[Liuhum] Seminar & Book Launch. Critique of the Freedom of Art, Thu 26 Jan, Campus Norrköping

[Stefan Jonsson]

Welcome to an exciting seminar and book launch!
Please disseminate in your networks.

Critique of the Freedom of Art: The Contemporary Far Right and the Uses of a Concept
Campus Norrköping, Thursday, January 26, 2023. Room TP2 (Täppan)
In a situation where conservative, xenophobic, and anti-intellectual forces are gaining ground, what could a long-term, progressive, and anti-racist cultural policy be in Sweden today? Scholars at Södertörn University and Linköping University discuss the increasing repression of culture and strategies of resistance.

13:15–16:30: Seminar
Gustav Strandberg, philosophy, Södertörn University: “The Paradigm of the Creative Industries”
Kim West, aesthetics, Södertörn University: “A Free Art Requires a Free Society”
Josefine Wikström, aesthetics, Södertörn University: “An Art for Art’s Sake or a Critical Understanding of Art’s Autonomy?”
Madina Tlostanova, postcolonial gender studies, Linköping University, “Art as a political change agent in the status quo and far right contexts”
Stefan Jonsson, ethnic studies, Linköping University, “Aesthetics of Resistance? Remarks on Political Beauty and the Democratic Sublime”

17:00–18:00: Book launch
Gustav Strandberg, Kim West, and Josefin Wikström present their Kritik av konstens frihet (Critique of the Freedom of Art), published by 1|21 press: a case study in the rightwing refunctioning of the notion of “artistic freedom”.

Coffee and refreshments are served
For information: stefan.jonsson at liu.se<mailto:stefan.jonsson at liu.se>
Organized by the REMESO-LiU research project “Collective Agency in an Era of Authoritarian Automation” (funded by VR, 2022–2025) and the Södertörn University project “Autonomy, Culture, Action” (RJ, 2021-2024), with support from LiU Humanities.
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.liu.se/pipermail/liuhum/attachments/20230111/1fcefc8b/attachment-0001.html>