Stony Brook University 8th Annual Graduate Student Philosophy and Art Conference March 27 – 28, 2015 Adelante Studios 25 West 31st Street, Floor 3 New York, NY 10001 With Keynote Speakers Elizabeth Grosz and Emma Sulkowicz Friday, March 27th Saturday, March 28th 12:00 PM – 12:15 Opening Remarks – Edward S. Casey (Stony Brook University) 12:15 – 2:15 DISSONANT MOVEMENTS AND RHYTHMS “Housekeeper” – Rebecca Uliasz (Stony Brook University) “Outsider Dance and the Cosmic Refrain of Sound Machines”– John Montani (Stony Brook Universi ty) “Redeem This! Nietzsche, Dionysus and Punk Rock” – Michael Chiddo (Stony Brook University) “Sensation and the House of Vibrations: The Territorialization of Musical Space in Nico Muhly’s Drones and Piano (2010)” – Michael Boerner (Stony Brook University) 10:00 AM – 12:00 SHOCK AND SENTIMENT "Condemned To Be Free: Objectivity/Subjectivity and Anonymity/Re sponsibility in the Art-Spaces of Marina Abramović and Wafaa Bilal"– Matt Huss (University of New Mexico) "Hiding behind glass: An Investigation into the Phenomenological Aesthetic and the Subject-Object Split" – Rebecca Traynor (CUNY Graduate Center) "Shamanism and the Art of Ek-Stasis" – Seth Binstead (Stony Brook University) "A Comparison and Proposed Solution to the Neo-Pragmatic and Post-Modern Problem in Ethics as Paralleled in Aesthetic Theory" – Hannah Lander (University of Dallas) 2:15 – 2:30: COFFEE BREAK 12:00 – 1:15: LUNCH 2:30 - 4:30 OUTSIDER BODIES “We Often Cross The Lines We Draw” and“Neurotransmitiga tion (Chemical Warfare)” – Steven T. Licardi (Stony Brook University) “Bad Habits: A Perceptual Account of the Slender Ideal” – Amie Zimmer (New School for Social Research) “Becoming Undone: Midori’s Evoco and the Body” – Karen Wishnia (Stony Brook University) "Politics of Eros in Symeon the New Theologian" – Dorothy Chang (Columbia University) 1:15 – 3:15 OUTSIDE THE FRAME "Merleau-Ponty and the Notion of Style" – Asad Naqvi, (Temple University) "Eye and Mind" – Meltem Sahin (Maryland Institute College of Art) and Vicente Muñoz-Reja (Boston College) "Not of This World: The Frame as Criterion for Aesthetic Criti cism" – Marc Barnes (Franciscan University of Steubenville) “Illuminating the Everyday” – Ariane Nomikos (SUNY University at Buffalo) 4:30-5:00: COFFEE BREAK 5:00-7:00 Keynote: Elizabeth Grosz (Duke University) 7:00-7:45: RECEPTION FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC philosophyartconference.org 3:15 – 3:30: COFFEE BREAK 3:30 – 5:30 EDGES AND BORDERS "Another Home: Global Standpoint Aesthetics and 35 rhum" – Madeline Martin-Seaver (University of Oklahoma) “Writing” Philosophy Outside the Academy: Formulating Ques tions on Philosophy in Conjunction with Graffiti”– Stephen Bourque (Temple University) "Paint Outside the Lines” – Mette Clementine Kienhorst, (Wagen ingen University) 5:30 ––6:00: COFFEE BREAK 6:00 – 8:00 Keynote: Emma Sulkowicz (Columbia University) 8:00 – 8:45: RECEPTION