The British Society of Aesthetics Conference was held September 4th-6th 2009 at St Edmund Hall Oxford.
Speakers and Papers

Conference Timetable

British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference

St. Edmund Hall, Oxford

Conference Timetable

Friday 4th September
             10:30 – 12.30 pm Conference Registration
             12.30 – 1.15 pm Lunch
             1.15 – 1.30 pm              Conference Welcome
             1.30 – 2:30 pm              Session 1              David Davies              (McGill University) ‘In Situ’
2:30 – 3:30 pm              Session 2              Daniel Barnes              (University of Nottingham) ‘The Forgotten Singularity: A Thought on the Ontology of Architecture’
3:30 – 4.00 pm Coffee
             4.00 – 5.00 pm              Session 3              Catharine Abell              (Macquarie University and The University of Manchester) ‘Expression, Representation and Interpretation’
5:00 – 6:45 pm              Session 4 KEYNOTE ADDRESS              James Shelley              (Auburn University)                             Commentator: Aaron Ridley              (Southampton)
Why Aesthetic Judgments Should be True
             7:00 pm              Dinner
Saturday 5th September
              9:00 –10:30 am              Session 5 (a)              Graduate Papers                             Bob Mahoney (University of Southampton) ‘The Character of Hume’s True Judge’   Louise Hanson (Braenose College, Oxford) ‘Conceptual Art and Paraphrase’

Parallel Sessions
             Session 5 (b)              Graduate Papers              Ian Blaustein (Boston University) ‘Kant’s Pure Aesthetic Judgments’ Andrew Huddleston (Princeton University) ‘Intention and Conversation’
10:30 – 11:00 am Coffee
             11:00 – 12:.30 pm              Session 6 (a)              Graduate Papers               Dan Cavedon-Taylor (Birkbeck College) ‘What’s Really Wrong with Photographic Transparency’ Simone Neuber (University of Tübingen) ‘An Ordinary Perception Account of Picture Perception and Gombrichian Schemata’

Parallel Sessions
             Session 6              (b)              Graduate Papers              Emily Caddick (University of Cambridge) ‘The Real Problem with Fictional Feelings’ Paloma Atencia (UCL) ‘Should Imagining Seeing Turn (Moving) Pictures into Fiction?’
12:30 – 1:30 pm              Session 7              Katherine Thomson Jones              (Oberlin College) ‘The Moving Camera and the Cinematic Narrator’
1:30 – 2:30 pm Lunch
             2:30 – 3.30 pm Free Time/BSA Executive Committee Meeting
             3:30 – 4.00 pm              BSA Annual General Meeting
             4.15 – 5.15 pm              Session 8              David Osipovich              (Allegheny College) ‘Why a Theatrical Performance?’
5.15 – 6.45 pm              Session 9 THE WILLIAM EMPSON LECTURE Martin Gayford ‘What is a Portrait?’
7 pm              Wine Reception followed by Conference Dinner
Sunday 6th September
             9:30 –10:30 am              Session 10              Andy Hamilton              (Durham University) ‘Between Chaos and Continuum: Rhythm as “Order in Movement”’
10.30 – 12:15              Session 11 KEYNOTE ADDRESS              Dominic Lopes              (University of British Columbia)                             Commentator: Nick Zangwill              (Durham University) ‘The Myth of Artistic Value’
12:15 – 12:45 pm              Coffee
             12:45 – 1:45 pm              Session 12              James Harold              (Mount Holyoke College) ‘Autonomism Reconsidered’
2.00 pm              Close of Conference

Programme Committe: Stacie Friend (Heythrop), Ian Ground (Sunderland), Derek Matravers (Open University), Aaron Meskin (Leeds).
Programme Co-Chairs: Stacie Friend and Aaron Meskin.