— The British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference 2023

The British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference

15-17 September 2023, St Anne’s College, Oxford

A confirmed schedule with timings is available HERE.

PROGRAMME 

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Prof. Regina Rini (York University, Canada), ‘The Artificial Sublime’
Prof. Lambert Wiesing (Friedrich Schiller University, Jena), ‘Style and Weltbild. Heinrich Wölfflin, Kurt Schwitters, Joseph Beuys’

EMPSON LECTURER
Joshua Weilerstein (Conductor)

INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Clare Chambers (Cambridge), Heather Widdows (Warwick): ‘Body Talk: How Appearance Matters in Real and Virtual Worlds’ 

SYMPOSIUM
Pietro Allegretti (Waikato), Anton Killin (Bielefeld), Andra Meneganzin (KU Leuven): ‘Evolutionary Aesthetics: Comparative and Cognitive Approaches’ 

REGULAR PAPERS
Larissa Berger (Siegen), ‘On the Conceptual Dependence of Artistic Beauty in Kant’s Theory of Taste’
Aurelie Debaene (Independent Scholar), ‘When is Tom Peeping? On Voyeurism, Shame and Nude Modelling’s Positive Lessons’
Jason Gaiger (Oxford), ‘What is a detail?’
Britt Harrison (York), ‘Reaction Shots in Stella Dallas: A Case-Study Argument for Philosophy of Art Without Theory’ (New Horizons Award Winner) 
James MacDowell (Warwick), ‘YouTube Aesthetics: Communication, Narrative and Art’
Panos Paris (Cardiff), ‘Delineating Beauty: On Form and The Limits of The Aesthetic’
Nemesio G. C. Puy (Madrid), ‘Performing past music: a twist on historical authenticity’
Merel Semeijn (Institut Jean Nicod), ‘Common belief and make-believe’
Daniel Star (Boston), ‘Artistic Rights’
Zoe Walker (Oxford), ‘Seeing the Funny Side: sexist humour, attention and harm’

POSTGRADUATE PAPERS
Alex Fisher (Cambridge), ‘Virtual Reality, Depiction, and Imagination’
Jean Gové (St Andrews), ‘We are Acquainted with Fictional Objects’
Alice Harberd (UCL), ‘Aesthetic Biases in Epistemic Evaluation’
Bin Liu (Manchester), ‘Depiction and Description: Embodying Differences in Degree’
Martino Manca (FINO), ‘The Thin Ice. The Uncanniness of Fourth Wall Breaking’
Madeleine Page (Leeds), ‘Facsimiles, Transparency, Ontology’

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Dawn Wilson (co-chair, Hull), Andrew Huddleston (co-chair, Warwick), Elisa Caldarola (Venice), Daisy Dixon (Cardiff), Julian Dodd (Leeds), Sacha Golob (KCL), Milena Ivanova (Cambridge), Errol Lord (UPenn), Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann (Uppsala), Tim Stoll (Birkbeck)

CONFERENCE EQUALITIES REPRESENTATIVES

Lisa Jones (St Andrews), Panos Paris (Cardiff)