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WELCOME TO THE 2025 EASA! (click the link above for helpful information and conference details (Word format)) Darren Hudson Hick (Furman University) (Darren.Hick@furman.edu) and Henry Pratt (Marist University) (henry.pratt@marist.edu) will serve as co-chairs
for the program. Program Committee: Craig Agule, Oscar Barragan, David Clowney, Laura DiSumma, Jim Hamilton, Jennifer Judkins, and Sandra Shapshay. Chayes Travel Grant Recipients: Congratulations to those who have received travel awards to present work at the meeting! The 2025 grant recipients are Mengfei Lu, Vincenzo Grasso and Marco Mattei, Kari Hanson-Park, Eric MacTaggart, and Leslie Polk.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE: Word PDF (updated April 22, 2025) The Katharine Everett Gilbert Memorial Lecture will be given by Ivan Gaskell (Bard Graduate Center). "Museums and their Values: Aesthetic Value, Artistic Value, Museum Art Value"
This lavishly illustrated lecture concerns the three values of the title inferable from the actions of museums of all kinds. The discussion of aesthetic value rests on the claim that humans can attend to anything in the phenomenal world in an aesthetic register. It proposes that artistic value is a composite value that those who use items as artworks ascribe to those items regardless of their circumstances. Artistic value differs from museum art value, for the latter is a value that museums alone are responsible for ascribing. The lecture discusses these three museum values on the understanding that value ascription is contingent and that to ask, "When is a (particular) value?" is likely to be more useful than to ask, "What is a (particular) value?" This is especially clear in the case of those many items imbued with one or more of the values under discussion that have crossed cultural boundaries. It offers the conclusion that aesthetic value, artistic value, and museum art value are like three searchlight beams that shine upward into the night sky, converging, overlapping, and clarifying, but also exhibiting bordering penumbras where illumination is diminished, and confusion occurs.
Garry Hagberg (Bard College) will be the Monroe C. Beardsley speaker, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy at Temple University. His talk will be entitled, "The Metaphorical Lens." It is evident that we can speak metaphorically, but can we see metaphorically? Beginning with a discussion of Aristotle's model of metaphorical meaning, this lecture will explore a number of the relations and analogies between linguistic and artistic meaning, with the idea of metaphorical meaning -- seeing one thing in the light of another -- at the center. We will see how a number of paintings, as we say, speak to us, and how they visually "speak" by awakening connotations and associations in the way that verbal metaphors do. At the end of the lecture we may be in a position to see how the intimacy that we can experience with a work of art closely resembles -- or indeed is modeled on -- the intimacy we can experience with a person through metaphorical discourse. This event will be held at the Barnes Foundation.
REGISTRATION: Register by clicking the red REGISTER button located in the top portion of this page. To get the ASA-member discounted rates, be sure to log into the ASA site BEFORE registering.
Regular (ASA Members)*
- Early Bird (register by April 15): $125
- After April 15: $170
Regular (non-members)
- Early Bird (register by April 15): $150
- After April 15: $200
Student and Unemployed (ASA Members)* (without a full-time academic appointment)
- Early Bird (register by April 15): $55
- After April 15: $80
Student and Unemployed (non-members) (without a full-time academic appointment)
- Early Bird (register by April 15): $80
- After April 15: $110
LODGING: We hope you will consider joining us at the Doubletree by Hilton. The room block with special rates for the ASA meeting is now sold out, but you can book rooms at their regular rates directly through the hotel website (link above) or through other third-party vendors.
MEETING PRINCIPLES, POLICIES, and GUIDELINES Organizing Principles for ASA Eastern Division
The ASA Policies on Discrimination, Harassment, and Respectful Behavior will be in effect for this meeting. The ASA Divisional Ombudsperson will be present throughout the meeting. Guidelines for Accommodations at ASA Meetings. If you have any kind of accommodation request, please email EasternASA2025@gmail.com.
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
All divisional meetings of the ASA are organized by teams of volunteers. If you have attended several conferences, please consider offering your talents to help make a future meeting happen!
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Co-organizer Southern and Eastern; ASA Trustee 2013-16; ASA speaker for 2018 summer institutes
JAAC Co-editor 2023-20227 Co-chair ASA 2022 Annual Meeting ASA Delegate to IAA 2020-22
