Elisabeth Schellekens named 2023 Wollheim Lecturer

The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Elisabeth Schellekens will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the ASA Annual Meeting at Arlington, VA, November 15-18, 2023. The lecture will be presented Thursday evening, November 16.

Professor Schellekens is Chair Professor of Aesthetics at Uppsala University. Previously, she was Senior Lecturer at Durham University (2006-14). Her research interests include normativity, the relations between aesthetic, moral and epistemic value, Kant, Hume, aesthetic reasons, non-perceptual beauty, subjectivism and objectivism, realism and anti-realism. She has also worked on non-perceptual art, neuroaesthetics and the cognitive value of art. From 2008 to 2019 she served as Editor (with John Hyman) of the British Journal of Aesthetics (Oxford University Press). She received her PhD from King’s College London.

For more information about Professor Schellekens, click here.

For more information about Professor Wollheim, click here.

The Richard Wollheim Lecture is jointly sponsored with the British Society of Aesthetics. The ASA nominates a lecturer to speak at the BSA annual conference in even years and the BSA nominates a lecturer to speak at the ASA annual meeting in odd years.

Previous Wollheim Lecturers:

• 2022: Rachel Zuckert
• 2021: Matthew Kieran
• 2020: Yuriko Saito
• 2019: Eileen John
• 2018: Carolyn Korsmeyer
• 2017: Derek Matravers
• 2016: Susan Feagin
• 2015: Catherine Wilson
• 2014: Jenefer Robinson
• 2013: Gregory Currie
• 2012: Kendall Walton
• 2011: Berys Gaut
• 2010: Noël Carroll
• 2009: Peter Lamarque