aristophanes’ play
11.45-12.15: C. Bull (Princeton/Oslo) The Coptic translation of Epiphanius of Salamis’ Ancoratus
12.15-12.45: A. Maravela (Oslo) Translating Wisdom: The Coptic versions of Menandri Sententiae
12.45-13.15: K. Åkerman Sarkisian (Uppsala) More than Metaphrase. Rethinking the Medieval Translation of Slavic Hagiography
13.15-14.15: lunch
14.15-14.45: E. Ramsey (London) Methods of translation in Apuleius' philosophical works
14.45-15.15: L. Willms (Heidelberg) Translating the Heathens: Astronomy and Paganism in Avienus’ version of Aratus’ Phainomena
15.15-15.45: E. van Dalen (Manchester) Translating ancient Greek metadiscourse into Classical Arabic: Ḥunayn Ibn Isḥaq’s 9th-century rendition of Galen’s rhetorical stategies in his commentary on the Hippocratic aphorisms
15.45-16.15: J. Eskhult (Uppsala) The humanist theory of translation: the humanist interpretation of ancient Latin theorising on translation and the impact of classical rhetoric on humanist translation terminology
16.15-16.30: break
16.30-17.00: C. Roby (New York) Translating technologies: Hero’s Pneumatica
17.00-17.30: M. Fitton-Hayward (Nottingham) Translating the narrator: seeing, feeling, hearing Virgil’s voice in modern translations
17.30-18.00: M. Kersten (Rostock) Translating Arcadia. Harry Kessler’s Edition of Virgil’s Eclogues
18.00-18.30: S. Bär (Oslo) Translator, Poet, Botcher? Raoul Schrott’s German Iliad and its Popular and Scholarly Reception

Intertextuality in Greek and Roman Literature: Problems, Challenges and Possibilities

PhD Workshop, organised by Silvio Bär and Ingela Nilsson

Time: Oct. 10, 2016 9:00 AM–Oct. 11, 2016 5:00 PM

Abstract

The introduction of intertextual approaches in the study of classical Greek and Roman literature has often been described as a paradigmatic change: the philological focus shifted from unidirectional source criticism to a more dynamic model of intertextuality, regarding references and allusions not as incidental ways of showing off classical learning, but as an integral part in a system of a “functional rhetorical matrix” (Conte 1986: 23). Traditional philologists such as David West objected loudly (West 1995), while more theoretically minded scholars such as Don Fowler underlined the importance of changed attitudes and literary criticism in the study of classical literature (Fowler 1997). Looking back at the past thirty years, how can we describe the development of intertextual approaches in the study of Greek and Roman literature? Has the use of the intertextual terminology become more refined, or has it only replaced the same old way of looking at textual relations with a new term? What differences can we distinguish in the study of earlier and later texts, and to what extent are questions of function and intention brought into the discussion?

These are examples of the issues we would like to discuss at a workshop at the University of Oslo, Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas (IFIKK), 10-11 October 2016. We invite PhD students and other junior scholars who are interested in theoretical and methodological aspects of textual relations to take part in a workshop led by Silvio Bär (Oslo), Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala/Oslo), Anastasia Maravela (Oslo), Kristoffel Demoen (Gent), and Christian Høgel (Odense). The discussions will be based on Greek and Latin texts from various periods and genres, along with secondary literature on the topic. Participants are expected to read the texts in advance in order to take part in fruitful discussions. The workshop is primarily directed at PhD students and early career academics, but it is also open to students and scholars at all levels. The course language is English.

PhD students can earn 5 ECTS credit points from this workshop. The requirements are: 1) preparation of the reading assignments and active participation at the entire workshop; 2) submission of a written paper (c. 20 pages) on any relevant topic to do with intertextuality in Greek and/or Roman literature (submission due after the workshop).

Travel costs and accommodation will have to be covered by the participants themselves, while coffee and lunch will be offered by IFIKK. It is also possible to participate at a dinner on Monday evening. The workshop will begin at 9am on Monday 10 October and finish at 5pm on Tuesday 11 October (with a public lecture held by Kristoffel Demoen from 3:15-5pm).

The deadline for registration is 15 September 2016. Please contact Silvio Bär (silvio.baer@ifikk.uio.no), preferably as soon as possible, and indicate any dietary requirements you may have, and whether you wish to participate at the dinner on Monday evening. Feel free to contact the organiser in case you have any further queries. Please note that although Oslo is fairly expensive, there are numerous low-budget options for accommodation (youth hostel, AirBnB, etc.).

