ASA Members at the 2022 APA Eastern Meeting

Many members of the American Society for Aesthetics are presenting their work on aesthetics and related areas at the American Philosophical Association Eastern meeting in Baltimore January 5-8, 2022.  Mark your calendars!

Wednesday, January 5

11:00 am - 12:50 pm

Symposium: Mary Gregg (University of Connecticut, Storrs), "Fictional Untruths and Cartoons Per Se: Illustrative Harm in Little Black Sambo"

Symposium: David Sackris (Arapahoe Community College) and Rasmus Rosenberg Larsen (University of Toronto Mississauga), "Are There Moral Judgments"

Colloquium: Aesthetics

Speaker: Zachary Weinstein (University of Toronto), "Striving to  Appreciate?"
Commentator: Robbie Kubala (University of Texas, Austin)
Speaker: Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University), "Art and the Limits of Imagination"
Commentator: Saul Fisher (Mercy College)

4:00-5:00 pm

Symposium: Jason Leddington (Bucknell University), "The Event-Property View of Sounds"

Political Epistemology Network
Alfred Archer (Tilburg University), "Poverty, Meritocracy, and Epistemic Injustice"

Thursday, January 6

9:00-10:50 am

Society for Philosophy of Emotion
Author Meets Critics: Marta Benenti, Expressiveness Perception and Emotions in the Experience of Expressive Objects
Critics: Yujia Song (Salisbury University)
Matteo Ravasio (Peking University)
Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)

2:00-3:50 pm

Arthur Danto/American Society for Aesthetics Prize
Speaker: Sarah Lewis (Harvard University), "Groundwork: Race and Aesthetics in the Era of Stand Your Ground Law"
Commentators: Fred Moten (New York University)
Imani Perry (Princeton University)

7:00-10:00 p.m.

American Society for Aesthetics
Author Meets Critics: Matt Strohl, Why It's OK to Love Bad Movies
Critics: John Dyck (Auburn University)
Nicholas Whittaker (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
Elizabeth Scarbrough (Florida International University)

Special thanks to David Friedell (Union College) for organizing this session on behalf of the ASA.

Society for Philosophy of Emotion: Anger, Fear, Risk, and Courage
Commentator: Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University)

The Ayn Rand Society: Film Authorship
Commentator: Andrew Kania (Trinity University)

Friday, January 7

9:00-10:50 am

Contemporary Perspectives on North Korean Philosophy
Hannah Kim (Macalester College)

Saturday, January 8

9:00-10:50 am

Invited Symposium: The Format and Content of Representation
Speakers: John Kulvicki (Dartmouth College)
Zed Adams (The New School)

11:00 am - 12:50 pm

Microaggressions and Moral Significance
Speaker: Zoe Cunliffe (The Graduate Center, CUNY), "In Defense of the Moral Significance of Non-Narrative Stories"

ASA Members: If we overlooked your presentation, please rush a message to secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org so we can add you to the schedule.

The complete APA schedule for this meeting: 
https://cdn.ymaws.com/www.apaonline.org/resource/resmgr/eastern2022/E2022_Meeting_Program_DRAFT.pdf