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We are pleased that the 83rd Annual Meeting of the American Society for Aesthetics will be held in Baltimore, MD at the Lord Baltimore Hotel, October 22-25, 2025.
Jonathan Weinberg (University of Arizona) and Adriana Clavel-Vazquez (Tilburg University) have been appointed by the ASA Trustees as program co-chairs for the 83rd ASA Annual Meeting in 2025.
Program Committee: Sondra Bacharach, Sergio Gallegos, Shen-yi Liao, Sheila Lintott, Derek Matravers, Shelby Moser, Jeremy Page, Angela Sun.
Congratulations to Juan Carlos-Gonzalez and Mary Gregg, winners of this year's Irene H. Chayes New Voices Awards! Additional congratulations to Jacob Blitz, who has been awarded the Outstanding Student Paper Prize for his submission "Proleptic Contempt and Aesthetic Community."
| MEETING PROGRAM Program as of October 21, 2025 The final version of the meeting program is now available. You can now access the program on the Grupio App. Download Grupio on the App Store on your iPhone or Android Market on your Android and search for 'Aesthetics' to download the content or access it online. Tap ‘Speakers’ in the app to view presenters from recent conferences. If a speaker is participating this year, their session details will appear beneath their name. Guidelines for Session Chairs If you have any questions, please contact the organizers at ASA83rdannualmeeting@gmail.com.
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| SPECIAL SPEAKERS | 
Courtesy of the University of Kent | Richard Wollheim Lecture: Thursday, October 23 at 5:30 p.m.
"On the Twofoldness of (and in) Film" (abstract)
Reception to follow.
Murray Smith, University of Kent, will give this year's Richard Wollheim Lecture.
Murray Smith is Professor of Philosophy, Art, and Film, and Director of the Aesthetics Research Centre. Murray joined the University of Kent in 1992 and became Professor in 2000. He has served as Director of Research for the Faculty of Humanities (2008-11), Deputy Divisional Director of Research for Interdisciplinarity (2021-2), Deputy Head of the School of Arts (2022-3), REF Co-ordinator for the School of Arts (2011-17), Head of Film (1999-2003, 2007-8), and Director of Research for Drama, Film, and Visual Arts (2001-4). He was a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2005-6), a Laurence E. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University’s Centre for Human Values (2017-18), and President of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (2014-7).
|  | Arthur C. Danto Memorial Lecture: Friday, October 24 at 5:30 p.m.
Reception to follow.
Michael Lamason, Executive Director and Founder of the Black Cherry Puppet Theater, will give this year's Arthur C. Danto Memorial Lecture.
Michael Lamason is executive director and a founder of Baltimore’s Black Cherry Puppet Theater. Now in its 45th year, it is a collective of artists and performers pursuing three goals, to excel at the art of the puppet, to make puppetry accessible to the widest audience, and to use it as an educational tool. Performing before thousands, they have produced more than fifty shows, as well as developing robust educational and community arts programs, immersing students in puppetry-based learning experiences. The theater is a hub of its Southwest Baltimore neighborhood, hosting performances from local, national, and international puppeteers and musicians. (Bio originally posted on Creative Alliance.)
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| LODGING We hope you will join us at the Lord Baltimore Hotel. Rooms (single or double) are only $199. You will receive our reservation link when you register for the meeting. The ASA's room block officially closed September 27, 2025. However, the Lord Baltimore will continue to honor the conference rate of $199 (with the booking code) until rooms at the hotel are sold out. The Lord Baltimore Hotel is infused with 2,500 original works of art in the guest rooms and public spaces. Learn more about in-house artists and exhibits around the hotel. A tour of the hotel's art offerings will be available during the lunch break on Friday, October 24. The tour will begin in the lobby at 2 p.m. and will last approximately 45 minutes. It will be available to the first 20 people to queue up. On Friday and Saturday night, the hotel will also be offering a late night Ghost Tour and a Magic Show (in the Maryland Room). Be sure to check at the front desk for times and prices! |  Courtesy of the Lord Baltimore |
| REGISTRATION and MEETING RATES
To register for the meeting and special events, use the red "REGISTER" button above (located immediately to the right of the basic conference information).
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Mail-in registration form (checks in US dollars only): PDF | ASA MEMBER
(Early bird registration ended September 27) Member 3-day: $225
Member 1-day: $120
Student/unemployed member 3-day: $105
Student/unemployed member 1-day: $60 The Welcoming and Feminist Caucus Lunches are now sold out. | NON-MEMBER OF ASA*
(Early bird registration ended September 27)
Non-Member 3-day: $335
Non-Member 1-day: $190
Student/unemployed non-member 3-day: $175
Student/unemployed non-member 1-day: $105 The Welcoming and Feminist Caucus Lunches are now sold out.
*the prices for non-members will be displayed if a member is not logged in |
Land Acknowledgment It is befitting that, as educators, we acknowledge the history of the places where we hold our events. The ASA's 83rd Annual Meeting will be held on land historically co-inhabited by Iroquoian-speaking Susquehannock peoples, Algonquian-speaking peoples of the Cedarville Band of the Piscataway Conoy, Piscataway Indian Nation, and Piscataway Conoy Tribe. During the second half of the 17th century, the growing tension over these lands between European settlers and Piscataway tribes and bands led to the drafting of a treaty between Lord Baltimore (our hotel’s namesake) and tribal leadership, which would be eventually broken by English settlers. Recognized by the governor of Maryland in the last decade, both the Susquehannock peoples and Piscataway peoples have generational ties to the land that have endured this violent dispossession. For more information, see: Maryland Manual On-Line. (This statement was adapted with permission from the History of Education Society.)
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