American Society For Aesthetics

ASA Pacific Meeting

2022 ASA Pacific Meeting, Berkeley City Club, March 18-19, 2022

	3/18/2022 to 3/19/2022
When:	March 18-19, 2022
Where:	Berkeley City Club 2315 Durant Avenue Berkeley, California 94704 United States
Contact:	American Society for Aesthetics ASAPacific2022@gmail.com

Online registration is closed.

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The 2022 ASA Pacific Meeting will be our final meeting at the beautiful Berkeley City Club, March 18-19, 2022.

The entire meeting will be in-person, both presenters and attendees.
For the next meeting, March 10-22, 2023, we will move to the Graduate Hotel Berkeley (formerly the Durant).

PROGRAM: Word Format PDF format (March 16, 2022)

Room change: All session on Friday and Saturday will be in the Member's Lounge (2nd floor)

CONGRATULATIONS to recipients of the Irene H. Chayes Travel grants for this meeting: Liam Barer (University College London), Tad Bratkowski (McKendree University), and Jens Dam Zuska (UCLA)

The Submission deadline has passed. If you are interested in serving as a commentator or chair, please contact the conference organizers at ASAPacific2022@gmail.com

Co-organizers for the 2022 meeting: Gemma Argüello Manresa and Jim Hamilton.

ASA Pacific Steering Committee: Renee Conroy (chair), Jim Hamilton, Jennifer Judkins, and Dom Lopes.

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

Regular:
- Early Bird (register by March 1): $150
- After March 1: $200

Students and Unemployed*:
- Early Bird (register by March 1): $80
- After March 1: $100

*Unemployed: If you do not have a full-time academic or professional appointment, you qualify for ASA Unemployed rates

MAIL-IN REGISTRATION FORM: https://aesthetics-online.org/resource/resmgr/conferences/registration_form_Pacific_2.docx

ZOOM Business meeting: Friday, March 25: 2:00 pm PST. All are welcome at no additional charge, but you must register on this site to be sent the ZOOM connection.

Keynote Speaker:

A.W. (Anne) Eaton will be the Keynote Speaker. Eaton is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Illinois-Chicago. She received her PhD from The University of Chicago in both philosophy and art history in 2003. She works on topics in feminism, aesthetics and philosophy of art, value theory, and Italian Renaissance painting. Her special interests include the epistemological and ontological status of aesthetic value, the relationship between ethical and artistic value, feminist critiques of pornography, representations of rape in the European artistic tradition, and artifact teleology. Professor Eaton was a Laurence Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton's Center for Human Values in 2005-6.

COVID PRECAUTIONS

In registering for this meeting, you agree that in order to comply with regulations of the city of Berkeley and the BCC, you must be fully vaccinated and bring with you proof of your vaccination. If you have a religious/medical waiver, you must bring documentation and have been tested less than 72 hours in advance of the meeting.
The Meeting will comply with all COVID precautions mandated by the City of Berkeley, which currently include masking AND proof of vaccination at all indoor public spaces.
For more information: https://www.visitberkeley.com/plan-your-trip/faqs/covid19-resources/
For international travelers entering the US for the meeting: https://travel.state.gov/content/travel/en/traveladvisories/ea/requirements-for-air-travelers-to-the-us.html
We recommend that you use an N95 mask for the best protection for yourself and others. For recommendations: Project N95

Lodging: We are renting meeting rooms only. Participants will be responsible for their own lodging.

Berkeley City Club: The BCC has lodging, but you are not required to stay there. Regular rates start at $235/night ($211.50/AAA/AARP). These rates include continental breakfast.
Hotels in Berkeley

Directions to the Berkeley City Club, 2315 Durant Avenue

BART and city bus
Map
Take BART from SFO ($10.30) or Oakland Airport ($9.30) to the Downtown Berkeley Station
Walk one block south to Shattuck and Allston.
Board a southbound bus: #6 or #51B
Bus fares: $2.50 adult $1.25 senior
RETURN to BART and SFO/Oakland
Walk one block north on Ellsworth to Bancroft Way
Westbound bus #51B or #52 to Downtown Berkeley BART station
Vans and taxis
Airport Express (shared van) from SFO: $60
Taxi fare from SFO: $75 (est)
Taxi fare from Oakland airport: $50 (est)
Car Service (up to 3): $155

Food and beverage at the meeting: As this is an historic hotel, food and beverage from outside are not permitted at the sessions (except for bottled water). We will have coffee/tea service available throughout the meeting. Lunch on your own both days.

Lunch restaurant recommendations:

Irene H. Chayes Travel Funds: The Division has $1000 in Irene H. Chayes Travel Funds for persons on the program (paper or panel presentations) without institutional travel funding. Please request these when you submit your paper. The allocations are made by the meeting organizers.

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 present throughout the meeting for informal conversations about the ASA's Policies on Harassment, Discrimination, and Respectful Behavior.

Policies for Accessibility at ASA Meetings