The British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference
6-8 September 2024, St Anne’s College, Oxford
A confirmed schedule with timings is available HERE.
KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Garry Hagberg (Bard College): ‘The Structure of Metaphor and the Meaning of (at least some) Art’
Jennifer Saul (Waterloo) & Raymond Drainville (Waterloo): ‘Can’t Unsee: Visual Dogwhistles Without Deniability’
EMPSON LECTURER
Akram Khan, MBE (Choreographer & Dancer)
INVITED SYMPOSIUM
A.W. Eaton (Illinois), Tareeq Jalloh (Sheffield), Shirley Anne Tate (Alberta): ‘Aesthetics & Oppression’
BSA ESSAY PRIZE WINNER
Jeremy Page (Uppsala), ‘Artistic Honesty’
SYMPOSIA
‘Philosophical Issues in Recent Photography and Photographically Derived Imagery’
Claire Anscomb (De Montfort)
Diarmuid Costello (Warwick)
Vid Simoniti (Liverpool)
‘Taste, Fiction, and Agency in Chinese Aesthetics’
James Harold (Mount Holyoke College)
Hannah Kim (Arizona)
Dominic McIver Lopes (British Columbia)
Davide Andrea Zappulli (British Columbia)
‘The Philosophy of Non-Fiction’
Paloma Atencia-Linares (UNED)
Filippo Contesi (Milan)
Stacie Friend (Edinburgh)
Enrico Terrone (Genoa)
REGULAR PAPERS
Zed Adams (New School for Social Research), ‘Recordings of Recordings, Pictures of Pictures’
Adriana Clavel-Vázquez (Tilburg), ‘Towards a Decolonial Universalism in Aesthetics’
David Collins (Churchill College, Cambridge), ‘Nominal and Substantive Senses of Art’
Guy Dammann (Uppsala), ‘Creativity in Art Criticism’
Patrik Engisch (Geneva), ‘Creativity that Matters’
Alice Helliwell (Northeastern University London), ‘Artificial Intelligence and Creativity: Can AI Create With Flair?’
Milena Ivanova (Cambridge), ‘The Real Problem with AI Art’
Joseph Kassman-Tod (Berkeley), ‘The ‘Poetic’ Quality of Art Criticism’ (New Horizons award winner, 2024)
Irene Martínez Marín (Uppsala), ‘On the Varieties of Aesthetic Autonomy: Acquaintance, Competence, and Authenticity’
Madeline Martin-Seaver (South Florida), ‘Self-Objectification as Self Preservation’
Colette Olive (Cambridge), ‘Art as Journalism – A New Framework for Socially Engaged Art’
Asmus Trautsch (Greifswald), ‘Aesthetic Appreciation of Sustainable Gardens in Support of Creating a Planetary Garden’
Freya Wynne (Cardiff), ‘A New Lens – Exploring Technology’s Impact on Our Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature’
POSTGRADUATE PAPERS
Sophie Cote (New York University) ‘Adrian Stokes on ‘Art Twice Over’
Vincenzo Grasso (Milan & Genoa), ‘The Aspectuality of Literary Works’
Alice Harberd (UCL), ‘Rich Narrativity’
Artur Harris (Oxford) ‘How Aesthetic Value May Not Be a Kind of Value’
Edit Karlsson (Uppsala), ‘Minimalist Semantics and Aesthetic Utterances’
Camilla Palazzolo (Genoa), ‘Contemporary Art and the Challenge of Conservation’
Victor Popa (Ecole Normale Supérieure), ‘Mapping Fictional Truth: A New Classification of Fictional Truths’
Irene Romero Suárez (Birkbeck), ‘Do Inaccuracies Matter in Fiction?’
Emily Williamson (Central European University), ‘The Cognitive Value of Discrepant Affective Responses to Artworks’
PROGRAMME COMMITTEE
Daisy Dixon (co-chair, Cardiff), Panos Paris (co-chair, Cardiff), María José Alcaraz León (Murcia), Ryan P. Doran (Barcelona), Miguel F. Dos Santos (Uppsala), Andrew Huddleston (Warwick), Milena Ivanova (Cambridge), Aaron Meskin (Georgia), Monique Roelofs (Amsterdam), and Sandra Shapshay (CUNY).
CONFERENCE EQUALITIES REPRESENTATIVES
Adriana Clavel-Vázquez (Tilburg), and Karen Simecek (Warwick).