Szeged, Hungary, June 26-28th, 2017
The conference is organized by the MTA SZAB Filoz贸fiai 茅s T枚rt茅nettudom谩nyi Szakbizotts谩g, the Hungarian Philosophical Association, the Philosophy Department of the University of Szeged and the Pro Philosophia Szegediensi Foundation.
Conference Venue: MTA SZAB, conference room 110 (6720 Szeged, Somogyi utca. 7.) Session lectures are 20 minutes long, and we have 10 minutes per lecture for discussion.
JUNE 26 (Monday)
9:00-9:15: Opening words: Zolt谩n Gyenge, Chair of the Philosophy Department, University of Szeged
9:15-10:00: Keynote speech: Richard Shusterman (USA): Ethics and Aesthetics: From Somaesthetics to the Art of Living
10:00-10:30: Discussion
10:30-10:45: Coffee break
10:45-11:45: Presentations (Chair: Thomas Telios)
– Massa Manuela (GE): The Political Role of the Body
– Matthew Crippen (Egypt): Cultural, Political and Bodily Aesthetics of Mandalay鈥檚 Water Festival
LUNCH: 11:45-14:00
14:00-15:00: Presentations (Chair: Attila Horanyi)
– Katalin Vermes (HU): Whose body? Phenomenology of Somatic Groupdynamics
– Dimitris Apostolopoulos (USA): Aesthetic Reflection: Merleau-Ponty and Somaesthetics Reconsidered
15:00-15:15: Coffee break
15:15-16:45: Presentations (Chair: Dimitris Apostolopoulos)
– 脡va Podlovics (HU): The Role of Others to Become Ethical in Heideggerian Sense
– Silvia Giurgiu (RO): Somatic Reader Facing Phenomenology
– Krist贸f Z谩mb贸 (HU): Experience Through Pathos: The Phenomenology of Bodily Experience and Somaesthetics
17:30-18:00: Dance performance
18:00-22:00: Welcome dinner
JUNE 27 (Tuesday)
9:00-10:00: Presentations (Chair: Katalin Vermes)
– N贸ra Horv谩th (HU): 鈥淭he Play of Limit Transgression鈥� in the Dance Philosophy of P谩l Fren谩k
– Anne Tarvainen (FI): Vocal Somaesthetics as a Way to Democratize the Use of Human Voice
10:00-10:15: Coffee break
10:00-11:15: Presentations (Chair: G眉ncel 脰nkal)
– Carsten Friberg (Denmark): Aesthetic Education and Practice
– Attila Horanyi (HU): The Poetics of Touch
LUNCH: 11:15-14:00
14:00-15:00: Presentations (Chair: Carsten Friberg)
– L谩szl贸 M谩rfai Moln谩r (HU): The Expansion of the Aesthetic Experience
– Botond Csuka (HU): The Aesthetics of Competing Bodies: Somaesthetics and the Aesthetics of Sport
15:00-15:15: Coffee break
15:15-16:45: Presentations (Chair: Botond Csuka)
– Stefano Marino (IT): A Somaesthetic Approach to Popular Music
– G眉ncel 脰nkal (TURKEY): Design, Transcendence and Somaesthesis in Interactive Post-Art
17:00-19:00: WALKS AND TALKS WITH A FILM 鈥淧hilosophical Encounters with Richard Shusterman鈥� (Delos Film, 26:20; 28:37; 27:18 min.)
JUNE 28 (Wednesday)
9:00-10:00: Presentations (Chair: Matthew Crippen)
– Yanping Gao (China): Winckelmann鈥檚 Somaesthetics
– Alexander Kremer (HU): Somaesthetics as Ethics?
10:00-10:15: Coffee break
10:15-11:15: Presentations (Chair: Anne Tarvainen )
– Swathi Elizabeth Kurian (India): Homo Sacer as a Somaesthetic Pun in the 36th Chamber of Shaolin
– Gergely Tari (HU): Neurochemical Interventions in Human Relationships 鈥� Love as a Neuroethical Issue
11:15-11:30: Coffee break
11:30-12:30: Presentations (Chair: Gergely Tari)
– Thomas Telios (Switzerland): The Soma As The Core of Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics
– Robert Smid, Robert (HU): Bodily Techniques of the Digital: Some New Practices of Ordering and Interacting
12:30: Closing word: Alexander Kremer