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In collaboration with The Estate of Francis Bacon, the CPA are delighted to present Bacon, Philosophy and Psychoanalysis, a conference exploring new ways of understanding Francis Bacon's work and its implications for psychoanalysis and philosophy.
Registration is now open for our Virtual Conference ‘Time for Beauty’ generously sponsored by the British Society for Aesthetics.
What is the relation between public art and the public?
What is the purpose of public art?
How does public art shape the public space?
How is public art distinct from related categories, such as street art, socially engaged art, and participatory art?
Call for Registration for The BSA Workshop on the Aesthetics of Public Art (WAPA)
In person and on Zoom.
The aim of this workshop is to foment discussion on the concept of public art and to question the boundaries which demarcate it from similar categories, such as street art, socially engaged art, and participatory art. Understanding what makes public art ‘public’ implies asking about its purpose, its accessibility, and the artistic process by which it is created. As the widespread removal of statues in 2020 shows, another important concern is who constitutes the public for public art – more specifically, the relation between public art and political authority and the way public art contributes to the construction of civic identity and historical memory. This workshop focuses on the aesthetic and artistic conditions which determine the public nature of a given work, with the purpose of consolidating the theoretical framework of current debates.
Link for registration here.
10th November 2022
10-10:45 Chong-Ming Lim - Public Art and the Right to the City
11-11:45 Sreelakshmi Santhini Bahuleyan - Constructing Publics: Site-Specific Art and the Visual Representation of Migrant Farming Community in Malabar, India
11:45- 12:30 Sailee Khurjekar - Public Paintings, Curious Children, and Dire Dangers
12:30-2 Lunch
2-2:45 Jakub Stejskal - Monumentality and Its Public
2:45- 3:30 Adam Woodcox - Community, Collaboration, and the Digital Public
3:45-4:30 Vid Simoniti - tbc
11th November 2022
10-10:45 Cristina Parapar - Christo and Jeanne- Claude’s Art Interventions: “douce perturbation” in Public Space
11-11:45 Alfred Archer - Public Art that Consigns People to History
11:45- 12:30 Michael Cholbi - How Shall Public Art Memorialize the COVID Dead?
12:30-2 Lunch
2-2:45 Sarah Hegenbert- Collectives as Aesthetic Forms?
2:45-3:30 Carleen De Sözer – Street Gallery
This event is generously funded by the British Society of Aesthetics (BSA) and sponsored by the Centre for Philosophy and Art.
Organized by Beatriz Rodrigues and Colette Olive (both King’s College London).
In recent decades there’s been a tremendous growth in the amount of interdisciplinary and collaborative work on consciousness and action. However, in that work the following questions have been largely neglected: What it is to be awake? What is it that changes when you surface from sleep and dream? What does wakeful consciousness explain? At this conference, these questions were addressed from the perspectives of science, philosophy, art, and the law. Researchers from these different disciplines discussed what it is to be awake, and considering how the study of sleep, dreams, and parasomnias can help further our understanding of wakeful consciousness.
11.30 - Welcome / Introduction – Matthew Soteriou (King’s College London) & Tom Crowther (University of Warwick)
11.45 - 12.45 Joachim Aufderheide (King’s College London)
12.45 - 13.30 Lunch (served in -1.01)
13.30 - 14.30 Claire Hogg (University College London)
14.30 - 15.30 James Stazicker (King’s College London)
15.30 - 16.00 - Tea/Coffee Break
16.00 - 17.00 Antonio Zadra (Université de Montréal)
19.00 - Speakers’ Dinner (London Venue)
13.30 - 4.30 Ivana Rosenzweig (King’s College London)
14.30 - 15.30 Alison Hand (The Art Academy, London)
15.30 - 15.50 Tea/Coffee Break
15.50 - 16.50 - Round table
17.00 - Conference close
'Speculation' by Resident Artist Alison Hand
Nature is powerful. We play at escaping to it, long to return to it, wish to conquer it, say we will protect it, risk destroying it. But what is it? How do we engage with our natural environment? What is natural vs unnatural? What might art, theory and clinical practice tell us about our relationship with the natural world that we are an intrinsic part of?
Join philosophers, analysts and artists to debate these questions.
Click here to register.
Attendees can tune in live, or access a recording over the following 48 hours, enabling viewing at their own convenience. (After this time, the recording will no longer be available)
Feifei Zhou is a Chinese-born artist and architect. She holds an MA in architecture from the Royal College of Art in London and was a guest researcher at Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). Her work explores spatial, cultural, and ecological impacts of the industrialized built environment. She co-edited the digital publication Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene with Anna Tsing, Jennifer Deger and Alder Keleman Saxena, published in October 2020.
