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The ASA Rocky Mountain Division will meet in Santa Fe, NM at the Drury Plaza Hotel July 18-20, 2025. PROGRAM: PDF (as of July 18, 2025) Please print the program for yourself if you would like a hardcopy. The meeting is being organized by the RMD officers:
- Emmie Malone, President
- Bethany Henning, Vice-President
- Jamie Dow, Secretary
- Ley David Elliette Cray, Past-President
The division is pleased to announce that Keliy Anderson-Staley will be the giving the 2025 Michael Manson Presentation by a Visiting Artist. TITLE: "Barn Razing: Art From Ashes" ABSTRACT:
Keliy Anderson-Staley works at the edges of photography—with processes from the earliest days of
the medium (tintype, cyanotype) and with techniques that blur the lines between photography and
neighboring disciplines (cameraless chemical-based photographs, digital scanning, printmaking and
collage). Often beginning from an autobiographical perspective, but with an interest in how private
stories intersect with public history, her projects have included a study of families who, like hers did,
live off-the-grid in Maine, a tintype portrait project that took her all over the country and her current
exploration of paper archives as raw material for visual biographical narratives. The title of her talk
ironically references the hand-built off-grid cabin she grew up in that was ultimately destroyed by fire
and the iconoclastic approach in her latest work: rather than presenting her family’s archive as
precious objects to be carefully preserved, she will talk about how her latest work begins by
destroying, erasing and redacting in order to make new work. Keliy will recount the development of
her process and career and discuss the ways she sees paper and analog processes living into the
future. The division is also delighted to announce that Alfred Frankowski (Southern Illinois University) will give the Manuel Davenport Keynote Address. His presentation is entitled, "Jim Crow Memories, Black Surrealism, and the Aporias of Racial Terror." BIO: Alfred Frankowski is Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy at Southern Illinois University Carbondale. His research interests include contemporary political philosophy, black aesthetics, critical race theory, German idealism, phenomenology, post-colonialism, and critical genocide studies. He is author of The Post-Racial Limits of Memorialization: Toward a Political Philosophy of Mourning (Lexington Books, 2015) and Sovereign Violences of Racial Terror:Spectacles of Lynching (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming in 2025). He is also co-editor of Critical Perspectives on African Genocide: Memory, Silence and Anti-Black Political Violence (Rowman & Littlefield International, 2021) and Radical Philosophy Review, Special Issue: In Memoriam: Charles W. Mills, 25 (2) 2022. The division also congratulates this year's recipients of Chayes travel grants, Jordan Kokot and Tyler Olds, and the winner of the Graduate Student Essay Prize, Scott Cowan!
MEETING REGISTRATION: Register on-line by clicking the red REGISTER button on this site, upper-right. To get the student or retired rate, be sure to log into this ASA web site FIRST. Regular Registration: $150 (early-bird rate, up to one week prior to conference; $5 surcharge as of July 11 and for onsite registration)
Emeritus Faculty, Students, Unemployed*: $75 (early-bird rate, up to one week prior to conference; $5 surcharge as of July 11 and for onsite registration)
To register for the conference, please click the red REGISTER button in the upper-right of this page.
*Unemployed: For those who do not have a full-time professional or academic appointment.
LODGING: The ASA's room block at the Drury is now full and the deadline to receive discounted room rates through the ASA has passed. We hope, however, you will still consider booking your lodging at the Drury Plaza Hotel at the regular rates or through a third-party vendor. IRENE H. CHAYES TRAVEL FUND: ASARMD will have $1000 (total) provided by the American Society for Aesthetics to support travel to the meeting for persons with papers accepted for the program who have no other access to professional travel funds at their teaching institution(s) during the academic year.
To be eligible for a travel grant from these funds:
• You must be a member of ASA in good standing in the calendar year of the paper submission and presentation and you must register for the meeting.
• Eligible persons include faculty members, independent scholars, and students. Friends of RMD: We are eager to raise additional travel funds for the 2025 meeting for people without travel support. No donation too small! Click here to donate on-line with a credit card.
Travel Suggestions
Airports: Santa Fe is well-served by both the Santa Fe and Albuquerque airports.
Trains: Amtrak has service to Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
Ground Travel: Major shuttle services (e.g., Groome) will drop you off and pick you up right at the hotel.
DIVISIONAL AND GENERAL MEETING INFORMATION - ASA Rocky Mountain By-laws (click title) - ASA Rocky Mountain Division History (click title) Policies on Discrimination, Harassment, and Respectful Behavior The ASA's general Policies will be in effect for this meeting. The ASA Rocky Mountain Ombudsperson will be present throughout the meeting. - Policies for Accommodations at ASA Meetings | |
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President of ASA Rocky Mountain Division 2021-22
