conference web site 

Rasa Fest will be a traditional workshop-style conference, featuring presentations by five speakers over two days, with very generous time allocated to discussion. Speakers will include Nilanjan Das (Toronto) and Ram Prasad (Lancaster),  leading figures in South Asian philosophy. Sonam Kachru (Yale) works on South Asian Buddhist philosophy and literature. Maria Heim (Amherst) is in religious studies and specializes on Buddhist theories of emotion. Bihani Sarkar (Lancaster) is in literary studies and works on Sanskrit tragedy. 

Rasa 101, scheduled for two days immediately prior to Rasa Fest, will offer a crash course on rasa theory for anyone interested in getting up to speed on the topic, either with an eye to teaching it or to using it in their research. A set of readings will be assigned in advance, and the Rasa Fest and Rasa 101 curriculum will blend short and stimulating overview lectures with seminars.

The ASA funding will be used entirely to support ASA members who wish to travel to the event. Priority will be given to funding graduate students, junior faculty, philosophers from underrepresented groups, and those without institutional travel support. Applicants will be asked for a brief CV and a one-page narrative explaining how their participation will enhance their teaching or research. Information on how to apply will be available this fall.

Applications for travel funding will be accepted January 1 - February 14, 2024. For more information, see the conference web site, travel tab

The meeting is being organized by the RMD officers:

Ley David Elliette Cray, President
Evan Malone, Vice-President
Bethany Henning, Secretary
Antony Aumann, Past-President

• Photo Gallery from the 2023 Meeting
• Photo Gallery from the 2022 Meeting
• Photo Gallery from the 2021 Meeting
• Survey Evaluation of the 2023 Meeting
• Survey Evaluation of the 2022 Meeting
• Survey Evaluation of the 2021 Meeting

IRENE H. CHAYES TRAVEL FUND: ASARMD will have $1000 (total) provided by the American Society for Aesthetics to support travel to the meeting for persons with papers accepted for the program who have no other access to professional travel funds at their teaching institution(s) during the academic year.
To be eligible for a travel grant from these funds:
• You must be a member of ASA in good standing in the calendar year of the paper submission and presentation and you must register for the meeting.
• Eligible persons include faculty members, independent scholars, and students.

Friends of RMD: We are eager to raise additional travel funds for the 2024 meeting for people without travel support. No donation too small! Click here to donate on-line with a credit card.

MEETING REGISTRATION: The registration rates are the same as in 2022 and 2023. Register on-line by clicking the red REGISTER button on this site, upper-right. To get the student or retired rate, be sure to log into this ASA web site FIRST.

Regular Registration: $135 (early-bird rate, up to one week prior to conference; $5 surcharge after June 30 and for onsite registration)
Emeritus Faculty, Students, Unemployed*: $75 (early-bird rate, up to one week prior to conference; $5 surcharge after June 30 and for onsite registration)
To register for the conference, please click the red REGISTER button in the upper-right of this page.
*Unemployed: For those who do not have a full-time professional or academic appointment.

Lodging: We hope you will join us at the Drury Plaza Inn, to help us meet our contractual obligations. We have a block of rooms at $249 (single or double). Public rates for those dates are over $350! When you register for the meeting, you receive the booking code. The deadline for booking is June 9. 

Travel Suggestions

Airports: Santa Fe is well-served by both the Santa Fe and Albuquerque airports.
Trains: Amtrak has service to Santa Fe and Albuquerque.
Ground Travel: Major shuttle services from the Albuquerque airport (e.g., Groome) will drop you off and pick you up right at the hotel.

ASA Rocky Mountain By-laws

ASA Rocky Mountain Division History

All of the ASA divisional meetings are organized by teams of volunteers. If you have attended several of these meetings, please step up to volunteer to help at a future meeting.

Policies on Discrimination, Harassment, and Respectful Behavior

The ASA Policies (effective July 12, 2019) will be in effect for this meeting. The ASA Ombudsperson will be represented throughout the meeting.

