All sessions are in the Eastern European Time Zone (Helsinki, Tallinn, Riga)
Last update May 17. Contact: conference(a)eurosa.org
28.06.2022/ Tuesday
9.30-10.00 Opening
10.00-11.30 Plenary Session Emmanuel Alloa
Title: tba
Chair: Francisca Pérez Carreño
A-101
11.30-12.00 Coffee break (A-500)
| 28.06.2022 Tuesday | Philosophy of Photography Chair: Alberto Voltolini A-501 | Philosophy of Art Chair: Alessandro Bertinetto A-502 | Topics in the History of Aesthetics I Chair: Jakub Stejskal A-402 | Aesthetic Matters I Chair: Matilde Carrasco Barranco A-403 |
| 12.00-12.45 | Zsolt Bátori Photographic Abstraction | Aviv Reiter Wittgenstein and the Threat of Private Meaning in Art | David Collins Post-Romantic Conceptions of Artistic Expression: Dewey, Collingwood, and Merleau-Ponty | Eva Schürmann The Topicality of Whitehead’s Aesthetics |
| 12.45-13.30 | Marta Maliszewska Epistemic Injustice and Somaesthetics in Photography | Nemesio G. C. Puy Ethical Issues on Musical Appropriation | Viviana Galletta The Laocoön and the Devil: A Path through the Franciscus Hemsterhuis’ Letter on Sculpture | Vitor Guerreiro No Such Thing as Art: Skill, Form and Human Experience |
13.30-15.00 Lunch break (MAP)
| 28.06.2022 Tuesday | Aesthetics and the Anthropocene Chair: Iris Vidmar Jovanović A-501 | Aesthetics and Critical Theory Chair: Elena Tavani A-502 | Aesthetics and Feminist Theory Chair: Adam Andrzejewski A-402 | Aesthetic Matters II Chair: Daniel Martin Feige A-403 |
| 15.00-15.45 | Marta Benenti and Lisa Giombini Persuasive Narratives. Fiction in the Time of Climate Change | Elettra Villani The Category of the Aesthetic. Considerations on Theodor W. Adorno’s Lecture of Kierkegaard | Jana Kukaine Gut Feelings and Visceral Aesthetics in Postsocialist Feminism | Uku Tooming Is the Value of Good Bad Art a Solitary Value? |
| 15.45-16.30 | Asmus Trautsch The Problem of Scale for Art in the Anthropocene | Rolando Vitali The Aesthetic Field as Social Mediation. Adorno and Benjamin and the Aesthetic Critique of Everyday Life | Philip Mills Viral Poetics and Queer Theory: Paul Preciado, Maggie Nelson, Kae Tempest | Nathan Wildman Formal Fictional Truths, Glitches, and Missingno |
16.30-16.45 Coffee break (A-500)
| 28.06.2022Tuesday | PANEL Chair: Daniel Martin Feige A-501 | Aesthetics, Digitality and the Future Chair: Vítor Moura A-502 | Philosophy of Theatre Chair: Iris Vidmar Jovanović A-402 | Aesthetic Matters III Chair: Zsolt Bátori A-403 |
| 16.45-17.30 | Pauline von Bonsdorff, Anu Besson, Johan Kalmanlehto and Kaisa Mäki-Petäjä Aesthetic Practices: Perspectives on Temporality | Rahma Khazam Matter and Machines | Matthew DeCoursey On the Two Artistic Media of the Play Text | Kari Silvola A Darkroom of our own – The Limits of Knowing in the Written Portraits of a Hockey Player, Model and Tom of Finland |
| 17.30-18.15 | (the panel continues) | Gerard Vilar Artists Researching into the Future | Clive Cazeaux The Contradiction of Audio Drama | Sonia Emilia Mihai Ontological Experience and Users’ Identity in Digital Body Interactive Installations |
18.15-18.30 Coffee break (A-500)
18.30-20.00 ESA Assembly (for all participants and members of the ESA society)
A-501
29.06.2022/ Wednesday
| 29.06.2022 Wednesday | Aesthetic Reasons and Actions Chair: Adam Andrzejewski A-501 | Aesthetics of Design Chair: Connell Vaughan A-502 | Philosophy of Pictures Chair: Vítor Moura A-402 | Aesthetic Matters IV Chair: Elena Tavani A-403 |
