ESA Conference Programme 2024

Last update June 05 2024 12:55

Contact: conference(a)eurosa.org

06.06.2024/ Thursday

9:30–10:00 Opening
Welcome by Paolo Wulzer, Director of the Department of Human and Social Sciences, Università di Napoli L’Orientale
Welcome by Pauline von Bonsdorff, President of the European Society for Aesthetics
Welcome by Paolo D’Angelo, President of the Società Italiana di Estetica
Room 1.1

10:00–11:30 Keynote Session
Hans Maes
Take it Personally: Reflections on Existential Aesthetics
Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff
Room 1.1

11:30–12:00 Coffee Break

06.06.2024 Thursday	Essay Prize Panel I Chair: Regina-Nino Mion Room 1.1	Music I Chair: María José Alcaraz León Room 1.4	Art History and Art Categories Chair: Maria De Vivo Room 1.5	Aesthetics and Epistemology Chair: Tereza Hadravová Room 1.3
12:00–12:45	Essay Prize Winner Beatriz de Almeida Rodrigues Is AI Art Created by AI? Response: Tone Roald	Nemesio G. C. Puy Re-Defining Music: Contemporary and Methodological Challenges	Orsola Stancampiano The Case of Categorically Impure Art: Monster or Metaphor?	Jens Dam Ziska The Indexical and the Gestural
12:45–13:30	(the panel continues)	Vitor Guerreiro Framing Resemblances: On Goodman and Musical Expressiveness	Jakub Stejskal Art-Historical Empiricism and Digital Art History	Christopher Earley Exemption and Opacity: Art, Science, and Epistemic Discipline

13:30–15:00 Lunch Break

06.06.2024 Thursday	Imagination Chair: Iris Vidmar Jovanović Room 1.1	Music II Chair: Vítor Moura Room 1.4	Aesthetic Perception Chair: Elena Tavani Room 1.5	Aesthetic Practices Chair: Tereza Hadravová Room 1.3
15:00–15:45	Irene Lonigro Are Cantian and Wontian Theories Truly Incompatible? Towards a Unified Account of Imaginative Resistance	Federico Lauria The Epistemic Value of Sad Music: Reflection as a Motivation to Listen to Sad Music	Ken Wilder Blindness and the Ontology of Sculpture: Revisiting the Tactility or Opticality Debate	Clara Campuzano Gómez Aesthetic Discussions and Normativity: The Role of Justification in Aesthetic Judgement
15:45–16:30	Emanuele Capozziello Ecological Imagination as Critical Immersion into the Complexity of the World	Elvira Di Bona and Stefano Ercolino Listening to Atmospheres (CANCELLED)	Melanie Reichert On the Aesthetic Epistemology of Scarcity: Bell hooks, Karl Marx, Jean Baudrillard (CANCELLED)	Lola Martínez-Pons Ortuño Is Attunement a Solution to the Antinomy of Taste?

16:30–17:00 Coffee Break

06.06.2024 Thursday	Pictures Chair: María José Alcaraz León Room 1.1	Architecture Chair: Aurosa Alison Room 1.4	Biodiversity/Conservation Chair: Connell Vaughan Room 1.5	History of Aesthetics I Chair: Tereza Hadravová Room 1.3
17:00–17:45	Alberto Voltolini Perception of (Depicted) Absences	Borbala Jasz Limitations of Acquaintance in Architectural Meaning Construction	Jukka Mikkonen (and Kaisa Raatikainen) Aesthetics in Biodiversity Conservation	Luigi Laino Der Wille zur Gestaltung. Cassirer’s Transcendental Aesthetics in the Mirror of Nietzsche’s Philosophy
17:45–18:30	Enrico Terrone The Artifactual Theory of Depiction: From Paintings and Sculptures to Virtual Reality	Filip Mattens Eye Candy and the Verve of Architectural Drawing	Mariagrazia Portera Who’s Afraid of the Aesthetic Bias? The Emerging Role of Aesthetics in Contemporary Biological Conservation Strategies	Adele Rugini The »Beautiful Democracy« in Adriano Olivetti’s Thought

