[ecrea] cfp: Lyotard and Film Conference

Acinemas : Aesthetics and Film in the Philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard



University of Dundee

7-8 May 2014



This international conference brings together academics from the UK, 
France, Belgium, Korea, Australia and the US to discuss Jean-François 
Lyotard's aesthetics and philosophy of film. It responds to the recent 
publication in bilingual versions of Lyotard's works on art and 
aesthetics by Leuven University, the recent translation of his most 
important philosophical work Discourse, Figure (University of Minnesota 
Press, 2011), and the first-time translation of two of his essays on 
philosophy and film for this special event. Speakers will address the 
original contribution made by Lyotard to aesthetics, to the philosophy 
of art, and to the philosophy of film.



Lyotard's work as an aesthetician was focused on doing justice to the 
sensual qualities of works of art, in resistance to what he saw as the 
typical reduction of artworks to intellectual systems. One of the key 
debates in Lyotard's early work was with Jacques Lacan, whom he believed 
devalued the sensory and the work of art. Significantly, Lacan has been 
and remains the most significant theoretical reference in philosophy of 
film. What is at stake in this project, then, is the question of how a 
philosophical aesthetics can adequately understand film as an art. 
Arguably, much philosophical and theoretical engagement with film 
continues to see it as a neutral medium for the expression of ideas, 
which need to be interpreted. In contrast, Lyotard's aesthetics of film 
proposes a reflection on how film works in terms of the economy of the 
images and sounds of which it is composed. A critical engagement with 
his work thus promises a new angle of approach to the philosophy of 
film, which would understand it in terms of a sensorial aesthetics.



This conference has been made possible by funding from the Scots 
Philosophical Association.



Programme:



Wednesday 7th May     Dalhousie Building, Room 2F11



10:45  Refreshments

11:15 Welcome

11:30  Dr. Peter W. Milne (Assistant Professor in French Aesthetics, 
Seoul National University)

12:30 Break

12:45 Professor Mathew Pateman (Professor of Performance and Screen 
Studies, Kingston University)

1:45 Lunch

3:00  Dr. Vlad Ionescu (St Lucas School of Architecture)

4:00 Refreshments

4:30  KEYNOTE: Jean-Michel Durafour (Université Charles-de-Gaulle Lille 
3 and the École Normale Supérieure)

5:30 Break

5:45  Film Screening

6:45 Drinks (Venue TBA)

7:45 Conference Dinner (Venue TBA)



Thursday 8th May   Dalhousie Building, Room 2G12



11:00 Refreshments

11:30 Dr. Keith Crome (Senior Lecturer in Philosophy, Manchester 
Metropolitan University)

12:30 Break

12:45 Ms. Julie Gaillard (Emory University)

1:45 Lunch

3:00 Dr. Ashley Woodward (University of Dundee) and Graham Jones (Monash 
University)

4:00 Refreshments

4:30 Kiff Bamford (Senior Lecturer in Contemporary Art and Graphic 
Design, Leeds Metropolitan Univiersity)

5:00 Closing comments

5:30 Drinks (Venue TBA)



Further information, including paper titles, abstracts, and information 
on travel and accommodation, is available on the conference website: 
http://www.dundee.ac.uk/humanities/events/lyotard/



Attendance is free. Queries should be emailed to Ashley Woodward: 
(a.z.woodward /at/ dundee.ac.uk)?



Dr. Ashley Woodward

Philosophy, School of Humanities

University of Dundee



The Melbourne School of Continental Philosophy

www.mscp.org.au



Editor, Parrhesia: A Journal of Critical Philosophy

www.parrhesiajournal.org





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