Programme
All sessions on Warwick campus, in Social Sciences 0.20 (aka S0.20 – campus map)
Friday 6 June 2025
10.00-10.30: Welcome and Coffee/Tea
10.30-12.00: Zach Weinstein (Auburn), ‘Celebration: What It Is and Why It Matters’
Respondents: Karen Simecek (Warwick) and David Bather Woods (Warwick)
12.05-13.35: Diarmuid Costello (Warwick), ‘Die Schönheit des Mittelmenschen: Stephan Balkenhol’s Everyday Beauty’
Respondent: Eileen John (Warwick)
13.35-14.30: Lunch
14.30-16.10: Clara Campuzano Gómez (Murcia), ‘Do Reasons Matter? On Liking the Same Things for the Same Reasons’
Francesca D’Alessandris (Geneva): ‘Aesthetic Discourse without Aesthetic Community’
16.10-16.30: Coffee/Tea
16.30-18.00: Eliza Little (Warwick), ‘Beauvoir and the Aesthetic Lives of Others’
Respondent: Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn): ‘Beauvoir on the Miracle of Literature’
Workshop Dinner for all speakers
Saturday 7 June
10.00-11.30: John Dyck (Auburn), ‘Aesthetic Value and the Ambitions of Realism’
Respondent: James MacDowell (Warwick)
11.30-11.50: Coffee/Tea
11.50-13.20: James Shelley (Auburn), ‘The Aesthetic is Essentially Public.’
Respondent: Alice Harberd (UCL)
13.20-14.10: Lunch
14.10-15.00: Elizabeth Cantalamessa (St. Bonaventure), ‘Aesthetic Communities and Art-Appreciative Injustice’
15.00-15.20: Coffee/Tea
15.20-16.50: Arata Hamawaki (Auburn), ‘Aesthetic Community, Aesthetic Autonomy, and Aesthetic Renewal’
Respondent: Joseph Kassman-Tod (Cal State Fullerton, online)
16.50-17.30: Closing Discussion and Reception