Monday 10 October 2016

Blindern Campus, Kristine Bonnevies Hus, conference room n. 2621

9:00–10:45 Silvio Bär (Oslo): Quellenforschung, Intertextuality, and the Question of Allusion
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–13:00 Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala/Oslo): Intertextuality, Transtextuality, and the Question of Agency
13:00–14:00 Lunch Break
14:00–15:45 Anastasia Maravela (Oslo): Orality and (Inter-)Textuality: Two Homeric Hymns and Moschus’ Europa
15:45–16:15 Coffee Break
16:15–17:15 Tor Ivar Østmoe (Oslo): Intertextuality, Genre, and Sociolinguistics: Horace Ode I 18 and Progymnasmata
19:00 Dinner

Tuesday 11 October 2016

Blindern Campus, Kristine Bonnevies Hus, conference room n. 4424

9:00–10:45 Christian Høgel (Odense): Intertextuality, Translation, Metaphrasis: Some Byzantine Case Studies
10:45–11:15 Coffee Break
11:15–12:30 Kristoffel Demoen (Gent): From Metaphrasis Back to Quellenforschung: The 10th-Century Paradeisos
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break
13:30–14:30 Concluding Roundtable Discussion
14:30–15:15 Coffee Break
15:15–17:00 P UBLIC L ECTURE (Georg Morgenstiernes Hus, conference room n. 452): Kristoffel Demoen: Flavius Philostratus’ Apollonius and Heroes: Intertextuality, Characterization and Fictionalization

Narratology and Intertextuality: New Perspectives on Greek Epic from Homer to Tzetzes

International Conference, organised by Silvio Bär and Anastasia Maravela

Time and place: June 3, 2016 9:00 AM–June 4, 2016 1:00 PM, Georg Morgenstiernes building, room 452

Ancient Greek literature began and ended with two heavy epic blows that were separated by more than a thousand years: Homer’s Iliad and the Odyssey (8th/7th cent. BC) and Nonnus’ Dionysiaca (c. 500 AD). In between, a continuous stream of epic production secured the survival of this literary genre, and also offered multitudinous opportunities for presenting new aesthetics in dialogue with a century-old tradition. In the Byzantine era, the tradition was revived by John Tzetzes (12th cent. AD), who wrote commentaries on Homer and Hesiod as well as a hexametric renarration of the Trojan war. While archaic epic poetry has always been a key factor in Classical studies, later epic has seen an increase in research only in the past two decades. This development can largely be viewed in parallel with a shift of focus from unidirectional source criticism to more dynamic intertextual approaches. In a parallel trajectory, narratology became a useful theoretical tool to analyse fictional texts; research on Greek epic poetry has greatly benefited from this trend, too. However, despite these developments, intertextual and narratological approaches are rarely combined; in most cases, intertextuality remains restricted to the level of ‘micro-philology’, while narratology lacks a comparative dimension.

The aim of this conference is to allow new theoretical and methodological perspectives on Greek epic poetry by widening the concepts of intertextuality and narratology to where their respective ‘blind spots’ lie, that is, by bringing them into productive dialogue by analysing the mechanisms that are at work when different epic authors apply certain narrative devices and techniques, and by reflecting upon how the analysis of these mechanisms can further our understanding and interpretation of single epic poems as well as the history and genre of Greek epic poetry in general.

Papers focus on specific authors and/or works and the way certain narrative parameters (e.g. voice, time, space, character, etc.) are used in relation to other texts (e.g. to its epic ‘predecessors’, to other literary genres dealing with similar narrative parameters, etc.); how epic authors initiate a dialogue with their epic ‘predecessors’ (e.g. by implementing an unreliable narrator); how certain narrative parameters ‘travel’ through the history of Greek epic poetry; how narrative parameters are linked to generic questions in relation to epic poetry, for example the question of long vs. short epic poetry (epos vs. epyllion).

