The ASA Pacific Division is pleased to announce that the 2024 Meeting will be held at the Graduate Berkeley Hotel March 8-9, 2024.

Preliminary Program  Word  PDF   March 4, 2024

If you are interested in serving as a chair or commentator, please contact the Program chair. 

• Program chair: Mary Beth Willard, Weber State University (mbwillard@gmail.com)
• ASA Pacific Steering Committee: Renee Conroy (Chair), A.W. Eaton, Jennifer Judkins, Peg Brand Weiser
  

CONGRATULATIONS to Chenyu Bu, Claudia Cano, Francesca D'Allessandris and Tareeq Jalloh, winners of the 2024 Irene H. Chayes Travel Grants to present their work at the meeting. 

• The Pacific Division is raising funds to provide additional travel grants for people with accepted papers or panel presentations, who do not have institutional travel support. All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. A long-time member of the Pacific Division has donated $500 for the 2024 meeting. To donate, click here.

The Peter Kivy Keynote Address will be given by Dominic McIver Lopes, the University Killam Professor of Philosophy, University of British Columbia: "How to Be a Pluralist"

Registration:  The Pacific division of the ASA is pleased to offer free registration to full-time students and those without a full-time academic or  professional appointment who are not on the 2024 program as a presenter, commentator, or session chair. Registration is still required:

• To register for the Audience only/Waiver: send an email to secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org with your name, email, and institutional affiliation (if any).
• All others should register by clicking the red REGISTER button in the upper-right of this page.

Early Bird (Deadline February 26):

• Regular: $150
• Full-time Student/Unemployed*: Program Participants: $80
• Full-Time Student/Unemployed: audience Only: Waived
  

Regular (After February 26)

• Regular: $200
• Full-Time Student/Unemployed: Program Participants*: $100
• Full-Time Student/Unemployed: audience only: Waived
  

*Unemployed: those without a full-time academic or professional appointment

ON-SITE REGISTRATION: We are not able to accept checks or cash for on-site registration. Please register on-line with your credit card.

Lodging:  The deadline has passed for lodging at our conference rate at the Graduate Hotel. Rooms at the public rate are still available. For hotel rooms in Berkeley for those dates via Expedia, click here. 

Directions to the Graduate Hotel, 2600 Durant Avenue

• BART and city bus
  
• Map
  
• Take BART from SFO ($11.25) or Oakland Airport ($10.15) to the Downtown Berkeley Station
• Walk one block south to Shattuck and Allston.
• Board a southbound bus: #51B or 79
• Bus fares:  $2.50 adult  (cash or Clipper Card)
• RETURN to BART and SFO/Oakland
• Walk one block north on Bowditch to Bancroft Way
• Westbound bus #51B or #52 to Downtown Berkeley BART station
• Vans and taxis
  
• Taxi fare from SFO: $85 (est)
• Taxi fare from Oakland airport: $55 (est)
• Car Service (up to 3): $160

CALL FOR PAPERS: Word PDF The deadline for submissions has passed. If you would like to be a commentator or chair, please contact the program chair.

• Photo Gallery: 2023 Pacific Division Meeting
• Evaluation of 2023 Pacific Meeting

Travel Funds: 

•  The Division had $1000 (total) from the Irene H. Chayes Travel Fund to support travel for presenters (papers or panel presentations) without institutional travel support.
• The Pacific Division is raising funds to provide additional travel grants for people with accepted papers or panel presentations, who do not have institutional travel support. All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. A long-time member of the Pacific Division has already donated $500 for the 2024 meeting. To donate, click here.
  

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.

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