2021 ANNUAL CONFERENCE, 10-12 SEPTEMBER
As a result of Covid-19, our 2020 conference was postponed and our 2021 conference took place online, 10-12 September. As much of the 2020 programme as possible was carried forward to 2021.
PROGRAMME:
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Gwen Bradford (Rice University), ‘Uniqueness and Irreplaceable Value: Art, Historical Artefacts, and Persons’
Yuriko Saito (Rhode Island School of Design), ‘Care with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical’
INVITED SYMPOSIUM
‘Aesthetics and Moral Psychology’
Katherine Tullman (Northern Arizona)
Jason D’Cruz (Albany)
Catherine Wheatley (KCL)
George Kassimis (Albany)
BSA ESSAY PRIZE WINNER
Aviv Reiter (Humboldt), ‘Kant on the Aesthetic Ideas of Beautiful Nature’
SYMPOSIA
Author-Meets-Critics Panel: ‘Imagining & Knowing’ by Greg Currie (York)
Derek Matravers (The Open University)
Adriana Clavel-Vazquez (Oxford)
Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)
Author-Meets-Critics Panel: ‘Arts of Address: Being Alive to Language and the World’ by Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam)
Tina Chanter (Newcastle)
Beatrice Fazi (Sussex)
Sue Spaid (University of Dayton)
Author-Meets-Critics Panel: ‘Intersections of Value: Art, Nature, and the Everyday’ by Robert Stecker (Central Michigan)
Eileen John (Warwick)
María José Alcaraz León (Murcia)
Louise Hanson (Oxford)
James Shelley (Auburn)
REGULAR PAPERS
Daniel Abrahams (Glasgow), ‘The Role of Trust in Aesthetic Appreciation’
Alexey Aliyev (HSE University), ‘The Proportionality Argument and the Problem of Causal Overdetermination’
James Harold (Mount Holyoke College), ‘Adrian Piper and the Value of Political Art’
Philip Letts, ‘Is Caterina Moruzzi’s Musical Stage Theory Advantaged?’
Brian McElwee (Southampton), ‘Are there Aesthetic Obligations?’
Vid Simoniti (Liverpool), ‘The Value of Satire’
Moonyoung Song (Michigan), ‘There are Exceptionless Principles about Artistic Value’
Lee Walters (Southampton), ‘Untokenable Types’
Nathan Wildman (Tilburg/ TiLPS) & Nele Van de Mosselaes (Antwerp), ‘Generative Glitches’
POSTGRADUATE PAPERS
Zoë Cunliffe (CUNY Graduate Center), ‘The Moral Significance of First-Personal Trauma Narratives’ (New Horizons award winner, 2020)
Aurelie Debaene (Kent), ‘Object of Attention’
Pablo Fernández Velasco (Institut Jean Nicod/UCL), ‘The Aesthetics of Being Lost’
Nada Gatalo (CUNY Graduate Center), ‘Pictures, Depiction and Representation’
Alice Harberd (UCL), ‘Isomorphism in Peacocke’s Metaphorically-As Theory of Perceiving Music’
Luca Marchetti (Milan), ‘E Pur Si Move!’
BRITISH SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS NEW HORIZONS AWARD
As part of our commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion within British aesthetics and philosophy of art, the British Society of Aesthetics bestows a New Horizons Award to the best paper submitted to the Annual Conference by a member of a group traditionally underrepresented in philosophical aesthetics. The winner receives a £1000 honorarium and a travel grant of up to £1000 to attend the conference, and is encouraged to revise the paper for submission to the British Journal of Aesthetics.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Emily Caddick Bourne (co-chair, Manchester), James Grant (co-chair, Oxford), Anne Eaton (University of Illinois at Chicago), Louise Hanson (Oxford), Eileen John (Warwick), Andrew Kania (Trinity), Jason Leddington (Bucknell), Aaron Ridley (Southampton), Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam), James Shelley (Auburn).
CONFERENCE EQUALITIES REPRESENTATIVES
Adriana Clavel-Vázquez (Oxford), Panos Paris (Cardiff)