The American Society for Aesthetics ppt

Officers and Trustees of the ASA President: Paul Guyer, University of Pennsylvania Vice President: Dom Lopes, University of British Columbia Secretary-Treasurer: Dabney Townsend JAAC Editor: Susan Feagin, Temple University Past President: Jenefer Robinson, University of Cincinnati Sondra Bacharach, Victoria University of Wellington James Hamilton, Kansas State University Jennifer Judkings, UCLA Andrew Kania, Trinity University James Shelley, Auburn University Alex Neill, University of Southampton Stephanie Ross, University of Missouri – St Louis Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex 2012 Program Committee Rachel Zuckert, Chair , Northwestern Univ Saam Trivedi, Brooklyn College Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary Allen Carlson, University of Alberta Jane Forsey, University of Winnipeg Keren Gorodeisky, Auburn University Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex Chris Williams, University of Nevada-Reno Dabney Townsend, ASA Secretary/Treasurer, (ex officio) Local Arrangements Stephanie Ross, University of Missouri-St Louis The American Society for Aesthetics St Louis Waterfront 70th Annual Meeting October 24-27, 2012 The Millennium Hotel St Louis, Missouri Support from Wiley/Blackwell Publishing Registration Wednesday 5:30-10:00, Thursday and Friday 8:30-4:30, Marble Room Book Display Thursday and Friday 8:30-4:30, Saturday 8:3012:00 Chouteau Room Wednesday October 24 Wednesday October 24 Morning Afternoon and Evening Finance Committee Meeting Wednesday 9-12 Board Room Board of Trustees Meetings, Board Room Wednesday 1:005:30, Wednesday 6:00-8:30 (dinner) Friday 11:45-1:00 (Lunch) Opening Reception Wednesday 8:30-11:00 Meramac Room Thursday October 25 ST LOUIS WEST LACLEDE 9:00-10:50 Morning Coffee Break 10:50-11:10 9:00-10-50 Colloquium: Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics Colloquium: Music I (Ontology) Chair: Wiebke Deimling, University of Pennsylvania Speakers: Sandra Shapshay, Indiana University, Bloomington and Alex Neill, University of Southampton, “The Role of Transcendental Freedom in Schopenhauer’s Aesthetics” Commentator: Jennifer Uleman, Purchase College (SUNY) Speaker: Guy Elgat, Northwestern University, “Nietzsche’s Critique of Schopenhauer on the Value of Aesthetics Experience” Commentator: Andrew Huddleston, Oxford University FIELD 9:00-10:50 Colloquium: Morality, Literature, and the Emotions Chair: Vladimir Konečni, University of California, San Diego Chair: Kevin Sweeney, University of Tampa Speaker: Brock Rough, University of Maryland, “Defending Fundamentalist Musical Ontology” Speaker: Michael Ducey, University of Cincinnati, “Responses to Fiction: Appeals to Low-Level Reactions as Evidence for Authenticity” Commentator: Christopher Bartel, Appalachian State University Commentator: Susan Feagin, Temple University Speaker: Dan Burkett, Victoria University of Wellington, “One Song, Many Works: A Pluralist Ontology of Rock” Commentator: Alexey Aliyev, University of Maryland Speaker: Katherine Tullmann, Graduate Center (CUNY), “Do we make real moral judgments about fictions?” Commentator: Darren Hick, Susquehanna University Thursday October 25 ST LOUIS WEST LACLEDE 11:10-1:00 Morning 11:10-1:00 Colloquium: German Philosophical Aesthetics Colloquium: Music II (Performance) Chair: John Carvalho, Villanova University Chair: Peg Brand, University of Oregon Speaker: Robin James, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, “Ariadne from Naxos?: Race, Gender, and Aesthetic Receptivity in Nietzsche and Beyond” Speaker: