UPDATED Meeting Schedule Now Available (4/13/2021). Click here.

• To attend the meeting, advance registration is required, but no registration fee will be charged and ASA membership will not be required.
• To present your work at the meeting: ASA membership is required for everyone on the program. 

Due to COVID, the ASA Eastern meeting will be held virtually Friday-Saturday, April 16-17, 2021.

Keynote Speaker

The ASA Eastern Division is pleased to announce that Deena Skolnick Weisberg will be the Keynote Speaker at the 2021 virtual meeting. An Assistant Professor in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences at Villanova University, Professor Weisberg presented her work at a panel on Empirical Aesthetics at the ASA 78th Annual Meeting in November 2020. For more information on Professor Weisberg, click here

Monroe C. Beardsley Lecturer

The Temple University Department of Philosophy is sponsoring the Monroe C. Beardsley Lecture again this year. Richard Eldridge (Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Swarthmore College) will speak on "Aesthetic Authority: The Case of Lyric Poetry":

What, if anything, might even begin to motivate the thought that artists, and in particular poets, could be in competition with philosophers, politicians, and priests for the title to exercise authority over courses of cultural development? The mere fact that Homer once possessed such authority (later challenged by Plato) does not suffice to explain how and why that authority was accorded him, not does it suffice to explain how and why other forms of art might enjoy such authority or have a serious claim on our attention as human subjects attempting to cope with the demands of life. By looking at and developing some work on the theory and practice of lyric by Hegel and more recent lyric theorists, I will attempt to work out an answer to how and why lyric poetry, and by extension art, can and should possess authority for us.

The Submission deadline for papers has passed. 

Please feel free to direct questions to the Program Co-Chairs: Javier Gomez-Lavin (University of Pennsylvania) jglavin@sas.upenn.edu, Michel-Antoine Xhignesse (Capilano) michelxhignesse@capilanou.ca and David Clowney (davidclowney65@gmail.com)

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The lovely B&B where the Division met several years ago burned to the ground in 2018.  The Division has been happy with its meeting site at the Courtyard Marriott for 2018-2020. Unfortunately, the hotel is now "rebranding" and the division can no longer afford to meet there. We think you'll like the convenient location of the DoubleTree on Broad Street across the street from the Academy of Music and in the center of town. We expect to return there for our meetings in 2022-24, COVID willing!

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