The ASA is pleased to announce that the 80th Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics will be held in Portland, Oregon, November 16-19, 2022. Our hotel, Embassy Suites by Hilton,  is a member of the Historic Hotels of America . This is not your parents' Embassy Suites! Originally built in 1912, it has hosted nine US Presidents, Charles Lindbergh, and Elvis Presley. It was restored in 1977 and features beautiful architectural details throughout.

PHOTO GALLERY OF 2022 ANNUAL MEETING

PROGRAM SCHEDULE: Word format   PDF format  (as of November 15, 2022)

PILOT ZOOM SESSION on Friday, free to all: https://aesthetics-online.org/news/620274/ASA-Announces-Pilot-Zoom-Session-at-Annual-Meeting.htm

Quick-Fire Presentations Announced: https://aesthetics-online.org/news/612738/Quick-fire-Presentations-Announced-for-ASA-Annual-Meeting.htm

COVID REQUIREMENTS FOR NON-US CITIZENS: If you are not a US citizen, you might be required to show proof of vaccination to enter the US. A negative test is not required. For complete information: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/travelers/proof-of-vaccination.html

COVID RESTRICTIONS IN PORTLAND: Although Portland does not have a mask mandate, individual businesses are allowed to require masks and/or proof of vaccination. It is recommended that you carry a mask, just in case. For more information: https://www.travelportland.com/plan/covid-19/

If you are interested in serving as a commentator or session chair, please contact the meeting co-chairs: Sandra Shapshay (ss9432@hunter.cuny.edu) and Nils-Hennes Stear (nstear@umich.edu).

The Program Co-Chairs for the meeting are Sandra Shapshay and Nils-Hennes Stear. Shapshay is Professor of Philosophy at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center and the ASA's representative to the International Aesthetics Association. Stear, Universität Hamburg, previously served as co-chair of the ASA Diversity Committee. Both have previously served on program committees for the Annual Meeting.

Program Committee: 

• Adriana Clavel-Vázquez, University of Oxford
• Michalle Gal, Shenkar College
• Arata Hamawaki, Auburn University
• Robert Hopkins, New York University
• Hannah Kim, Macalester College
• Alex Neill, University of Southampton
• Panos Paris, Cardiff University
• Michael Thomas, Susquehanna University

The deadline for submissions has passed. If you are interested in serving as a commentator or session chair, please contact the meeting co-chairs: Sandra Shapshay (ss9432@hunter.cuny.edu) and Nils-Hennes Stear (nstear@umich.edu).

Original Peoples Acknowledgment

Arthur Danto Memorial Lecture 

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce that Tamara Levitz, Professor of Comparative Literature and Musicology and Director of Graduate Studies at UCLA, will give the Arthur Danto Memorial Lecture at the 80th ASA Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon. The lecture will be presented Friday, November 18 at 5:30 pm at the conference hotel, followed by a reception in her honor. Her topic: "Black Reconstruction in the American Society for Aesthetics."

Professor Levitz works extensively on musical and literary modernism, and in 2013 won the Otto Kinkeldey Award of the American Musicological Society for her monograph Modernist Mysteries: Perséphone. Since that time, she has researched structures of white supremacy and racial exclusion in the formation of the music disciplines in the United States. Her engagement with the aesthetics of music began when she was an M.A. student in Berlin in the 1980s, and most recently led her to write the article on the “Twentieth-Century” for the Oxford Handbook of Western Music and Philosophy and to engage with Benjamin Piekut in a dialogue on “Vernacular Avant-Garde: A Speculation” (https://asapjournal.com/the-vernacular-avant-garde-a-speculation-tamara-levitz-and-benjamin-piekut/ ). She is currently working on a monograph on Settler Colonial Humanists and the Racial Foundations of Comparison, which will engage with the history of Comparative Musicology and Comparative Literature.  

For more information on Professor Levitz: https://complit.ucla.edu/person/tamara-levitz/

Presidential Address:  Professor David Davies, Professor of Philosophy, McGill University, and ASA President (2021-2023), will deliver the Presidential Address on Thursday, November 17: 'Nine explananda in search of an explanans'

Book Displays: We are very pleased that Bloomsbury Publishing and Hackett Publishing will have display tables on the mezzanine near the registration desk. We hope you will take time to visit them and see their offerings. We will have a table available near the registration desk where you can leave flyers, samples, etc. of your own publications and events.