Alessandro Bertinetto, University of Udine, “Improvisational Listening?” Commentator: Robert GoodingWilliams, University of Chicago Speakers: Cynthia Grund, University of Southern Denmark, and William Westney, Texas Tech University, “From Music to Sport and Back Again: A Continuum Hypothesis” Speaker: Ingvild Torsen, Florida International University, “Disinterest and Truth: On Kant’s Place in Heidegger’s History of Aesthetics” Commentator: Katalin Makkai, ECLA of Bard Commentator: David Clowney, Rowan University Commentator: Arnold Berleant, Long Island University FIELD 11:10-1:00 Colloquium: Morality and Literature Chair: Stephanie Patridge, Otterbein University Speaker: Eva Dadlez, University of Central Oklahoma, “Literature, Ethical Thought Experiments, and Moral Knowledge” Commentator: Sarah Worth, Furman University Speaker: Allison Hepola, Samford University, “Fictional Realism: A Threat to Literary Cognitivism” Commentator: Scott Clifton, University of Washingtoton LACLEDE FIELD 2:30-5:00 2:30-5:00 2:30-5:00 Panel: Art, Religion, and the Sublime Panel: Participatory Art Panel: Thomas Leddy, The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Aesthetics of Everyday Life ST LOUIS WEST Thursday October 25 Afternoon Lunch 1:00-2:30 Plenary Session: 5:15-6:45 p.m Meramac Room Arianna Quartet Reception 7:00-8:30 Meramac Room JAAC Editorial Board Meeting 8:00 TBA Chair: Gordon Graham, Princeton Theological Seminary Speaker: Matthew Haltemann, Calvin College, “Art, Religion, and the Sublime” Chair: Gregg Horowitz, Pratt Institute Speaker: Tom Finkelpearl, Queens Museum of Art, “The Art of Participation” Commentator: Anne Eaton, University of Illinois at Chicago Speaker: Michael Kelly, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, “Artistic Agency” Commentator: Lambert Zuidevaart, Institute of Christian Studies, Toronto Speaker: Jonathan Neufeld, College of Charleston, “Aesthetic Disobedience” Chair: Yuriko Saito, Rhode Island School of Design Critic: Donald Keefer, Rhode Island School of Design Critic: Ronald Moore, University of Washington Critic: Glenn Parsons, Ryerson University Author: Thomas Leddy, San Jose State University Friday October 26 ST LOUIS WEST 9:00-10:50 Colloquium: Hegel’s Aesthetics Morning 2013 Program Committee Meeting 8:00 (breakfast) Coffee Break 10:50-11:10 LACLEDE 9:00-10:50 Colloquium: Aesthetics and Comparison FIELD 9:00-10:50 Colloquium: Philosophy of Literature Chair: C Allen Speight, Boston University Chair: Carol S Gould, Florida Atlantic University Chair: David Goldblatt, Denison University Speaker: Martin Donougho, University of South Carolina at Columbia, “Hegelian Comedy” Speaker: Henry Pratt, Marist College, “Uniqueness, Incomparability, and the Primary Aspect of Art” Speaker: David Davies, McGill University, “Fictional Utterance, Fictional Narratives, and Fictional Works” Commentator: Brian Soucek, U.S Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit Commentator: John Gibson, University of Louisville Commentator: Mark Alznauer, Northwestern University Speaker: Stephan Hammel, University of Pennsylvania, “Religion, Art, and the Knowing of Forgiveness: Hegel on Failure and Love Commentator: Jason Miller, Rice University Speaker: Christy Mag Uidhir, University of Houston, “Aesthetic Properties and Gradability” Commentator: Robert Stecker, Central Michigan University Speaker: Derek Matravers, Open University, “Style and Substance” Commentator: Ira Newman, Mansfield University Friday October 26 ST LOUIS WEST 11:10-1:00 Morning Coffee Break 10:50-11:10 Colloquium: Danto’s Philosophy of Art