FCC Announces Virtual Summerfest Schedule
Friday, July 21, 2023
Posted by: Julie Van Camp
The American Society for Aesthetics Feminist Caucus Committee announces the schedule for its second Virtual Summerfest. Each paper presentation will have a total of 30 minutes, 5-10 minutes for author presentations, with the remaining time for discussion. All times listed are
Eastern Daylight.
Topic: FCC Summerfest
Time: Saturday, July 29, 2023 - 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)-
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12:00-12:30 pm
Brandon Polite, "Taylor Swift and the Philosophy of Re-recording."
Polite will discuss some of the metaphysical implications of Taylor Swift re-recording her first six studio albums. He will argue that Swift succeeds in reclaiming her albums from the corporate entity that 'stole' them from her by creating reproductions of them.
12:30-1:00 pm
Jeremy Fried, “Do We Need to Calm Down: Taylor Swift as Advocate and Ally”
Fried examines Taylor Swift’s LGBTQIA+ advocacy through her artwork,
Specifically the song “You Need to Calm Down” off her 2019 album Lover. In the lyrics of the song, Swift presents herself as a friend and ally to the community, but not a member.
1:00-1:30 pm
Julia Minarik, “Co-artist, commissioner, curator, and canvas”
The tattoo recipient can play multiple roles in the artistic development of their tattoo(s); co-artist, commissioner, curator, and canvas. This paper focuses on distinguishing these roles and detailing the final role: the tattoo recipient qua canvas. I try to work out the role of tattoos as forms of narrative self-expression, while acknowledging that the tattoo recipient’s role in contextualizing their tattoos is often passive.
1:30-2:00 pm
Cheryl Frazier, “Aesthetic Injustice and Artistic Merit for Marginalized Groups”
It is not uncommon to see members of marginalized groups' accomplishments reduced to artistic achievements for a member of that group. In this paper, Frazier argues that this kind of reductive identification of one’s artistic merit as tied to their marginalized identity/group membership is an instance of a troubling aesthetic credibility deficit.
2:00-2:30 pm
Sue Spaid, “Being Seen and Being Known”
While it is easy to understand why “not being seen,” as in feeling invisible, ignored, or dismissed is unjust; it is comparably difficult to imagine that some goal to be known could engender a simple corrective. What does it mean to be known? If being seen is insufficient
to be known, shouldn’t there also be the worry that any demand to be known incidentally both plays upon and invites stereotypes?
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Trustee 2024-27 FCC co-chair 2021- ASA Aesthetics speaker at 2021 SPWP summer institute