Policies for Accessibility at ASA Meetings

• Guidelines for Presenters at ASA Meetings  https://aesthetics-online.org/resource/resmgr/files/Guidelines_for_Presenters_at.pdf
• Guidelines for Accommodations at ASA Meetings  https://aesthetics-online.org/resource/resmgr/files/ASA_protocol_for_accommodati.pdf
• Guidelines for Session Chairs https://aesthetics-online.org/resource/resmgr/files/Recommendations_for_session_.pdf

Persons who wish to attend should contact Antony Aumann at aaumann@nmu.edu

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.

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 deadline for submissions has passed. If you are interested in serving as a commentator or session chair, please contact the program chairs. 

Program Chairs: Christopher Bartel (Appalachian State University) and Anthony Cross (Texas State University)

Program Committee: Julianne Chung (York University), Renee Conroy (Independent Scholar), Madeline Martin-Seaver (University of South Florida), Jay Miller (Warren Wilson College), Charles Peterson (Oberlin College), Ingvild Torsen (University of Oslo), Nick Wiltsher (Uppsala University), Sarah Worth (Furman University)

Registration: Click the red REGISTER button on the upper-right to register with a credit card. Early-bird discount available through September 25.

Mail-In Registration Form to register with a check in US Dollars.

Travel Grants for the 2024 Annual Meeting

Lodging: We have a very attractive rate at the Palmer House Hilton: $179 single/double (with NO destination/resort fee). You will be given the code when you register for the meeting. Please help us meet our contractual obligation at the hotel to receive free meeting rooms by staying at the Palmer House. Deadline for booking at our rate: September 21. Please use our booking link so we get credit. (We do not receive credit for booking through third parties like Expedia.)

Luncheons

• Welcoming luncheon: Thursday, October 24: Register in advance when you register for the meeting. $20/$10
• Feminist Caucus luncheon: Friday, October 25: Register in advance when you register for the meeting: $20/$10
• Business Meeting luncheon: Saturday, October 26: Included in your meeting registration fee (Guests: $35)

Mentoring Breakfast

The mentoring breakfast on Friday is open to current ASA mentors and mentees, and anyone interested in participating in the mentoring program as a mentor or mentee. More information will be distributed to participants and ASA members as the conference approaches.

• Photo Gallery of 2023 Annual Meeting
  
• Evaluation of 2023 Annual Meeting

Meeting app

• We are again using the Grupio app: free on AppleStore and PlayStore
• Search "aesthetics" to find our meeting
• Preliminary information is now available on Chicago, Travel, and ASA

Land acknowledgement

The City of Chicago is located on land that is and has long been a center for Native peoples. The area is the traditional homelands of the Anishinaabe, or the Council of the Three Fires: the Ojibwe, Odawa, and Potawatomi Nations. Many other Nations consider this area their traditional homeland, including the Myaamia, Ho-Chunk, Menominee, Sac and Fox, Peoria, Kaskaskia, Wea, Kickapoo, and Mascouten. The City specifically acknowledges the contributions of Kitihawa of the Potawatomi in fostering the community that has become Chicago. We acknowledge all Native peoples who came before us and who continue to contribute to our City. We are committed to promoting Native cultural heritage.

Travel to Chicago

• Getting to Chicago
• O'Hare Airport
• Chicago Midway Airport
• Amtrak Train
• Chicago Transit Authority

Ground travel in Chicago

• From O'Hare Airport: take the Blue Line train to Monroe/Dearborn. Take Monroe east to the hotel. Palmer House is on the south side of the street. ($5). Taxi: $54 and up, depending on traffic. Options suggested by O'Hare.
• From Midway Airport: take the Orange Line from Midway to downtown. Get off at Adams/Wabash stop. Palmer House is on west side of Wabash Avenue ($5). Taxi: $40 and up, depending on traffic. Options suggested by Midway.
• From Amtrak Union Train Station: taxi: $7.55 and up, depending on traffic
  

Things to do in Chicago:

• Art Institute of Chicago
• National Museum of Mexican Art
• Museum of Contemporary Art
• Museum of Contemporary Photography
• Black Art in Chicago
• Chicago Symphony Orchestra
• Joffrey Ballet
• Hubbard Street Dance
• Chicago Tourist Bureau
• Getting to Chicago
• Chicago Public Transportation
• Cruises and Tours

Program Co-Chairs: Madeline Martin-Seaver and John Dyck

Irene H. Chayes Travel Funds: The Southern Division will have $1000 available to support travel for persons with accepted papers who do not have institutional travel support.

