9-11 September 2022, St Anne’s College, Oxford
2022 PROGRAMME
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Michael Brady (University of Glasgow), ‘Suffering and Art’
Denise Riley FRSL (Professor of Poetry and Philosophy at The European Graduate School & Emeritus Professor of the History of Ideas and Poetry, University of East Anglia), ‘Thought is Made in the Mouth’
Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University), ‘Adam Smith on Aesthetic Imagination and Scientific Inquiry’
INVITED SYMPOSIUM:
‘Art and Social Justice’
Sondra Bacharach (Wellington)
Daisy Dixon (Cambridge)
Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam)
Nicholas Whittaker (CUNY)
BSA ESSAY PRIZE WINNER
Zoe Walker (Cambridge), ‘A Sensibility of Humour’
SYMPOSIA
‘Expression of Emotion in the Visual Arts’
Vanessa Brassey (King’s College London)
Greg Currie (York)
Mitchell Green (University of Connecticutt)
Derek Matravers (The Open University)
‘On the Art of Grief’
Ashley Atkins (Western Michigan University)
Kathleen Higgins (University of Texas, Austin)
Sandra Shapshay (CUNY, Hunter College)
‘New Challenges to the Fiction-Nonfiction Distinction’
María José Alcaraz León (Murcia)
Elizabeth Cantalamessa (Miami)
Hannah Kim (Macalester College)
REGULAR PAPERS
Larissa Berger (Hannover Institute for Philosophical Research / MIT), ‘Why There Must Be a Kantian Conception of Ugliness, And Why There Cannot Be One’
Aurélie Debaene (Independent Scholar), ‘Ode to Awkwardness’
Miguel Dos Santos (Uppsala), ‘Duchamp’s paradox’ (New Horizons award winner, 2022)
Karl Egerton (Nottingham), ‘Games and Disinterestedness’
Nils Franzén (Umeå) & Karl Bergman (Uppsala), ‘The Force of Fictional Discourse’
Robbie Kubala (University of Texas, Austin), ‘The Value of Aesthetic Understanding’
Louis Rouillé (Le Collège de France), ‘The Paradox of Fictional Creatures’
Andrea Selleri (Bilkent), ‘Textual Plurality and the Ontology of Literary Works’
Jessica Williams (South Florida), ‘Autonomy and Community in Kant’s Theory of Taste’
Mark Windsor (Masaryk), ‘The (So-called) Experience of the Genuine’
POSTGRADUATE PAPERS
Benjamin Claessens (CUNY Graduate Centre), ‘Wonderful Worlds: Disinterested Engagement and Environmental Aesthetic Appreciation’
Christopher Earley (Warwick), ‘Political Art, Artistic Exceptionalism, and Humility’
Jacopo Frascaroli (York ), ‘The Biological Origins of Aesthetic Normativity: Insights from Cognitive Science’
Jeremy Page (Uppsala), ‘Art Criticism as Testimony’
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 for 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 will be encouraged to review the paper for submission to the British Journal of Aesthetics. Congratulations to Miguel Dos Santos (Uppsala), our 2022 winner.
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Panos Paris (co-chair, Cardiff), Karen Simecek (co-chair, Warwick), Hanne Appelqvist (Helsinki), Ryan Doran (Cambridge), Louise Hanson (Oxford), Eileen John (Warwick), Jason Leddington (Bucknell), Aaron Ridley (Southampton), Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam), James Shelley (Auburn).
CONFERENCE EQUALITIES REPRESENTATIVES
Adriana Clavel-Vázquez (Oxford), one other tba