SublimAE (the Sublime and Aesthetic Experiences) seminar, in connection with SublimAE ANR project, will focus on the interdisciplinary study of Aesthetic Experiences with an eye to the sublime by bringing together philosophy, psychology, and social sciences. We will explore, on the one hand, how the experience of the sublime connects to other similar or contrast experiences (the beautiful, terrible beauty, awe, wonder, the uncanny, …), and, on the other hand, the impact these experiences, and more specifically aesthetic ones, have on our representation of the self.
The seminar will feature presentations by members of the project, as well as by invited speakers. It will be an annual seminar with (ideally) fortnightly meetings (check the agenda!).
Venue: Institut Jean Nicod, Salle de réunion, ground floor, Pavillon Jardin 29 rue d’Ulm, 75005 Paris (you can enter also from 24 rue Lhomond)
Time: Generally, 3pm-5pm
Agenda
Upcoming sessions
17 April 2023: Clare Mac Cumhaill (Durham University), Love, Form and the Murdochian Sublime
5 June 2023: Sandra Shapshay (CUNY), TBA
12 June 2023: Sandra Shapshay (CUNY), TBA
19 June 2023 [exceptionally in Salle Ribot]: Sandra Shapshay (CUNY), TBA
Past sessions
20 March 2023 [exceptionally only online]: Norberto Grzywacz (Loyola University Chicago), Same Brains Different Aesthetics
6 March 2023: Francesca D’Alessandris (Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia), Children’s experience of the sublime: a pivotal model of its features and markers
20 February 2023: Claude Imbert (ENS), Bacon : designer ou anti designer ?
23 January 2023: Pierre Saint-Germier (CNRS, STMS), Guernica, les martiens, et nous. Qu’est-ce qui ne va pas avec l’empirisme esthétique ? / Guernica, the Martians, and us. What is wrong with aesthetic empiricism?
12 December 2022: Anatolii Kozlov (IJN/UCL), When words don’t fit: on aesthetic sensibility in science
5 December 2022: Emmanuel Siety (Université Sorbonne Nouvelle), Présences du sublime au cinéma
28 November 2022: Norberto Grzywacz (Loyola University Chicago), Same Brains Different Aesthetics CANCELLED
7 November 2022: Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė (Vilnius University), The Folk Concept of Art
17 October 2022: Tomas Koblizek (Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague), La pénétration affective : Un facteur clé dans les attitudes de rejet à l’égard de l’art contemporain
30 May 2022: Esteban Buch (EHESS, CRAL), Sur les pouvoirs de la musique
23 May 2022 [exceptionally only online]: Melanie Wald-Fuhrmann (Max-Planck-Institut für empirische Ästhetik, Frankfurt am Main), Musical epiphanies and their experiential qualities: between revelation and awe
11 April 2022: Ondine Bréaud-Holland (ESAP Monaco), Le sublime au risque du cinéma
4 April 2022: Lisa Giombini (Università degli Studi Roma Tre), Respect in Art Conservation. Between Ethics and Aesthetics / La notion de respect dans la conservation de l’art. Entre éthique et esthétique
21 March 2022 [exceptionally 10-12am]: Laura Ferreri (Université Lumière Lyon 2), Le plaisir musical: bases neurobiologiques et implications cognitives / Musical pleasure: neurobiological bases and cognitive implications
28 February 2022: Pablo Fontoura & Jean-Marie Schaeffer (EHESS, CRAL), Taille des oeuvres d’art et effet de sublime
31 January 2022: Carole Talon-Hugon (Sorbonne Université), Généalogie de la survenance du concept de sublime au XVIIIème siècle
13 December 2021 [3-5pm]: Alice Dupas (Université Grenoble Alpes), L’approche neuroscientifique du sublime : ses applications et ses limites pour l’étude des arts visuels
22 November 2021: Esteban Buch (EHESS, CRAL) & Mario Lorenzo (EHESS, CRAL), Le beau vs le sublime : l’apport de l’analyse musicale
8 November 2021: Larissa Berger (Forschungsinstitut für Philosophie Hannover), What Is It Like to Feel Beauty? On the phenomenological meaning of Kant’s thesis of disinterestedness
18 October 2021: Dustin Stokes (University of Utah), Expertise and the contents of experience
14 June 2021 [1-3pm]: Amélie Jacquot (Université Paris 8), Étudier le sublime en musique : une approche expérimentale [online]
31 May 2021 [exceptionally 11am-1pm]: Hyojun Lee & Marco Sperduti (LMCC),The beauty and the self [online]
17 May 2021 [exceptionally 5-7pm]: Sandra Shapshay (CUNY), The Sublime Aesthetics of Monuments [online]
12 April 2021 [1-3pm]: Jérôme Dokic (EHESS-IJN), Les expériences auto-transcendantes et le sublime [online]
22 March 2021 [exceptionally 9-11am]: Tom Cochrane (Flinders University), Aesthetic values are distal versions of practical values [online]
15 March 2021 [exceptionally 5-7pm]: Emily Brady (Texas A&M University), The Sublime and Wonder [online]
8 February 2021 [1-3pm]: Filippo Contesi (Universitat de Barcelona), Shareability in Art Appreciation [online]
25 January 2021 [1-3pm]: Julien Deonna (University of Geneva), On the Good that Moves us [online]
7 December 2020 [1-3pm]: Pascal Engel (EHESS, CRAL), Le mélo sublime : Douglas Sirk [online]
23 November 2020 [exceptionally 5-7pm]: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), Musical Sublimity [online]
16 November 2020 [1-3pm]: Nicole Hall (Postdoctoral researcher, Philosophy, Texas A&M University), On the Cusp of the Sublime: Environmental and Artistic Sublimity [online]
5 October 2020 [1-3pm]: Frédérique de Vignemont (CNRS-IJN), 50 shades of affective coloring of perception [online]
8 June 2020: Sylvaine Guyot (Harvard University), Historiciser le sublime. Éclat vs. grâce : une querelle du classicisme [online]
6 May 2020: Raphaël Millière (Ruhr-University Bochum), Making sense of selflessness: a closer look at drug-induced disruptions of self-consciousness [online]
19 March 2020 [exceptionally 5-7pm]: Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland), TBA CANCELLED
9 March 2020: Joerg Fingerhut (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), The Aesthetic Self
24 February 2020: Margherita Arcangeli & Jérôme Dokic (EHESS-IJN), What awe has to do with the sublime?
27 January 2020: Jérôme Dokic (EHESS-IJN), Pluralisme esthétique et expériences-limites
16 December 2019: Tomas Koblizek (Department of Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, CAS, Prague), Contemporary Art and the Non-Perceptual Aesthetic Experience
12 December 2019 (joint ÆCS/SublimAE session): Robert Hopkins (NYU), Aesthetic Engagement, Imagining and the Draw of the Real [exceptionally in Salle Paul Langevin, second floor, ENS 29 rue d’Ulm ]
9 December 2019: Joerg Fingerhut (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), The Aesthetic Self CANCELLED
8 October 2019 (joint ÆCS/SublimAE session): Dustin Stokes (University of Utah), Perceptual expertise, skill and creativity
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