[PHILOS-L] REMINDER: BSA Annual Conference 2026: Registration deadline

[British Society of Aesthetics]

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There is still time to register for the 2026 British Society of Aesthetics conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford, 11-13 September.

BOOK BEFORE 13 AUGUST for BSA member discounts and generous postgraduate subsidies. REGISTRATION CLOSES 20 AUGUST.

The registration link and further details are available at: http://british-aesthetics.org/portfolio/annual-conference/

LOW CARBON TRAVEL INCENTIVE SCHEME - HURRY!  This year, the BSA is offering up to £350 conference package reduction to incentivise low-carbon travel for those travelling from Ireland, Scotland, and continental Europe. Just email a brief summary of your proposed  route. More information here: https://british-aesthetics.org/train-bus-travel-subsidy/  DEADLINE IS MIDNIGHT, 30 JULY

There is also a hybrid conference option for remote attendance on Saturday 12 September, via Zoom, for presentations taking place in the Tsuzuki Lecture Theatre. Hybrid tickets are FREE, but you must register to secure your place.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

A.W. Eaton (Illinois Chicago)

David Papineau (KCL)

EMPSON LECTURER

Anna Ridler (Visual Artist)

INVITED SYMPOSIUM

Emily Brady (Texas A&M), Christopher Earley (Edinburgh), Jakub Stejskal (Brno): ‘Aesthetic Time Travel’

BSA ESSAY PRIZE WINNER

Irene Martínez Marín (Murcia), ‘Aesthetic Obligations as Imperfect Duties’

SYMPOSIA

‘Universalism in Aesthetics’

Adriana Clavel-Vázquez (Tilburg)

Siba Harb (Tilburg)

Nils-Hennes Stear (Uppsala)

Panos Paris (Cardiff)

REGULAR PAPERS

Peter Alward (Saskatchewan), ‘Creating the Non-Existent’

Elizabeth Cantalamessa (St. Bonaventure University), ‘Wearing Ideology: Authoritarian Fashion and Norm Capture’

Francesca D’Alessandris (Humboldt University of Berlin), ‘Demystifying atmospheres. A value-based account’

Jacopo Frascaroli (Turin), ‘Bayesian Poetics: A New Framework for the Study of the Aesthetics of Language’

Philip Letts (Independent Scholar) and Giulia Lorenzi (UNED), ‘Musical Movement Realism and Locationism’

Luca Marchetti (Genoa), ‘On Documentary Virtual Reality’

Don Oxtoby (Turin), ‘Complete Audio Transparency’

Jeremy Page (Oxford), ‘Aesthetic Intelligibilism and Aesthetic Normativity’

Francesco Pierini (Genoa), ‘Inner speech and the phenomenology of comics’

Jon Robson (Nottingham), ‘Is Aesthetic Testimony Cheating?’

Louis Rouillé (Lisbon), ‘A new “quasi” solution to the paradox of fiction’

Merel Semeijn (Groningen), ‘The hoax will out: A speech act analysis of the didactic hoax’

Enrico Terrone (Genoa), ‘Sites and Types: The Stage Ontology of Architecture’

Malcolm Turvey (Tufts), ‘”Sawing Off the Branch on Which We Sit”: Revisionism and the “Pragmatic Constraint” in the Ontology of Art’

Nicholas Young (Genoa), ‘The Aesthetics of Typography’

Ke Zhang (Independent Scholar), ‘“It’s so boring I love it”: Aspiring to enjoy boring art’

Yili Zhou (Duke Kunshan) ‘Morality and Music: A Brief Discussion on How Moral Self-Cultivation Contributes to Music Performance’ (BSA New Horizons Prize Winner 2026)

POSTGRADUATE PAPERS

Mert Atessal (Bilkent), ‘Why You Cannot Own the Parthenon: Cultural Treasures and the Limits of Property’

Clara Campuzano Gómez (Murcia), ‘Being affected by others: on the normative force of aesthetic reasons’

Kam-Ho Chan (Massachusetts Amherst), ‘In Praise of Shadows: The Aesthetics of Forgery’

Shuning Diao (York), ‘Taste, Agency, and Aesthetic Injustice’

Vincenzo Grasso (Milan), ‘The Aesthetic Value of Imagining: Pleasure and Mental Agency’

Carlos Ibáñez García (Complutense University of Madrid), ‘Musical Works and their Meaning’

Rhiannon Michael (University of British Columbia), ‘Is Schopenhauer an Aesthetic Hedonist?’

Linrui Miao (Uppsala), ‘Fashion as Recurrent Games’

Lucy Psaila (UCL), ‘Aesthetic Cognitivism and Understanding’

James Rowley (Liverpool), ‘Digital Sampling: Towards a Hip-Hop Ontology’ (BSA New Horizons Prize Winner 2026)

Rebecca Taylor (Teachers College, Columbia University), ‘Suspended Selves: Aesthetic Temporality and the First-Person Perspective’

Daniel West (CUNY), ‘Virtue-aesthetic scientific cognitivism’

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Alice Helliwell (co-chair, Northeastern University London), Mark Windsor (co-chair, Uppsala), Vanessa Brassey (King’s College London), Elisa Caldarola (Turin), Aurelie Debaene (Independent), Alex Fisher (Leeds), Andrew Huddleston (Notre Dame), Anna Pakes (Roehampton), Matteo Ravasio (Peking), Vid Simoniti (Liverpool), Murray Smith (Kent), Zoe Walker (UCL), and Nicholas Wiltsher (St Andrews).

British Society of Aesthetics

https://british-aesthetics.org/

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