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ESA conference 2013 Prague

The European Society for Aesthetics held its annual conference in 2013 at the Charles University of Prague from the 17th of June (morning) until the 19th of June (evening) 2013.

The conference was co-organised by the ESA and the Department of Aesthetics at Charles University. We would like to thank the British Society of Aesthetics for its generous support.

Keynote speakers:

CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

The conference included more than 60 papers from all traditions and on a variety of systematic and historical topics in philosophical aesthetics. You can see the programme (below) or download the programme here. The ESA also held its general assembly 2013 during the conference.

CONFERENCE VENUE

The conference took place in the main building of the Faculty of Arts of Charles University, which is located on the right bank of the Vltava River, in the very city centre, at Náměstí Jana Palacha (Jan Palach Square) 2 (map). The conference venue is close to the Staromestska metro station.

REGISTRATION

Registration for the conference is now closed.

ACCOMMODATION

There are plenty of hotels and smaller guesthouses in Prague, many of which are in or close to the old city, where the conference venue is located. The local organisers were able to reserve some rooms for participants in university-related hotels or guesthouses. They have to be booked by the 1st of June and are given out on a first come, first serve basis. Please use the password ‘ESA 2013’.

Krystal Hotel:

  • Address: Martího 2, Praha 6 (map)
  • Travel: close to Nad Džbánem tram station, about 30 minutes by tram and metro to the conference venue
  • Offer: 30 rooms for one (CZK 650 / EUR 26), two (CZK 1000 / EUR 40) or three persons (CZK 1400 / EUR56)
  • Contact: krystal[at]cdms-krystal.cz

Masaryk Campus:

  • Address: Thákurova 1, Praha 6 (map)
  • Travel: close to Dejvicka metro station, which is three stops from the conference venue
  • Offer: 6 single rooms (CZK 970 / EUR 39), as well as 6 double rooms, either for one (CZK 1070 / EUR 43) or for two persons (CZK 1240 / EUR 50)
  • Contact: druzecka[at]suz.cvut.cz

Please note that neither the ESA, nor the local organisers will be able to book rooms for you – you will have to contact the hotels directly.

TRAVEL INFORMATION

Both Prague’s international airport and its train station are well-connected. The city itself is fairly easy to navigate by metro, tram or bus. Here you can find much more detailed information on travel within and to/from Prague, as well as a map of the metro and tram lines.

QUESTIONS

Please send your questions concerning the conference venue, the meals, accommodation, travel and other local issues to the local organisers: local[at]eurosa.org. Please send all other questions (for instance, concerning the programme) to the ESA conference organisers: conference[at]eurosa.org.

PROGRAMME

I DAY
June 17th		Room#200Room#300Room#111Room#215
8:00REGISTRATION
9:00 – 9:30OPENING
9:30 – 11:00PLENARY SESSION 1
(Chair: Robert Hopkins)

Tomáš Hlobil (Univerzita
Karlova v Praze)
250 Years of Aesthetics at
Prague University: How the
History of the Teaching of
Aesthetics Has Evaded Its
Historians
11:00– 11:15COFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAK
11:15–12:15Music 1
(Chair: Zsolt Batori)

Eran Guter
Wittgenstein’s critique of
the music of his time		The Art (in) Question 1
(Chair: Alessandro
Bertinetto)

Stefan Deines
Grenzfälle der Kunst. Ist
eine Definition des
Kunstbegriffs möglich –
und ist sie wünschenswert?		Art and Morality
(Chair: Matilde Carrasco)

Daniel Jerónimo Tobón
Giraldo
On Art, Compassion, and
Memory		Kant’s Aesthetics
(Chair: Joseph Früchtl)

Gene Fendt
Ancient poetics and
Kantian judgments of the
beautiful
12:15– 13:15Music 1
(Chair: Zsolt Batori)

Aaron Yarmel
Mechanistic Explanations in
Music Theory: Lessons
from Biology and Physical Geology		The Art Question 1
(Chair: Alessandro
Bertinetto)

Annelies Monseré
Disentangling Borderline
Cases of Art		Art and Morality
(Chair: Matilde Carrasco)

Ronald Shusterman
Less Than Greek : Art,
Perfection and Metaethics
(On Berys Gaut)		Kant’s Aesthetics
(Chair: Joseph Früchtl)

Sophie Menasse
The Undetermined
Concept as Constitutive of
Kant’s Aesthetic Judgement
13:15 –14:45LUNCHLUNCHLUNCHLUNCH
14:45 –15:45Image and Text
(Chair: Stepan Kubalik)

Noel Fitzpatrick
Pharmacologies of Images
and Texts		The Art (in) Question 1
(Chair: Josef Sebek)

Andrea Sakoparnig
Aesthetic objectivity and
the plurality of arts		Art and Morality
(Chair: Fabian Dorsch)

Karen Simecek
Moral Value and Meaning
Making in Poetry		Kant’s Aesthetics
(Chair: Matilde Carrasco)

Diarmuid Costello
Kant and the Problem of
Strong Non-Perceptual Art
15:45– 16:45Image and Text
(Chair: Stepan Kubalik)

