Liverpool - philosophy in the city
Date: Sun 10 Oct 2010
Time: 10:00
Location: Liverpool - two weeks
Description: PHILOSOPHY IN THE CITY 2010 The two-week Philosophy in the City festival will bring some of the UK’s leading philosophers to a range of cultural centres in Liverpool, including the Tate, FACT, the Bluecoat, the Palm House, and the Anglican and Metropolitan Cathedrals. Our aim is to celebrate and explore the role of Philosophy within our cultural life and heritage, and to make philosophical thinking accessible to new audiences. In partnership with festival venues we are devising an exciting programme of events that will de-mystify Philosophy, raise awareness of what philosophers do and how philosophy happens, and provide local people with an opportunity to engage in philosophical reflection and debate. The festival will also encourage university students – many of them new to Liverpool – to explore the city’s vibrant cultural scene. Festival events will be both research-led and inclusive: professional philosophers whose work relates to topics appealing to a wide and diverse audience will be invited to speak about specific questions and ideas which they have spent time researching and thinking through. The programme includes talks and discussions on religion, art and beauty, ethics, politics, literature, and nature and the environment. Philosophical conversation will take place alongside exhibitions, poetry readings, live music and theatre, and film screenings. Tying in with the ‘Touched’ theme of the 2010 Liverpool Biennial, we will be asking both speakers and audiences to think about how they are touched by philosophy. This project is funded by the University of Liverpool’s Department of Philosophy, from a designated budget for ‘knowledge transfer’: the dissemination and promotion of cutting-edge philosophical research to a broad, non-academic and primarily local audience.