Lodging at the conference hotel: We hope you will join us at the conference hotel, the Embassy Suites by Hilton. The deadline has passed for our discounted conference rate, but rooms at public rates are still available. 

Mentoring Breakfast: If you are interested in the ASA Mentoring program, either as a volunteer mentor or mentee, you are cordially invited to the Mentoring Breakfast, hosted by James Harold and Keren Gorodeisky, directors of the Mentoring Project. The Breakfast will be held on Friday from 7:30-9:00 am and is free of charge to all ASA members. Sign up when you register for the meeting.

Luncheons

Thursday, November 17

Welcoming luncheon. Sponsored by the ASA Diversity Committee, this is a catered meal especially designed with the purpose of integrating newcomers and fostering connections between attendees.

• Everyone is welcome and encouraged to attend.
• $15 regular ASA member; $25 for non-ASA members; $5 for student/unemployed ASA members.
• Regardless of price, everyone who wishes to attend, must pre-register on the ASA registration site.
• Registration for this luncheon will close on Sunday, November 13, as we are required to give a firm headcount to the hotel.
• The luncheon will offer a buffet with vegetarian and vegan offerings. If you have other special dietary needs, please contact: secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org
• Register when you register for the meeting. If you have already registered, you can amend your registration to add the luncheon by logging in again.

Friday, November 18

The Feminist Caucus Committee will meet for lunch on Thursday, November 18.

• Everyone is welcome. You do not need to be a member of FCC.
• $15 regular ASA member; $25 for non-ASA members; $5 for student/unemployed ASA members.
• Regardless of price, everyone who wishes to attend, must pre-register on the ASA registration site.
• Registration for this luncheon will close on Sunday, November 13, as we are required to give a firm headcount to the hotel.
• The luncheon will offer a buffet with vegetarian and vegan offerings. If you have other special dietary needs, please contact: secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org
• Register when you register for the meeting. If you have already registered, you can amend your registration to add the luncheon by logging in again.

Saturday, November 19

• Annual Business Meeting and Buffet luncheon. All registered participants at the meeting are welcome.
• Prize winners in 2022 and candidates for trustee and vice-president will be introduced and are urged to attend.
• The cost of this luncheon is included in your meeting registration.
• Please indicate your planned attendance on the meeting registration form

Contactless ASA Annual Meeting

• We will no longer accept checks or cash for on-site registration. Please register on the ASA web site with your credit card.
• We will not provide print programs. If you prefer print, please print it out yourself from our web site.
• The ASA program is also available on our app Grupio, free from Playstore and AppleStore. Search "aesthetics" for our meeting.

Audio-Visual in the Session Rooms

• As at past ASA meetings, each session room will have a projector and screen.
• Presenters are responsible for providing the laptop to hook up to the projectors.
• It is recommended that session chairs arrange for one laptop for the session with everyone bringing their presentation on a thumb drive
• Each session room will have free wifi at 5 Mbps

The ASA meeting app Grupio

• download the free app from the Apple Store or Google Playstore
• If you already have the app, please uninstall and reinstall so you can access the new content for 2022
• search for "aesthetics" and you will find the 2022 meeting
• We have added several features, including abstracts for each session
• We can include handouts for each session which people can open on the app. Send yours to secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org
• On your laptop.http://www.grupio.com/asa2022 has the identical content

Ground Travel in Portland:

• Light rail:  Red line Max from airport to Skidmore Fountain Station-$2.50. Walk 0.2 miles: 
  • Map: PDX Airport to Skidmore Fountain Station
  • Map: walk from Skidmore Fountain Station to Embassy Suites
• Light rail: Orange line Max from Amtrak Union Station to hotel: $2.50 Map
• Taxi: from airport to hotel: about $50, depending on traffic
  • If you want to share a taxi, exit at the baggage claim area and head to island 3 adjacent to the parking garage to look for other ASA members
• Taxi: from Amtrak Union Station (800 NW 6th Ave) to hotel: about $8

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of Irene H. Chayes Travel Grants for 2022: Larissa Berger, "Michael" Cunningham, Nicholas Diehl, Christian Kronsted, Evan Malone, Ben Roth

CONGRATULATIONS to the winners of Friends of ASA Travel Grants for 2022: John Gibson, Jennifer Lena, Zoe Lescaze, Darren Naish, Gilbert Plumer, Elizabeth Scarbrough

CONGRATULATIONS to Thomas Cantone, winner of the outstanding student paper for his paper, entitled "Kant on the Ground of Aesthetic Norms," to be presented at the 80th Annual Meeting of the ASA in Portland on Saturday, November 19 at 11:15 am.

