Association for Adorno Studies 9th Annual conference, University of Sussex

Supported by the Mind Association, the Aristotelian Society of Great Britian and School of Media Arts and Humanities, University of Sussex

Thursday May 4^th

Welcome: Drinks at the Walrus Pub, for those who want them 8pm onwards. 10 Ship St, Brighton, Brighton and Hove, Brighton BN1 1AD

You are also invited to a launch event for philosopher and cognitive scientist Andy Clark’s latest book ‘The Experience Machine’: The Experience Machine: How our Minds Predict and Shape Reality. Waterstones Bookshop 71-74 North Street

 7-9 pm BST

A grand new vision in cognitive science explains how our minds build our worlds. Hear a leading philosopher of mind speak on the extraordinary explanatory power of the “predictive brain” for our lives, mental health and society. The event series is supported in part by the Royal Institute of Philosophy, and all events are open to the public. Attendance is free, but registration is required in advance. Those who think that they might attend are encouraged to register for a (free) e-ticket right away in order to have accurate attendance numbers.

AAS Conference Programme

Friday 5 May – Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Station 

8.45 Coffee and Tea, Meeting Room, Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Station

9.00 Opening Address: Surti Singh (Villanova)

9.20-11.00 

Chair: Gordon Finlayson (Sussex)

Jacob Bard-Rosenberg (Cambridge) ‘Der böse Kamerad’/‘Der gute Kamerad’ Minima Moralia

Bruno Carvalho (São Paulo): Suffering and pessimism, on the actuality of Adorno’s critical project

11.00-11.20 Coffee and Tea 

11.20-1.00 

Chair: Surti Singh (Villanova)

Emily Shyr (Duke): Revealing a Schubertian Constellation: Re-reading Adorno’s ‘Schubert’ through Benjamin

Fumi Okiji (Berkeley): Aesthetic form in the new thing // Aesthetic sociality of musique informelle

1.00-2.10 – Lunch

2.10-3.50 

Chair: Pierre-François Noppen (Saskatchewan)

Kathy Kiloh (OCAD): Involvement and Animal Desire 

Adriano Lotito (Sussex): The cage of social labour and the (Im)possibilities of emancipation

3.50-4.10 Break

4.10-5.50

Chair: Iain MacDonald (Montréal)

Lydia Goehr (Columbia): ‘Mitigating expressions and euphemistic circumlocutions’: Adorno on work, analysis, and critique

Antonia Hofstätter (Warwick): ‘Closer to the Truth? Adorno’s Kinderbilder‘.

Drinks and Conference Meal tbc 

Saturday 6 May -Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Waterfront 

8.45 Coffee and Tea Reception, Leonardo Hotel, Brighton Waterfront 

9.20-11.00 

Chair: Marina Lademacher (Sussex)

Lars Rensmann (Passau): How Nature Matters: Environmentalism after Arendt and Adorno 

Toby Lovat (Brighton): Immanent Critique and a Rational Life

11.00-11.30 Coffee and Tea 

11.30-1.10 

Chair: Jessica Daboin (Paris-1 Sorbonne)

Salima Naït Ahmed (Sorbonne): Adorno and Sartre on Anti-Semitism: A Comparison of Frankfurt School and Existentialist Approaches to Racialization

Estelle Ferrarese (Amiens): Re-actualizing Adorno’s theory of exchange. A critique of ethical consumption

1.10-2.10 Lunch and Business Meeting Surti Singh (President) and Pierre-Francois Noppen (Vice-President)

2.10-4.30 

Panel discussion on Iain Macdonald’s What would be different? Figures of Possibility in Adorno” 

Taylor Carman (Barnard – Columbia)

Peter E Gordon (Harvard)

Nick Walker (Cambridge)

Iain Macdonald (Montréal)

4.30 Closing Remarks