CfP: Imago Multitudinis. The Image of the Multitude in Art and Philosophy. London, 10 March 2018

Call for Papers: Imago Multitudinis. The Image of the Multitude in Art and Philosophy. London, 10 March 2018.

An International Conference at the Courtauld Institute of Art London.

The Courtauld Institute of Art, The British Academy and the Collège International de Philosophie are pleased to announce a one-day interdisciplinary conference focusing on the philosophical representation and the artistic conceptualisation of the multitude and its associated concepts: the many, the masses, the crowd, the mob and the commonality.
The full cal for papers can be downloaded or accessed here.
Please send a title and an abstract of no more than 500 words together with a short CV to jacopo.galimberti@manchester.ac.uk by 15 September 2017. Successful candidates will be notified in early October. Papers should not exceed 25 minutes in length.

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