Music and the Cosmos

a conference by INSEI (Interdisciplinary Network for Sympathy, Empathy, and 
Imagination www.insei.net <http://www.insei.net/>)

Saturday June 3 12.00 hrs – Sunday June 4 16.00 hrs 

Queens' College Cambridge UK 

Organisers: Louise Braddock, Susanne Herrmann-Sinai, Maarten Steenhagen

Contact: [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
We explore the relevance of the historical concept of cosmic harmony for 
contemporary philosophical debates spanning music aesthetics and listeners’ 
participation, communication in music-making, and the inter-subjective and 
bodily aspects of sympathy as Early Modern concept, when understood as harmony 
between subjects. The conference is interdisciplinary across psychology, 
neurobiology, anthropology, musicology and philosophy, with a professional 
conductor also participating in an interview and panel discussion.


REGISTER NOW: 
https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/music-and-the-cosmos-tickets-34120757103

Conference Programme

Saturday 3rd June 2017

Registration

12.00 – 1.30   Welcome by INSEI and organizing committee and Panel discussion 
‘Music and the Body’ with Joolz Gale (ensemble mini, Berlin)

1.30 – 2.00   Coffee Break I

2.00 – 3.00   Lydia Goehr (Columbia) ‘What anyway does "Music" mean in Early 
Studies of the Cosmos?’

3.00 – 4.00   Tosca Lynch (Oxford) ‘Hearing Justice: the Kósmos of the Soul and 
the Harmonía of the Lyre in Plato’s Republic’

4.00 – 4.30   Coffee Break II

4.30 – 5.30   Henning Tegtmeyer (Leuven) ‘Music and the Cosmos in Aristotle’

5.30 – 6.30   Jacomien Prins (Warwick) ‘Sympathetic Vibration as Explanatory 
Model in Renaissance Thought’

7.00   Drinks Reception

7.30   Conference Dinner at Queens’ College*


Sunday 4th June 2017

9.00 – 10.00   Chris Meyns (Utrecht) ‘Metaphysical Harmony’

10.00 – 11.00   Ewan Jones (Cambridge) ‘Bivalve Poetics: Rhythm, Sympathy, and 
Entrainment in the Late Nineteenth Century’

11.00 – 11.15   Coffee Break

11.15 – 12.15   Jacques Launay (London / Oxford) ‘Music as a Technology for 
Social Connection’

12.15 – 1.30   Lunch Break

1.30 – 2.30   Maarten Steenhagen (Cambridge) ‘Sympathetic Imagination’

2.30 – 3.30   Susanne Herrmann-Sinai (Leipzig / Oxford) ‘Music and Spirit: 
Hegel on Sympathy’

3.30 – 4.00   Final Discussion / End of Conference and Departure


Registration Fee of 5£ per person to be paid at the conference. No registration 
fee for members of the Royal Musical Association. Please register via 
Eventbrite 
<https://www.eventbrite.com/e/music-and-the-cosmos-tickets-34120757103>. 

*If you would like to attend Dinner on 3rd June at your own cost (30 to 35£), 
please do get in touch with us via [email protected] 
<mailto:[email protected]>.


Sponsored by:

The Mind Association

British Society for the History of Philosophy

Faculty of Music University of Cambridge (William Barclay Squire Fund)

Royal Musical Association

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Dr Maarten Steenhagen
Lecturer and Director of Studies
Faculty of Philosophy / Queens’ College
University of Cambridge 

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