ASA Members at the 2021 APA Eastern Meeting

Are you attending the American Philosophical Association's Virtual Eastern Meeting January 7-9 and 14-16, 2021?

Many members of the American Society for Aesthetics will be presenting their work in aesthetics and related areas. We hope you can attend their presentations.

For more information about the APA meeting: https://www.apaonline.org/event/2021eastern

Thursday, January 7

11:00 am-12:50 pm

Colloquium: Aesthetics: Fiction

Speaker: Gilbert Plumer (Law School Admission Council-retired): "Suppositional Reasoning and Literary Cognitivism"
Speaker: Hannah Haejin Kim (Stanford University): "Metaphilosophy of Fiction: A Methodological Critique and Its Upshots"

Friday, January 8

11:00 am-12:50 pm

Colloquium: Powerful Feelings

Speaker: Antony G. Aumann (Northern Michigan University): "Personal Ideals, Transformations, andthe Dangerous Power of Art"
Commentator: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College)

4:00-7:00 pm

American Society for Aesthetics: Author Meets Critics: Julian Dodd, Being True to Works of Music

Chair: David Friedell (Union College)

Critics: Lydia Goehr (Columbia University)
Andrew Kania (Trinity University)
Caterina Moruzzi (Universita degli Studi di Torino)

Author: Julian Dodd (University of Leeds

Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts: Film and Philosophy

Speaker: Erin Bradfield (Santa Clara University)

Saturday, January 9

9:00-10:50 am

Society for Mexican-American Philosophy

Speaker: Clinton Tolley (University of California, San Diego)

11:00 am-12:50 pm

Colloquium: Abstracta

Speaker: Patrick E. Grafton-Cardwell (University of Massachusetts-Amherst): "How to Be Strict with Stories"

1:00-2:50 pm

Korean Philosophy and East Asian Thought

Speaker: Hannah Kim (Stanford University): "Metaphors in the Four-Seven Debate"

Thursday, January 14

9:00-10:50 am

Play and Spontaneity in East Asian and Anglo-Analytic Philosophy

Speaker: C. Thi Nguyen (University of Utah): "The Virtue of Playfulness"
Commentator: Julianne Chung (York University)

Speaker: Jonathan Gingerich (King's College London): "The Spontaneity of Genius: Kantian Genius Reconstructed"

11:00 am-12:50 pm

Minorities and Philosophy: Countering Bullying, Harassment, and Microaggressions

Panelist: Quill R. Kukla (Georgetown University)

2:00-3:50 pm

Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy: BLM Futures

Speaker: Luvell Anderson (Syracuse University)

Friday, January 15

9:00-10:50 am

Memorial Session in Honor of Maria Lugones

Speaker: Mariana Ortega (The Pennsylvania State University)

1:00-2:50 pm

Colloquium: High-Level Perception

Speaker: E. Hande Tuna (University of California, Santa Cruz): "Apt Perception, Aesthetic Engagement, and Installation Art"
Commentator: Errol Lord (University of Pennsylvania)

Speaker: Madeleine Ransom (Indiana University-Bloomington): "Perceptual Learning of High-Level Properties"

Saturday, January 16

2:00-3:50 pm

Colloquium: Art and Wonder

Speaker: Joseph Kassman-Tod (University of California, Berkeley): "Heraclitus' Polemos as the Formal Structure of Art Critical Appreciation"

ASA Members: Did we overlook your presentation on the program? Please rush an email so we can make the correction: secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org