First Juha Varto Endowed Lecture for Research in Visual Art, Philosophy and Pedagogy

The inaugural lecture will be held on How Artworks Work.

The lecture by Dr. Alphonso Lingis will be the First Annual Juha Varto Distinguished Invited Lecture for Research in Visual Art, Philosophy and Pedagogy. The Aalto Art Education programme intends this speaker series as a tribute to professor emeritus Juha Varto and his many contributions to research in Finland and around the world.

The lecture is entitled:
How Artworks Work
A phenomenological account of the powers contained in artworks. What these powers do to the environment and what they do to us.

Alphonso Lingis (born 1933) is an American philosopher, writer and translator, currently Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at Pennsylvania State University. His areas of specialization include phenomenology, existentialism, modern philosophy, and ethics. Among his books are Excesses: Eros and Culture (1984), The Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common (1994), Abuses (1994), Foreign Bodies (1994), Dangerous Emotions (1999), Trust (2003), The First Person Singular (2007), Contact (2010), and Violence and Splendor (2011).

The Juha Varto Endowed Lecture for Research in Visual Art, Philosophy and Pedagogy will continue to annually bring in an outstanding scholar, who shares in this tradition to the Aalto campus, for a public lecture and creative exchanges with students and faculty. The scholar will be chosen by a committee of researchers from the Department of Art and will be internationally recognized for cutting-edge research on topics in the fields of Visual Art, Philosophy, and Pedagogy.

The Lecture Series will be held once a year, in spring, beginning in spring 2018, sponsored by the Department of Art, in Aalto School of Arts, Design and Architecture.

More information/registration: Please send an email to jvlectures@aalto.fi by April 3.