ASA Announces Call for Submissions for 80th Annual Meeting

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce the Call for Submissions for the 80th Annual Meeting in Portland, Oregon, November 16-19, 2022, 

SUBMISSION DEADLINE: March 1, 2022

The ASA welcomes submissions of papers or panels on all aspects of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Submissions speaking to the artistic, aesthetic, and political traditions of Portland and the Pacific Northwest are especially welcome.

Papers
Papers are limited to 3000 words, must be accompanied by 100-word abstracts, and be formatted for anonymous review. These rules will be strictly enforced. Presentations should be approximately 20 minutes long, to be followed by 5-10 minutes of comments and half an hour of Q&A.

Panels
Proposals for panels, including author-meets-critics sessions, must include a brief description of the topic, names, and affiliations of all participants; a brief explanation of the panel’s intellectual rationale; and 500-word abstracts for each paper. The committee will require panel proposers to vouchsafe the quality of their panelists’ papers, the coherence of the panel, and the ability of panelists to attend in person, so this should be borne in mind when submitting a proposal.

The ASA supports the Gendered Conference Campaign. In evaluating submitted panels, the Program Committee will consider whether steps have been taken to include women and members of historically underrepresented and excluded groups.

The Program Committee will also give some weight to proposed panels including scholars and practitioners working primarily outside of philosophical aesthetics; such scholars should be identified in proposals.

Conditions of Acceptance
● Membership: Non-members may submit papers or panel proposals, but must join the ASA within thirty days of acceptance of their contribution to avoid removal from the program. All participants must be ASA members and register for the meeting.
● Duplication: Papers presented at a 2022 ASA Division meeting or at the 2022 ASA/BSA Virtual Summer Festival are not eligible for the 2022 Annual Meeting.
● Either/Or: People may submit one paper or be included on one panel proposal, but not both.
● Attendance: All presenters must be able to attend in person.

Funding & Prizes
All full-time students with accepted papers or panel presentations will receive a travel stipend. These stipends are also available to those who complete the PhD in 2022 but remain unemployed at the time of the meeting.

Six Irene H. Chayes Travel Grants and at least seven Friends of ASA Travel Grants will be awarded to those presenting papers or panel presentations but without institutional access to travel funds. Up to two outstanding papers that “nourish and sustain an ethos of inclusivity in all aspects of the Society’s activities” will receive Irene H. Chayes New Voices Awards.

Further details on these grants and the conference are available at

https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1184489

Submissions
Submissions are due by March 1st 2022 and should be sent in one email to Program Chairs Sandy Shapshay and Nils Stear at nstear@umich.edu, ss9432@hunter.cuny.edu.
Please indicate in the submission email whether you or any panelist would like to be considered for a grant, but do not indicate this in the submission itself.

Queries
Please address all correspondence to both Program Chairs (email addresses above).

This Call is available in Word Format and PDF Format