Dear Vernon Lee friends,
Don’t miss tomorrow’s important conference on Vernon Lee’s philosophy of art and empathy, organised by Derek Matravers and Sally Blackburn-Daniels!
Conference Programme
12th September
09:00 Tea and Coffee
09:30 Welcome
09:40 Jesse Prinz: ‘Is Aesthetic Experience Embodied? Lessons from Vernon Lee.’
11:00 Break
11:30 Anna Shane: ‘“In contact with a whole living, breathing thing”: Vernon Lee’s embodied historiography and collections.’
12.30 David Romand: ‘Theodor Lipps’s Psychological Aesthetics and its Impact on Vernon Lee’s Aesthetic Thought.’
1.30 Lunch
14:30 Katerina Harris: ‘The Pace of Renaissance Art, Through Vernon Lee’s Eyes and Ears.’
15:30 Alison Stone: ‘Vernon Lee’s Art-Philosophy: From Anti-Ruskinism to True Aestheticism.’
16:30 Break
17.00 Mary F. Burns: ‘Punctuation and the Writer/Reader Relationship: Adding to Vernon Lee’s Consideration of The Ambassadors.’
18.00 End
19:00 Conference Dinner at Côte (21-24 Bridge St, Cambridge, CB2 1UF). Pre-booking required.
13th September
09:00 Tea and Coffee
09:30 Elisa Bizzotto: ‘Vernon Lee and the Aesthetics of Folklore: An Archival and Transcultural
Research’
10.50 Break
11:15 Thomas Petraschka: ‘“I would like to acknowledge how much I have learned from Lipps’ relentless but not underserved criticism” – Vernon Lee and the German Aesthetics of Einfühlung.’
12.15 Sally-Blackburn Daniels: ‘’Vernon Lee, Aesthetics & War’
13.15 Lunch
14.00 Scarlette-Electra LeBlanc: ‘Conjuring Ghosts: the female aesthete in Vernon Lee’s “Oke of Okehurst”.’
15:00 Chunlin Men: ‘Vernon Lee, Aesthetic Abstraction, and Decadent Political Economy Theories.’
16:00 End of conference.
