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ESA conference 2010 Udine

THURSDAY May 27thAULA 7SALA ATTIAULA 10AULA 15
9 – 9.30OPENING
Plenary Session I
Sergio Givone
(Firenze, Italy)
About a narrative way of thinking
11-12REGISTRATIONCOFFEE BREAK
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12-12.45Pictorial Representation
Andrew Inkpin
(Vercelli, Italy)
The nonconceptual content of
paintings		Philosophy, Poetry, Literature
Simone Furlani
(Padova, Italy)
‘Kunst’ e ‘Dichtung’: L’estetica
della differenza di Paul Celan		Art, Cognition and Perception
Anke Haarmann
(Lüneburg, Germany)
Artistic research – a tool of
cognition parallel to philosophy?		Art and Performance
Lev Kreft
(Ljubljana, Slovenia)
Aristotle and cricket
12.45-14.45LUNCHLUNCHLUNCHLUNCH
14.45-15.30Art Objects and Artworks
Raphael van Riel
(Bochum, Germany)
The role of originals in aesthetics		Aesthetic Appreciation and
Judgement
Tomas Kulka
(Prague, Czech Republic)
How can aesthetic value
judgments be justified		History of Aesthetics
Keren Gorodeisky
(Auburn, USA)
Schematism without a concept?
Imagine that!		Aesthetic Concepts: The
Sublime
Cristian Nae
(Iasi, Romania)
Dialogical sublime: sensus
eommunis and the excess of
intersubjectivity in dialogical
aesthetics
15.30-16.15Art Objects and Artworks
Chris Belshaw
(Open University, UK)
Ceasing to be		Aesthetic Appreciation and
Judgement
Matilde Carrasco Barranco
(Murcia, Spain)
The role of reception value in the
reasoned critical evaluation of
artwork		History of Aesthetics
Tomas Hlobil
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Prager Vorlesungen von August
Gottlieb Meißner im Kontext der
deutschen Ästhetik des 18.
Jahrhunderts		Aesthetic Concepts: The
Sublime
Vladimir J. Konecni
(University of California, San
Diego, USA)
Aesthetic trinity theory and the
sublime
16.15-16.45COFFEE BREAK
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16.45-17.30Art Objects and Artworks
Tereza Hadravova & Thomas
Kulka
(Prague, Czech Republic)
Is wine an art object?		Aesthetic Appreciation and
Judgement
David Davies
(Montreal, Canada)
In situ		History of Aesthetics
Andrew Huddleston
(Princeton, USA)
Nietzsche on the decadence of
individuals and cultures		Aesthetic Concepts: The
Sublime
Antonio Carrano
(Napoli, Italy)
Esperienza e giudizio: una teoria
antipredicativa del sublime
18-19.30Plenary Session II
Lambert Wiesing
(Jena, Germany)
Pause of participation. On the
function of artificial presence
20-21
GUIDED VISIT TO THE TIEPOLO EXHIBITION
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21ESA CONFERENCE DINNER
(CASTLE OF UDINE)
FRIDAY May 28thAULA 7SALA CONVEGNIAULA 10AULA 15
8.30-9.15Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
Jukka Mikkonen
(Tampere, Finland)
Implicit assertions in literary
fiction
Aesthetic Experience
Stefan Deines
(Frankfurt, Germany)
The function of aesthetic
experience in the philosophy of
art
Aesthetic Concepts: Beauty
Verena Delle Donne
(Madrid, Spain)
How can we explain beauty? A
psychological answer to a
philosophical question		History of Aesthetics
Roberto Morani
(Università di Genova, Italy)
Della natura e funzione dell’arte
nel sistema di Hegel
9.15-10Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
Marion Renauld
(Nancy 2, France)
“Are we right to consider a
character as a fictional entity? (in
English)		Aesthetic Experience
Susanne Schmetkamp
(Basel, Switzerland)
Walking in someone else`s shoes
Aesthetic Concepts: Beauty
Gary Kemp
(Glasgow, UK)
‘Beauty’, not beauty
History of Aesthetics
Richard Eldridge
(Swarthmore College, USA;
University of Freiburg, Germany)
Hegel as a philosopher of modern
art
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10.30-11.15Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
James R. Hamilton
(Kansas State University, USA)
Narrative, fiction, imagination		Aesthetics and Theory of Art
Christel Fricke
(Oslo, Norway)
Transsubstantiation of the