Programme

Friday 3 June 2016

PART I (Chair: Robert Simms, Oslo)

9:00–9:45 Introduction: Anastasia Maravela & Silvio Bär (Oslo): Narratology and Intertextuality:
Where Does the Connection Lie?
9:45–10:30 Irene de Jong (Amsterdam): The Motif of Oroskopia in Ancient Epic
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Bruno Currie (Oxford):
The Intertextuality of Iliad and Odyssey: A Narratological Perspective
11:45–12:30 Thomas A. Schmitz (Bonn): Epic Anastrophe from Homer to Nonnus
12:30–13:30 Lunch Break

PART II (Chair: Ingela Nilsson, Uppsala & Oslo)

13:30–14:15 Anastasia Maravela (Oslo): The Judgemental Narrator in Diachronic Perspective: νήπιος-
Passages from Homer to Nonnus
14:15–15:00 Silvio Bär (Oslo): Heracles from Homer to Nonnus: Narratological Character Analysis in a
Diachronic Perspective
15:00–15:30 Coffee Break
15:30–16:15 Eric Cullhed & Dimitrios Iordanoglou (Uppsala):
“In the Whirl of Dust”: Epic Obituaries from the Archaic to the Late Byzantine Eras
16:15–17:30 PhD Roundtable Discussion: Tine Scheijnen (Gent), Marcelina Gilka (Exeter), Carlos Her-
nández Garcés (Oslo)
19:00 Conference Dinner (Restaurant L’Ardoise)

Saturday 4 June 2016

PART III (Chair: Anastasia Maravela, Oslo)

9:00–9:45 Berenice Verhelst (Gent): Epic Heroes on a Smaller Scale? Characterization Strategies in
Four Imperial Greek ‘Epyllia’
9:45–10:30 Ingela Nilsson (Uppsala & Oslo): An Epic Novel and a Novelistic Epic: A Transtextual
Approach to Heliodoros’ Aithiopika and Hero and Leander
10:30–11:00 Coffee Break
11:00–11:45 Adam Goldwyn (North Dakota State University): Immorality and Amorality in Tzetzes’
Allegories of the Iliad and Allegories of the Odyssey
11:45–12:30 Concluding Roundtable Discussion (to be followed by lunch and farewell)

2015

Gender Perspectives on translation and reception of classical texts

The section is part of the workshop Gender, Translation and Transnational Reception on Thursday and Friday 12-13 November. To see the program for the whole workshop please contact Associate Professor Cecilia Alvstad

Everyone is welcome!

Time and place: Nov. 12, 2015 1:30 PM–5:00 PM, Undervisningsrom 2, Georg Sverdrups hus

Program

13.30-14.30: Postmodernist rewritings of Classical themes in English literature (Moderator: Mathilde Skoie)
- Juan Christian Pellicer: The Third Man in Tom Stoppard’s The Invention of Love Fiona Cox: Ovid and the Female Postmodernist. Jane Alison’s Translations
14.45-17.00 Classical texts in translation (Moderator: Mathilde Skoie)
- Johana Akujärvi: Women in the early history of translations of ancient literature in Sweden
- Silvio Bär: Male, Female, and the Crux of Translation in the New Sappho Fragments
- (2004 and 2014)
- Tor Ivar Østmoe: Gender and culture in Norwegian translations of Aristophanes' Lysistrata
- Anastasia Maravela: Women on the verge of a nervous breakdown, women without lust. Constructions of the female in translations of Greek and Coptic magical papyri

How is methaphysics possible?

Welcome to a two day conference organized by the Philosophy group at the Centre for Advanced Study.Open for all.

Time and place: Nov. 12, 2015 9:00 AM–Nov. 13, 2015 4:00 PM, The Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Drammensveien 78

Thursday, November 12

09.00: Welcome address (Frode Kjosavik/Camilla Serck-Hanssen).
09.15: Karin de Boer: Kant’s Investigation into the Condition of Possibility of Metaphysics.
11.00: Houston Smit: Why Must the Title 'Ontology' Give Way to 'An Analytic of the Understanding'?
12.30: Lunch (open to all conference attendees).
13.30: Leila Haaparanta: Metaphysical Judgments and their Justifications: A Fregean Perspective.
15.30: Mirja Hartimo: In What Sense is there Metaphysics in Husserl’s Phenomenology?
17.30: Reception (open to all conference attendees).

Friday, November 13

10.15: Christel Fricke: Kant's Moral Theory – Rejecting Voluntarism for the sake of the Possibility of A Priori Knowledge of the Moral Law.
12.00: Lunch (open to all conference attendees).
13.00: Øystein Linnebo: Reference and Criteria of Identity.
15.00: Juliet Floyd: Gödel on Russell, 1942-3 – An Infinitary Version of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgment.
17.00: Katherine Brading: Knowing the World – Hilbert, Weyl, and the Foundations of Physics.
18.45: Closing remarks (Frode Kjosavik/Camilla Serck-Hanssen).
19.00: Aperitif and dinner for speakers and members of the CAS group in philosophy.

