Time：28th November, 2021
Place：West Bund
Co-organized by Tongji University and West Bund Museum Shanghai
1. Backside of a Thing：Space and Transcendence
Speaker：Cai Wenjing
Cai Wenjing is associate professor at Department of Philosophy, Shanghai Jiao Tong University. She received her PhD from University of Copenhagen. Her research areas are Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Phenomenology. She publishes several articles on Self-Reflection, Self-Consciousness and Freedom. She translate Subjectivity and Selfhood by Dan Zahavi.
2. On Artwork as a Thing from Heidegger’s View on Art
Speaker：Dai Siyu
Dai Siyu, Doctor of Philosophy (Universität Stuttgart), now doing post doctorial research as an assistant researcher in Zhe Jiang University. Her interests are Phenomenology of Art, Theory and Critics of Contemporary Art. Her published works include Kunstwerk und Wahrnehmung:Phänomenologische Annäherungen an Malerei und Dichtung im Horizont der Moderne, and “Pure View and Recognitive View: Max Imdahl’s Study of Cézanne and its Phenomenological Characteristics”.
3. Thing, Object and Their Aesthetics: Comments on Theory of Thing in recent Philosophy.
Speaker：Lu Xinghua
Lu Xinghua is professor at Tongji University and China Academy of Art. His works include Art in Anthropocene, Introduction to Art Exhibition, and Future of Art-Politics.
4. What is Visual Perception ? From Arnheim to Gombrich.
Speaker：Mao Qiuyue
Mao Qiuyue is a post doctorial researcher and assistant professor at School of Humanities, Tongji University. Her research focuses on Theory of Modernist Art. She translates Michael Leja’s Reframing Abstract Expressionism, and many other academic works.
5. Dadaism, Bauhaus and Shanzhai.
Speaker：Wang Jiahao
Wang Jiahao is a critic of architecture and art. He graduated from The College of Architecture and Urban Planning, Tongji University and China Academy of Art. He is founder of Curatorial team “Bloom绽” and cohost of “Bau学社”.
6. Event and Thing in Phenomenological Horizon.
Speaker：Wang Jun
Wang Jun received his PhD from Universität Würzburg. He is professor at School of Philosophy, Zhe Jiang University. His main research areas are Classical and Contemporary German Phenomenology, Inter-cultural Philosophy and Philosophy of Education. He is the author of three books, In Kulturen verstrickt: Phänomenologie der Kultur und Interkulturalität bei Edmund Husserl und Heinrich Rombach, Reestablishment of Metaphysics of World, and Phenomenology as Way. He also translates Structural Ontology, Philosophy of Freedom and African Philosophy.
7. The Commonplace, Transfiguration and Artistic Things in Danto’s Philosophy.
Speaker：Xia Kaifeng
Xia Kaifeng is associate professor at School of Humanities, Tongji University. He received his PhD from East China Normal University and did post doctorial research at Tongji University. He was a visiting scholar at the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago. His main research areas include Aesthetics of Art,,Theory and Criticism of Contemporary Art.
8. The Charm of Cashmere：Benjamin on Fabric, Conquer of Egypt and Reenchantment of Modernism.
Speaker：Yao Yunfan
Yao Yunfan received his PhD from Beijing Foreign Studies University. He is associate professor at East China Normal University. He majors in History of Thought in Western Literature and Contemporary Western Political Theory. He is the author of Homo Sacer and Divine Economy. He published more than twenty articles on Literature & Art Studies, Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art, World Philosophy, and Marxism & Reality.
9. Ambiguity of the Thing.
Speaker：Zhang Nian
Zhang Nian is a feminist philosopher. She is professor of School of Humanities, Tongji University. She focuses on feminist topics such as the Female Desire, the Female Self-consciousness, How the Female Self-consciousness works in the Female Desire, How Women invent New Possibility in Politics, the Art of Living of Women and the Life Experience of Women. She is the author of many books and articles, including Gender Politics and the State, Female Trauma on Ontological Phobia.
10.Special Speech: The Ethical Relevance of Simple Things：Art, Crafts, Design and Modern Life
Speaker：Günter Figal
Günter Figal is Emeritus Professor of Philosophy at the University of Freiburg in Breisgau, Germany and former Chairman of Martin-Heidegger-Gesellschaft. He is the author of several books, including Martin Heidegger：Phanomenologie der Freiheit, Gegenständlichkeit, Erscheinungsdinge, Unscheinbarkeit. He published many monographs and collections on art recently, including Kunst, Ando, and Gefäße als Kunst: Erfahrungen mit japanischer Keramik.