18:45–20:00 ESA Assembl y (for all participants and members of the ESA)
Room 1.1

07.06.2024/ Friday

07.06.2024 Friday	Heidegger Chair: Dan Ratiu Room 1.1	Digital Arts Chair: Jakub Stejskal Room 1.4	Affect and Emotion Chair: Vítor Moura Room 1.5	History of Aesthetics II Chair: Tereza Hadravová Room 1.3
9:30–10:15	Andrea Vitangeli On the Sui Generis Character of Artistic Experience in Heidegger’s Engagement with van Gogh	Zsolt Batori AI-generated Photo-based Images: Their Ontological Status and Interpretation	Mark Windsor The Uncanny as Anti-Sublime	Botond Csuka Rococo Aesthetics: Hogarth’s Aesthetics of Design
10:15–11:00	Pioter Shmugliakov Art and Truth-Regionality in Hegel, Badiou, and Heidegger	Nick Young (and Luca Marchetti) The Aesthetic Specificity of Virtual Reality	Emily Williamson The Cognitive Value of Discrepant Affective Responses to Artworks	Leonardo Lenner The Analogy between Poetry and Painting in Giambattista Vico’s Letter to Gherardo degli Angioli
11:00–11:45	Clemens Carl Härle Kunst und Raum. Benjamin – Merleau-Ponty – Heidegger	Ben Campion What is Photographic about Videogame Photography?	Sue Spaid Values vs Emotions: How Artworks ›Move Us‹ to Change	Pablo Genazzano Aesthetics of Nonbeing. Moses Mendelssohn’s Theory of Mixed Sentiments

11:45–12:15 Coffee Break

07.06.2024 Friday	De-Colonisation Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff Room 1.1	Narratives/Literature I Chair: Francisca Pérez Carreño Room 1.4	AI I Chair: Elena Tavani Room 1.5	Aesthetic Experiences Chair: Connell Vaughan Room 1.3
12:15–13:00	Lisa Giombini Repatriating Art: Aesthetic Activation and the Role of Context	Efi Kyprianidou On the Road to Virtuousness: Should we Empathise with Rough Heroines?	Irene Olivero Artworks and Artifacts: The Metaphysical and Epistemological Implications of AI-Driven Creative Technologies	Voica Puscasiu The Impact of Aesthetics on the Reception of Art in Public Spaces
13:00–13:45	Emmanuel Carrillo Corridos and Aesthetic Narrative	Gerard Vilar Artistic Research and the Future. A Defence of Proleptic Realism (CANCELLED)	Vinicius de Aguiar The Relevance of AI for Music Aesthetics: A Historical Perspective	Nicholas Wiltsher In Defence of the Dilettante

13:45–15:30 Lunch Break

15:30–17:00 Keynote Session
Tone Roald
Pleasure in Aesthetic Experience. An Investigation in Phenomenological Psychology
Chair: Elena Tavani
Room: 1.1

17:00–17:30 Coffee Break

07.06.2024 Friday	Essay Prize Panel II Chair: Regina-Nino Mion Room 1.1	Nature and Transient Art Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff Room 1.4	AI II Chair: Elena Tavani Room 1.5	Fictions I Chair: Vítor Moura Room 1.3
17:30–18:15	Essay Prize Finalist Vincenzo Grasso The Aspectuality of Literary Works Response: Stefano Velotti	Laura Fumagalli On the Object of Nature Aesthetics	Emanuele Arielli Perceived Effort in Aesthetic Appreciation: From Avant-Garde to AI	Lucy Psaila A Puzzle about Fictional Points of View
18:15–19:00	(the panel continues)	Camilla Palazzolo Contemporary Art and the Challenge of Conservation	Lorenzo De Stefano The creativity of AI. A Post-phenomenological Comparison between AI generated Content and Exquisite Worker AI Surrealism	Christoph Haffter Fictional Spaces

20:00 Conference Dinner (Venue: Antonio & Antonio, Via Partenope 26)

