PAUL CREATIVE ARTS CENTER, Rm. M-223 University of New Hampshire (Durham, NH) Saturday, September 23, 2017 Campus Maps/Directions (Abstracts and bios posted as they become available) ------------------------------------------------------------- 10:00-10:30 Refreshments and Registration 10:30 Welcome 10:35 The Perceptual Origin of the Sublime in György Ligeti's Violin Concerto (Daniel Fox, Graduate Center, CUNY) This paper positions the sublime in György Ligeti’s Violin Concerto in relation to three reference points: 1) Jerome Carroll’s argument for a conception of the sublime in art “as a navigation of the boundaries of representation and meaning,” 2) Max Paddison’s suggestion that, in art, the sublime is a moment of political resistance that can lead to a rearrangement of the symbolic order, and 3) the recent call by Peter Edwards for a renewed consideration of the influence of Adorno’s conception of musique informelle and historical thinking on Liget...