ESA 2025 Conference Programme

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Last update May 13 2025 09:38

Contact: conference(a)eurosa.org

16.06.2025 / Monday

9:00 Registration

9:30–10:00 Opening
Pauline von Bonsdorff, President of the European Society for Aesthetics
Opening Address by
Achilleas Chaldeakis, Member of the Administrative Council of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens
Dimitrios Droso s, Dean of the School of Philosophy, NKUA
Vana Nikolaidou-Kyrianidou, Chair of the Department of Philosophy, NKUA
Welcome by
Georgios Arabatzis, Professor at the Department of Philosophy, NKUA
Room Library Amphitheater

10:00–11:30 Keynote Session
Tonino Griffero
Rapture »at a Distance«. Searching for Pathic-atmospheric Aesthetics
Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff
Room Library Amphitheater

11:30–12:00 Coffee Break

16.06.2025 Monday	Essay Prize Panel Chair: Tereza Hadravová Room 425	Beauty Chair: Jochen Schuff Room 426	Aesthetic Production Chair: María José Alcaraz León Room 427	Music Chair: Vítor Moura Room 428
12:00–12:45	Essay Prize Winner tba Response tba	Panos Paris Beauty & Pleasure: Internalising Ends, Experiencing Value	Monika Favara-Kurkowski Material Realities: The Aesthetics of Mass-Produced Design Objects	Eran Guter Peacocke on Musical Expression
12:45–13:30	(the panel continues)	Catherine Wesselinoff Arguments Against Beauty	Nemesio G. C. Puy Completing a Work of Art	Giulia Lorenzi Understanding Musical Virtuosity to Understand Auditory Perception

13:30–15:00 Lunch Break

16.06.2025 Monday	Kantian Aesthetics I Chair: Vítor Moura Room 425	Cinematic Philosophy Chair: Room 426	Fictions I Chair: Room 427	Poetry/Literature I Chair: Fotini Vassiliou Room 428
15:00–15:45	Ido Geiger Does Kant Have a Theory of Music as an Artform?	Conrad Mattli Art as Enigma and Empty Promise: Adorno and Charlie Kaufman’s I’m Thinking of Ending Things	Damian Cox Fictional Excess and Moral Self-Repugnance	Francesco Pierini Inner Speech and the Phenomenology of Poetry
15:45–16:30	João Lemos Kant and Bad Art	Alfonso Hoyos Morales The Notion of Authenticity in Robert Bresson	Ioan Victor Popa Canons and Corpora of Fictions	Andrew Wynn Owen Can the Utterance of a Sentence in Poetry be Serious?

16:30–17:00 Coffee Break

16.06.2024 Monday	Aesthetics of the Contemporary I Chair: Jochen Schuff Room 425	AI I Chair: Elena Tavani Room 426	Fictions II Chair: Efi Kyprianidou Room 427	Architecture/Sculpture Chair: Fotini Vassiliou Room 428
17:00–17:45	Elisa Caldarola and Camilla Palazzolo The Arts of Introspection	Michalle Gal Is Generative AI in Aesthetics Really New? A Visualist Analysis	Irene Lonigro If We Can Imagine a New Shade of Blue, Can We Imagine New Emotions? The Limits of Emotional Engagement with Fiction	Luca Marchetti Architectural Experience
17:45–18:30	Gaia Bobò Anti-Entropic Fields. Art and the Inversion of Time	Nick Young and Enrico Terrone The Environmental Aesthetics of Generative AI	Tibor Bárány Epistemic Normativity of Fiction-Directed Emotions: What’s Wrong with the Strategy of Continuity Theorists?	Dimitris Apostolopoulos Kinetic Volume: Seeing Sculpture with Langer

18:45–20:00 ESA Assembly for all participants and members of the ESA
Election of new Executive Committee members
Room Library Amphitheater

