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ESA 2026 Conference Programme

Space

This version of the programme is still subject to change. Please make sure to check back regularly.

Last update Apr 30 2026 16:50

Contact: conference(a)eurosa.org

Local contact: esaconference26(a)jyu.fi

All times are in EEST (UTC +3:00)

Space

Conference Venue: University of Jyväskylä, Seminaarinmäki Campus
Main Building (C)
Seminarium Building (S)

Space

08.06.2026 / Monday

8:00 Registration

9:00–9:30 Opening
Pauline von Bonsdorff, President of the European Society for Aesthetics
Room

9:30–11:00 Keynote Session
Monique Roelofs
Swimming in the Strange
Chair:
Room C1

11:00–11:30 Coffee Break
Main building (C) lobby

08.06.2026 MondayEssay Prize Panel
Chair:
Room S110		Global Aesthetics
Chair: Ancuta Mortu
Room S203		Imagination
Chair:
Room S204		Atmospheres I
Chair:
Room S303
11:30–12:15Essay Prize Winner

Response:
Lenka Piper The Role of Indigenous Aesthetics TodayVincenzo Grasso Imagination and Aesthetic Pleasure: The Imaginative Agency AccountFrancesca D’Alessandris Atmospheres as Emotional Values
12:15–13:00(the panel continues)Ming Yang Authenticity as Aesthetic Governance: Heritage and the Normativity of Re-Enactment in Contemporary KunquLucy Psaila Art, Imagination, and Understanding OthersAdam Andrzejewski and Mateusz Salwa Temporality within Aesthetic Atmospheres

13:00–14:00 Lunch Break

08.06.2026 MondayKant
Chair: João Lemos
Room S110		Moving Images
Chair:
Room S203		Politics I
Chair:
Room S204		Ontology
Chair:
Room S303
14:00–14:45Keegan Nichols How Feeling Obligates: On the Sensus Communis and Aesthetic Normativity in KantVincenzo Cerulli Negative Filmmaking: On the Non-Intentionality of Art and the Aesthetic Affordances of the Film SetMilica Czerny Urban Audience Responsibility and Cancellation Practices in the Performing ArtsElisa Caldarola Contemporary Artwork Hylomorphism
14:45–15:30Laura Fumagalli A Kantian Aesthetics of the LandscapePol Capdevila Dialectics of Temporal Subjectivity in Moving PortraitureLisa Katharin Schmalzried All Sweetness and Light? Rethinking the Sweet–Sour Kitsch Distinction Through Gendered Emotions and Gender StereotypesChao-Shan Hsu When Do Pioneers Become Art? Buck-Passing and Time-Sensitive Membership

15:30–16:00 Coffee Break
In front of S110

08.06.2026 MondayAesthetics of the Contemporary
Chair: Jochen Schuff
Room S110		Literature
Chair:
Room S203		Judgment I
Chair: João Lemos
Room S204		Aesthetic Experience I
Chair: Ancuta Mortu
Room S303
16:00–16:45Edvardas Sumila From Negativity to Urgency: Art, Temporality, and the Form of Permanent CrisisMartino Manca An Aesthetic for Rereading
E. Hande Tuna and Jakob Norberg Aesthetic Pre-Judgment
Camilla Palazzolo What We Cannot See: Time, Transformation and Imagination in Contemporary Art
16:45–17:30Karen Simecek Oppositional Aesthetics as Artistic ResistanceFrancisca Pérez-Carreño Inner Voices in the Experience of LiteratureFrancesca Camilla Mattioli Rationality of Emotion: The Affective Taking in Aesthetic JudgementMaud Pouradier In What Sense is Aesthetic Experience Immersive? Conceptual Clarifications and Philosophical Stakes

17:30–18:00 Coffee Break
In front of S110

18:00–19:30 ESA Assembly for all participants and members of the ESA
Room C1

 

09.06.2026 / Tuesday

09.06.2026 TuesdayAdorno
Chair: Jochen Schuff
Room C310		Photography
Chair:
Room S203		Fiction
Chair:
Room S204		Everyday Aesthetics
Chair:
Room S303
9:00–9:45Conrad Mattli »Imageless images«: Adorno’s Definition of the Artwork and its Critical Relevance for Post-Autonomous ArtRene Jagnow How Photographic Technologies Shape Aesthetic ExperienceTibor Bárány Epistemic Normativity of Fiction-Directed Emotions: What’s Wrong with the Strategy of Continuity Theorists?Onerva Kiianlinna The Forgotten Roots of Finnish Everyday Aesthetics
9:45–10:30Leonie Felicia von Lieben Referring to an Other: Aesthetic Enigmaticalness in Adorno and HegelOrsola Stancampiano Experiencing Architectures through Photographs – 
Sense and Reference in Photographic ExperienceIrene Lonigro Resisting Evil: Empathy, Sympathy and Moral Resistance in FictionAnna Talasniemi Sauna and Care: Exploring Everyday Aesthetics and Everyday Heritage in Finnish Sauna Culture
10:30–11:15Niccolò Izzi Adorno and Haraway on the Critical Potential of Art between Aesthetic Autonomy and RelationalityBen Campion Playing Against the Camera: Flusser on Creativity in PhotographyNele van de Mosselaer and Nathan Wildman Fictions, φictions, and PhictionsJohan Kalmanlehto On the Aesthetic Value of Practical Difficulty and Skill

