ESA CONFERENCE 2015 Dublin
I DAY
June, 11.
8:15
9:00–9:30
9:30–
11:00
11:00–
11:15
11:1512:00
12:00–
12:45
Registration
Opening St. Laurence’s Church
Plenary Session
Chair: Noel Fitzpatrick
Paul Crowther
The Need for Art: Substantial Freedom and the Aesthetics of Self-Consciousness
Coffee Break
St. Laurence’s Church
Kantian Perspectives
Chair: Isabelle RieussetLemarié
Tak Lap Yeung.
A political aesthetics or an
aesthetical politics Hannah
Arendt’s interpretation of
Kant’s power of judgment
and its difficulties
Rathdown House 005
French Aesthetics 1
Chair: Tina Kinsella
Akos Krassoy.
Can art save itself? – Levinas
in dialogue with Sartre on the
freedom of the aesthetic
Rathdown House 006
The Art (in) Question 1
Chair: Kalle Puolakka
Alessandro Bertinetto.
Gombrich, Danto, and the Question
of Artistic Progress
Kantian Perspectives
Chair: Isabelle RieussetLemarié
James Risser.
Sensible Knowing in Kant's
Aesthetics
French Aesthetics 1
Chair: Tina Kinsella
Michaela Ott.
Aesthetics as dividual
affections
The Art (in) Question 1
Chair: Kalle Puolakka
Alexander Stern.
The Last Aesthetician: Heidegger, Nietzsche and
the End of Art
1
12:45–
14:00
St. Laurence’s Church
14:00–
14:45
Kant’s Aesthetics
Chair: Isabelle RieussetLemarié
Stefan Bird-Pollan.
Benjamin’s Artwork Essay
from a Kantian Perspective
14:4515:30
Kantian Perspectives
Isabelle RieussetLemarié
Ido Geiger and Aviv Reiter.
Kant on Form, Function and
Decoration
15:3015:45
15:45–
16:30
Lunch
Clodagh Emoe’s Performance
Rathdown House 005
Rathdown House 006
Aesthetic Matters 1
Chair: Glenn Loughran
Lucy Elvis, Joanne Couch,
Christina Mullan, Alice Dixon,
Steven Mc Hugh and Colleen
Fitzpatrick.
Gesture As Aesthetic Strategy
Aesthetic Matters 1
Chair: Glenn Loughran
Colleen Fitzpatrick. Empathy,
Anthropocentrism &
Embodiment in Vischer's
Contribution to Aesthetics
Aesthetic Judgment
Chair: Fabian Dorsch
Jacob Stump.
Associative Properties
and Aesthetic Judgment
Aesthetic Judgment
Chair: Fabian Dorsch
David Davies.
The semantics of
Sibleyan aesthetic
judgments
North House
Annex 003
On Authenticity
Chair: Alessandro
Bertinetto
Vitor Moura.
Kundry must die stage direction and
authenticity
On Authenticity
Chair: Alessandro
Bertinetto
Christine Battersby.
Authenticity and the
Art Gallery Experience:
Van Gogh’s Children,
Micheal Farrell,
Heidegger and Sartre
Coffee Break
St. Laurence’s Church
Kantian Perspectives
Chair: Daniel Martin
Feige
Mojca Kuplen.
Art and Knowledge: Kant’s
Perspective
Rathdown House 005
French Aesthetics 2
Chair: Noel Fitzpatrick
Daniel Tkatch.
The Limits of Equality: Jacques
Rancière and the Sublime in
Politics
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Beauty and beyond
Chair: Matilde Carrasco Barranco
Nathalie Heinich.
Beyond Beauty: the Values of Art.
Towards an interdisciplinary
Axiology
2
16:30–
17:15
17:15–
17:30
17:30–
18:15
18:15–
19:00
19:00
21:00
Kantian Perspectives
Chair: Daniel Martin Feige
Karan August.
Form, Formal, Formative;
Accounting for normativity
in Kant's aesthetic
judgments.
French Aesthetics 2
Chair: Noel Fitzpatrick
Michaela Fiserova.
