ASA Announces Danto Speaker for 81st Annual Meeting

Tuesday, February 28, 2023
Posted by: Julie Van Camp

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The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce that the Arthur C. Danto Memorial Lecture for 2023 will be presented by Melissa Malzkuhn at the 81st ASA Annual Meeting in Arlington, VA on Friday, November 17.

Malzkuhn is the founder of the Motion Light Lab at Gallaudet University. The lab creates immersive learning experiences to expand the 3D technology for deaf children, visual learners, and others. She also co-founded the CREST Network, which focusses on equity and inclusion of deaf people in sign language technology. For more information: https://mezmalz.com/about

The Arthur C. Danto Memorial Lecture, established in 2014 in memory of Arthur Danto (1924-2013), is given each year at the Society’s annual meeting, typically by a practicing artist or by a scholar who is not in philosophy or related areas. Previous speakers:

2014: SOLI Chamber Ensemble, Trinity University
2015: Jonathan Green, Charleston, South Carolina
2016: University of Washington Chamber Dance Company, Seattle
2017: Fahamu Pecou, Atlanta, Georgia
2018: Ilene Sova, Toronto
2019: Natalie Diaz, Phoenix
2020: Joyce J. Scott, Baltimore
2021: Carla Hemlock, Montreal
2022: Tamara Levitz, Los Angeles