ASA Announces Aesthetics Speakers at Diversity Institutes

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to sponsor speakers on aesthetics at three summer diversity institutes in summer 2018.

James B. Haile, III, Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Rhode Island, will speak at the Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy at Brown University. Professor Haile received his PhD from Duquesne University. He will speak on Afro-Futurism in Aesthetics and the film Black Panther.

Sarah Worth, Professor and Chair of Philosophy at Furman University, will speak at the Summer Program for Women in Philosophy at UC San Diego, and at the 21st Annual Rutgers Sumer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy. Professor Worth received her PhD from the State University of New York at Buffalo. She will present on Street Art and Aesthetics.

2018 is the fourth year that the ASA has sponsored aesthetics speakers at summer diversity institutes. ASA covers all costs for the speakers and is pleased to help support these important diversity programs. All ASA members were eligible to apply for these appointments. The speakers were selected by institute directors from recommendations made by a review committee of senior ASA members.

In previous years, many ASA members have been sponsored by ASA to make presentations on aesthetics at these institutes: Sondra Bacharach, A.W. Eaton, Jane Forsey, Shen-Li Liao, Anna Ribeiro, Mary Beth Willard.