Bildtheorie and Photography: Comparative Philosophical Approaches

 

Wednesday 29th April 2009 (Department Seminar - All Welcome)

Professor Lambert Wiesing will present a lecture to the Warwick Philosophy Dept

Virtual Reality: The Assimilation of Images to the Imagination

16.00-18.00 Room SO.10 (Social Studies Building, University of Warwick)

 

Thursday 30th April 2009 (Workshop - Registration Required)

Room R1.04 before lunch and R1.15 after lunch (Ramphal Building, University of Warwick)

11.00-13.00 Lambert Wiesing - When Images are Signs: The Image Object as Signifier

13.00-14.00 Lunch (own arrangements)

14.00-15.00 Jason Gaiger - Leaving the empirical behind: On Wiesing's concept of a 'universal science of images'

15.00-15.15 Coffee

15.15-16.15 Diarmuid Costello - The Question Concerning Photography

16.15-16.30 Break

16.30-17.30 Dawn Phillips - Visual Composing: comparing photographs with works of music

18.00-19.00 Bar

19.30 Dinner (At a restaurant that is convenient for Coventry train station)

 

For futher details, see ABSTRACTS