ASA Funds Conference on Existential Aesthetics

The American Society for Aesthetics announces that it is providing $5,000 in partial support of the conference on Existential Aesthetics at Northern Michigan University in Marquette, MI, July 26-27, 2024. Please note date change from earlier announcements.

The project is co-directed by Antony Aumann, Professor of Philosophy at Northern Michigan University, and Hans Maes, Senior Lecturer in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent, UK.

The aim of this conference is to investigate how works of art, and certain kinds of aesthetic practices or aesthetic experiences, can be of existential importance to people. The conference will be free for all attending. Discounted lodging and meals will be available on the campus.

Principal speakers include:

• Sandra Shapshay, Professor of Philosophy, Hunter College/CUNY Graduate Center
• Alex King, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Simon Fraser University
• Kathleen Higgins, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin
• Yuriko Saito, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Rhode Island School of Design

A call for papers will be released in September 2023. Those whose submissions are selected will be provided with free lodging and meals. Two outstanding graduate student submissions will also receive a $650 travel stipend.

As more information becomes available, it will be publicized on the ASA web page and other venues.

The ASA grant program, suspended because of COVID from 2020-2021, was re-opened in 2022. 

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