ASA Members at the 2024 APA Central Meeting

Are you going to the APA Central Meeting in New Orleans February 21-24, 2024? Please support the ASA members on the program.

Wednesday, February 21

1:00-3:50

AI Aesthetics

Chair: Aaron Meskin (University of Georgia)
Speakers: Anthony Cross (Texas State University): "AI Art and Artistic Agency"
Claire Anscomb (De Montfort University): "Understanding and Appreciating Uses of AI in Image-Making Practice"
Darren Hick (Furman University): "Filching from the Digital Cookie Jar: Does AI Wrong Artists?"

Memorial Symposium: The Living Legacy of Richard J. Bernstein

Speaker: Marcia Morgan (Muhlenberg College)

Kant

Speaker: Lewis Wang (Boston University): "On the Secondary Quality Analogy"

Aesthetics

Speakers: Jeremy Fried (Auburn University) and Cheryl Frazier (Auburn University): "Left Behind: Anti-Fatness, Photography, and Aesthetic Agency:
Commentator: Shen-yi Liao (Princeton University and University of Puget Soiund)

Chair: Rissa Willis (University ofGeorgia)
Speaker: Gilbert Plumer (Law School Admission Council-Retired): "Fundamental Beauty"
Commentator: John Dyck (Auburn University)

Chair: Tyler Olsson (Auburn University)
Speaker: Joseph Kassman-Tod (University of California, Berkeley): "Aesthetic Humility"
Commentator: Kelly Jolley (Auburn University)

4:00-5:50

Fiction

Speaker: Andriy Bilenkyy (University of Toronto): "Apt Imaginings: Fiction, Imagination, and Aboutness"

What Is Policization?

Commentator: Cathleen Muller (Marist College)

Alienating Forgiveness

Speaker: Gabriel Tugendstein (Florida State University)

7:00-10:00

Social Epistemology

Speaker: Joshua Brecka (University of Toronto): "Lackey on Social Knowledge and Rational Group Action"

Deep South Philosophy and Neuroscience Workgroup

Current Issues in Cognitive Ontology

Speaker: Javier Gomez-Lavin (Purdue University)

American Society for Aesthetics: General Aesthetics

Speakers: Gwen Bradford (Rice University): "Evil Artifacts"
Liam Barer (University College London) and Javier Gomez-Lavin (Purdue University): "Virtually Synthesized Music, Aesthetic Deception, and AI Generated Music"
Lindsay Brainard (The University of Alabama at Birmingham): "Artificial Intelligence and Creative Agency"
Elizabeth Scarbrough (Florida International University) and Sabrina Martinez (Florida International University): "Co-Creators or Mere Tools? AI and Art"

Thanks to Levi Tenen (Kettering University) for organizing this session on behalf of the American Society for Aesthetics.

Thursday, February 22

1:00-4:00

Feminist Pedagogy

Presenter: Sara Protasi (University of Puget Sound): "The Emotional Classroom"

3:00-4:50

Culinary Aesthetics

Chair: Anthony Cross (Texas State University)
Speakers: Paloma Atencia-Linares (Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, UNED), and Miguel Angel Sebastian (National Autonomous University of Mexico, UNAM):"On Culinary Norms"
Guy Rohrbaugh (Auburn University): "The Aesthetic Value of Food"
Sarah Worth (Furman University): "Aesthetics of the Kitchen"

Friday, February 23

9:00-10:50

Author Meets Critics: Concept TV: An Aesthetics of Television Series
Chair: Darren Hick (Furman University)
Authors: Luca Bandirali (Uiversita di Genova) and Enrico Terrone (Universita di Genova)
Critics: Laura Di Summa (William Paterson University)
Henry Pratt (Marist College)

Modern Aesthetics

Speaker: Antony Aumann (Northern Michigan University): "Kierkegaard on Natural and Aesthetic Beauty"

Public Space

Speaker: Lukas Myers (University of Wisconsin): Public Funding for the Arts: A New Argument"

Commentator: Jonathan Neufeld (College of Charleston)

11:00-12:50

Philosophy of Film

Chair: Joy Webb (University of Colorado Boulder)
Speakers: Cynthia Freeland (University of Houston): "Philosophy of Film"
Jennifer Welchman (University of Alberta)

Author Meets Critics: Justin Coates, In Praise of Ambivalence

Critic: Jonathan Gingrerich (Rutgers University)

Value and Daily Practices

Speaker: Sara Protasi (University of Puget Sound): "The Value of Sleeping"

The Ethics of Interpersonal Relationships

Commentator: Lindsay Brainard (The University of Alabama at Birmingham)

7:00-10:00

American Society for Aesthetics

Speakers: Elizabeth Millan Brusslan (DePaul University): "Alexander von Humboldt's Chimboroza Map and the Aesthetics of Environmental Mapping"
Jonathan Fine (University of Hawai'i at Manoa): "Of Pots and Plato's Aesthetics"
Juan Carlos Gonzalez (University of California, San Diego): "Schiller in Mexico"
Ashley Atkins (Western Michigan University) and Jeremy Killian (University of Memphis): "Walking Slowly Behind His Own Coffin: Eugene O'Neill, Tragedy, and Grief"

Thanks to Levi Tenen (Kettering University) for organizing this session on behalf of the American Society for Aesthetics.

The complete APA Central Program

ASA Members: Did we overlook your presentation? Please rush a correction to secretary-treasurer@aesthetics-online.org so we can add you to the schedule.