ASA Members at the 2023 APA Pacific Meeting

Are you attending the APA Pacific meeting in San Francisco April 5-8, 2023? Please support the ASA members on the program!

Wednesday, April 5

9 am-12 n

Invited Paper: Photography and Ethics

Chair: Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia)
Speaker: Daniel Star (Boston University)
Commentators:
Paloma Atencia-Linares (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia)
Angela Sun (Washington and Lee University)

1-4 pm

Invited Symposium: Feminist Philosophy of Imagination

Chair: Rebecca Mason (University of San Francisco)
Speakers:
Amy Kind (Claremont McKenna College), "Imagination, Society, and the Self"
E. Hande Tuna (University of California, Santa Cruz), "Imaginative Fragility"
Shen-yi Liao (University of Puget Sound), "The Right to Not Be Imagined"
Commentators:
Amandine Catala (Universite du Quebec a Montreal)
Katharina Sodoma (Universitat Duisburg-Essen)
Ege Yumusak (Columbia University)

Thursday, April 6

5-6 pm

Colloquium: Memory
Chair: Ana Laura Funes Madery (Eastern Connecticut State University)
Speaker: Javier Gomez-Lavin (Purdue University), “The Two Faces of Working Memory”
Commentator: Hayley Clatterbuck (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

6-9 pm

American Society for Aesthetics
The Cognitive and Affective Impacts of Fiction
Chair: Paloma Atencia-Linares (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia)
Speakers:
Michel-Antoine Xhignesse (Capilano University), "Keeping It Real?"
Joshua Landy (Stanford University), "Of Novels and Neurons: Of Novels & Neurons: How Cognitive Biases Are a Writer's Best Friend"
Hannah Kim (Macalester College),"Why Though Experiments Are Neither Fiction nor Non-Fiction"
Commentator: Stacie Friend (Birkbeck, University of London)

Thanks to Jonathan Weinberg for organizing this session on behalf of the American Society for Aesthetics

8-10 pm

International Society for Environmental Ethics

Speaker: Ariane Nomikos (West Virginia University), "Place, Aesthetics, and Epistemic Comfort"

Friday, April 7

Colloquium: Philosophy and Literature
4-5 pm

Chair: Alex King (Simon Fraser University)
Speaker: Eva Dadlez (University of Central Oklahoma), "Jane Austen, Humility, and the Doctrine of the Mean"
Commentator: Kayleigh Rodgers (University of Southern California)

Book Symposium: Helena de Bres, Artful Truths: The Philosophy of Memoir
4-6 pm

Chair: Jorah Dannenberg (Stanford University)
Speakers: Carrie Jenkins (University of British Columbia)
Carlos Montemayor (San Francisco State University)
Ben Roth (Tufts University)
Helena de Bres (Wellesley College)

Saturday, April 8
9 am-12 n

Special Memorial Session: In Honor of Anita Silvers
Chair: Leslie Pickering Francis (University of Utah)
Speakers:
Teresa Blankmeyer-Burke (Gallaudet University), "Deaf Bioethics,Disability Bioethics: Strategic Advocacy with Anita Silvers"
Rosamond Rhodes (Mount Sinai School of Medicine and the Graduate Center, CUNY), "Lessong from Anita about Social Justice"
Dominic McIver Lopes (University of British Columbia), "Outlier Aesthetics"
Eva Kittay (Stony Brook University), "The Importance of Anita Silvers"
Adam Cureton (University of Tennessee, Knoxville), "When All Hell Breaks Loose: Disability, Disaster, and Disrespect"

Colloquium: Aesthetics
4-5 pm

Chair: Benjamin Andrew (University of Southern California)
Speaker: Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan), "Art, Imagination, and Experiential Knowledge"
Commentator: James Mock (University of Central Oklahoma)

5-6 pm

Chair: Steven Wagner (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Speaker: Hannah Kim (Macalester College), "What Lyric Poetry Shows Us about the Fiction-Nonfiction Distinction"
Commentator: Timothy Cleveland (New Mexico State University)

The complete schedule

ASA Members: Did we overlook your presentation on the Program? Please rush an email so we can add you to this notice: secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org