LOCATION: Independence Park Hotel, Old City, Philadelphia

PROGRAM in PDF format

Graduate Conference in Aesthetics
sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics and the Greater Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium
Sunday April 17, 2016
Independence Park Hotel, Old City Philadelphia

free and open to everyone

11:00 Jonathan Kwan (CUNY)
"Philosophy through Ambiguity: Readings of Blade Runner”

11:45 Tom Hanauer (Temple University)
“Nietzsche’s Theory of the Sublime”

12:30 lunch is provided

1:15 Yuanchieh Yang (University of Alberta)
“Collingwood, Kitsch, and Sentimentality”

2:00 Lauren R. Alpert (CUNY)
“Co-Authorship and the Ontology of Dance Artworks”

3:00 p.m.
Keynote Address: Dr. Paul C. Taylor (Penn State)

Paul C. Taylor is Associate Professor of Philosophy and African American Studies at Penn State University. He is the author, most recently, of On Obama (Routledge 2015) and Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics (Wiley 2016).

For additional information, contact the organizers: aestheticsgradconf@gmail.com

Organized by Katie Brennan (Temple), John Dyck (CUNY), Katherine Kurtz (Villanova), and Lindsey Fiorelli (University of Pennsylvania)