Alberto Martinengo
From the Linguistic Turn to
the Iconic Turn:
Hermeneutics Facing “Third
Copernican Revolution”		The Art (in) Question 1
(Chair: Josef Sebek)

Bryant Rodemich
Heidegger’s Riddle: On the
Mystery of the Origin and
Future of Art		Art and Morality
(Chair: Fabian Dorsch)

Lisa Katharin Schmalzried
Inner Beauty–The
Friendship-Hypothesis		Kant’s Aesthetics
(Chair: Matilde Carrasco)

Stefan Bird-Pollan
Kant’s Judgments of
Beauty and Judgments of
Morality
16:45- 17:00COFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAK
17:00 –18:00Film 1
(Chair: Ondrej Dadejik)

Amedeo D’Adamo
Dantean Space In The Cities
Of Cinema – The Narrative
Building-Codes of Three
Kinds Of Projected Space in
Films and Videogames		The Art (in) Question 1
(Chair: Zsolt Batori)

Tibor Bárány
“This is not art”: Should we
go revisionist about works
of art?		Garden and Architecture
(Chair: Kalle Puolakka)

Remei Capdevila-Werning
Constructing the Absent:
Preservation and
Restoration of Architecture		Kant’s Aesthetics
(Chair: Joseph Früchtl)

Mojca Kuplen
The Aesthetic of Ugliness:
A Kantian Perspective
18:00-19:00Film 1
(Chair: Ondrej Dadejik)

Mario Slugan
Further Thoughts on
Cavell’s Ontology of Film		The Art (in) Question 1
(Chair: Zsolt Batori)

Georg Bertram
Kant and Hegel on
Aesthetic Reflexivity		Garden and Architecture
(Chair: Kalle Puolakka)

Mateusz Salwa
The Garden as a
Performance		Kant’s Aesthetics
(Chair: Joseph Früchtl)

Robert Clewis
Tracing Beauty and
Reflective Judgment in
Kant’s Anthropology
Lectures
19:30
ESA
Conference
Dinner
II DAY
June 18th		Room#200Room#300Room#111Room#215
9:00-10:00Artistic Expression
(Chair: Alessandro
Bertinetto)

María José Alcaraz León
Truth and Artistic
Expression		Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
(Chair: Zsolt Batori)

Petr Kotatko
Fiction, Reality and Radical
Narration		Taste, Judgement and Aesthetic Experience
(Chair: Joseph Früchtl)

Melissa Theriault
Of Hume and Omnivores:
A Contemporary Look at
the Notion of Taste		Film 2
(Chair: Fabian Dorsch)

Amedeo D’Adamo
Building the Eye of
Immediacy, Take One :
The History and Aesthetics
of Neorealism in a Box on
Your Head
10:00-11:00Artistic Expression
(Chair: Alessandro
Bertinetto)

Francisca Pérez-Carreño
Expressiveness without
expression? Lopes and
Robinson on pictorial
expression		Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
(Chair: Zsolt Batori)

Zsófia Zvolenszky
Abstract Artifact Theory
about Fictional Characters
Defended: Why
Sainsbury’s CategoryMistake Objection is
Mistaken		Taste, Judgement and Aesthetic Experience
(Chair: Joseph Früchtl)

Alfred Archer
Aesthetic Judgements and
Motivation		Film 2
(Chair: Fabian Dorsch)

Ken Wilder
Film as Measure
11:00-11:15COFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAK
11:15 –12:45PLENARY SESSION 2
(Chair Francisca PérezCarreño)

Paolo D’Angelo
(Università degli Studi
Roma Tre)
Aesthetics as Philosophy of
Experience
12:45-14:15LUNCHLUNCHLUNCHLUNCH
14:15-15:15The Art (in) Question 2
(Chair: Dan Eugen Ratiu)

Mónica Uribe
Perception and
interpretation in the
aesthetic experience of art		Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
(Chair: Fabian Dorsch)

Cain Todd
Literary Fiction, Attention,
and Epistemic Emotions		Taste, Judgement and Aesthetic Experience
(Chair: Tereza Hadravova)

Attila Mraz
Does Ought Imply Can in
Aesthetics?		Music 2
(Chair: Kalle Puolakka)

Jessica Wiskus
“Rhythmicized Time”:
Merleau-Ponty, Debussy,
and the Temporality of
Musical Form
15:15-16:15The Art (in) Question 2
(Chair: Dan Eugen Ratiu)

Matthew Rowe
Experience and Testimony
in the Criticism of
Conceptual Art		Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
(Chair: Fabian Dorsch)

Margrethe Bruun
Vaage
Token and type
verisimilitude		Taste, Judgement and Aesthetic Experience
(Chair: Tereza
Hadravova)

Pavel Zahrádka
Criticism of Aesthetic
Hierarchism and its
Consequences for
Aesthetics and Art
Criticism		Music 2
(Chair: Kalle Puolakka)

Mario Videira
Kant et la pensée musicale
du Romantisme Allemand
16:15– 16:30COFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAK
16:30 –17:30The Art (in) Question 2
(Chair: Dan Eugen Ratiu)