11:15–11:45 Coffee Break
In front of S110

09.06.2026 TuesdayHistories of Aesthetics I
Chair:
Room C310		AI I
Chair:
Room S203		Environmental Aesthetics I 
Chair:
Room S204		Representation/Perception
Chair: Ancuta Mortu
Room S303
11:45–12:30Pietro Allegretti Toolkits, Mosaics, and Niches: A Phylogenetically Plausible Scenario for the Evolution of ArtsZsolt Batori Authorship and Creativity in AI-Generated Photo-Based ImagesKatilina White The Human Environment As It Should BeJussi Saarinen From Period Eye to Niche Eye: Re-situating Renaissance Painting in a Landscape of Affordances
12:30–13:15Martina Frongillo Between Reversed Perspective and Anamorphosis: Pavel Florensky, Jean-Luc Marion, and the Transcendental Stakes of AestheticsEran Guter The Reciprocal Gaze: AI-DA’s Turing and Turing’s Cultural SearchTom Roberts Space, Wind, and Embodiment in the Aesthetic Appreciation of NatureJulian Lee-Sursin On Fashion’s Perceptual Content

13:15–14:15 Lunch Break

14:15–15:45 Keynote Session
Diarmuid Costello
Self-Presentation and External Validation: Vulnerability and Trust in Rineke Dijksta’s Portraiture
Chair:
Room C1

15:45–16:15 Coffee Break
In front of S110

09.06.2026 TuesdayPanel: Finnish Aesthetics
Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff
Room C310		AI II
Chair:
Room S203		Politics II
Chair:
Room S204		Aesthetic Experience II
Chair:
Room S303
16:15–17:00tbaZachary Johner After Pierre Menard: Generative AI and the Ontology of Literary WorksVitor Moura Aesthetic Aporia and Epistemic InjusticeAndrew Wynn Owen Equanimity and Aesthetic Experience
17:00–17:45(the panel continues)Errol Boon One Last Miracle. On the Metaphysics of Creativity in the Age of Artificial OmniscienceMagdalena Zolkos Artistic Engagements with Difficult History and the Aesthetics of the ImprintGiulia Sicuro Imagination, affect, and norms: what political engagement reveals about aesthetic experience

19:00 Conference Dinner
Venue: Restaurant Vesilinna / Maps

W

10.06.2026 / Wednesday

10.06.2026 WednesdayTranscultural Aesthetics
Chair:
Room		Music
Chair:
Room		Architecture
Chair:
Room		Existential Aesthetics
Chair: Jochen Schuff
Room
9:00–9:45Alberto Merzari East and West. Imagination, Image-Making, and Imaginal Geographies from Hegel to SuhrawardīCarlos Ibáñez On the Supervenience of Musical MeaningBorbala Jasz Symbol, Landscape, and Architectural MeaningEszter Babarczy The Relevance Theory of Art
9:45–10:30Tae-seung Lim Anticipation in Stillness: The Aesthetics of »Static Force« and Resonance in East Asian PaintingTiago Sousa The Role of Mistake in Understanding the Ontology and Appreciation of Musical ImprovisationKen Wilder Towards an Aesthetics of Architectural AdaptationMatteo Andre Authentic Self-Creation Through the Encounter with Art
10:30–11:15Yixuan Liu Generative Space-Time in Visual Art Practice: Merleau-Ponty and Chinese Landscape Painting in DialogueKalle Puolakka Listening to Music with the Light Switch on: Critical Notes on ConcatenationismConstantinos Proimos Projecting the Past: Peter Eisenman on Architectural Form as Time MachinePaul Moerman Teaching Dance as Aesthetic Teaching. Towards an Aesthetics of Resistance in Education

11:15–11:45 Coffee Break

10.06.2026 WednesdayHistories of Aesthetics II
Chair:
Room		Beauty
Chair:
Room		Environmental Aesthetics II
Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff
Room		Atmospheres II
Chair:
Room
11:45–12:30Thomas Meijs Metaphor as a Mode of Real Expression: Baumgarten and the Ontology of the SensibleNick Young What Makes a Typeface Beautiful?Raluca Ileana Oancea Uncanny Earth, Sublime Skies: Toward a Critical Ecological AestheticsMichael Fix Mood and Atmosphere in Aesthetic Expression
12:30–13:15Jonas Frankenreiter Normativity after the Avant-Garde: Peter Bürger between Lukács, Adorno, and Contemporary Aesthetic TheoryKsenija Savcic Toward an Inferential Account of Beauty: Immediacy ReconsideredStefan Niklas Contours of a Planetary AestheticsDavid Collins and Moe Touizrar The Music-to-Image Relation in the Formation of Cinematic Atmospheres

13:15–14:15 Lunch Break

10.06.2026 WednesdayAesthetic Matters
Chair:
Room		Art Forms/Art Movements
Chair:
Room		Judgment II
Chair:
Room		Aesthetic Experience III
Chair: João Lemos
Room
14:15–15:00Jukka Mikkonen and Kaisa Raatikainen Aesthetics, Ecosystems, and ScienceTereza Hadravova Art Form CognitivismClara Campuzano Gómez Being Affected by Others: On the Normative Force of Aesthetic ReasonsGaia Penna Puzzle Paintings and their Appreciation
15:00–15:45Thomas Adajian Aesthetic Goodness, Ideal Sensibilities, and Truth: Pragmatic ThoughtsElsa Saliba What Are Art Movements?Guillaume Soucy From Faces to Beauty: Why Hanson’s Analogy Fails and What It Reveals About Aesthetic (and Moral) EvaluationJakub Stejskal and Mark Windsor The Archaeological Sublime

15:45–16:15 Coffee Break

16:15–17:45 Keynote Session
Max Ryynänen
Aesthetics as a Companion Discipline
Chair:
Room S212

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