Oslo Ancient Philosophy Conference 2015

Time: Oct. 30, 2015 1:00 PM–Oct. 31, 2015 6:00 PM, University of Oslo

Friday October 30

13:00-13:50 Vasilis Politis: Definition-by-example in the Hippias Major Plato’s anticipation of, and response to, Geach
13:50-14:40 Vivil Haraldsen: Reason, doxa and the divided soul in Plato’s Republic
15:00-15:50 Pauliina Remes: Plotinus on human action and divine power
15:50-16:40 Svavar Hrafn Svavarsson: The truth will set you free: the sceptical pursuit of truth and happiness
16:50-17:40 Ellisif Wasmuth: Plato on soul and action: a revisit with the First Alcibiades

Saturday October 31

10:00-10:50 Anna Schriefl: Why does Aristotle ascribe a concept of matter to his predecessors?
10:50-11:40 David Ebrey: Plato’s unfolding account of Forms in the Phaedo
11:50-12:40 Panos Dimas: Divisibility of Magnitude in De Generatione et Corruptione I.2
12:40-13:20 Lunch
13:20-14:10 Sotiris Mitralexis: motion and time in Aristotle and St Maximus the Confessor
14:10-15:00 Pål Gilbert Rykkja: The nature and function of τὸ καλόν in Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics
15:20-16:10 Hallvard Fossheim: The presence of Socrates in Plato’s Apology
16:10-17:00 Georgia Tsouni: Appropriate and right actions in Stoic ethical theory
17:10-18:00 Joseph Bjelde: Xenophon’s Socrates on wisdom and action

Touching the Screen

How do current practices of physically touching screens transform our relationship to media technologies and their images? Bringing together an interdisciplinary group of renowned scholars and artists, the one-day conference Touching the Screen aims to trace the genealogies and implications of today’s touchscreens and their formatting of images and the senses. Register below!

Time and place: Apr. 28, 2015 10:00 AM–4:30 PM, University of Oslo, Blindern campus, Helga Engs hus, auditorium 3.

As touchscreens and haptic interfaces are becoming ubiquitous in everyday life, our sensory engagement with media technologies changes. Most obviously, the sense of touch is coordinated with vision in new ways. This in turn has consequences for our embodied relation to media, in particular to their screens and images.

As witnessed in recent film and video art, artists have begun to explore some of the novel exchanges between the sensing body and images that touchscreens afford: tactility and gestures, textures and surfaces, and the curious tension between the screen-image as responsive plane versus its qualities of depth are some of the key themes that emerge.

In art, film and media theory, visual and linguistic paradigms are currently being supplemented by theorization of embodied media experience centered on sense perceptions other than the purely visual, with touch featuring prominently. For example, whereas touchscreens are underpinned by a tradition of psychophysiological research on touch that reaches back to the mid-nineteenth century, this tradition is only recently being thoroughly explored.

Within philosophy, the question of the status of touch in the hierarchy of the senses and as epistemological tool can be traced back to Aristotle’s De Anima, but gains new urgency today as touch gets formatted and patented by haptic interfaces.

For images, touching the screen with specified gestures accentuates how the (digital) image is perhaps better conceived of as data or code: tapping an icon becomes an act of information processing. In short, practices of touching the screen raise fundamental questions for a number of established conceptions of how we relate to media.

Touching the Screen will explore media archaeological, media theoretical and artistic ramifications of current practices of screen touching, and the potentially new bodily and epistemological configurations brought on by these.

Please note: the conference is open to all interested, but participation requires registration. The conference fee of NOK 130 covers lunch and beverages. Registration closes on April 23, or when the event is fully booked.

Contact

Susanne Ø. Sæther: s.o.sather (at) ifikk.uio.no or Victoria Fu: victoriacfu (at) gmail.com.

For practical matters, contact conference coordinator Ellef Prestsæter: ellef.prestsater (at) ifikk.uio.no

Centuries of Childhood Workshop

Workshop over three days for writers to the anthology Centuries of Childhood.