Vanessa Brassey is a philosopher, artist, and visiting research fellow at King’s College London, where she is also Director of the Centre for Philosophy & Arts. She publishes in academic journals, magazines and makes short-form documentaries. During the lockdown she returned to landscape painting, documenting her daily dog walks on Hampstead Heath (a tonic to break up the zoom lecturing and teaching).
William Badenhorst is a psychoanalysis with the British Psychoanalytical Society, a psychiatrist, in private practice and Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.
Chaired by Alla Rubitel, a psychoanalyst with the British Psychoanalytical Society, a consultant psychiatrist at the Tavistock and Portman NHS Foundation Trust, and an Honorary Clinical Senior Lecturer at Imperial College London.
by the Sowerby Philosophy & Medicine Project
The aim of this fortnightly colloquium series on Stereotyping and Medical AI is to explore philosophical and in particular ethical and epistemological issues around stereotyping in medicine, with a specific focus on the use of artificial intelligence in health contexts. We are particularly interested in whether medical AI that uses statistical data to generate predictions about individual patients can be said to “stereotype” patients, and whether we should draw the same ethical and epistemic conclusions about stereotyping by artificial agents as we do about stereotyping by human agents, i.e., medical professionals.
Other questions we are interested in exploring as part of this series include but are not limited to the following:
How should we understand “stereotyping” in medical contexts?
What is the relationship between stereotyping and bias, including algorithmic bias (and how should we understand “bias” in different contexts?)?
Why does stereotyping in medicine often seem less morally or epistemically problematic than stereotyping in other domains, such as in legal, criminal, financial, educational, etc., domains? Might beliefs about biological racial realism in the medical context explain this asymmetry?
When and why might it be wrong for medical professionals to stereotype their patients? And when and why might it be wrong for medical AI, i.e. artificial agents, to stereotype patients?
How do (medical) AI beliefs relate to the beliefs of human agents, particularly with respect to agents’ moral responsibility for their beliefs?
Can non-evidential or non-truth-related considerations be relevant with respect to what beliefs medical professionals or medical AI ought to hold? Is there moral or pragmatic encroachment on AI beliefs or on the beliefs of medical professionals?
What are potential consequences of either patients or doctors being stereotyped by doctors or by medical AI in medicine? Can, for example, patients be doxastically wronged by doctors or AI in virtue of being stereotyped by them?
We will be tackling these topics through a series of online colloquia hosted by the Sowerby Philosophy and Medicine Project at King's College London. The colloquium series will feature a variety contributors from across the disciplinary spectrum. We hope to ensure a discursive format with time set aside for discussion and Q&A by the audience. This event is open to the public and all are welcome.
To find out more about this series, please visit the Philosophy & Medicine Project’s website: https://www.philosophyandmedicine.org/summer-series. Our next colloquium in the series will be a Special Legal-Themed Panel Discussion chaired by a member of the London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare, and featuring our very own Professor David Papineau and Dr. Jonathan Gingerich (which you can register for here)!
Our working line-up for the summer series is as follows, with a few additional speakers and details to be confirmed:
June 17 Professor Erin Beeghly (Utah), “Stereotyping and Prejudice: The Problem of Statistical Stereotyping”
July 1 Dr. Kathleen Creel, (HAI, EIS, Stanford) “Let's Ask the Patient: Stereotypes, Personalization, and Risk in Medical AI” (recording linked)
July 15 Dr. Annette Zimmermann (York, Harvard), “ "Structural Injustice, Doxastic Negligence, and Medical AI”
July 22 Dr. William McNeill (Southampton), “Neural Networks and Explanatory Opacity” (recording linked)
July 29Special Legal-Themed Panel Discussion: Dr. Jonathan Gingerich (KCL), Dr. Reuben Binns (Oxford), Prof. Georgi Gardiner (Tennessee), Prof. David Papineau (KCL), Chair: Robin Carpenter (The London Medical Imaging & AI Centre for Value Based Healthcare) (link to register)
August 12 Professor Zoë Johnson King (USC) & Professor Boris Babic (Toronto), “Algorithmic Fairness and Resentment”
August 26 Speakers TBC
September 2 Dr. Geoff Keeling (HAI, LCFI, Google)
September 9 Professor Rima Basu (Claremont McKenna)
To be notified about upcoming colloquia in the series and other Project events, you can subscribe to the Philosophy & Medicine Project’s newsletter here, or follow us on Twitter or Facebook. Previous colloquia will also be posted to the Philosophy & Medicine Project’s website and YouTube channel. (And for those unable to attend these colloquia, please feel free to register for our events in order to be notified once recordings of previous colloquia become available!)
