The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Garry Hagberg will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the BSA Annual Conference at Oxford University, St Anne’s College, September 6-8, 2024.
Professor Hagberg is the James H. Ottaway Professor of Philosophy and Aesthetics at Bard College and has also held a chair in philosophy at the University of East Anglia. His books include: Meaning and Interpretation: Wittgenstein, Henry James, and Literary Knowledge; Art as Language: Wittgenstein, Meaning, and Aesthetic Theory; Describing Ourselves: Wittgenstein and Autobiographical Consciousness; and Living in Words: Literature, Autobiographical Language, and the Composition of Selfhood. Editor of nine volumes and author of over one hundred articles and book chapters, he has presented conference papers, invited presentations, and colloquia contributions internationally. Editor of the journal Philosophy and Literature since 2002, he has a number of new books in preparation; these volumes continue to develop his work on literature, the visual arts, music, and film, all considered in connection with the philosophy of language, the philosophy of mind, and ethics.
For more information about Professor Hagberg, click here.
For more information about Professor Wollheim, click here.
The Richard Wollheim Lecture is jointly sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics. The ASA nominates a lecturer to speak at the BSA annual conference in even years and the BSA nominates a lecturer to speak at the ASA annual meeting in odd years.
Previous Wollheim Lecturers:
2023: Elisabeth Schellekens
2022: Rachel Zuckert
2021: Matthew Kieran
2020: Yuriko Saito
2019: Eileen John
2018: Carolyn Korsmeyer
2017: Derek Matravers
2016: Susan Feagin
2015: Catherine Wilson
2014: Jenefer Robinson
2013: Gregory Currie
2012: Kendall Walton
2011: Berys Gaut
2010: Noël Carroll
2009: Peter Lamarque