Philosopher Jenefer Robinson to speak during 性视界传媒 humanities event
Contact: Karyn Brown
STARKVILLE, Miss.鈥擜n internationally recognized philosopher and author from Ohio speaks Thursday [Oct. 20] at Mississippi 性视界传媒 University.
Jenefer Robinson鈥檚 university presentation will explore how images might evoke human emotion. Titled 鈥淭he Missing Person Found: Expressing Emotion in Pictures,鈥 the 4 p.m. event in the Bost Extension Center鈥檚 South Hall is free and open to all. Her appearance is sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences鈥 Institute for the Humanities and the Department of Philosophy and Religion.
A faculty member at the University of Cincinnati鈥檚 McMicken College of Arts and Sciences, Robinson teaches and writes on topics in aesthetics and philosophical psychology, especially the theory of emotion.
Her 2005 book 鈥淒eeper than Reason鈥 applied recent advances in emotion theory to issues in aesthetics, such as the expression of emotion in the arts, how music arouses emotions and moods, and how the emotional experience of literature and music in particular can be a mode of understanding and appreciation. Published by Oxford University Press, it garnered international acclaim for a new way to examine response to artworks from the perspective of contemporary psychology.
A University of Toronto doctoral graduate, Robinson is former president of the American Society of Aesthetics. For more biographical information, see .
鈥淔or more than two decades, Dr. Robinson has broken new ground in an old field of aesthetics and philosophy of art by bringing findings from contemporary cognitive science to bear on classical issues,鈥 said John Bickle, philosophy and religion department head.
A faculty colleague at UC before coming to Starkville, Bickle said Robinson鈥檚 research on emotions 鈥渉as generated genuinely novel discussions about how we experience and understand artistic expression and experience.鈥
William Anthony Hay, Institute for the Humanities director, said Robinson鈥檚 presentation should complement those of recent distinguished lecture series. 鈥淭he interdisciplinary approach of combining science with aesthetics fits well with presentations on the visual arts that have been highlights of our program,鈥 he explained.
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