A programme of events during the academic year 2023-24, to mark the centenary of the birth of the philosopher Richard Wollheim (1923-2003).
LOUISE BRADDOCK
NIALL GILDEA
Main image: book covers by Richard Wollheim
The Richard Wollheim Centenary Project is supported by the ISRF, and partnered with the Royal Institute of Philosophy and the Centre for Philosophy and Art at King’s College, University of London. For more general information about the Richard Wollheim Centenary programme of events, please visit the following website: https://wollheimcentenary.org/.
For enquiries, please email [email protected].
THE RICHARD WOLLHEIM CENTENARY PROJECT
St John’s College, University of Oxford
December 2023-March 2024
The Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Thought research network is pleased to announce a series of events to mark the centenary of the birth of the philosopher Richard Wollheim (1923-2003).
The Richard Wollheim Centenary programme of events will take place at St John’s College, University of Oxford during the academic year 2023-24. It will comprise a series of lectures, discussion seminars and video presentations, around the exhibition of Patrice Moor’s work, The Presence of Absence.
–December 4th 2023: Professor Derek Matravers (Open University), ‘The Role of Psychoanalysis in Richard Wollheim’s Philosophy of Art’ (part of the St John’s Psychoanalysis Seminar series).
–January 20th 2024: A panel of speakers will deliver papers on Wollheim’s ‘crossover’ concepts between art, literature, philosophy and psychoanalysis.
–February 16th to March 8th 2024, 2pm – 6pm (excluding Sundays): The Presence of Absence exhibition, to be accompanied by informal talks on the connections between the artwork’s psychological and psychoanalytical resonances and Wollheim’s philosophy of psychoanalysis and art
More information about the Richard Wollheim Centenary Project can be found here: https://wollheimcentenary.org.
The Richard Wollheim Centenary Project is a Local Partner of the Royal Institute of Philosophy, supported by the Independent Social Research Foundation, and partnered with the Centre for Philosophy and Art at King’s College, University of London.
Space is limited for all of these events. To enquire about attending, or about anything else related to the Centenary Project, please email [email protected].
