[PHILOS-L] FINAL REMINDER: BSA Annual Conference 2025: Programme & Call for Registrations

[British Society of Aesthetics]

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Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2025 British Society of Aesthetics conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford, 12-14 September.

The registration link and further details are available at:

http://british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/annual-conference/

Book before 14 August for BSA member discounts and generous postgraduate subsidies. Registration closes 19 August.

We are also pleased to offer a hybrid conference option for remote attendance on Saturday 13 September, via Zoom, for presentations taking place in the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre. Hybrid tickets are FREE, but you must register to secure your place at the link above.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

David Davies (McGill), ‘Exploring “Fictional Worlds”‘

Alison Hills (Oxford), ‘Persons and Pictures’

EMPSON LECTURER

Jeremy Deller (Conceptual Artist)

INVITED SYMPOSIUM

Alex Fisher (Tilburg), Lucy Osler (Cardiff), Nathan Wildman (Tilburg): ‘Aesthetics & Technology’

SYMPOSIA

‘Fiction Weird and Wild’

Stacie Friend (Edinburgh)

Kris Goffin (Maastricht University)

Anna Ichino (Milan)

Eileen John (Warwick)

‘Art and Entertainment: A Philosophical Enquiry’

Introduction by Andy Hamilton (Durham)

Stephanie Cant (Independent Scholar)

Elisabet Dijkstra (Guildhall School of Music and Drama)

Derek Matravers (The Open University)

Miglė Miliūnaitė (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute)

REGULAR PAPERS

Vanessa Brassey (KCL), ‘Pictures as Time Machines’

Chiara Brozzo (Birmingham) and Enrico Terrone (Genoa), ‘Perfumes as Pictures. The Aesthetics of Smelling-in’

Elisa Caldarola (Turin) and Matteo Plebani (Turin), ‘Artistic Subject Matter’

Celia Coll (Nottingham), ‘Why do Good Critics Like Bad Books?’

Christopher Earley (Edinburgh), ‘The Nostalgic, the Futuristic, and the Timely: Historicity and Aesthetic Concepts’

Patrik Engisch (Geneva) and André Sant’Anna (Geneva), ‘Aesthetic Remembering: Memory as a Unique Aesthetic Faculty’

Daan Evers (Groningen) and Julian Hanich (Groningen), ‘The Beauty and Wellformedness of Paris: A Critique’

Šárka Lojdová (Charles University), ‘Uncanny Intimacy: Experiencing (Un)Familiar Places in the Time of the Global Climate Change’

Luca Marchetti (Genoa), ‘Architectural Experience’

Colette Olive (Leeds), ‘Loving Attention and Aesthetic Appreciation’

Francesco Pierini (Genoa), ‘Inner Speech and the Phenomenology of Poetry’

Zoe Walker (Trinity College, Oxford), ‘Dark Comedy: Immorality, Perspectives and Amusement’

Rebecca Wallbank (Geneva & Uppsala), ‘Aesthetic Skepticism and Epistemic Permissivism’

Jessica Williams (South Florida), ‘Personalizing Beauty: A Partial Defense of Kant’s Aesthetic Universalism’

Nick Young (Genova), ‘The Environmental Aesthetics of Generative AI’

POSTGRADUATE PAPERS

Ben Campion (Warwick), ‘Intention and Causality in James Welling’s Photography’

Zeynep Çelik (Bilkent University), ‘Collective Authorship in Theatrical Works: A Hierarchical Account’ (New Horizons Award Winner, 2025)

Laura Fumagalli (Augsburg, LMU Munich), ‘Aesthetics and Climate Change’

Artur Harris (Oxford), ‘Aesthetic Properties Are Not Shades of Aesthetic Value’

Evan Jack (Tulane University) and Mustafa Khuramy (Hertfordshire), ‘Aesthetic Non-Naturalism Relaxed’

Siying Jiao (York), ‘Perfumery Expressiveness’

Gabriella LaRose (Arizona), ‘Celebrating a Murderer: Imaginative Resistance in Appalachian Murder Ballads’

Irene Lonigro (Milan), ‘The Limits of Emotional Imagining in Fiction’

Camilla Palazzolo (Genoa), ‘Beyond the Ephemeral. The Creative Power of Documentation in Performance Art’

Felipe Zárate Guerrero (Durham University), ‘What is True in Massive Serialised Collaborative Fictions? A Case for Serial Departure’ (New Horizons Award Winner, 2025)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Daisy Dixon (co-chair, Cardiff), Mark Windsor (co-chair, Uppsala), Catharine Abell (Oxford), María José Alcaraz León (Murcia), Claire Anscomb (De Montfort), Alice Heliwell (Northeastern University London), Robbie Kubala (UT Austin), Nemesio García-Carril Puy (Complutense University of Madrid), Jon Robson (Nottingham), Nils-Hennes Stear (Uppsala).

Programme subject to change.

British Society of Aesthetics

https://british-aesthetics.org/

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