Time and place: Apr. 8, 2015 –Apr. 10 2015

Wednesday

10:00 - 11:15 Welcome
Introduction by Cornelia and Reidar. Informal introductions of the participants. Update on the status quo of the book project + agenda of the workshop
11:15-11:30 Tea and coffee break
11:30 - 12:00 Malin Grahn-Wilder: Character Formation and Arts-in-Education – Platonic perspectives on Childhood and Learning
Respondents: Hallvard Fossheim & Henny Fiskå Hägg
12:00 - 12:30 Hallvard Fossheim: Aristotle on Children and Childhood
Respondents: Ville Vuolanto & W. Martin Bloomer
12:30 - 13:30 Lunch
13:30 - 14:00 W. Martin Bloomer: Roman Conceptions of the Child
Respondents: Hagith S. Sivan & Reidar Aasgaard
14:00 - 14:30 Eyjólfur K. Emilsson: Children in Neoplatonism
Respondents: Hallvard Fossheim & Hocine Benkheira
14:30 - 14:45 Break
14:45 - 15:15 Hagith S. Sivan: Ancient Jewish Traditions - The ReMaking of Biblical Miriam in Antiquity
Respondents: Israel Gilat & Avner Giladi
15:15 - 15:45 Patricia Baker: Greco-Roman Pediatrics
Respondents: Eyjólfur Emilsson & W. Martin Bloomer
15:45 - 16:00 Break
16:00 - 16:30 Henny Fiskå Hägg: Aspects of Childhood in Early Christianity: the Case of Clement of Alexandria
Respondents: Ville Vuolanto & Reidar Aasgaard
16:30 - 17:30 General discussion of the presentations and the book as a whole
18:30 Conference dinner

Thursday

09:00 - 09:30 Reidar Aasgaard: Childhoods 400 CE: Three Saints – Jerome, Chrysostom and Augustine – on Children and their Formation
Respondents: Patricia Baker & Henny Fiskå Hägg
09:30 - 10:00 Cornelia B. Horn: Children in Texts from the early Byzantine World (Greek and Oriental Christian Sources)
Respondents: Ville Vuolanto & Hocine Benkheira
10:00 - 10:15 Tea and coffee break
10:15 - 10:45 Valerie Garver: Conceptions of Children and Youth in Carolingian Capitularies
Respondents: Håvard Løkke & Nicholas Orme
10:45 - 11:15 Israel Gilat: Perspectives on the Parent-Child Relationship in Early Europe. Judaism in the High Middle Ages
Respondents: Cornelia Horn & Hagith S. Sivan
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:00 Nicholas Orme: Perceptions of Children in Medieval England
Respondents: Valerie Garver & Patricia Baker
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:30 Alice-Mary Talbot: Childhood in Middle and Late Byzantium (9TH-15TH C.)
Respondents: Israel Gilat & Oana-Maria Cojocaru
13:30 - 14:00 Oana-Maria Cojocaru: Everyday Lives of Children in Monastic Contexts (9th-11th Centuries)
Respondents: Nicholas Orme & Alice-Mary Talbot
14:00 - 14:15 Break
14:15 - 14:45 Mary Dzon: Et ego Christianus sum!: Christianity with a Passion among the Children of the Golden Legend
Respondents: Oana-Maria Cojucaru & Håvard Løkke
14:45 - 15:15 General discussion of the presentations and the book as a whole
15:30 Guided Tour - The International Museum of Children’s Art
18:30 Informal dinner

Friday

09:00 - 09:30 Brian McGuire: Children and Youth in Monastic Life: Western Europe 400-1250
Respondents: Alice-Mary Talbot & Unn Falkeid
09:30 - 10:00 Hocine Benkheira: L’enfance dans les Sources Islamiques Anciennes (VIIe -VIIIe s.): Coran et Hadith
Respondents: Hagith S. Sivan & Cornelia Horn
10:00 - 10:15 Tea and coffee break
10:15 - 10:45 Avner Giladi: Reactions to Infant and Child Death in Premodern Muslim Societies: Children in Marʿi Ibn Yusuf's Plague Tractate and Consolation Treatise
Respondents: Brian McGuire & Mary Dzon
10:45 - 11:15 Unn Falkeid: Crucial Childhoods. Dante and the Reappraisal of Children in Late Medieval Italy
Respondents: Mary Dzon & Brian McGuire
11:15 - 11:30 Break
11:30 - 12:00 Håvard Løkke: The Child as an ideal in Stoic Philosophy
Respondents: Avner Giladi & Hallvard Fossheim
12:00 - 13:00 Lunch
13:00 - 13:40
Marianne Bjelland Kartzow: Slave Children and the Jesus Tradition, Respondent: Unn Falkeid
Ármann Jakobsson: Some Medieval Myths of Viking Childhood, Respondent: Valerie Garver
13:40 - 13:55 Break
13:55 - 15:00 Cornelia Horn and Reidar Aasgaard: Rounding off and plans and deadlines for the time to come. Responses from the participants

