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ESA conference 2011 Grenoble

Université Pierre Mendès-France, Grenoble


Conference Venues:
Maison des Sciences de l’Homme – MSH-Alpes (no. 12 on the map): Registration, MSH
Conference Theatre, and Coffee Breaks (all on the 1st floor)
Bâtiment des Sciences de l’Homme et des Mathématiques – BSHM (no. 14 on the map):
BSHM Conference Theatre (on the 1st floor)
Restaurant Diderot (yellow no. 1 on the map): Conference Lunches
Caffe Forte: Conference Dinner

PROGRAMME

Monday, 18th
MSH Theatre
BSHM Theatre
14:00 – 14:30Registration
14:30 – 16:00Welcome Address & Plenary Session
Roger Pouivet (Nancy)
Modal Aesthetics
16:00 – 17:00Expression
Krzysztof Guczalski (Krakow)
Expressiveness as a Quality and as
the Expression of a Fictive Subject		Images
Ken Wilder (London)
Michael Fried and Beholding Video
Art
17:00 – 17:30Coffee Break
18:30 – 19:30Themes from Eliasson
Ronald Shusterman (Montpellier)
Aesthetic Effects and Determinism		Images
Zsolt Batori (Budapest)
Image and Imagination
20.30Conference Dinner
Tuesday, 19thMSH Theatre
BSHM Theatre
9:30 – 11:00Plenary Session
Josef Füchtl (Amsterdam)
Produced and Nevertheless True:
On Heroes, Stars, and an Aesthetics of
Presence
11:00 – 12:00Autonomy & Value
Pavel Zahrádka (Münster)
Sociological Challenge to Aesthetics		Architecture & Design
Birgit Leitner (Weimar)
Form Follows Function: Ernst
Cassirer and the Bauhaus
(presented in English)
12:00 – 14:00Lunch
14:00 – 15:00Autonomy & Value
Peter Rinderle (Tübingen)
The Aesthetic Virtues of Immoral
Music		Architecture & Design
Nuno Crespo (Lisbon)
Architecture, Memory and Fantasy:
Reflections on Architectural
Philosophy
15:00 – 16:00Autonomy & Value
María José Alcaraz León (Murcia)
Fine Beauties: Aesthetic
Contributions to Non-Aesthetic
Evaluations		Architecture & Design
Jörg Gleiter (Bolzano)
Infecting History: On the Theory of
the History of Modern Architecture
16:00 – 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30Aesthetic Appreciation
Andrew Huddleston (Princeton)
Artistic Value		History of Philosophy
Lydia Moland (Colby)
Comic Agency in Hegel’s Aesthetics
17:30 – 18:30Aesthetic Appreciation
Salvador Rubio Marco (Murcia)
Comprendre en Art: Aspects et
Raisons dans les Jugements
Esthétiques
18.30General Assembly
Wednesday, 20thMSH Theatre
BSHM Theatre
9:30 – 11:00Plenary Session
Christel Fricke (Oslo)
Aesthetic Ways of Worldmaking
11:00 – 12:00Creativity & Imagination
Alessandro Bertinetto (Udine)
Improvisation and Artistic Creativity		History of Philosophy
Jay Hetrick (Amsterdam)
Aisthesis in Radical Empiricism:
Fechner
12:00 – 14:00
14:00 – 15:00Creativity & Imagination
Claudia Elisa Annovazzi (Vercelli)
La Testimonianza delle Immagini:
Una Lettura Estetica di Ricoeur		Themes from Kant
Carsten Friberg (Aarhus)
Contemporary Culture and Aesthetic
Education
15:00 – 16:00Urban Aesthetics
Connell Vaughan (Dublin)
Institutional Change, the Concept of
the Avant-Garde and the Example of
Graffiti		Themes from Kant
Berta M. Pérez (Valencia)
Aesthetics without Autonomy:
Heidegger and Adorno
16:00 – 16:30Coffee Break
16:30 – 17:30Aesthetics of Sport
Lev Kreft (Ljubljana)
Hook to the Chin		Themes from Kant
Frank Maet (Gent)
Back to Kant after Gadamer and
Derrida: Some New Considerations
concerning Art and its Truth
17:30 – 19:00Plenary Session
Gerard Vilar (Barcelona)
Some Paradoxes of De-Artification and
Rancière’s Art Philosophy

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