| 9.30-10.15 | María José Alcaraz León Aesthetic Reasons: What They Can Do and What They Cannot Do | Michalle Gal Visualism: The Case of Metaphors (with some examples from design) | Sacha Behrend Principles for a Syncretic Theory of Pictures | Daan Evers Aesthetic Assertions without Personal Acquaintance |
| 10.15-11.00 | Daniel Martin Feige Musical Improvisation as a Challenge to Anscombian Action Theory | Monika Favara-Kurkowski The Emancipatory Role of Misuse in the Aesthetic Theory of Design | Alberto Voltolini Ordinary Perception and Pictorial Perception | Christopher Earley Adrian Piper’s Epistemic Activism |
| 11.00-11.45 | Alessandro Bertinetto Aesthetic Norms as Habits: Reasons for Situated Aesthetic Normativity | Thomas Symeonidis Designing Worlds: Explorations of the Possible Structures of the Aesthetic in Jacques Rancière | Renen Amir The Image is Outstretched, without Knowing it: It Image in a Post Aesthetic Regime | Mark Windsor Feeling through Things |
11.45-12.00 Coffee break (A-500)
| 29.06.2022 Wednesday | PANEL Chair: Daniel Martin Feige A-501 | Philosophy of Film Chair: Eva Schürmann A-502 | Aesthetic Concepts I Chair: Adam Andrzejewski A-402 | Aesthetic Matters V Chair: María José Alcaraz León A-403 |
| 12.00-12.45 | Jakob Deibl, Kurt Appel and Daniel Kuran The Beautiful, the Sublime and the Open. Aesthetic Approaches to Religion in Kant, Hegel and Hölderlin | Pol Capdevila Mood in Cinema. Towards a Unified Form of Time | Matilde Carrasco Barranco Performative Beauty as Artistic Beauty | Filippo Contesi, Enrico Terrone, Marta Campdelacreu, Ramón Garcia-Moya and Genoveva Martí The Paradox of Taste to the Experimental Test |
| 12.45-13.30 | (the panel continues) | Pioter Shmugliakov The Passage of an Idea: Philosophical Film Criticism and Phenomenology of Love in the Wake of Alain Badiou | Aurélie Debaene This is Awkward: On the Aesthetic Value of Awkwardness in Portraiture | Levno Plato Aesthetic Normativity in Legal Judgements |
13.30-15.00 Lunch break (MAP)
15.00-16.30 Plenary Session Pauline von Bonsdorff
Title: tba
Chair: Elena Tavani
A-101
16.30-16.45 Coffee break (A-500)
| 29.06.2022 Wednesday | Aesthetic and the Social Chair: Adam Andrzejewski A-501 | Philosophy of Music Chair: Daniel Martin Feige A-502 | Aesthetic Concepts II Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff A-402 | Aesthetic Matters VI Chair: Francisca Pérez Carreño A-403 |
| 16.45-17.30 | Elena Romagnoli A new Social Role for Art? Gadamer and Dewey in Dialogue | Eran Guter The Paradox of Sad Music: A Quietist Approach | Lorenzo Gineprini The Uncanniness of the Ordinary as an Aesthetic Category | Hassan Ali Rosebud: Exploring the Wellesian Shot through Deleuzian Temporality |
| 17.30-18.15 | Šárka Lojdová Philosophical Disenfranchisement of Art and Social Oppression: Arthur Danto’s Vision of a Pluralistic Artworld as a Model for an Equal Society | Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė Semantic Externalism and Musical Works | Ancuta Mortu Aesthetic Recollection | Jason Holt Self-Referential Aesthetics in the Art of Leonard Cohen |
19.00-19.45 Presentation ‘Estonian Art Theory 100’ and visit to the KUMU exhibition ‘Landscapes of Identity: Estonian Art 1700–1945’ KUMU Art Museum (Weizenbergi 34, Tallinn). See the MAP
19.45-21.00 Conference Dinner (registration and payment)
KUMU Art Museum (Weizenbergi 34, Tallinn). See the MAP
30.06.2022/ Thursday