2014

Ancient Philosophy Conference

Time: Oct. 24, 2014–Oct. 25, 2014, Georg Morgenstiernes hus, room 452, University of Oslo

Programme

Friday, October 24

9:30 Simon Noriega-Olmos: Ontological Atomism and the Argument against the Dualists in Sophist 243D8-244A2
10:45 Franco Trivigno: Was Phthonos a Comedic Emotion for Aristotle?
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Ambra Serangeli: The Galenian Account on the Epicurean Theory of Magnetism
14:45 Filip Radovic, Aristotle on Prevision through Dreams
16:15 Filosofisk seminar: Andrew Louth, Virtue Ethics and St Maximus the Confessor. A reception follows.

Saturday, October 25

9:30: Miira Tuominen, Justice in Porphyry's On abstinence 3: Concern for Oneself and for Others
10:45 Jakob Fink, Êthos and Argument Receptivity
12:15 Lunch
13:30 Anna Schriefl, Matter and Substantial Change in Aristotle
14:45 Hallvard J. Fossheim, Aristotle on the Education of Reason
16:15 Leo Catana, What is the Significance of 'Protection' in Plato's Gorgias?

2013

AFTER THE PARTY - New research on Munch and his Nordic Contemporaries

Art history’s Research Day 2013, symbolically taking place the day after Edvard Munch’s birthday, will mark the end of the Munch year.

Time and place: Dec. 13, 2013 9:00 AM–4:00 PM, Arne Næss' auditorium, Georg Morgenstierns hus, Blindern

This has been a year filled with many exhibitions, seminars and other activities celebrating Munch’s birth 150 years ago. Research Day’s seminar, called “After the Party”, looks at the future of studies on Munch and Scandinavian/Nordic art history around 1900. The talks are held in English, and the event is open to all.

The speakers will present new research made both in universities and museums as well as looking at possibilities and challenges in the future of Nordic art history.

Keynote speakers

Professor Linda Rugg (University of California, Berkeley)

Professor Rugg's recent research interests include Swedish literature and culture (1870 to the present), August Strindberg, Ingmar Bergman, written and visual autobiography (including photography and film); literature and the visual arts, ecology and culture, whiteness in American and European culture, Comparative Literature, German literature and culture, and American literature and culture. She has written a large number of articles on these subjects as well as the book Picturing Ourselves: Photography and Autobiography and the forthcoming The Auteur’s Autograph: Cinematic Auteurism and Autobiography.

Professor David Jackson (University of Leeds)

Professor Jackson’s primary research interests reside in the socio-political interventions of realist and naturalist art in the formation of national identities in the Russian and Nordic nations, with specific expertise in exhibition curatorship and wider public dissemination of research in the museum/gallery domain. In the past decade he has been particularly active in the field of public exhibition projects and has curated exhibition for many major institutions, including the National Gallery, the Scottish National Gallery, the Van Gogh Museum, and the Swedish National Gallery. His most recent exhibitions include Nordic Art: The Modern Breakthrough for Groninger Museum, Netherlands and Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich (2012-13) and In Front of Nature. The European Landscapes of Thomas Fearnley for the Barber Institute of Fine Arts (2012).

Conference "Between Art and Mass Communication: Edvard Munch and Printmaking"

Annual conference on Munch organized by the research group "Munch and Modernity" will this year take place at Munch museum. This year the conference will focus on Munch’s achievement in the area of printmaking from various angles. Registration to the event is required.

Time and place: Nov. 22, 2013 8:30 AM–6:00 PM, Munch museum

Seminar for students of history of art at Munch museum

A guided tour at the Munch museum will be followed by a seminar taught by curator Ute Kuhlemann Falck. All students are welcome.

Time and place: Nov. 7, 2013 4:00 PM–6:00 PM, Munch museum

ICHL21: International Conference on Historical Linguistics

We welcome linguists from all over the world to discuss the most recent and exciting linguistic findings and hypotheses!

Time and place: Aug. 5, 2013–Aug. 9, 2013, University of Oslo

The International Conference on Historical Linguistics is held every second year under the auspices of the International Society of Historical Linguistics. The most recent conferences took place in Nijmegen, the Netherlands (2009) and Osaka, Japan (2011). This year's conference is the 21st International Conference.

