Rocky Mountain Division Announces Keynote Speakers for 2023

The ASA Rocky Mountain Division is pleased to announce keynote speakers for the 2023 Meeting in Santa Fe, NM. The meeting will be held at the Drury Plaza Hotel July 7-9, 2023. 

Sophie Labelle is a French-Canadian cartoonist, writer, and activist whose work focuses largely on transgender identity, transgender history, and transfeminism. She is the writer and illustrator of the Assigned Male webcomic (2014 — present) as well as numerous zines, children's books, coloring books, and novels—including A Girl Like Any Other (2013), The Genderific Coloring Book (2015), and Wish Upon a Satellite (2022). The second novel in Labelle's Ciel series, Ciel in All Directions (2020), was selected as one of the Banks Street Children's Book Committee's Best Books of the Year.

Nick Riggle is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of San Diego. He holds a PhD in philosophy from New York University and a BA in Philosophy from the University of California, Berkeley. His first book was On Being Awesome: A Unified Theory of How Not to Suck (Penguin, 2017). His second, co-authored with Dominic MacIver Lopes and Bency Nanay, was Aesthetic Life and Why It Matters (Oxford, 2022). His third book, This Beauty: A Philosophy of Being Alive, will be published later this year by Hachette.

The deadline for submission of abstracts for the meeting will be March 15, 2023. For more information: https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1173363&group=

Antony Aumann, President
Lee Cray, Vice-President
Evan Malone, Secretary
Jeremy Killian, Past-President