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The ASA Eastern meeting will be held Friday-Saturday, April 12-13, 2024 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Center City. PROGRAM SCHEDULE: Word PDF April 10, 2024 Sarah Worth and Darren Hudson Hick are serving as co-chairs for the program. Sherri Irvin, University of Oklahoma will be the Keynote speaker. "Compliments as Power Plays" My interest in aesthetic phenomena in everyday life, especially related to human embodiment, has led me to ponder a popular form of aesthetic discourse: namely, compliments on physical appearance. While attributing a positive aesthetic character to someone or something seems on the surface like it should be unobjectionable, there are notorious examples of compliments that function, intentionally or unintentionally, to deliver a slight or to impose an unwanted relationship. I’ll argue that such examples should not be excluded from the category of compliments or treated as marginal; they are tied to some of the core features of the practice of complimenting. With a view to the empirical literature, I’ll argue that compliments encode forms of social power that can be pernicious, and that their seeming innocuousness facilitates the damage they can do. Then we’ll contemplate what a better practice of complimenting might look like.
David Davies, McGill University will be the Monroe C. Beardsley speaker, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Temple University. This will be at the Barnes Foundation. Tours of the Barnes will be available after the talk. His title: "Collingwood on ‘painting imaginatively’ and the expressive nature of the artwork.” Over the past quarter-century, a number of writers (e.g. Ridley 1997; Davies 2008) have tried to breathe new life into Collingwood’s views about art. They have done so by (a) disputing the ‘standard’ reading of Collingwood (e.g. Wollheim 1978) as one who holds an Idealistically grounded expression theory of art, and (b) offering alternative readings of those passages in the Principles that have fueled such interpretations of his views. In this paper, I begin by arguing that the Wollheimian reading of Collingwood rests on a more fundamental misunderstanding of the dialectical structure of the Principles. Even when this is corrected, however, there are residual difficulties confronting the Collingwood revivalist. In particular, it is unclear how it is possible for the receiver to appreciate the expressive content of an artwork given the most obvious reading of certain of his remarks in Book III. I attempt to resolve these difficulties by developing the idea, proposed in my 2008, that we take at face value Collingwood’s (neglected) claim that the work of art is identical to the expressive activity of the artist rather than being identical to the expressive product of that activity as both critics and defenders of Collingwood assume. We can, I argue, understand how artistic appreciation is possible on the Collingwood account presented in Book III of the Principles by understanding what Collingwood means when he talks about the painter as one who ‘paints imaginatively’. Map and Directions to the Barnes Foundation IRENE H. CHAYES TRAVEL GRANTS: Congratulations to Mary Gregg, Tareeq Jalloh, and Eric MacTaggart for receiving Irene H. Travel Grants to present their work at the meeting. REGISTRATION Please register on this web site with your credit card. We will not be able to accept cash or checks on-site. Regular (ASA Members)* - Early Bird (register by April 5): $110
- After April 5: $160
Regular (non-members) - Early Bird (register by April 5): $135
- After April 5: $185
Student and Unemployed (ASA Members)* (without a full-time academic appointment) - Early Bird (register by April 5): $55
- After April 5: $80
Student and Unemployed (non-members) (without a full-time academic appointment) - Early Bird (register by April 5): $80
- After April 5: $110
*To be shown the ASA Member rates when you register, be sure you have FIRST logged into your account on the ASA web page. LODGING: The deadline has passed for the discounted conference rate at our hotel. You can book at the public rates at the Doubletree. You can also try Expedia. GROUND TRAVEL RECOMMENDATIONS:
- From the Philadelphia Airport: take the Regional Rail service ($6.75 each way; credit cards at fare machines at station) to Suburban Station/City Hall. Walk south on Broad Street. Cab fare from Suburban Station to hotel: about $8. Alternatively, take Regional Rail to 30th Street Station and get a cab to the hotel. http://www.septa.org/welcome/airport.html
- From the Philadelphia Airport via taxi: estimated $30-$50, depending on traffic
- From 30th Street Train Station via subway: take the Market-Frankford subway line east to 15th St. Free Transfer to Broad St line south. Exit Walnut/Locust. Hotel is one block south on Broad Street. Fare: $2.50 (cash only-exact fare) https://www.septa.org/maps/
- From 30th Street Train Station via taxi: Estimated $11, although wide variance depending on traffic
The lovely B&B where the Division met many years ago burned to the ground in 2018. Although they have rebuilt, they have only one meeting room, which does not meet our needs. The Division had been happy with its meeting site at the Courtyard Marriott for 2018-2020. Unfortunately, the hotel is now "rebranded" and the division can no longer afford to meet there. We think you'll like the convenient location of the DoubleTree across the street from the Academy of Music and in the center of town. All of the ASA divisional meetings are organized by teams of volunteers. If you have attended several of these meetings, please step up to volunteer to help at a future meeting. Photo Gallery of the 2023 meeting
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