Historical linguistics has been and still is an important part of Norwegian linguistics. The University of Oslo has previously been home to linguists who have made a mark on international research, particularly on the historical study of Celtic, Indo-Iranian and Oceanic languages, and today there is lively activity in the fields of old Germanic and Romance languages as well as in the classical languages.

Gesture: 2013 Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics

The Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas welcome you to the 2013 Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics. The theme of the conference is “Gesture” and it will take place at the University of Oslo from May 30 – June 1, (Thursday noon through Saturday evening).

Time and place: May 30, 2013–June 1, 2013, Georg Morgenstiernes hus

The use of gesticulation has always been a means by which human beings have expressed themselves. Being bodily rather than conceptual, its logos lie outside language. Within the fields of art and aesthetics, gesture implies an opening process as a distinctive way of cognition as well as an approach to the particular qualities of artworks.

While Jean-François Lyotard associates the artwork with the processuality of gesture, Roland Barthes thinks gesture in terms of the event, and its production of effects, thus seeing gesture at once as a part of the artwork and as transgressing the work “itself”.

For Theodor Adorno the gestural in music was a central topic and Ludwig Wittgenstein spoke of architecture as a gesture. Part of our aesthetic experience and of our “answer” to artworks is always gestural.

Keynote speakers

Gottfried Boehm, Professor of Modern Art History at Basel University: “What reveals itself. On Gesture and Image”
Julian Johnson, professor, Department of Music, Royal Holloway, University of London: “The particularity of musical gesture”
Rainer Nägele, Alfred C & Martha F Mohr Professor of Germanic Languages & Literature, Professor of Classics & Comparative Literature, Yale University: "Caesura: The Transformation of Gesticulation into the language of Gesture (Brecht, Artaud and Benjamin)"
Lilian Munk Rösing, Department of Arts and Cultural Studies, Copenhagen University: “Gesture, Colour, and Affect”
John Paul Ricco, Associate professor, Comparative Literature & Visual Studies University of Toronto: “The Separated Gesture or, The Inoperative Praxis of the Already-Unmade”

The conference calls for papers on both contemporary and historical issues: suggested topics of interest would include questions related to aesthetic experience in general as well as visual art, architecture, music, and literature. Abstract proposals of no more than 200 words should be sent before February 15 to Bente Larsen, bente.larsen@ifikk.uio.no

N.B. Participation without paper is welcome as well - however we kindly ask that you register your participation. PhD students are strongly encouraged to submit a proposal.

Organizer

Professor Bente Larsen (Board member)

2012

Simone de Beauvoir: Philosophy, Literature and the Humanities

The University of Oslo and the Norwegian University of Science and Technology at Trondheim are pleased to host The 20th International Conference of the Simone de Beauvoir Society.

Time: June 20, 2012–June 23, 2012

Simone de Beauvoir, equally drawn to both philosophy and literature, maintained throughout her life that there is no divorce between the two disciplines.

The point of expressing oneself through philosophy and literature is, she asserted, to conquer solitude and loneliness, to show that “others have felt like you”, and to create values. The values articulated, criticized and created within the humanities are of utmost importance. These disciplines can, according to Beauvoir, create a new universe of values through words. These words become actions that bite into the world and change “the face of the earth more profoundly than kings and conquerors”.

Keynote speakers

Associate Professor Nancy Bauer, Tufts University: "Simone de Beauvoir on Motherhood and Destiny".
Professor Barbara Klaw, Northern Kentucky University: "Reading Simone de Beauvoir Through Virginia Woolf: Men, Women, and Lived Experience in Beauvoir's Writings”.
Professor Toril Moi, Duke University: "Simone de Beauvoir and the Metaphysical Novel: Philosophy, Literature and the question of the Other in She Came To Stay (L'Invitée)"

Call for papers closed on April 1st.

Exploring Ancient Languages through Corpora

The PROIEL project is organizing a conference in Oslo in June 2012. Call for papers (deadline March 1 2012.)

