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November 23-24, 2012

The Aesthetics of Suffering conference

The Aesthetics of Suffering conference was a literature-oriented conference held on November 23 and 24, 2012. The conference invited papers to explore compelling questions about the limits of artistic representations, the paradoxical generation of beauty from pain, or any other aspect of the aesthetics of suffering. The guest speakers were Profs. Laura Quinney and William Flesch of Brandeis University. In the two-day event, twenty-three papers from Singapore, Japan, Hong Kong, and Taiwan were presented and more than eighty participated.