[PHILOS-L] BSA Annual Conference 2024: Programme & Call for Registrations

[British Society of Aesthetics]

Dear all,

We are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 2024 British Society of Aesthetics conference at St Anne’s College, Oxford, 6-8 September.

Registration and the full schedule details are available at:

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

Book before 12 August for BSA member discounts and generous postgraduate subsidies. Registration closes 16 August.

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME:

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Garry Hagberg (Bard College)

Jennifer Saul (Waterloo) & Raymond Drainville (Waterloo): ‘Can’t Unsee: Visual Dogwhistles Without Deniability’

EMPSON LECTURER

Akram Khan, MBE (Choreographer & Dancer)

INVITED SYMPOSIUM

A.W. Eaton (Illinois), Tareeq Jalloh (Sheffield), Shirley Anne Tate (Alberta): ‘Aesthetics & Oppression’

BSA ESSAY PRIZE WINNER

Jeremy Page (Uppsala), ‘Artistic Honesty’

SYMPOSIA

‘Philosophical Issues in Recent Photography and Photographically Derived Imagery’

Claire Anscomb (de Montfort)

Diarmuid Costello (Warwick)

Vid Simoniti (Liverpool)

‘Taste, Fiction, and Agency in Chinese Aesthetics’

James Harold (Mount Holyoke College)

Hannah Kim (Arizona)

Dominic McIver Lopes (British Columbia)

Davide Andrea Zappulli (British Columbia)

‘The Philosophy of Non-Fiction’

Filippo Contesi (Milan)

Stacie Friend (Edinburgh)

Enrico Terrone (Genoa)

Paloma Atencia-Linares (UNED)

REGULAR PAPERS

Zed Adams (New School for Social Research), ‘Recordings of Recordings, Pictures of Pictures’

Adriana Clavel-Vázquez (Tilburg), ‘Towards a Decolonial Universalism in Aesthetics’

David Collins (Churchill College, Cambridge), ‘Nominal and Substantive Senses of Art’

Guy Dammann (Uppsala), ‘Creativity in Art Criticism’

Patrik Engisch (Geneva), ‘Creativity that Matters’

Alice Helliwell (Northeastern University London), ‘Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Can AI Create With Flair?’

Milena Ivanova (Cambridge), ‘The Real Problem with AI Art’

Joseph Kassman-Tod (Berkeley), ‘The ‘Poetic’ Quality of Art Criticism’ (New Horizons award winner, 2024)

Federico Lauria (LanCog, Lisbon), ‘The Epistemic Value of Sad Music’

Irene Martínez Marín (Uppsala), ‘On the Varieties of Aesthetic Autonomy: Acquaintance, Competence, and Authenticity’

Madeline Martin-Seaver (South Florida), ‘Self-Objectification as Self Preservation’

Colette Olive (Cambridge), ‘Art as Journalism – A New Framework for Socially Engaged Art’

Asmus Trautsch (Greifswald), ‘Aesthetic Appreciation of Sustainable Gardens in Support of Creating a Planetary Garden’

Freya Wynne (Cardiff), ‘A New Lens – Exploring Technology’s Impact on Our Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature’

POSTGRADUATE PAPERS

Sophie Cote (New York University) ‘Adrian Stokes on ‘Art Twice Over’

Vincenzo Grasso (Milan & Genoa), ‘The Aspectuality of Literary Works’

Alice Harberd (UCL), ‘Rich Narrativity’

Artur Harris (Oxford) ‘How Aesthetic Value May Not Be a Kind of Value’

Edit Karlsson (Uppsala), ‘Minimalist Semantics and Aesthetic Utterances’

Camilla Palazzolo (Genoa), ‘Contemporary Art and the Challenge of Conservation’

Victor Popa (Ecole Normale Supérieure), ‘Mapping Fictional Truth: A New Classification of Fictional Truths’

Irene Romero Suárez (Birkbeck), ‘Do Inaccuracies Matter in Fiction?’

Emily Williamson (Central European University), ‘The Cognitive Value of Discrepant Affective Responses to Artworks’

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE

Daisy Dixon (co-chair, Cardiff), Panos Paris (co-chair, Cardiff), María José Alcaraz León (Murcia), Ryan P. Doran (Barcelona), Miguel F. Dos Santos (Uppsala), Andrew Huddleston (Warwick), Milena Ivanova (Cambridge), Aaron Meskin (Georgia), Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam), and Sandra Shapshay (CUNY).

Programme subject to change.

British Society of Aesthetics

BSA 2024 Annual Conference, 6-8 September

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