Museums and their Paradoxes
Published: 17 July 2013
Dr Mark O’Neill, Director of Policy and Research, Glasgow Life, will give a lecture on Museums and their Paradoxes, with comments by internationally renowned philosopher of religion, Professor Charles Taliaferro (St. Olaf College, Minnesota).
5.30-7.30pm, Tuesday 23 July 2013
Hunterian Art Gallery
University of Glasgow
Free, all welcome
Dr Mark O’Neill, Director of Policy and Research, Glasgow Life, will give a lecture on Museums and their Paradoxes, with comments by internationally renowned philosopher of religion, Professor Charles Taliaferro, St. Olaf College, Minnesota, on Tuesday.
The talk will explore how museums represent important dilemmas for our times, including how cultural value relates to the market economy and the role of experts in a democracy. The key debates will be illustrated with examples from museums in Glasgow and from around the world.
The speakers will be welcomed by the Deputy and Senior Vice Principal, Neal Juster. The lecture will be followed by a wine reception.
The event is sponsored by the Royal Institute of Philosophy and, within the University of Glasgow, the School of Humanities, the School of Education and The Hunterian.
Background
Mark O’Neill worked in museums in Glasgow from 1985 to 2009, latterly as Head of Arts and Museums in the city. He was responsible for the St Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art (one of only four in the world), the refurbishment of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum and masterplanning the Zaha Hadid designed Riverside Museum. He is currently Director of Policy & Research for Glasgow Life, the charity that runs Arts, Libraries, Museums and Sports in the city.
Charles Taliaferro, Professor of Philosophy, is the author or co-author, editor or co-editor of twenty books, most recently The Image in Mind; Theism, Naturalism and the Imagination (Continuum), co-authored with Jil Evans. With Stewart Goetz he is the co-author of A Brief History of the Soul (Blackwell) and co-editor, with Victoria Harrison and Stewart Goetz, of the The Routledge Companion to Theism. Taliaferro has been a visiting scholar at Oxford, Princeton, NYU, and Columbia, and he is the philosophy of religion area editor for Blackwell’s Philosophy Compass and the Book Review Editor for Faith and Philosophy. He has given lectures at Oxford, Cambridge, University of St. Andrews (Scotland), Yale, NYU, University of Chicago, the Gregorian (Rome), University of Beijing (China), and elsewhere. Taliaferro is a member of APA Committee on the Status and Future of the Profession. He is currently working on projects in philosophy of religion, philosophy of mind, ethics, and aesthetics.
First published: 17 July 2013
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