Julianne Chung Named Aesthetics Speaker at Rutgers Institute

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce that Julianne Chung, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, York University, will be the ASA-sponsored speaker at the Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy in July 2021. This is the seventh year that the ASA has sponsored aesthetics speakers at the Rutgers Summer Institute.

Chung will speak on "Creativity without Originality," drawing on classical Chinese concepts of creativity. Chung received her BA and MA from the University of Calgary and her PhD in philosophy from Yale University. She was an Assistant Professor at the University of Louisville before taking up her current position at York University.

As previously announced, Elizabeth Scarbrough, Florida International University will be the ASA-sponsored speaker Summer Program for Women in Philosophy at UC San Diego in July 2021, speaking on "Aesthetic’s Role in Monument Removal and Construction."

All ASA members were eligible to apply for this appointment. The speakers at the summer institutes are 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 several summer institutes: Sondra Bacharach, Julianne Chung, A.W. Eaton, Jane Forsey, James B. Haile, III, Alexandra King, Shen-Li Liao, Christy Mag Uidhir, Anna Ribeiro, Mary Beth Willard, Sarah Worth.