Location
The British Society of Aesthetics 50th Anniversary Annual Conference was held at Heythrop College, University of London 17-19 September, 2010.
Heythrop College is located in Kensington Square W8, one of the oldest squares in London in one of the loveliest sections of the city.
Programme
Programme Committee: Emily Brady (Edinburgh), Stacie Friend (Heythrop), Dominic McIver Lopes (UBC), Jason Gaiger (Open University)
Invited speakers:
– BSA/ASA Wollheim Memorial Lecture: Noël Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center)
– Keynote speaker: Jean-Marie Schaeffer (CNRS/EHESS)
– William Empson Lecture: Geoffrey Hill (Oxford Professor of Poetry). His Collected Critical Writings were published in 2008, and his three most recent volumes of poetry are A Treatise of Civil Power (2007), Selected Poems (2006) and Without Title (2006).
There was a special reception on the evening of Friday 17 September at the Royal College of Art to mark the Society’s 50th Anniversary.
FRIDAY 17TH SEPTEMBER
10:00 –12.00pm
Conference Registration/BSA Executive Committee Meeting
12.00 –12.45pm
Lunch
12.45 –1.00 pm
Conference Welcome
1.00 –2:30 pm
Session 1 KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Jean-Marie Schaeffer (CNRS/EHESS)
‘Aesthetic Relationship, Cognition and Pleasure’
2.30 –3.30 pm
Session 2 Derek Matravers (Open University) and Jill Isenberg (University of British Columbia)
‘Fiction, Action and Belief’
3:30 –4:00 pm
Coffee
4:00 –5:00 pm
Session 3 Bence Nanay (Syracuse University)
‘Aesthetic Attention’
5:00 –6:30 pm
Session 4 BSA/ASA
WOLLHEIM MEMORIAL LECTURE
Noël Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center)
‘Art Interpretation’
7:00 pm
50th Anniversary Reception at the Royal College
of Art
SATURDAY 18TH SEPTEMBER
Session 5
(a)
Graduate
Papers
Filippo Contesi (University of York)
‘Hume on Tragedy: Budd or Neill?’
Simone Neuber (University of Tübingen)
‘Thought Theorists’ Clandestine Beliefs’
9:00 –10:30am
Parallel Sessions
Session 5
(b)
Graduate Papers
Rafe McGregor (University of York)
‘Hutcheson’s Ontology of Beauty’
Paloma Atencia-Linares (University College London)
‘Fiction, Non-fiction and Deceptive Photographic Representation’
10:30 –11:00 am
Coffee
Session 6 (a)
Graduate Papers
Tavi Meraud (Humboldt University)
‘More than Meets the Eye: Art as Philosophy’
Dan Cavedon-Taylor (Birkbeck College)
‘Pictorial Testimony’
11:00 – 12:.30 pm
Parallel Sessions
Session 6 (b)
Graduate Papers
Ted Nannicelli (University of Kent)
‘Why Can’t Screenplays be Artworks: Thoughts for Noël Carroll’
Nola Semczyszyn (University of British Columbia)
‘X-ray Vision: Mediated Perception and Pictorial Transparency’
12:30 – 1:30 pm
Lunch
1:30 –
2:00 pm
BSA Annual General Meeting
2:00 – 3:00 pm
Session 7 James Shelley (Auburn University) ‘Tragic Truth’
3:00 – 3:30 pm
Coffee
3:30 –4:30 pm
Session 8
David Davies (McGill University) ‘When Art is not for Art’s Sake’
4:30 – 6.00 pm
Session 9
THE WILLIAM EMPSON LECTURE
Geoffrey Hill
‘Private Troubles and Publike Dyscrasy’: Geoffrey Hill Reads and Annotates his Recent Poetry.
6:00 – 7:00pm
Free time – cash bar open
7:00 pm
Conference Dinner
SUNDAY 19TH SEPTEMBER
9:00 –10:00 am
Session 10 María José Alcaraz-León (University of Murcia)
‘Can Damaged Nature Be Beautiful?’
10.00 – 11:00
Session 11 Dominic Gregory (University of Sheffield)
‘Expressing Pictorial Contents’
11:00 –11:30 pm
Coffee
11.30 – 12:30 pm
Session 12 BSA ESSAY PRIZE
James Grant (Oxford University)
‘Metaphor and Criticism’
12:30 –1:30 pm
Session 13 Eileen John (Warwick University)
‘Beauty and Heteronomy’
1:30 –2:30 pm
Lunch
2:30 pm Conference closes
Programme Committee: Emily Brady (University of Edinburgh), Stacie Friend (Heythrop College), Jason Gaiger
(Open University), Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Programme Chair: Stacie Friend