New partnership with The Richard Wollheim Centenary Project
Left to right from top left: the front covers of Richard Wollheim’s books: Art and Its Objects, The Thread of Life, Painting as an Art, The Mind and Its Depths, Germs: A Memoir of Childhood, On the Emotions, F. H. Bradley, On Art and the Mind, and Freud. Reproduced here under conventions of fair use.
We are excited to announce a new partnership with The Richard Wollheim Centenary Project!
The Interdisciplinary Psychoanalytic Thought research network is delighted 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.
Space is limited for all of these events. To enquire about attending, or about anything else related to the Centenary Project, please email wollheimcentenary@gmail.com.
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.