British Society of Aesthetics

The BSA Conference 2009
The British Society of Aesthetics Conference will be held September 4th-6th 2009 at St Edmund Hall Oxford.

Speakers and Papers



British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference

St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
September 4th-6th, 2009

 

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.