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AESTHETICS AND ART IN THE 20TH CENTURY

SANART 5th International Symposium, Workshops and Art Events
June 11-15, 2001
METU Cultural and Convention Center, Ankara

Symposium Program

June 14th, 2001 - Thursday

9:15
Registration

9:30
Ayşen Savaş, Advisor to the Rector, Welcoming Speech
Jale Erzen, Sanart President, Introduction

9:45
Session I - Chair: Jale Erzen
Ales Erjavec, IAA President
"Adorno and Heidegger: A Retrospective"

10:25
Coffee Break

10:55
Session II - Chair: Selahattin Önür
Nergis Öğüt, "Aesthethics and the Post Positivist Paradigm"

11:35
Can Bilsel, "The Aesthetics of Resistance? Narrative, Event and Decor in Berlin's Pergamonsaal C.1930"

12:15
Kamila Zelienska, "Artistic Formalism: Its Achievements and Weaknesses"

12:45
Lunch

14:00
Session III - Chair: Aydan Balamir
Deborah Semel, "A Sentiment Education: The Professional Artist at the Turn of The Century"

14:40
Nina Danino, "Experimental Film and Video in Britain in the 80s and 90s"

15:20
Coffee Break

15:50
Jale Erzen, "The Ready-Made Avant-Garde"

16:30-17:30
Discussion - Moderator: Alan Colquhoun
Topic: "The Avant Garde"

18:30
Cocktail

20:00
Film Screening: Works by Nina Danino, "Now I am Yours," "Temenos"

June 15th, 2001 - Friday

9:30
Session IV - Chair: Emel Aközer
Dionysis A. Zivas, "Architectural Aesthetics in the 20th Century"

10:10
Richard Woodfield, "Aesthetics at the End of the Century: Dessoir's Project"

10:50
Coffee Break

11:20
Session V - Chair: Abdi Güzer
Alan Colquhoun, "Contradictory Aesthetic Theories of Modernism: Social Engagement or Autonomy?"

12:00
Hasan Ünal Nalbantoğlu, "Aesthetics as a Gateway to 'Ethics' ?: A Question of Competence"

12:40
Lunch

13:40
Session VI - Chair: Zeynep Mennan
Lev Kreft, "Art and Politics in the 20th Century"

14:20
Nilgün Camgöz, "Colour Research in the 20th Century and Studies Concerning Functional Aesthetics"

15:00-15:50
Panel Discussion - Moderator: Richard Woodfield
Topic: "Evaluation of the two days' presentations"
Cana Bilsel, Ali Cengizkan

15:30
Trip to Hittite Museum

17:00
Tour of the Citadel

18:30
Tour of the Old Quarter and Temple of Augustus

20:00
Dinner at the University

June 16th, 2001 - Saturday

9:00
Departure for Hattusas, Ancient Hittite Capital and Alacahöyük


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