Chair: Lydia Goehr, Columbia University Speaker: Georg Bertram, Free University of Berlin, “Experience or Reflection? The Question of Modern Art” LACLEDE FIELD 11:10-1:00 11:10-1:00 Colloquium: Aura, Authenticity, and Artistic Reproduction Colloquium: Art and Suffering Chair: Ivan Gaskell, Bard Graduate Center Speaker: Nick Stang, University of Miami, “Artistic Aura and Artistic Value” Commentator: Jonathan Gilmore, Columbia University Commentator: Louise Hanson, Oxford University Speaker: Sonia Sedivy, University of Toronto, “The End of Art and the Loss of Beauty: A Shared Premise” Speaker: Dobin Choi, University at Buffalo (SUNY), “The Minimal Condition of Authenticity” Commentator: Stephen Snyder, Fatih University Commentator: Elizabeth Scarbrough, University of Washington Chair: Nickolas Pappas, City College of New York Speaker: Anna Christina Ribeiro, Texas Tech University, “The Enjoyment of Sad Poetry” Commentator: Richard Eldridge, Swarthmore College Speaker: Aaron Smuts, Rhode Island College, “Merely Fictional Suffering” Commentator: Sheila Lintott, Bucknell University Friday October 26 Afternoon Lunch 1:00-2:30 Trustees Lunch Board Room Presidential Address 5:30-6:30 Meramac Room Paul Guyer “Separatism and Syncretism in the History of Aesthetics” Presidential Reception 7:00-8:30 Meramac Room ST LOUIS WEST LACLEDE FIELD 2:30-5:00 2:30-5:00 Panel: Dance and Performance: Exploring Embodiment Panel: Peter Goldie, The Mess Inside In Memoriam Chair: Christopher Williams, University of Nevada, Reno Chair: Karen Gover, Bennington College Chair: Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex Speaker: Laurent Jaffro, University of Paris, “Expression in Shaftesbury” Speaker: Aili Bresnahan, University of Dayton, "Improvisational Artistry and Style in Live Dance Performance as Evidence of Embodied and Extended Mind" Speaker: Jesse Prinz, City University of New York 2:30-5:00 Panel: Expression:Historical and Contemporary Perspectives Speaker: Timothy Costelloe, College of William and Mary, “Fry, Collingwood, and the Aesthetic Imagination” Speaker: Robert Hopkins, University of Sheffield and New York University, "Expression As Bringing To Consciousness" Speaker: James R Hamilton, Kansas State University, “Does Understanding Live Performance Require Appeal to Theories of Embodied Cognition?” Speaker: Kristin Boyce, Johns Hopkins University, “Thought in Dance from an Anscombian Perspective” Commentator: Renee Conroy, Purdue University at Calumet Speaker: Edward Harcourt, Oxford University Speaker: Lisa Jones, University of St Andrews Saturday October 27 Morning Coffee Break 10:50-11:10 ST LOUIS WEST 9:00 – 10:50 Colloquium: Issues in the Contemporary Arts Chair: Roger Shiner, UBC Okanagan Speaker: Sondra Bacharach and Isobel Cairns, Victoria University of Wellington, “Street Art” Commentator: Nola Semczyszyn, Franklin and Marshall College Speaker: Katherine ThomsonJones, Oberlin College, “How Movies Move in the Digital Age” Commentator: Angela Curran, Carleton College LACLEDE 9:00 – 10:50 Colloquium: Literary Genre and History Chair: Jon M Mikkelsen, Missouri Western State University Speaker: David Conter, Western University, “Farce, History, and the Ontology of Genre” Commentator: Deborah Knight, Queen's University Speaker: Alex Robins, Emory University, “The Priority of History in Art: Wilhelm Dilthey’s Rejection of Aristotle’s Poetics” Commentator: Timothy Gould, Metropolitan State University FIELD 9:00 – 10:50 Colloquium: Differences in Aesthetic Judgment Chair: Cynthia Freeland, University of Houston Speaker: Belinda Piercy, University of