17.06.2025 / Tuesday

17.06.2025 Tuesday	History of Aesthetics I Chair: Giorgos Arabatzis Room 425	Everyday Aesthetics Chair: Room 426	Environmental Aesthetics Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff Room 427	Photography Chair: María José Alcaraz León Room 428
9:30–10:15	Rahel Aerin Eslas Denis Diderot and the Enlightenment Aesthetics of Nature	Natxo Navarro Renalias Appreciating Freely: Revisiting Everyday Aesthetics’ Framelessness	Laura Fumagalli Nature Aesthetics and Global Climate Change	Orsola Stancampiano A Chance to Create Photographic Metaphors
10:15–11:00	Jessica Jaques Pi À l’occasion du bicentenaire de la publication de Physiologie du goût par Jean Anthèlme Brillat-Savarin: quatre raisons de l’inclure dans la liste des œuvres fondamentales de l’esthétique du XIXe siècle	Arianna Gritti Social Networks and the Aesthetics of Communication	Thomas Heyd Aesthetic Sensibilities, Climatic Changes and Prehistoric Art	Snjezana Simic Rethinking the Aesthetics of Photography Through the Lens of the Philosophy of Technology
11:00–11:45	Ivan Quartesan Goethe’s Farbenlehre. A Media Theory?	Dan Eugen Ratiu Rethinking Nightness: Artistic Depictions and Philosophical Interpretations of Night-time, Activities and Objects	Asmus Trautsch Strange Nature and Estranged Selves. Alienation as a Dimension of the Appropriate Appreciation of Natural Environments in Ecological Crisis	Ben Campion Photographic Visualisation: A Challenge from Machine-Learning

11:45–12:15 Coffee Break

17.06.2025 Tuesday	Hegelian Aesthetics Chair: Christos Grigoriou Room 425	AI II Chair: Elena Tavani Room 426	Aesthetics of the Contemporary II Chair: Connell Vaughan Room 427	Poetry/Literature II Chair: Dimitris Apostolopoulos Room 428
12:15–13:00	Leonie Felicia von Lieben A Revision of Paul de Man’s Reading of the Symbolic in Hegel’s Aesthetics	Emanuele Arielli The Goddess of Chance: From Ancient »Automaton« to AI-Art	Carola Del Pizzo Ganzfelds, Dotted Pumpkins and Pastel Neons: Re-framing Immersive Art for a Hermeneutics of the Contemporary	Carola Barbero The Instinct of Literature
13:00–13:45	Antonios Kalatzis The True, the Good – and the Beautiful? The Absence of Aesthetics in Hegel’s Science of Logic	Vinícius de Aguiar Music, Artificial Intelligence, and the Crisis of our Aesthetic Categories	Pol Capdevila Interactivity and Horizontality in Archival Art	Stefanos Regkas Outline of a Spinozist Metaphysics of Poetry

13:45–15:30 Lunch Break

15:30–17:00 Keynote Session
Juliane Rebentisch The Ecological Uncanny
Chair: Elena Tavani
Room Library Amphitheater

17:00–17:30 Coffee Break

17.06.2025 Tuesday	Kantian Aesthetics II Chair: Room 425	Habits Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff Room 426	Aesthetic Judgment Chair: María José Alcaraz León Room 427	Emotions Chair: Tereza Hadravová Room 428
17:30–18:15	Julian Hanich Free Beauty Reconsidered: Kant, Brakhage, and Avant-Garde Cinema	Roberta Dreon The Arts are Made of (Intelligent) Habits	Clara Campuzano Why Choose One When You Can Have Both? On the Perceptual and Rational Dimensions of Aesthetic Judgement	Marta Benenti Learning Emotions from Aesthetics: An Affordance-Based Proposal
18:15–19:00	Thomas Symeonidis On The Art of Aesthetic Ideas. The Kantian Background of Jacques Rancière’s Aesthetic Ontology of Art	Jacopo Frascaroli and Alessandro Bertinetto The Pleasure of the Habitual. The Role of Habituation in Aesthetic Appreciation	Connell Vaughan Temporal Displacement: Charting the Test of Time in the Big Flat Now	Abel Franco An Aesthetic Emotion About Spaces?

