“Pausing for a Moment: Theatre at the Crossroads of Society, the Market and Art” – Markus Müller, Artistic Director of the Oldenburg State Theatre, will open the event on Monday 8 April at 10.00 am, the public series of lectures organised by the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Oldenburg (Haarentor campus, Building A 14, Lecture Theatre 3).
This summer semester, the interdisciplinary series of lectures will examine the relationship between art and the media from a philosophical perspective. Philosophers, sociologists, artists, a musicologist and a composer will discuss questions such as the following in a total of twelve lectures: What role does modern art play when it responds to the interplay between audience and medium, between anthropology and technology? How reliable is our knowledge of the world when it is largely based on mass media reporting? What do we actually mean when we classify society as a media society? Are there commonalities between imagined, created and dreamt images? How might philosophy contribute, in collaboration with other foundational disciplines within the visual arts, to doing justice to various visual phenomena?
Further events as part of the series of lectures (every Monday, 10.00–12.00, Haarentor Campus, Building A 14, Lecture Theatre 3)
15 April: “TheaterMitWirkung – Models of participatory theatre” – Matthias Grön (dramaturg)
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 Gardens? Discourses on the Commons in the Face of Land Grabbing and Dreams of Princess Gardens?’ – Dr Elisabeth Meyer-Renschhausen (Sociology)
6 May: “The Transformation of Musical Perception with the Development of the Media – The Impossible Exchange (Jean Baudrillard)” – Friedemann Schmidt-Mechau (Composer)
13 May: “Herod the Great. Reflections on an exhibition” – Prof. Dr Rüdiger Hillgärtner (English Studies)
27 May: “Janssen and 20th-Century Art – A Narrow-Minded Philosophical Settlement” – Dr Jutta Moster-Hoos (Director of the Horst Janssen Museum)
3 June: “Media Art and Photography” – Dr Claudia Giannetti (Director of the Edith Russ House for Media Art)
10 June: “Art and the Culture Industry” – Prof. Dr Stefan Müller-Doohm (Sociology)
17 June: “At a Crossroads: Hegel’s Aesthetic Theory between Tradition and Modernity” – Dr Maxi Berger (Philosophy)
24 June: “The ‘Fransung’ of the Arts (Adorno)” – Prof. Dr Lars Oberhaus (Music)
1 July: “Bob Dylan: The Age of Prophecy (‘there are no truths outside the Gates of Eden’)” – Prof. Dr Johann Kreuzer (Philosophy)
