"Pause for a moment. The theatre in the field of tension between society, the market and art", Markus Müller, General Director of the Oldenburg State Theatre, will open the public series of lectures of the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg (Haarentor campus, Building A 14, Lecture Hall 3) with a lecture on this topic on Monday, 8 April at 10.00 am.
This summer semester's interdisciplinary series of lectures will examine the relationship between art and media from a philosophical perspective. In a total of twelve lectures, philosophers, sociologists, artists, a musicologist and a composer will discuss questions such as: What task does modern art take on when it responds to the interrelationship of recipient and medium, of anthropology and technology? How reliable is our knowledge of the world when it is largely based on mass media reporting? What do we mean when we categorise society as a media society? Are there similarities between imagined, created and dreamed images? What could be the contribution of philosophy in co-operation with other basic disciplines of image science in order to do justice to different image phenomena?
Further events as part of the philosophy series of lectures (Mondays, 10.00 to 12.00, Haarentor campus, Building A 14, Lecture Hall 3)
15 April: "TheaterMitWirkung - Models of participatory theatre" - Matthias Grön (dramaturge)
22 April: "It could have been like this. On media and artistic historiographies" - Prof. Dr Kathrin Peters (Art and Media)
29 April: "The return of the gardens? Discourses on the commons in the face of land grabbing and princess garden dreams?" - Dr Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen (Sociology)
6 May: "Changes in the perception of music with the development of the media - the impossible exchange (Jean Baudrillard)" - Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau (composer)
13 May: "Herod the Great. Thoughts on an exhibition" - Prof. Dr Rüdiger Hillgärtner (English Studies)
27 May: "Janssen and the art of the 20th century - a born-philosophical settlement" - Dr Jutta Moster-Hoos (Director Horst Janssen Museum)
3 June: "Media Art and Photography" - Dr Claudia Giannetti (Director Edith-Russ-Haus for Media Art)
10 June: "Art and the culture industry" - Prof. Dr Stefan Müller-Doohm (Sociology)
17 June: "At the crossroads. Hegel's Aesthetic Theory between Tradition and Modernity" - Dr Maxi Berger (Philosophy)
24 June: "The Fraying of the Arts (Adorno)" - Prof. Dr Lars Oberhaus (Music)
1 July: "Bob Dylan: The Time of Prophecy ("there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden")" - Prof Dr Johann Kreuzer (Philosophy)