20:00 Conference Dinner
(Venue: Kapodistriako Restaurant)

18.06.2025 / Wednesday

18.06.2025 Wednesday	Aesthetics of the Contemporary III Chair: Jochen Schuff Room 425	History of Aesthetics II Chair: Tereza Hadravová Room 426	Fictions III Chair: Room 427	Aesthetic Matters Chair: María José Alcaraz León Room 428
9:30–10:15	Edvardas Sumila Return of the Political and the Aesthetics of Anthropocene	Sujitha Parshi Towards an Atomistic Aesthetics: Friedrich Nietzsche’s »Homer and Classical Philology«	Giulio Sacco On the Alleged Cognitivism Underlying the Paradox of Fiction	Thomas Adajian Pluralism and Heterogeneity Arguments in Philosophy of Art
10:15–11:00	Kamilla Freyr and Åsa Arketeg Art in Public Spaces – Discourse and Counter-Discourse	Mark Windsor Collingwood’s Everyday Aesthetics	Elisa Paganini Fiction as Non-Committal Communication	Errol Boon The Question of Artistic Truth. Ancient Problems and Contemporary Debates
11:00–11:45	Ken Wilder Juliane Rebentisch, Aesthetic Autonomy, and the Locative Function of Situated Art	Andrew Huddleston Heidegger on Dwelling and the Task of Art	Ido Keren Shalit Fiction, Fallibility, and the Ethics of Decision: J.L. Austin and George Eliot on the Narratability of Action	Wing Po Chan Perception, Context, and Categories of Art

11:45–12:15 Coffee Break

18.06.2025 Wednesday	Kantian Aesthetics III Chair: Antonios Kalatzis Room 425	Fictions IV Chair: Efi Kyprianidou Room 426	Re-Assessments Chair: Connell Vaughan Room 427	Taste Chair: Vítor Moura Room 428
12:15–13:00	Thanos Spiliotakaras The Notion of the Maximum in Kant’s Aesthetic Ideas	Aneta Benešová Falling for the Illusion: Toward a More Precise Account of Illusion in Reading Experience	Alberto Merzari Manifestation and Concealment in Islamic Aesthetics. Reassessing the Orientalistic Prejudice about the “Land of Mysteries”	Lola Martínez-Pons Ortuño Why cannot artistic interpretation do without taste?
13:00–13:45	Christos Grigoriou Sublime Aesthetics and Politics in Kant’s »General Remark«	Martino Manca Framing the Unwritten: Fictional Books and Their Role in Fiction	Lenka Piper Bridging Dualisms: Reconciling Anthropology and Art in the Study of Australian Aboriginal Art	Celia Coll Why do Good Critics Like Bad Books?

13:45–15.00 Lunch Break

18.06.2025 Wednesday	Aesthetic Practices Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff Room 425	Aesthetic Properties Chair: Efi Kyprianidou Room 426	Atmosphere Chair: Fotini Vassiliou Room 427	Techniques of Subversion Chair: Room 428
15:00–15:45	Enea Bianchi Archery and Aesthetic Experience: Analyzing the Subject-Object Relationship in Sport Performance	Niccolò Nanni The Multimodal Perception of Aesthetic Properties	Lukáš Makky Dialectic of Time and Space in the Concept of Aura and Atmosphere	Elsa Saliba Divergence, Convergence, and the Ontology of ›Pioneering‹ Artworks
15:45–16:30	Emily Williamson Exploration and faithfulness in aesthetic life	Artur Harris Aesthetic Properties are not Kinds of Aesthetic Value	Miloš Ševčík Aesthetic Atmosphere Revisited: Dynamic Multiplicity	Maura Ceci Contrast and Subversion: Towards a Definition of the Grotesque

16:30–17:00 Coffee Break

17:00–18:30 Keynote Session
Katerina Bantinaki tba
Chair: Efi Kyprianidou
Room Library Amphitheater