| 30.06.2022 Thursday | Philosophy of Literature Chair: Francisca Pérez Carreño A-501 | Philosophy of Landscape and Architecture Chair: Elisa Caldarola A-502 | Everyday Aesthetics Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff A-402 | Aesthetic Matters VII Chair: Elena Tavani A-403 |
| 9.30-10.15 | Italo Testa Anaphoras. For a Theory of Poetry | Alberto L. Siani Landscape Character: Some Pragmatist Concerns | Lucía Jiménez Sánchez Aesthetic Normativity in Everyday Acts of Appreciation | Onerva Kiianlinna Aesthetic Gadgets and Predictive Minds: Universalism in Evolutionary Aesthetics Today |
| 10.15-11.00 | Kalle Puolakka Growing with Literary Oeuvres | Ken Wilder On Blindness and Architecture: Recasting Susanne Langer’s Virtuality as ‘Felt Space’ | Nélio Conceição Walking through Everyday Life: Between Attention, Disruption and Defamiliarization | Catherine Robb, Alfred Archer and Georgina Mills Aesthetic Power |
| 11.00-11.45 | Martino Manca An Ergodic Pleasure: Sensible Aspects of Reading | Jakub Stejskal Monumentality and Art History | Federico Fantelli The Faces of Caricature | Alfonso Hoyos Morales A Phenomenological Review of the Concept of Natural Beauty |
11.45-12.00 Coffee break (A-500)
| 30.06.2022 Thursday | PANEL Chair: Connell Vaughan A-501 | Philosophy of the Arts Chair: Iris Vidmar Jovanović A-502 | Topics in the History of Aesthetics II Chair: Vítor Moura A-402 | Aesthetic Matters VIII Chair: Francisca Pérez Carreño A-403 |
| 12.00-12.45 | Ken Wilder, Elisa Caldarola and Enrico Terrone Beholding: Situated Art and the Aesthetics of Reception | Lauren Stephens A Sartrean Look at Art | Adrián Kvokačka The Sublime Redivivus. Kant’s Legacy for Contemporary Art | María Jimena Clavel Vázquez and Adriana Clavel-Vázquez The Rhythm of the Eye: Expectations, Imagination, and Aesthetic Perception |
| 12.45-13.30 | (the panel continues) | Salvador Rubio Marco “Can Poems Do Philosophy?”: The Philosopher as a Sportsman of the Mind | Andrew Huddleston The Afterlife of the Sacred: Rothko’s Chapel | Lisa Schmalzried Kitschy Kitsch and Kitschy Art: Kitsch as an Aesthetic Category and an Aesthetic Property |
13.30-15.00 Lunch break (MAP)
| 30.06.2022 Thursday | Aesthetics and the Future Chair: Uku Tooming A-501 | Aesthetic Experience Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff A-502 | Aesthetics of Video Games Chair: Connell Vaughan A-402 | Aesthetic Matters IX Chair: Salvador Rubio Marco A-403 |
| 15.00-15.45 | Claire Anscomb Automating Aesthetic Choices: How Does AI Affect Human Creativity? | Federica Gregoratto Aesthetic Transformative Experience. A Pragmatist Outline | Karl Egerton Games and Disinterestedness | Alex Fisher In Defence of Fictional Examples |
| 15.45-16.30 | Mona Tärk Skin of Stones, And How Art Can Make Us Think More Ecologically | Natxo Navarro Renalias The Unreflective Everyday Aesthetic Experience | Nele Van de Mosselaer Virtual Fictions: On the Representational Aspects of Videogame Door | Radu Bumbăcea The Subjective Knowledge Theory. A Defense |
16.30-16.45 Coffee break (A-500)
16.45-18.15 Plenary Session Virve Sarapik
Title: tba
Chair: Regina-Nino Mion
A-101
01.07.2022/ Friday
Visit to Arvo Pärt Centre (registration and payment)
11:00 – departure from the Estonian Academy of Arts (Põhja pst 7, Tallinn)
11:45 – arrival at the Arvo Pärt Centre
14:00 – departure from the Arvo Pärt Centre
14:45 – arrival at the Estonian Academy of Arts (Põhja pst 7, Tallinn)
15:00 – arrival at the Port of Tallinn – Terminal A
15:10 – arrival at the Port of Tallinn – Terminal D
15:30 – arrival at Tallinn Airport