The 9th Annual conference of the Association for Adorno Studies:
May 5th – 6th 2023 in Brighton, UK.
Host: Centre for Social and Political Thought, at the University of Sussex.
Funding: the Mind Association, The Aristotelian Society of GB, and the School of Media Arts and Humanities at the University of Sussex.
We have an event brite invitation for the first 50 places.
Venues:
Friday 5th of May, Leonardo Hotel Brighton. 101 Stroudley Road, Brighton, BN1 4DJ, GB Telephone: +44(0) 1273 862 121.
Email: brightonconference@leonardohotels.com
This hotel is right by Brighton Railway Station.
Saturday 6th of May, Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Waterfront. Kings Road
Brighton, BN1 2GS, GB Telephone: +44(0) 1273 206 700.
Email: brightonwaterfrontconference@leonardohotels.com
This hotel is on the Seafront.
Though Brighton has a lot of other hotels, the conference takes place during the Brighton Festival so rooms will be at a premium and will book up early. Here are some other good hotels we recommend.
Artist Residence Hotel (Regency Square – Central Brighton)
Hotel du Vin (Close to Brighton Sea front)
Harbour Hotel (Brighton Seafront. There is no harbour)
Drakes Hotel (boutique Hotel – Kemp Town)
Blanch House (boutique Hotel – Kemp Town)
PROGRAMME
Thursday May 4th 7.30 p.m. Wine Reception and Book Launch Leonardo Hotel Waterfront, Brighton
Friday 5th May – Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Station
8.45 coffee and tea
Meeting Room
9.20-11.00
Lydia Goehr, Adorno on work, analysis, and critique
Antonia Hoffstätter, Adorno and Gerhard Richter’s Birkenau paintings.
11.00-11.30 coffee and tea
11.30-1.10
Andrew Bowie Adorno on Music
Fumi Okiji. Adorno on Music
1.10-2.30 – lunch – Business Meeting
2.30-4.10
Emily Shyr: “Revealing a Schubertian Constellation: Re-reading Adorno’s ‘Schubert’ through Benjamin”
Roman Thomassen: “Black Metal as Aestheticizing of the Present”
410-4.30
4.30-6.10
Bruno Carvalho. Adorno on Suffering
Adriano Lotito: Adorno on Work
Drinks and Conference Meal tbc
8.45 Coffee reception, Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Waterfront
9.20-11.00
Lars Rensmann “How Nature Matters: Environmentalism after Arendt and Adorno”
Kathy Kiloh “Involvement and Animal Desire”
11.00-11.30 Coffee and Tea
11..30-1.10
Salima Nait Ahmed: “Adorno and Sartre on Anti-Semitism: A Comparison of Frankfurt School and Existentialist Approaches to Racialization”
Estelle Ferrarese TBC
1.10-2.30. Lunch
2.30-4.30
Panel discussion on Iain Macdonald’s What would be different? Figures of Possibility in Adorno”
Taylor Carmen
Peter E Gordon
Nick Walker
Iain Macdonald