For regular updates, please visit AWG’s Facebook page. Here is a list of AWG events since the group was founded in 2011 (for details, look here):
- 4/28/15: “Apocalypse Within: The War Epic as Crisis of Self-Identity” Garry Hagberg (Philosophy, Bard College)
- 4/16/15: “Props and Poetic Devices in Zacharias Werner’s Romantic Plays,” Amy Emm (German, Citadel)
- 4/10/15: “Individual Memories, Brazilian Longings: Nostalgia, Popular Music and Television,” Dan Sharp (Music, Tulane)
- 4/3/15: “Art, Authenticity and Appropriation,” Rebecca Stanley (Philosophy and Political Science student, CofC)
- 3/26/15: “A Civilization of Discontents: Social Media in the Golden Age of Crisis in the Humanities,” Eric Jarosinski (@NeinQuarterly)
- 3/13/15: “Ecomusicology and Political Protest in Appalachia,” Abby Tennenbaum (Political Science student, CofC)
- 2/26/15: “Liveness, media, and the overflowing carnivalesque of murga porteña,” Michael O’Brien (Music, CofC)
- 2/19/15: Discussion of Guy Debord’s Society of the Spectacle
- 2/6/15: “Participatory Culture and Performative Process in René Pollesch’s Theater,” Morgan Koerner (German, CofC)
- 1/22/15: discussion of Jacques Rancière’s “Aesthetics As Politics”11/21/14: “Make It Funky; Or, Music’s Cognitive Travels and the Despotism of Rhythm,” Paul Taylor (Philosophy and African AmericanStudies, Penn State)
- 11/7/14: “Philosophy in Song,” Ayala Asherov-Kalus (Songwriter, Music, CofC)
- 10/16/14: Title TBA, Margaret Moore (Philosophy, University of Tennessee)
- 10/10/14: “Reading Danto’s Red Squares as a Political Thought Experiment, Or, ‘Catching the Conscience of our Kings,’” Lydia Goehr (Philosophy and Music, Columbia University)
- 9/18/14: “How to be an Optimist about Aesthetic Testimony,” Rachel McKinnon (Philosophy, CofC)
- 8/29/14: “Paleostructure: Biological, Spiritual, and Architectural Evolution at the Oxford Museum,” Nathaniel Walker (Art History, CofC)
- 4/11/14: “The Concept of Freedom in Sartre and Adorno,” Stefan Koester (Philosophy/Economics student, CofC)
- 4/3/14: “Like Themselves: Personhood, Intellectual Disability and the Utopian Imagination,” Claire Curtis (Political Philosophy, CofC)
- 3/28/14: “Ethical Ideals in Artworks: Schopenhauer and Murdoch on Self Lossness in Aesthetic Experience,” Scott Clifton (Philosophy, CofC)
- 3/17/14: Recital for Piano and Violin, Troy Gardner and Elizabeth Karelse perform at the Monday Night Concert Series (co-sponsored by AWG)
- 3/13/14: “Poetry after Auschwitz,” Johannes Wich-Schwarz (German, Maryville University)
- 2/17/14: “The Aesthetics of Affirmative Action,” Brian Soucek (University of California, Davis School of Law)
- 1/31/14: “Bad Art and the Mere Exposure Effect,” Jennifer Wright (Psychology, CofC) and Jonathan Neufeld (Philosophy, CofC)
- 1/17/14: “Mirror Neurons and Simulation Theory: A Neurophysiological Foundation for Cinematic Empathy,” Dan Shaw (Philosophy, Lock Haven University)
2013
- 11/15/13: “Games, Striving and Topologies of Choice,” Thi Nguyen (Philosophy, Utah Valley State University)
- 10/4/13: Urban Cultural Studies introduction to inauguaral issue, Ben Fraser (Spanish, CofC)
- 9/19/13: “A Social Ontology of Art,” Mathew Rabon (Philosophy student, CofC)
- 9/5/13: “Affect in German Theater after the Performative Turn: Elfriede Jelinek’s Theater Texts in Performance,” Morgan Koerner (German, CofC)
- 4/12/13: Discussion of “Bach Defended Against his Devotees” by T. A. Adorno.
- 2/22/13: Discussion of Chapters 3-4 of Philosophy of the Performing Arts, by David Davies.
- 2/14/13: Roundtable discussion of The Lives of Animals with Jonathan Neufeld (Philosophy, CofC), Simon Lewis (English, CofC), and Ornaith O’Dowd (Philosophy, CofC)
- 2/6/13: Discussion of Chapters 1-2 of Philosophy of the Performing Arts, by David Davies.
2012
- “Lisa Sanditz and the Suburban Sublime,” Jennifer Baker (Philosophy, CofC)
- Public Lecture, “Cover Records as Social Commentary,” Ted Gracyk (Philosophy, MN State, Moorhead)
- “Why Birds Don’t Make Music,” Ted Gracyk (Philosophy, MN State, Moorhead)
- Public Lecture, “Participatory Art,” Michael Kelly (Philosophy, UNC, Charlotte)
- “Participatory Art and Aesthetics,” (AWG meeting) Michael Kelly (Philosophy, UNC, Charlotte)
- “The Transgender Gaze in Film,” Richard Nunan (Philosophy, CofC ),
- Discussion of “Living Takes Many Forms,” by Shannon Jackson and “Microutopias: Public Practice in the Public Sphere,” by Carol Becker
- Discussion of “Living as Form,” by Nato Thompson and “Eventwork: The Fourfold Matrix of Contemporary Social Movements,” by Brian Holmes.
- “Participation as Spectacle: Where Are We Now?” by Claire Bishop and “Democratizing Urbanization and the Search for a New Civic Imagination,” by Teddy Cruz
2011
- “Metaphor and Metaphysics in Zhuangzi,” Tyler Ray (Philosophy and Religious Studies student, CofC)
- Public Lecture, “The Norms of Nature Appreciation,” Glenn Parsons (Philosophy, Ryerson University, Toronto)
- Discussion of “Interaction and Nature Appreciation,” by Robert Stecker.
- “Tibetan Poetry in Exile,” Amberjade Mwekali (Philosophy student, CofC )
- “Emotional and Ethical Expression in Music,” Jonathan Neufeld (Philosophy, CofC)