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Sunday, March 13, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Guide to Graduate Aesthetics in North America to be published » Preparation of the fourth edition of the Guide to Graduate Aesthetics in North America is underway, with publication on-...
Tuesday, March 8, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) ASA announces revised guidelines for Dissertation Fellowships » The American Society for Aesthetics Board of Trustees has approved revisions to the guidelines for the ASA Dissertation Fe...
Monday, February 29, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) ASA funds Conference on Ethics and Aesthetics of Stand-up Comedy » The American Society for Aesthetics has awarded $7,000 in partial support for the Conference on the Ethics and Aesthe...
Saturday, February 20, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) David Davies named to JAAC Editorial Board » After 32 years of service, Mary Wiseman Goldstein has stepped down from the editorial board of The Journal of Aesthe...
Wednesday, February 17, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics-2d available on-line for members » I am very pleased to announce that access to the on-line Oxford Encyclopedia of Aesthetics -2nd ed. is now available to A...
Tuesday, February 16, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) ASA-sponsored Speaker at Rutgers Summer Institute for Diversity in Philosophy » The Board of Trustees of the American Society for Aesthetics has approved up to $2000 to support a speaker in aesthetics a...
Wednesday, February 3, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Sondra Bacharach: ASA-sponsored Faculty member at UCSD Summer Program for Women in Philosophy » Sondra Bacharach, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, will be the ASA-sponsored faculty member at the 2016 Un...
Saturday, January 2, 2016 (0 Comments - view/add) Conference on Quasi-Emotion, Fiction and Self in Paris » ASA member Jérôme Pelletier is the co-organizer for a conference on "Quasi-emotion, fiction and self: philosophical and n...
Thursday, December 31, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) New ASA Trustees elected » Congratulations to Eva Kit Wah Man and Katherine Thomson-Jones on their election to the American Society for Aesthetics Bo...
Wednesday, December 16, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) ASA funds Philosophy, Practice and Performance Dance Symposium » ASA is co-sponsoring "Engagement: Philosophy, Practice and Performance Dance Symposium" at Texas State University, San Mar...
Monday, November 30, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Online voting for new ASA trustees » Voting on-line for two new trustees for the American Society for Aesthetics Board of Trustees has now opened and will be a...
Sunday, November 29, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Susan Feagin named 2016 Richard Wollheim Lecturer » The ASA Board of Trustees has named Susan L. Feagin as the 2016 Richard Wollheim Lecturer. She will give the lecture at th...
Wednesday, November 25, 2015 ASA-sponsored faculty at 2016 UCSD Summer Program for Women in Philosophy » The ASA Board of Trustees has approved funding for an ASA-sponsored faculty member at the 2016 University of California Sa...
Friday, November 20, 2015 International Congress of Aesthetics in Seoul, Korea » The 20th International Congress of Aesthetics will be held in Seoul, Korea, July 24-29, 2016. Seoul National University wi...
Saturday, November 14, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) ASA 2015 Prize Winners » Congratulations to the 2015 ASA Prize winners, presented at the Annual Meeting: Paul Guyer (Brown University), Monograp...
Friday, October 30, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) ASA Member Paul C. Taylor's new book » ASA member Paul C. Taylor's new book, Black is Beautiful: A Philosophy of Black Aesthetics , will be published December 3...
Monday, October 19, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) JAAC 2015 Annual Report » The Annual Report for 2015 for the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism is now available here. You can also find...
Sunday, October 18, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Diversity Curriculum Projects » The two winning diversity curriculum projects are now available. Congratulations to Simon Fokt and Monique Ro...
Saturday, October 17, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) New: Member Search feature » We have added a "member search" function under the "Members" tab of the web site. First, log in as a member and then look...
Saturday, October 17, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Nominees for ASA Trustee » Four ASA members have been nominated by the current Trustees for two vacancies on the Board of Trustees as of February 1,...
Wednesday, October 14, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Jonathan Neufeld will be 2017 Program Chair for ASA Annual Meeting » Jonathan Neufeld, Associate Professor of Philosophy at the College of Charleston, will serve as the Program Chair for the...
Saturday, October 10, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Dominic Lopes to deliver APA Lecture » Dominic McIver Lopes, ASA past-president and current trustee, will deliver the American Philosophical Associatio...
Monday, October 5, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) New Issue of ASAGE published » The new issue of ASAGE (American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-Journal) for Summer 2015 (7.2) is now available.&nbs...
Friday, October 2, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Gemma Arguello appointed ASA Facebook Manager » Congratulations to Gemma Arguello Manresa on her appointment as ASA Facebook Manager. She will maintain both the ASA-Faceb...
Wednesday, September 30, 2015 ASA-funded Graduate Student Aesthetics Conference April 17, 2016 » The ASA Board of Trustees has approved up to $3500 to support the Graduate Student Aesthetics Conference in Philadelphia A...
Monday, September 28, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) ASA members presenting at APA-Eastern » Congratulations to the ASA members presenting their work at the APA-Eastern meeting in Washington, DC, January 6-9, 2016:...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015 Recruitment: ASA Facebook Manager » The ASA welcomes applications to be the manager of an official ASA Facebook page. Applicants must be a current ASA member...
Sunday, September 13, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) ASA Member Eva Kit Wah Man's new book » ASA Member Eva Kit Wah Man has published a new book: Issues of Contemporary Art and Aesthetics in Chinese Context....
Friday, September 11, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) David Davies and James O. Young named Fellows of Canadian Academy of Arts and the Humanities » ASA members David Davies and James O. Young have been named Fellows of Canada's Academy of Arts and the Humanities, Royal...
Thursday, September 10, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Kendall Walton speaking at London Aesthetics Forum » ASA member Kendall Walton is speaking at the London Aesthetics Forum-Institute of Philosophy, Wednesday, Sept. 23 at 16:00...
Thursday, September 3, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) Oxford University Press discounts for ASA members » Oxford University Press is offering discounts to members of the American Society for Aesthetics: 20% off all pri...
Wednesday, September 2, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) New ASAGE Advisory Committee members » Congratulations to ASA members Aili Bresnahan (University of Dayton) and Sondra Bacharach (Victoria University of Wel...
Monday, August 31, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) ASA members presenting at London conference » ASA members John Kulvicki (Dartmouth), Mohan Matthen (University of Toronto), and Elisabeth Schellekens (Univers...
Monday, August 31, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) New ASAGE editors for 2016-17 » Congratulations to the new ASAGE editors for 2016-17: Managing Editor: Nada Gatalo, a PhD student at the CUNY-Graduate...
Monday, August 31, 2015 (0 Comments - view/add) College of Charleston Fall series opens September 10 » The Aesthetics Work Group fall series, organized by ASA member Jonathan Neufeld at the College of Charleston, opens Septem...
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3/2/2026Deadline for Submissions to the 84th ASA Annual Meeting Extended to March 8, 2026

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