Alessandro Bertinetto
On Aesthetic and Artistic
Luck		Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
(Chair: Zsolt Batori)

Yujia Song
Understanding a Person:
From Fiction to Real Life		Themes from Collingwood
(Chair: Jakub Stejskal)

Damla Donmez
Collingwood and “Art
Proper”: From Idealism to
Consistency		French Aesthetics
(Chair: Joseph Früchtl)

Judith Wambacq
Proust’s Artistic Ontology.
A Comparison of MerleauPonty’s and Deleuze’s
Readings of Proust’s
Recherche
17:30-18:30The Art (in) Question 2
(Chair: Dan Eugen Ratiu)

Adam Andrzejewski
Artification and its
Inspirations for the Art
Ontology		Fiction, Narrativity, Imagination
(Chair: Zsolt Batori)

Jerome Pelletier
The Imagined and the
Fictional		Themes from Collingwood
(Chair: Jakub Stejskal)

David Collins
Expressing a Certain
Vision: James,
Collingwood and the
Value of Aesthetic
Activity		French Aesthetics
(Chair: Joseph Früchtl)

Ulrich Seeberg
Das Sehen der Blinden –
Derrida als
Kunsttheoretiker
18:30-18:45COFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAK
18:45-20:00ESA GENERAL
ASSEMBLY
III DAY
June 19th		Room#200Room#300Room#111Room#215
9:00-10:00The Experience of Pictures
(Chair: John Zeimbekis)

Andreea Smaranda Aldea
Thinking about Depiction –
Phenomenological
Reflections on Imaging
Consciousness		The Art (in) Question 3
(Chair: Matilde Carrasco)

Robert Stecker
Aesthetic Autonomy and
Artistic Heteronomy		Political Issues
(Jakub Stejskal)

Connell Vaughan
Public Galleries; the
Politicised Nature of
Publicness in
Contemporary Art
Practice and Aesthetic
Theory		Aesthetic Metaphors & Concepts
(Chair: Robert Hopkins)

Shen-Yi Liao and Aaron
Meskin
What is the Matter with
Aesthetic Adjectives?
10:00-11:00The Experience of Pictures
(Chair: John Zeimbekis)

Regina-Nino Kurg
The subject in positional
depiction. Edmund
Husserl’s theory of
depiction revised		The Art (in) Question 3
(Chair: Matilde Carrasco)

Alicia Bermejo Salar
The analogy between artistic
and linguistic meaning: the
linguistic model of
intentionalism revisited		Political Issues
(Jakub Stejskal)

Elena Tavani
Aesthetics and Politics of
Appearance 		Aesthetic Metaphors & Concepts
(Chair: Robert Hopkins)

Isidora Stojanovic
‘Provocative’, ‘astonishing’ and ‘subtle’:
on the semantic structure of
aesthetic adjectives
11:00-11:15COFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAK
11:15 –12:45PLENARY SESSION III
(Chair: John Zeimbekis)

Maria Elisabeth Reicher Marek (Philosophisches
Institut der RWTH
Aachen)
Actual meaning objectivism
12:45-14:30LUNCHLUNCHLUNCHLUNCH
14:30-15:30PANEL
Estetika Panel Discussion:
Quality in Journal
Publishing
15:30-16:30PANEL
Estetika Panel Discussion:
Quality in Journal
Publishing		Political Issues
(Jakub Stejskal)

Mihály Szilágyi-Gál
Hobbes’s Rejection of
Beautiful Speech in the
Leviathan		Aesthetic Metaphors & Concepts
(Chair: Alessandro
Bertinetto)

Hanna Kim
Experimental Aesthetics:
Impossible Metaphors
16:30– 16:45COFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAKCOFFEE BREAK
16:45-17:45The Experience of Pictures
(Chair: John Zeimbekis)

Enrico Terrone
Originally Nested.
Twofoldness and
Twotierness in the
Experience of Pictures		Themes from Goodman
(Chair: Kalle Puolakka)

Kristina Soldati
Dancespecific aspects in the
tradition of the symboltheory
of Nelson Goodman		The Art (in) Question 3
(Chair: Martin Kaplicky)

Gulizar Karahan Balya
The Death of the Artist:
Nietzschean Approach to
Aesthetics		Aesthetic Metaphors & Concepts
(Chair: Dan Eugen Ratiu)

Tomas Kulka
Kitsch and Aesthetic
Infantilism
17:45-18:45The Experience of Pictures
(Chair: John Zeimbekis)

Edward Winters
Pictorial Content and its
Look		Themes from Goodman
(Chair: Kalle Puolakka)

David Davies
‘Neo-Goodmanian’
aesthetics and the problem of
‘fast art’		The Art (in) Question 3
(Chair: Martin Kaplicky)

Ling Zhu
The Tension Structures of
Consciousness as the
Subject of Art: An
Interpretation of the
Central Thesis of Susanne
Langer’s Aesthetic
Theory		Aesthetic Metaphors & Concepts
(Chair: Dan Eugen Ratiu)

Alexia Bretas
The Eternal Return of the
New: The Aesthetics of
Fashion in Walter
Benjamin
18:45-19:00
FINAL GET
TOGETHER

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