Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group (EWPG) Workshop
The ‘Pornography and Objectification; Aesthetics and the Erotic’ workshop will bring together scholars in aesthetics, ethics and feminism to explore the nature of the relationship between pornography, eroticism and sexuality, and objectivity, aesthetics and ethics.
The workshop will build on debates in aesthetics related to art and pornography, sexuality and eroticism and feminist concerns about these issues. It will develop discussion addressing the complexity of human sexuality and the erotic as it relates to art, pornography and the objectification of the human person, in particular, the female person. It will encourage interest in how feminist concerns fit into these issues and takes place at a time when discussions on art and pornography have come to the fore in, for example, the 2009 conference at the University of Kent, ‘Art, Aesthetics and the Sexual’ and the upcoming conference at the Institute of Philosophy in London titled ‘Aesthetics, Art and Pornography’. The Edinburgh Women in Philosophy Group wishes not only to shed feminist light on these issues, but to bring the discussion to Scotland, where we hope to attract feminist theorists, philosophers, sociologists and art historians.
The programme is as follows:
| Time | |
|---|---|
| 10:30 - 10:45 | Registration |
| 10.45 – 11:00 | Workshop Welcome |
| 11:00 – 12:00 | Keynote: Rae Langton (Professor of Philosophy, MIT) |
| 12:00 – 12:30 | Discussion |
| 12:30 – 13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30 – 14:30 | Mahlet Zimeta (Lecturer, Roehampton University) |
| 14:30 – 15:00 | Discussion |
| 15:30 – 16:30 | Hans Maes (Lecturer in the History and Philosophy of Art, University of Kent) |
| 16:30 – 17:00 | Discussion |
| 18:30 | Dinner |
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Further Information
*** Everyone welcome and warmly invited***
If you wish to attend, please register as soon as possible for this workshop using the "Registration" link above. There is a delegate fee of £5 for postgraduate students and £15 for all other attendees.
Please note that workshop registration closes at 5pm on Friday, 27th May.
Teas/coffees and lunch will be provided.
There will be an optional informal workshop dinner in the evening. Payment for the dinner will be collected on the day from those wishing to attend.