Time and place: June 14, 2012–June 17, 2012, University of Oslo

Confirmed invited speakers are:

Katalin Kiss (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
Silvia Luraghi (Università degli Studi di Pavia)
Ann Taylor (The University of York)

The tenth annual conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology (NoSP)

Time and place: June 7, 2012 9:00 AM–June 9, 2012 7:30 PM, Georg Morgenstiernes Hus

Thursday June 7

09.00 – 10.00 Registration and payment for Conference Dinner
10.00 – 10.15 Welcome address, Head of Department Mathilde Skoie and Camilla Serck-Hanssen
10.15 – 11.45 Dermot Moran, University College Dublin: “Intentionality and Transcendence: Two Phenomenological Approaches to Human Experience”. Chair: Sara Heinämaa
13.00 – 15.30 Parallel sessions, section I
16.15 – 17.45
Frode Kjosavik, University of Life Sciences, Norway: “Perspectives on perception”
Chair: Camilla Serck-Hanssen
18.00 - Reception for speakers, Hall, Georg Morgenstiernes Hus

Friday June 8

09.30 – 12.00 Parallel sessions, section II
13.30 – 15.00 Komarine Romdenh-Romluc, University of Nottingham: “The World, Others, and I”. Chair: Søren Overgaard
15.30 – 17.30 Parallel sessions, section III
17.30 – 18.30 NoSP business meeting
19.00 Conference dinner for invited speakers at restaurant

Saturday June 9

09.00 – 12.30 Parallel sessions, Section IV
There will be served coffee/tea and fruit in the seminar rooms at 10.00
13.30 – 15.00 Tetsuya Kono, Rikkyo University: “Phenomenology of Pain”
Chair: Hans Ruin
15.30 – 17.00 Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, University of Aarhus: “Towards a Hermeneutics of Responsiveness”. Chair: Camilla Serck-Hanssen
17.00 Closing words
19.30 Conference Dinner (to be paid in advance at the registration)

Contact

Camilla Serck-Hanssen

2011

Quentin Skinner: Linguistic and social change

Workshop with Prof. Quentin Skinner and Prof. Thomas Krogh

Time and place: Aug. 31, 2011 10:00 AM–12:30 PM, Georg Morgenstiernes hus, room 204

Professor Quentin Skinner will be created doctor honoris causa of the University of Oslo on September 1.

IFIKK is happy to announce that in connection with his visit we will arrange a small workshop on Wednesday, August 31. from 10 00 to 12 30.
Participants will be staff and Ph D students from IFIKK, Kultrans and History.

The theme of the workshop will be: Lingustic and social change. Professor Skinner will open with a 20 minute introduction to his work in this field. We invite contributions from all of you, connected to your own research, to this topic. To allow ample time for discussion, the contributions should be restricted to 20 minutes. Prof. Thomas Krogh (IFIKK) will chair the discussion.

We suggest that the participants should make themselves acquainted with Quentin Skinner’s paper “The idea of a cultural lexicon” in his Visions of Politics, Vol 1, 158 – 174. Prof. Skinner would further like to refer to his “A genealogy of the modern State”, Proceedings of the British Academy, 162, 325–370. © The British Academy 2009.

Please sign up for the workshop by sending an e-mail to m.b.marjanovic@ifikk.uio.no before June 1. Drafts for your contributions, not exceeding 1 A 4 page is to be sent to Prof. Krogh before August 10.

2010

German Idealism and Its Critics

Nordic Network for German Idealism (NNGI) in co-operation with the Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Art and Ideas, University of Oslo

Time and place: Dec. 10, 2010–Dec. 11, 2010, University of Oslo, Georg Sverdrups Hus, Auditorium 2

Speakers

Marcia Cavalcante (Södertörn University College)
Taylor Carman (Barnard College)
Lore Hühn (University of Freiburg)
Alastair Hannay (University of Oslo)
Michelle Kosch (Cornell University)
Marius Mjaaland (University of Oslo)
Jon Stewart (Søren Kierkegaard Research Centre at the University of Copenhagen)

Registration is required for participation: Please send an e-mail to caseha@ifikk.uio.no with the subject title: NNGI 2010

Bodies of Modernity

Patricia Berman, Wellesley College and IFIKK

This seminar is a part of the Munch and Modernity: Lecture Series

Time and place: Oct. 15, 2010 12:15 PM–2:00 PM, seminar room 231, Helga Engs hus

This lecture series examines the art of Edvard Munch within the visual and print cultures of the late nineteenth- and early twentieth centuries.
While offering close readings of the artist’s biography and individual works, the course also examines the ways in which Munch’s art intersects with broader manifestations of modern culture: the growth of science, of spectacle and display, travel and tourism, and the rise of the mass media.

Patricia Gray Berman holds the title of Theodora L. & Stanley S. Feldberg Professor of Art at Wellesley College where she teaches Modern and Contemporary Art and Visual Culture, the History of Photography, and The Arts of Persuasion.

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