Music and the Cosmos a conference by INSEI (Interdisciplinary Network for Sympathy, Empathy, and Imagination www.insei.net <http://www.insei.net/>)
Saturday June 3 12.00 hrs – Sunday June 4 16.00 hrs Queens' College Cambridge UK Organisers: Louise Braddock, Susanne Herrmann-Sinai, Maarten Steenhagen Contact: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> We explore the relevance of the historical concept of cosmic harmony for contemporary philosophical debates spanning music aesthetics and listeners’ participation, communication in music-making, and the inter-subjective and bodily aspects of sympathy as Early Modern concept, when understood as harmony between subjects. The conference is interdisciplinary across psychology, neurobiology, anthropology, musicology and philosophy, with a professional conductor also participating in an interview and panel discussion. REGISTER NOW: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-and-the-cosmos-tickets-34120757103 Conference Programme Saturday 3rd June 2017 Registration 12.00 – 1.30 Welcome by INSEI and organizing committee and Panel discussion ‘Music and the Body’ with Joolz Gale (ensemble mini, Berlin) 1.30 – 2.00 Coffee Break I 2.00 – 3.00 Lydia Goehr (Columbia) ‘What anyway does "Music" mean in Early Studies of the Cosmos?’ 3.00 – 4.00 Tosca Lynch (Oxford) ‘Hearing Justice: the Kósmos of the Soul and the Harmonía of the Lyre in Plato’s Republic’ 4.00 – 4.30 Coffee Break II 4.30 – 5.30 Henning Tegtmeyer (Leuven) ‘Music and the Cosmos in Aristotle’ 5.30 – 6.30 Jacomien Prins (Warwick) ‘Sympathetic Vibration as Explanatory Model in Renaissance Thought’ 7.00 Drinks Reception 7.30 Conference Dinner at Queens’ College* Sunday 4th June 2017 9.00 – 10.00 Chris Meyns (Utrecht) ‘Metaphysical Harmony’ 10.00 – 11.00 Ewan Jones (Cambridge) ‘Bivalve Poetics: Rhythm, Sympathy, and Entrainment in the Late Nineteenth Century’ 11.00 – 11.15 Coffee Break 11.15 – 12.15 Jacques Launay (London / Oxford) ‘Music as a Technology for Social Connection’ 12.15 – 1.30 Lunch Break 1.30 – 2.30 Maarten Steenhagen (Cambridge) ‘Sympathetic Imagination’ 2.30 – 3.30 Susanne Herrmann-Sinai (Leipzig / Oxford) ‘Music and Spirit: Hegel on Sympathy’ 3.30 – 4.00 Final Discussion / End of Conference and Departure Registration Fee of 5£ per person to be paid at the conference. No registration fee for members of the Royal Musical Association. Please register via Eventbrite <https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-and-the-cosmos-tickets-34120757103>. *If you would like to attend Dinner on 3rd June at your own cost (30 to 35£), please do get in touch with us via [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>. Sponsored by: The Mind Association British Society for the History of Philosophy Faculty of Music University of Cambridge (William Barclay Squire Fund) Royal Musical Association _______________________ Dr Maarten Steenhagen Lecturer and Director of Studies Faculty of Philosophy / Queens’ College University of Cambridge _____________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the CamPhilEvents mailing list, or change your membership options, please visit the list information page: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEvents List archive: http://bit.ly/CamPhilEventsArchive Please note that CamPhilEvents doesn't accept email attachments. See the list information page for further details and suggested alternatives.
