ASA Members at the 2022 APA Central Meeting

Are you attending the APA Central Meeting in Chicago February 23-26, 2022? Several ASA members are presenting work on aesthetics and related areas. Please support their presentations.

Thursday, February 24

noon - 2:00 pm: Poster Sessions
Parysa Mostajir (University of Chicago): "Conjoint Communicated Experience: Art as an Instrument of Democracy"

6:00-7:00 pm: Colloquium: Philosophy of Art
Speaker: Gilbert Plumer (Law School Admission Council): "Argumentative Painting"

Friday, February 25

1:00-4:00: Author Meets Critics: Thi Nguyen, Games: Agency as Art
Chair: A. W. Eaton (University of Illinois Chicago)
Critic: Christopher Bartel (Appalachian State University)
Author: Thi Nguyen (University of Utah)

1:00-4:00 Supervenience and Philosophy of Mind
Speaker: Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College): "The Possibility of Imagining Pain"

2:00-4:00 pm: Panel Anti-racist Pedagogy as Harm Reduction
Presenter: Nicholas Whittaker (Graduate Center/CUNY)

Saturday, February 26

8:30-11:30 am: Colloquium: Aesthetics
Speaker: Nathan Smith (Duke University): "The Structure of Aesthetic Attention"

Chair: Parysa Mostajir (University of Chicago)
Speaker: John Dyck (Auburn University): "Choosing Beauty"

8:30-11:30 am: Contemporary Philosophical Perspectives on Japanese Aesthetics
Chair: Julianne Chung (York University)
Speakers:
Peter L. Doebler (Dayton Art Institute): "Saving Beauty: Mono no Aware, Empathy, and the Uses of Art"
Mara Miller (Independent Scholar): "The Aesthetics and Ethics of Suicide in Japanese Film and Literature -- with Special Attention to Gardens"
Commentator: Julianne Chung (York University)

8:30-11:30 am: Author Meets Critics: Jason Stanley and David Beaver, The Politics of Language
Critic: Luvell Anderson (Syracuse University)https://www.apaonline.org/resource/resmgr/central2022/c2022_meeting_program_draft.pdf

11:45 am -1:45 pm: Symposium: Desires Don't Have Desire-like Direction of Fit
Speaker: Bence Nancy (University of Antwerp)

To see the APA program, including complete rosters for all sessions, see: https://www.apaonline.org/resource/resmgr/central2022/c2022_meeting_program_draft.pdf

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