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Slought Foundation Event Space, 2003

"Art versus Philosophy: A Debate"
Featuring Joe Margolis, Osvaldo Romberg, Jean-Michel Rabaté

Slought Foundation | Thursday, March 20, 2003; 6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Free admission (Reservation not required)

Organized by Aaron Levy, Jean-Michel Rabaté
Conversations in Theory Series



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Joseph Margolis is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Philosophy at Temple University and is the author of about 30 books comparing and addressing the arts, philosophy and the sciences. He is past president of the American Society for Aesthetics and past Honorary President of the International Association of Aesthetics.

Osvaldo Romberg, an internationally renowned artist, was born in Buenos Aires in 1938. He is currently a professor at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Select exhibition venues include: Kunsthistoriches Museum, Vienna; Kunstmuseum, Bonn; Ludwig Museum, Cologne; Sudo Museum, Tokyo; The Israel Museum, Jerusalem; The Jewish Museum, New York; and the XLI Venice Biennial, Israel Pavilion. He recently curated shows on Faith at the Aldrich Museum and on Urbanism at White Box, New York. He was recently the subject of a Slought Networks conference at the University of Pennsylvania, archived online alongside a survey of his work, as well as a volume of critical essays, Searching for Romberg (Slought Books, 2001).

Jean-Michel Rabaté, Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania since 1992, has authored or edited twenty books on Modernism, Joyce, Pound, Beckett, Lacan, Derrida, psychoanalysis and literary theory. Among these, Lacan in America (2000), Jacques Lacan: Psychoanalysis and the subject of literature (2001), James Joyce and the Politics of Egoism (2001), and The Future of Theory (2002). He is the editor of the Cambridge Guide to Jacques Lacan (2002).