Connecting with Others:
Empathy, Sympathy, and the Imagination
Dates: Wednesday, 30 March, to Friday, 1 April 2016.
CCANESA Boardroom (Rm 480), Madsen Building (F09), University of Sydney
Organiser: Anik Waldow
Wednesday, 30th March:
9.00-9.15 Welcome
Understanding Other Minds/Ethics
9.15-10.05 Jeanette Kennett (Macquarie): 鈥淓mpathy, Interpretation, and Psychopathology鈥�
10.10-11.00 Neil Maclean (Sydney): 鈥淏reaking Down Empathy and Understanding Neurodiversity鈥�
11.00-11.15 Coffee
11.15-12.05 Daniel Hutto (Wollongong): 鈥淓mpathy: A Role for Narrative Engagement鈥�
12.05-2.00 Lunch
2.00-2.40 Millicent Churcher (Sydney): 鈥淩ecognition: A Role for the Sympathetic Imagination鈥�
2.40-3.20 Damien Freeman: “Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous People: A Case Study in the Limits of Empathy for Politics”
3.20-3.35 Coffee
Sympathy in History
3.35-4.15 Juanita Ruys (Sydney): 鈥淐ompassion that Defrauds: Medieval Reservations over Fellow-Feeling with Others鈥�
4.15-4.55 Margaret Watkins (St Vincent College): 鈥淎n Elegant Passion? Hume on Sympathy and Sex鈥�
Thursday, 31th March:
9.15-9.55 Maarten Steenhagen (Antwerp): 鈥淪ympathy without the Mind鈥�
9.55-10.35 Anik Waldow (Sydney): 鈥淓mpathy and our Relation to the Past鈥�
10.35-10.55 Coffee
10.55-11.35 Katherine Harloe (Reading): 鈥淚n the wake of the Querelle: Sympathy and social concern in eighteenth-century dramatic theory鈥�
Aesthetics
11.35-12.15 Jennifer Milam (Sydney), 鈥淔eeling Sympathy and Viewing Art during the Eighteenth Century鈥�
12.15-2.15 Lunch
2.15-3.00 Laura Kotevska (Sydney): 鈥淎esthetic Morality and Moral Aesthetics: Adam Smith on Art and the Imagination鈥�
3.00-3.45 Derek Matravers (Open University): 鈥淓mpathy in Aesthetics: Then and Now鈥�
3.45-4.00 Coffee
4.00-4.45 David Macarthur (Sydney): Aesthetic Intimacy
6.00 Conference Dinner (at Thai Riffic, 109 King Street, Newtown)
Friday, 1 April
Psychoanalysis and Anthropology
9.15-9.55 Russell Grigg (Deakin): 鈥淲hat Place does Empathy have in Psychoanalysis?鈥�
9.55-10.35 Louise Braddock (Cambridge): 鈥淲hy Psychoanalysts should avoid Empathy?鈥�
10.35-10.55 Coffee
10.55-11.35 Louise Gyler (Sydney Institute for Psychoanalysis): 鈥淭he Violence of the Real and the Limits of Imagination鈥�
11.35-12.15 Talia Morag (Sydney): “Communicating in Silence: The Case of Emotions”
12.15-12.55 Holly High (Sydney): Is recognition the new empathy?
End of Conference
Sponsors:
Leverhulme Trust, British Academy
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney
ARC Centre of Excellence for the History of Emotions