CONGRATULATIONS to the Student Presenters receiving Travel Grants to present their work at the meeting: Steffen Andrae, Andriy Bilenkyy, Joshua Brecka, Thomas Cantone, Chris Earley, Eskil Elling, Samuel Filby, Alex Fisher, Alice Harberd, Lucia Jimenez Sanchez, Jenny Judge, Babak M. Khoshroo, Emily Lawson, Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė, Montaque Reynolds, Sukhvinder Shahi, Nicholas Whittaker

Travel Support: The ASA Trustees voted on May 26, 2022, to increase all travel grants for the annual meeting to $1400.

Requests for travel support must be made when the paper or panel proposal is submitted.

TRAVEL GRANTS: Word Format    PDF Format

IRENE H. CHAYES TRAVEL GRANTS: For the 2022 Annual Meeting, six travel grants of $1,400 USD each were available to support travel to the annual meeting for persons with papers or panel presentations accepted for the program who have no other access to travel funds at their institution(s) during the academic year.

FRIENDS OF ASA TRAVEL GRANTS: For the 2022 Annual Meeting, funds raised by the Friends in increments of $1,400 USD each were be available to support travel to the annual meeting for persons with papers or panel presentations accepted for the program who have no other access to travel funds at their institution(s) during the academic year. As of January 2022, the Friends have in hand sufficient funds for six travel grants of $1,400 USD each. Additional grants will be made depending on the success of 2022 fund-raising by the Friends. 

The program committee makes the final decisions on which persons receive Chayes or Friends travel grants, consistently with guidelines set by the Trustees. If more persons with accepted papers are eligible than available funding, the committee decided which, based on merit, programmatic, and diversity priorities, should get the awards 

IRENE H. CHAYES NEW VOICES AWARDS: Two awards of $1,000 USD each plus travel grants of $1,400 to the annual meeting will be made. Complete application information:  https://aesthetics-online.site-ym.com/page/chayesprize

STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS: All full-time students with papers accepted for the program will receive a travel grant of $1,400 to support travel to the annual meeting. There is no upper limit on the number of these grants.

ADDITIONAL TRAVEL SUPPORT: Travel support is provided by ASA for ASA Editors, Program Committee members, and prize winners. If you are eligible, you will be contacted by ASA with reimbursement claim forms. If you have questions about your eligibility, please contact secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org

Please direct any questions to the Secretary-Treasurer at secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org

REGISTRATION:

Mail-in registration (checks in US dollars only): PDF Format

Highlights of Portland:

• Safety in Portland: FAQ
• Portland Public Safety Resources
• Powell's Books: the largest independent bookstore in the US 
• Voodoo Doughnuts
• Mother's Bistro and Bar (restaurant in the hotel)
• Pine Street Market (food court one block east of hotel)
• Public Transportation: Light-rail from the airport, street cars, buses
• Travel Portland: Tourist Bureau
• Portland Art Museum
• Portland Institute for Contemporary Art
• Historic Black Williams Project
• Portland Symphony Orchestra
• Oregon Ballet Theatre
• Portland Opera
• Amtrak train service to Portland
• Portland International Airport

Subsidies and Registration Waivers

• Day Care Subsidies
• Registration waivers  for local Minority Serving Institutions
• Registration Waiver Policies

Policies on Discrimination, Harassment, and Respectful Behavior

The revised ASA Policies (effective July 12, 2019) will be in effect for this meeting. The ASA Ombudsperson will be present throughout the meeting.

Policies for Accessibility at ASA Meetings

• Guidelines for Presenters at ASA Meetings
• Guidelines for Accommodations at ASA Meetings  
• Guidelines for Session Chairs
  
  

Policies on Meeting Cancellations and Registration Refunds

The ASA Board of Trustees adopted policies on meeting cancellations and registration refunds which went into effect in 2018. The policies can be found here. If you cancel more than 30 days before the start of the meeting, you will receive a full refund of your registration. Hotel bookings can be cancelled up to 72 hours before check-in without penalty.