Toronto, “Peer Disagreement and Aesthetic Claims” Commentator: Brian Watkins, Duke University Speaker: Michael Rings, Indiana University, Bloomington, “Conversation, Appreciation, and the Aesthetic Cosmopolitan Project” Commentator: Wojtek Chojna, Urbana University Saturday October 27 Morning Coffee Break 10:50-11:10 ST LOUIS WEST 11:10 – 1:00 Colloquium: Visual and Plastic Art Chair: Kathleen Desmond, University of Central Missouri Speaker: Saul Fisher, Mercy College, “Architectural Objects as Abstracta: An Argument from Models” Commentator: Joseph Moore, Amherst College Speaker: John Brown, University of Maryland, “The Allure of Free Brushstrokes in Figurative Painting: The Case of Frans Hals” Commentator: Rebecca Bensen Cain, Oklahoma State University LACLEDE 11:10 – 1:00 Colloquium: Music III (Aesthetics) Chair: Garry Hagberg, Bard College Speaker: Bryan Parkhurst, University of Michigan, “Toward an Expressivist Meta-MusicTheory” Commentator: Jennifer Judkins, UCLA Speaker: Tiger Roholt, Montclair State University, “A Methodological Distinction between Analytic and Continental Philosophy of Music” Commentator: Erum Naqvi, Temple University FIELD 11:10 – 1:00 Colloquium: Definitions of Art or the Aesthetic Chair: Curtis Carter, Marquette University Speaker: Annelies Monseré, Ghent University, “Art and Its Borderlines” Commentator: Aaron Meskin, University of Leeds Speaker: Remei CapdevilaWerning, Autonomous University of Barcelona, “Reflective Equilibrium in Aesthetics: A Theoretical Ground for Nelson Goodman’s Symptoms of the Aesthetic” Commentator: Nicholas Wong, University of Chicago Saturday October 27 Afternoon 1:00-2:30 Business Meeting (Open to all members) Illinois Room Lunch Included Walking Tours Saturday Afternoon and Sunday Morning ST LOUIS WEST LACLEDE FIELD 2:30-5:00 2:30-5:00 2:30-5:00 Panel: Classical Chinese Aesthetic Thought Chair: Mary Wiseman, Brooklyn College and CUNY Graduate Center Speaker: James Harold, Mount Holyoke College, “Taste and Reason in Mengzi” Panel: Theodore Gracyk and Andrew Kania (eds.), The Routledge Companion to Philosophy and Music Chair: Keren Gorodeisky, Auburn University Chair: Saam Trivedi, Brooklyn College, City University of New York Speaker: Carolyn Richardson, College of the Holy Cross, “Getting Metaphor” Speakers: Speaker: Eileen John, University of Warwick, “Failures of Argument and Literary Value” Speaker: Kathleen Higgins, University of Texas at Austin, “Musical Conservatism in Ancient Confucianism” Theodore Gracyk, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, and Andrew Kania, Trinity University Speaker: Eva Kit Wah Man, Hong Kong Baptist University, “The Meaning of an Author in Liu Xie's Wenxindiaolong” Jeanette Bicknell, Independent Scholar Commentator: P.J Ivanhoe, City University of Hong Kong Panel: Aesthetic Cognitivism Justin London, Carleton College Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland Speaker: James Shelley, Auburn University, “What You Should Know” ... Autonomous University of Barcelona, “Reflective Equilibrium in Aesthetics: A Theoretical Ground for Nelson Goodman’s Symptoms of the Aesthetic” Commentator: Nicholas Wong, University of Chicago Saturday... 2:30-5:00 2:30-5:00 2:30-5:00 Panel: Art, Religion, and the Sublime Panel: Participatory Art Panel: Thomas Leddy, The Extraordinary in the Ordinary: Aesthetics of Everyday Life ST LOUIS WEST Thursday... Critique of Schopenhauer on the Value of Aesthetics Experience” Commentator: Andrew Huddleston, Oxford University FIELD 9:00-10:50 Colloquium: Morality, Literature, and the Emotions Chair: Vladimir