ASA Pacific Announces CFP for 2024 Meeting

The ASA Pacific Division is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its 2024 meeting at the Graduate Hotel, Berkeley, CA, March 8-9, 2024. The submission deadline is December 18, 2023.

The ASA Pacific Division invites excellent paper and panel submissions on any topic in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.  We hope to assemble a vibrant program of diverse topics and speakers, and we especially encourage submissions from students, from early career philosophers, and from members of historically underrepresented groups.

All accepted papers will be presented in a workshop format. All participants will commit to reading all accepted papers prior to the session. Authors will have three to five minutes to introduce the paper.  Commentators will then have ten minutes.  The remainder of the session will be allotted for audience questions.

Paper submissions should be no longer than 3000 words, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by anonymized abstracts of no more than 300 words.

Panels, author-meets-critics sessions, and other special sessions are not part of the pre-read sessions.  Proposal should include a brief description of the topic or theme, the names and affiliations of all participants, and long abstracts of 400-500 words for all papers.

There are no concurrent sessions, which promotes engaged participation and in-depth discussion of all of the accepted papers and panels. You may submit a paper or participate in a panel, but not both. All presentations and commentaries must be delivered in person at the meeting.

Please send submissions in PDF or Word format to the 2024 Program Chair, Mary Beth Willard, at asapacific2024@gmail.com.  Please also use this address to contact the program chair if you have any questions, or if you would like to volunteer to comment on a paper or to chair a session.

The submission deadline is December 2, 2023.

$1000 will be available for Irene H. Chayes Travel grants from the American Society for Aesthetics for presenters with no other access to travel funds. To apply, please note in your submission email that you wish to be considered and include an estimate of your travel costs. Please do not include this information in your paper or panel proposal.

ASA Policies: Papers presented at ASA Divisional meetings may not be presented at the ASA Annual Meeting. Everyone on an ASA program must be a member of ASA. Submissions from non-members are welcome, but if you are accepted for the program, you must join ASA within 30 days. Everyone must also register for the meeting. This applies to presenters, panelists, commentators, and chairs.