• Photo Gallery of 2023 SAW
• Photo Gallery of 2022 SAW
• Photo Gallery of 2021 SAW

As more information becomes available, it will be posted here.

Program chair: Eleanor Helms, Cal Poly SLO (ehelmszo@calpoly.edu)

ASA Pacific Steering Committee: Renee Conroy (Chair), A.W. Eaton, Peg Brand Weiser

The Call for Papers, lodging information, program schedule, and additional information will be posted here as soon as it is available.

Photo Gallery: 2024 Pacific Meeting
Photo Gallery: 2023 Pacific Meeting

Evaluation of 2024 Pacific Meeting
Evaluation of 2023 Pacific Meeting

Travel Funds:  The Division will have $1000 (total) from the Irene H. Chayes Travel Fund to support travel for presenters (papers or panel presentations) without institutional travel support.

The Pacific Division is raising funds to provide additional travel grants for people with accepted papers or panel presentations, who do not have institutional travel support. All donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent of the law. To donate, click here.

PASA Division Guidelines

The lovely B&B where the Division met several years ago burned to the ground in 2018.  Although they rebuilt, the hotel no longer has the meeting room space we need. The Division had been happy with its meeting site at the Courtyard Marriott for 2018-2020. Unfortunately, the hotel "rebranded" and the division can no longer afford to meet there. We think you'll like the convenient location of the DoubleTree across the street from the Academy of Music and in the center of town.

All of the ASA divisional meetings are organized by teams of volunteers. If you have attended several of these meetings, please step up to volunteer to help at a future meeting.

Photo Gallery of the 2024 meeting
Photo Gallery of the 2023 meeting

Evaluation of the 2023 Meeting

The meeting is being organized by the RMD officers:

• Evan Malone, President
• Bethany Henning, Vice-President
• TBD, Secretary
• Ley David Elliette Cray, Past-President

When the Call for Abstracts is available, it will be posted here. In recent years, the deadline for submission was March 15.

• Photo Gallery from the 2022 Meeting
• Photo Gallery from the 2021 Meeting
• Survey Evaluation of the 2023 Meeting
• Survey Evaluation of the 2022 Meeting
• Survey Evaluation of the 2021 Meeting

The ASA Trustees will appoint a Program Chair in Summer 2024. As more information about the meeting becomes available, it will be announced here.

Things to do in Baltimore 

• Baltimore Museum of Art
• The Walters Art Museum
• American Visionary Art Museum
• B&O Railroad Museum
• Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
• George Peabody Library
• Everyman Theatre
• Hippodrome Theatre
• Chesapeake Shakespeare Company
• Power Plant Live
• Visit Baltimore
• Historic Sites and Monuments
• Public Transportation

The lovely B&B where the Division met several years ago burned to the ground in 2018.  The Division has been happy with its meeting site at the Courtyard Marriott for 2018-2020. Unfortunately, the hotel is now "rebranding" and the division can no longer afford to meet there. We think you'll like the convenient location of the DoubleTree across the street from the Academy of Music and in the center of town.

All of the ASA divisional meetings are organized by teams of volunteers. If you have attended several of these meetings, please step up to volunteer to help at a future meeting.

Photo Gallery of the 2023 meeting

Evaluation of the 2023 Meeting

Things to do in Salt Lake City

• Utah Museum of Fine Arts
• Utah Museum of Contemporary Art
• Utah Symphony
• Utah Black History Museum
• Ballet West
• Repertory Dance Theatre
• Art Galleries
• Breweries
• Natural History Museum of Utah
• Pioneer Memorial Museum
• Temple Square
• Public Transportation