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The ASA Rocky Mountain Division will meet in Santa Fe, NM at the Drury Plaza Hotel July 7-9, 2023. PROGRAM SCHEDULE (July 8, 2023) KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Sophie Labelle is a French-Canadian cartoonist, writer, and activist whose work focuses largely on transgender identity, transgender history, and transfeminism. She is the writer and illustrator of the Assigned Male webcomic (2014 — present) as well as numerous zines, children's books, coloring books, and novels—including A Girl Like Any Other (2013), The Genderific Coloring Book (2015), and Wish Upon a Satellite (2022). The second novel in Labelle's Ciel series, Ciel in All Directions (2020), was selected as one of the Banks Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year. Nick Riggle is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. He holds a PhD in philosophy from New York University and a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. His first book was On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck (Penguin, 2017). His second, co-authored with Dominic MacIver Lopes and Bency Nanay, was Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters (Oxford, 2022). His third book, This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive, will be published later this year by Hachette. A/V: We will have a projector in all session rooms. Please plan to hook up your own laptop. Especially if you have a Mac, please bring the dongles you need to hook up to the projector. We might not have reliable internet, so please don't plan on retrieving it from the Cloud. If you are using hand-outs, please bring those with you. Xeroxing at the hotel is prohibitively expensive. MEETING REGISTRATION: The registration rates are the same as in 2022. Register on-line by clicking the red REGISTER button on this site, upper-right. To get the student or retired rate, be sure to log into this ASA web site FIRST. Regular Registration: $135 (early-bird rate, up to one week prior to conference; $5 surcharge after June 30 and for onsite registration)
Emeritus Faculty, Students, Unemployed*: $75 (early-bird rate, up to one week prior to conference; $5 surcharge after June 30 and for onsite registration)
To register for the conference, please click the red REGISTER button in the upper-right of this page.
*Unemployed: For those who do not have a full-time professional or academic appointment. LODGING: Unfortunately, all the rooms in our lodging block are booked. Rooms are available at a much higher public rate. https://www.druryhotels.com/locations/santa-fe-nm/drury-plaza-hotel-in-santa-fe We suggest you try Expedia.com to see what else is available in the area. The meeting is being organized by the RMD officers:
Antony Aumann, President
Lee Cray, Vice-President
Evan Malone, Secretary
Jeremy Killian, Past-President Oga Po'geh Prize: The Rocky Mountain Division of the ASA is pleased to announce that Juan Carlos Gonzalez has won the Oga Po'geh Prize for the best paper on Latinx and/or Native American indigenous art practice and cultural thought submitted to the RMD annual meeting. His paper, "Kant, Vasconcelos, and the Role of Aesthetics in Early 20th Century Mexican Politics," will be presented at the RMD meeting in Santa Fe July 7-9, 2023. The prize is $500 and waived registration for the meeting. Funding for the prize was donated by senior members of the Division. Gonzalez is a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego. The ASA Rocky Mountain Division is pleased to announce the winners of Travel Grants and Graduate Essay Awards. Funding for the Travel grants has been provided by the Irene H. Chayes Travel Fund and the Center for Philosophical Studies at Lamar University, directed by Arthur Stewart. The funding for the Graduate Essay Awards also has been provided by the Center for Philosophical Studies. Travel Grants have been awarded to: - Wendy Bustamante, Texas A & M University
- Logan Canada-Johnson, University of Southern California
- Kaeleigh Damico, University of Tennessee, Knoxville
- Juan Carlos Gonzalez, University of California San Diego
- Sukhvinder Shahi, CUNY Graduate Center
- Spencer Ivy, University of Utah
CPS Essay Prize Awards of $200 each have been awarded to: - Chenyu Bu, University of Texas, Austin, for “Reviving Musical Platonism”
- Kaeleigh Damico, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, for “Beautiful Disaster? Ugly Nature and Natural Disasters”
- Juan Carlos Gonzalez, University of California, San Diego, for “Kant, Vasconcelos, and the role of Aesthetics in Early 20th-Century Mexican Politics”
- Emma Heflin, University of Utah, for “Descending the Ladder: The Platonic Aesthetics of Simone Weil”
- Spencer Ivy, University of Utah, for “Expertise Isn’t Flying” It’s Falling with Style: The Diagnostic Function of Style for Skill”
- Sukhvinder Shahi, CUNY Graduate Center, for “Bites and Scratches: The Paradox of Tragedy and Rasa”
The awards will be presented at the business meeting and luncheon on Saturday, July 8, 2023, at the Drury Plaza, Santa Fe, NM.
Opera Lovers: The Santa Fe Opera is performing Wagner's The Flying Dutchman and
Puccini's Tosca during the meeting. Rocky Mountain Division Travel Funds: The Rocky Mountain Division needs your help to provide travel grants for people with accepted papers or panel presentations, who do not have institutional travel support. ASA is a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization and donations are tax deductible. To donate, click here.
Irene H. Chayes Travel Fund: ASARMD will have $1000 (total) provided by the American Society for Aesthetics to support travel to the meeting for persons with papers
accepted for the program who have no other access to professional travel funds at their teaching institution(s) during the academic year.
To be eligible for a travel grant from these funds:
• You must be a member of ASA in good standing
in the calendar year of the paper submission and presentation and you must register for the meeting.
• Eligible persons include faculty members, independent scholars, and students.
Travel Suggestions
Airports: Santa Fe is well-served by both the Santa Fe and Albuquerque airports.
Trains: Amtrak has service to Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
Ground Travel: Major shuttle services from the Albuquerque airport (e.g.,
Groome) will drop you off and pick you up right at the hotel.
ASA Rocky Mountain By-laws
ASA Rocky Mountain Division History
Policies on Discrimination, Harassment, and Respectful Behavior
The ASA Policies (effective
July 12, 2019) will be in effect for this meeting. The ASA Ombudsperson will be represented throughout the meeting.
Policies for Accessibility at ASA Meetings
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