08.06.2024/ Saturday

08.06.2024 Saturday	Wittgensteinian Aesthetics Chair: Jochen Schuff Room 1.1	Narratives/Literature II Chair: Francisca Pérez Carreño Room 1.4	Aesthetics and Ethics Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff Room 1.5	Methodologies Chair: Iris Vidmar Jovanović Room 1.3
9:30–10:15	Luca Zanetti »Aesthetically, the miracle is that the world exists«. Wittgenstein on Aesthetic Experience	Aneta Benešová Feeling Immersed in a Narrative: Problem of Immersion from the Point of View of Fictional Worlds Theory and Second Generation Cognitive Science	Diarmuid Costello Wrongful, Degrading, or Merely Indecent? Exploitation in three Works by Santiago Sierra	Onerva Kiianlinna Beyond Philosophical and Empirical Aesthetics? (CANCELLED)
10:15–11:00	Salvador Rubio Marco Making Someone See an Aspect is not Persuading	Emilio M. Sanfilippo, (Claudio Masolo and Roberta Ferrario) Literary Investigations: Characters and Interpretation Practices	Matilde Carrasco-Barranco Reciprocity in the Aesthetics of Care	Jacopo Frascaroli Predictive Processing and Philosophical Aesthetics
11:00–11:45	Reza Hosseini Ethics and Aesthetics in Wittgenstein’s Literary Style	Martino Manca Sense Without (Semantic) Meaning? The Case of Asemic Writing	Radu Bumbăcea Cognitive Immoralism. A Restatement	Bin Liu The Correspondence Theory of Aesthetic Appreciation in Pragmatist Aesthetics

11:45–12:15 Coffee Break

08.06.2024 Saturday	Everyday Aesthetics I Chair: Connell Vaughan Room 1.1	Criticism Chair: Jochen Schuff Room 1.4	Fictions II Chair: María José Alcaraz León Room 1.5	History of Aesthetics III Chair: Elena Tavani Room 1.3
12:15–13:00	Dan Ratiu Everynight Aesthetics: What would be Different from Everyday Aesthetics?	Francisca Pérez-Carreño Taste and Art Criticism	Michele Paolini Paoletti The Identity of Fictional Entities and the Place of Authors	Allonzo Murríel Perez Being Judged, Judging Being: On the Aesthetic Representation of Purposiveness in Kant’s Third Critique (CANCELLED)
13:00–13:45	Uku Tooming Play It Again: On the Enjoyment of Comfort Food and Pop Songs	Marta Benenti Perceptual Learning and Aesthetic Criticism	Celia Coll The Truth About Historical Fiction	Giuliano Covetti The Artistic and the Real. Schiller’s Aesthetic Theory in the Eyes of Lukács

13:45–15.00 Lunch Break

15:00–16:30 Keynote Session
Stefano Velotti
Out of Control
Chair: Regina-Nino Mion
Room 1.1

16:30–17:00 Coffee Break

08.06.2024 Saturday	Essay Prize Panel III Chair: Regina-Nino Mion Room 1.1	Dance and Film Chair: Connell Vaughan Room 1.4	Everyday Aesthetics II Chair: Aurosa Alison Room 1.5	History of Aesthetics IV Chair: Jochen Schuff Room 1.3
17:00–17:45	Essay Prize Finalist Natxo Navarro Renalias Everyday Aesthetics Under the Radar: Reflecting on Reflectiveness Response: Dan Ratiu	Serena Massimo Between Dancing and »Being Danced«. Learning a Dance as a Form of »Aesthetic Sense« Emergence	Alfonso Hoyos Morales Everyday Aesthetics from the Perspective of Merleau-Ponty and Lévinas	Eran Guter Cavell as a Philosopher of Music
17:45–18:30	(the panel continues)	Silvia Bahl Visual Justice, the Inhuman and the Figurative Force of Film (CANCELLED)	Elena Romagnoli Gadamerian Hermeneutics and Everyday Aesthetics. The Language of the Ordinary between Occasion and Repetition	Lennart Posch The Logics of Feeling