The ASA Eastern meeting will be held Friday-Saturday, April 21-22, 2023 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Center City. John Carvalho (Villanova University) and Sarah Worth (Furman University) will serve as co-chairs.

Welcome Letter to the 2023 Meeting

Program Schedule: Word   PDF   (4/18/2023)

If you would like to be the commentator or chair on a paper at the meeting, please contact the program co-chairs: john.carvalho@villanova.edu and sarah.worth@furman.edu

Lodging: The deadline for our discounted rates has passed, but rooms are still available at general public rates at our conference hotel, the Doubletree by Hilton on Broad Street. 

2023 Program Committee: Chris Bartel, Renee Conroy, Javier Gomez-Lavin, Darren Hick, Carolyn Korsmeyer, Sue Spaid

CONGRATULATIONS to Craig Agule, Tad Bradkowski, Mojca Kuplen, and Eric MacTaggert for being awarded travel grants to present their work at the meeting. Funds are provided by the Irene H. Chayes Travel Fund and the Eastern Division.

Commentator comments: Commentators should get comments to speakers at least one week before the meeting, if not earlier. Speakers should not make significant changes to their papers without notifying commentators well in advance of the meeting.

Keynote speaker: Yuriko Saito, born and raised in Japan, received her Ph. D. in Philosophy from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She taught at the Rhode Island School of Design for 37 years before stepping down in 2018. Her work in everyday aesthetics, environmental aesthetics, and Japanese aesthetics has appeared in a number of journals, book chapters, and encyclopedia entries, including "Aesthetics of the Everyday" in the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy and "Everyday Aesthetics," "Japanese Aesthetics - An Overview," and "Japanese Aesthetic Appreciation of Nature" in The Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press). Her Everyday Aesthetics (hardback 2008, paperback 2010) and Aesthetics of the Familiar: Everyday Life and World-Making (hardback 2017, paperback 2020) were both published by Oxford University Press. The latter was awarded the outstanding monograph prize by the American Society for Aesthetics in 2018. She also works as Editor of the first open-access, peer-reviewed journal, Contemporary Aesthetics. In addition, she was the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the British Society for Aesthetics Annual Conference in 2020. Her talk: "The Aesthetics of House Chores" Abstract

Monroe C. Beardsley Lecture: The Department of Philosophy at Temple University sponsors the Lecture, to be held at the Barnes Foundation on Friday, April 21. The speaker will be Paul C. Taylor, the W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at Vanderbilt University and the President of the American Society for Aesthetics. His talk: "Folding Away the Future: Grief, Art and Renewal." 

Lecture: 5:15-7:15
Reception in Annenberg Court and West Terrace 7:15 - 9:00
Docent Gallery Tours 7:15 – 8:00

ABSTRACT: In a reflection on what she calls “the future of time,” Toni Morrison discusses art that responds to moments of crisis with, as she puts it, “a mourning, a requiem, a folding away of the future.” She goes on to look for redemptive possibilities in expressive culture, on the grounds that “one looks to history for the feel of time [but] one looks to art for signs of its renewal.” This lecture will look for Morrison’s signs of renewal in some contemporary culture work, beginning (and perhaps ending) with the film “Wakanda Forever” and the New Museum’s “Grief and Grievance” exhibition.

BIO: Paul C. Taylor is W. Alton Jones Professor of Philosophy and Professor of African American and Diaspora Studies at Vanderbilt University. He received his undergraduate training at Morehouse College and his graduate training at the Kennedy School of Government and at Rutgers University. His research focuses primarily on aesthetics, the philosophy of race, American philosophy, and Africana philosophy. His books include Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics, which received the 2017 monograph prize from the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA), and Race: A Philosophical Introduction. He has recently launched the Racial Justice Humanities Lab at Vanderbilt and currently serves as the president of the ASA. 

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Photo Gallery: 2022 ASA Eastern Meeting

Evaluation of 2022 ASA Eastern Meeting

REGISTRATION  Please register on this web site with your credit card. We will not be able to accept cash or checks on-site.

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• Early Bird (register by April 14): $100
• After April 14: $150

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Policies on Harassment, Discrimination, and Respectful Behavior

The ASA Policies will be in effect for this meeting. The ASA Ombudsperson will be present throughout the meeting for informal conversations about the ASA's Policies on Harassment, Discrimination, and Respectful Behavior.

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Other meetings you might want to attend. You can attend all of them!

• ASA Pacific Meeting, Berkeley, CA: March 10-11, 2023
• ASA Rocky Mountain Meeting, Santa Fe, NM: July 7-9, 2023
• ASA Annual Meeting, Arlington, VA: November 15-18, 2023