Time and Image

Time and Image

A one-day workshop sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics
and hosted by the Centre for Aesthetics, University of Leeds

Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds
Wednesday 19th May

The theme of this workshop is the representation of time by artificial images, both static (individual photographs) and moving (film). The workshop will link philosophical issues concerning artistic representation, perception and the nature of time.

Schedule:

12.45 Registration
1.00 Buffet Lunch
1.30 Robin Le Poidevin (Leeds): ‘Screen Present and Fictional Present’
2.45 Tea/Coffee
3.00 Dawn Phillips (Warwick): ‘Exposure Time: the Significance of Time for the
                                       Photographic Image’
4.15 Tea/Coffee
4.30 Rob Hopkins (Sheffield): ‘Pictures, Images and Time’
5.45 End

Registration:

A registration fee of £10 (or £5 for those with a student card), which covers lunch and refreshments, will be charged on the day (cash only, please), but please give notice that you wish to attend by writing to Robin Le Poidevin (r.d.lepoidevin@leeds.ac.uk), indicating any dietary requirements, by 10th May at the latest.

A number of student subsidies are available, and the registration fee will be waived for those awarded one. If you would like to be considered for one of these, please write to Robin Le Poidevin explaining why you wish to attend the workshop.

Aaron Meskin
Senior Lecturer and Postgraduate Tutor
Department of Philosophy
University of Leeds
Leeds, LS2 9JT
http://www.philosophy.leeds.ac.uk/Staff/az/Aaron_Meskin.htm

Co-Investigator on the AHRC project "Method in Philosophical Aesthetics: The
Challenge from the Sciences" http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/humanities/aesthetics/index.html