commonplace?		Aesthetic Concepts: Beauty
Rafael de Clerq
(Hong Kong)
Reflections on a sofa-bed:
functional beauty and looking fit		History of Aesthetics
Jose Juan Gonzalez
(Alicante, Spain)
A philosophy of art in Plato’s
Republic: An analysis of
Collingwood’s proposal
11.15-12Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
Héctor Julio Pérez López
(Valencia, Spain)
Digital narratives of opera		Aesthetics and Theory of Art
Dan-Eugen Ratiu
(Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
After the “Death of Art”: Is there
any life for aesthetics?		Aesthetics Concepts: Beauty
Hanna Kim
(Washington & Jefferson College,
USA)
Impossible metaphors or why
‘Beautiful’ can’t be used
metaphorically		History of Aesthetics
Wiebke Deimling
(University of Pennsylvania,
USA)
Imaginary works of art and real
emotions
12-13.30LUNCHLUNCHLUNCHLUNCH
13.30-14.15Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
Zsolt Bátori
(Budapest, Hungary)
Genre identification and the case
of horror		Aesthetics and Theory of Art
Ulrich Seeberg
(Berlin, Germany)
Samuel Beckett and the problem
of modern art		Aesthetic Concepts: Beauty
Eileen John
(Warwick, UK)
Beauty and interest		Rhythm and Dance
Garry Hagberg
(New York, USA)
On rhythm
(Delivered by Gary Kemp)
14.15-15Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
Sara Protasi & Shen-yi Liao
(Yale, USA) & (Michigan, USA)
When fantasy leaks into reality:
the case of pornography		Aesthetics and Theory of Art
Alberto Martinengo
(Torino, Italy)
Metaphor and canon in Paul
Ricoeur – From an aesthetic point
of view		Aesthetic Concepts: Beauty
David Owens
(Sheffield, UK)
Pleasure and beauty
Rhythm and Dance
Inma Álvarez
(The Open University, UK)
Natural and artistic bodies in dance
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15.20-16.05Aesthetics of Music between
Ethics and Politics
Peter Rinderle
(Tübingen, Germany)
Solving the antinomy between the
aesthetics and the politics of music		Aesthetics and Theory of Art
Daniel Martin Feige
(Berlin, Germany)
Art as reflexive practice		Urban and Natural Aesthetics
Madalina Diaconu
(Vienna, Austria)
Urban drifting as a work method
of the creative class		Philosophy, Poetry, Literature
Stefano Marino
(Bologna, Italy)
Philosophy and/as literature: the
case of Theodor W. Adorno
16.05-16.50Aesthetics of Music between
Ethics and Politics
James Schmidt
(Boston, USA)
Catastrophe, Music, and Memory:
On the Aesthetics of Musical
Memorials		Aesthetics and Theory of Art
Georg Bertram
(Berlin, Germany)
Experience or reflection? The
question of modern art		Urban and Natural Aesthetics
Marta Tafalla
(Barcelona, Spain)
Does the art of Richard Long teach
us to aesthetically appreciate
nature?
17-18.30Plenary Session III
John Hyman
(Oxford, UK)
Is resemblance a relation?
18.30-19.30ESA GENERAL ASSEMBLY
SATURDAY
May 29th		AULA 7AULA 15AULA 10SALA CONVEGNI
9.30-10.15Art and Morality
Alessandro Giovannelli
(Lafayette College, USA)
A defense of radical moralism		Pictorial Representation
Elisa Caldarola
(Padua, Italy)
Pictorial representation and
abstract pictures		Cinema
Vítor Moura
(Minho, Portugal)
The cinematic muthos		Art, Cognition and Perception
Iris Vidmar
(Rijeka, Croatia)
Against cognitive triviality of art
10.15-11Art and Morality
Elvio Baccarini
(Rijeka, Croatia)
Reflective equilibrium, art and
moral knowledge		Pictorial Representation
Ken Wilder
(London, UK)
Neither here nor elsewhere		Cinema
Josef Früchtl
(Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Exhibiting or presenting?
Politics, aesthetics and
mysticism in Benjamin’s and
Deleuze’s concepts of cinema		Art, Cognition and Perception
María José Alcaraz León
(Murcia, Spain)
Contrary feelings and the cognitive
significance of art
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11.30-13Plenary Session IV
Thierry de Duve
(Lille III, Belgium)
On negativity in Kant’s Third Critique

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