A Sense of Wonder: Cross-disciplinary Perspectives
Wednesday, 4 June 2008 to Thursday, 5 June 2008
Location: CRASSH

A Sense of Wonder

Programme

Location : CRASSH Date : 4-5 June 2008

Wednesday 4 June

 

9.00-9.30

Registration


9.30-9.45

Welcome and Introduction


9.45-10.45

Marcel van Ackeren (University of Cologne)
No need to wonder: a Stoic critique

Commentator: Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)

10.45-11.15

Tea/coffee break

11.15-12.15

Derek Matravers (Open University/University of Cambridge)
Wonder and Cognition

Commentator: Jane Heal (University of Cambridge)

12.15-13.15

Emmanuel Halais (Université de Picardie Jules Verne)
The mystical viewpoint in Wittgenstein and Schopenhauer

Commentator: Claude-Olivier Doron ((Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot)

13.15-14.15

Lunch
 

14.15-15.15

Mary-Jane Rubenstein (Wesleyan University)
Heidegger's Caves: On dwelling in wonder

Commentator: Sophia Vasalou (University of Cambridge)

15.15-16.15 

David Burrell (Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame)
Wonderment today among Jews, Christians and Muslims, with homage to Charles Taylor

Commentator: Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge)

 


 

 

 



Thursday 5 June

 

9.00 - 10.00

Claude-Olivier Doron (Université Paris VII-Denis Diderot)
The microscopic glance and the practice of wonderment in the 18th century

Commentator: Patricia Fara (University of Cambridge)


10.00-11.00

Michel Hulin (Professor Emeritus, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne)
Camatkâra:the conception of wonderment in Indian aesthetics

Commentator: Derek Matravers (Open University/University of Cambridge)


11.00-11.30

Coffee Break

    11.30-12.30

    Douglas Hedley (University of Cambridge)
    The sublime and the sacred

    Commentator: Michel Hulin (Professor Emeritus, Université Paris IV-Sorbonne)

    12.30-13.30

    Lunch
     

    13.30-14.30

    Robert Fuller (Bradley University)
    From biology to spirituality: the emotional dynamics of wonder

    Commentator: David Burrell (Professor Emeritus, University of Notre Dame)

    14.30-15.30

    Sophia Vasalou (University of Cambridge)

    Senses of wonder and the sense of wondering: an overview

     

     


     


















     

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