Partage de l'art. Jacques
Rancière et les disparités du
régime esthétique
Beauty and beyond
Chair: Matilde Carrasco Barranco
Carla Carmona Escalera.
The ugly also has its rules.
Between Danto's concept of the
art world and Wittgenstein's notion of use
Coffee Break
Kantian Perspectives
Chair: Daniel Martin
Feige
Katarzyna Wejman.
Hermeneutic topicality of
Kantian theory of
imagination – plot and
metaphor
Film, Video and Philosophy
1
Chair: Rob Hopkins
El Putnam.
"Bring a Camera with You":
The Posthumous Collaboration
of Ahmed Basiony and Shady
El Noshokaty
Beauty and beyond
Chair: Matilde Carrasco Barranco
Lisa Katharin Schmalzried.
Beauty and the SensoryDependenceThesis
Kantian Perspectives
Chair: Daniel Martin
Feige
Niklas Sommer.
Schiller's interpretation of
the Critique of Power of
Judgement
Film, Video and Philosophy
1
Chair: Rob Hopkins
Cato Wittusen.
Romantic Film-Philosophy and
Philosophical Film Criticism
Beauty and beyond
Chair: Matilde Carrasco Barranco
Jane Forsey.
Form and Function:
The Dependent Beauty of Design
ESA General Assembly
Rathdown House 005
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II Day
June, 12.
9:00– 9:45
St. Laurence’s Church
Rathdown House 005
Room
Functions of Art
Chair: Zsolt Batori
Jerzy Luty. Functions of
art in evolutionary
explanations
Aesthetic Matters 2
Chair: Kalle Puolakka
Kai-Uwe Hoffmann.
Thick Aesthetic Concepts
Reconsidered
Theatre and Narration
Chair: Fabian Dorsch
Andrew Kania.
Gameplay and Narration
9:45–10:30
Functions of Art
Aesthetic Matters 2
Chair: Zsolt Batori
Chair: Kalle Puolakka
Stephen Davies.
Pauline von Bonsdorff.
Body-marking
Genuine and Fake in Aesthetic
adornments: origins and Communication: From Infants
functions
to Art
Coffee Break
10:30–
10:45
10:45–
11:30
Theatre and Narration
Chair: Fabian Dorsch
Adam Andrzejewski and
Marta Zaręba.
Theatrical Performances and
Literary Works
St. Laurence’s Church
Rathdown House 005
Rathdown House 006
Morality and Politics
Chair: Matilde
Carrasco Barranco
Regina-Nino Mion.
The unpredictability of
the political effect of art
Artists’ Philosophies
Chair: Eva Schuermann
Jessica Jaques.
Repenser Picasso. Le Désir
attrapé par la queue et les
iconographies de l’absurde
et de la stupeur
The Art (in) Question 2
Chair: John Zeimbekis
Eoin O'Connell.
Can We Wrong a Work of
Art?
North
House Annex 003
The Photographic
Image
Chair: Rob Hopkins
Mario Slugan.
Making Sense of Bazin’s
Identity Thesis, or, How
Photographic Image and
Its Model Can Share a
Common Being
4
11:30–
12:15
Morality and Politics
Chair: Matilde
Carrasco Barranco
Robert Stecker.
Moral Norms and Nature
Appreciation
Artists’ Philosophies
Chair: Eva Schuermann
Ulrich Seeberg.
Gilles Deleuze on Francis
Bacon. Critical Inquiries.
The Art (in) Question 2
Chair: John Zeimbekis
Nemesio García-Carril.
Individuation and the
Categorial Question in
Ontology of Music
12:15–
13:00
Morality and Politics
Chair: Matilde
Carrasco Barranco
Wiebke Deimling.
Moralism about
Propaganda
Artists’ Philosophies
Chair: Eva Schuermann
Elena Tavani.
Giacometti <point à l'oeil>
and Merleau-Ponty's Painter
The Art (in) Question 2
Chair: John Zeimbekis
Michel-Antoine Xhignesse.
Titles Unnamed
13:00–
14:00
14:00–
14:45
14:45–
15:30
The Photographic
Image
Chair: Rob Hopkins
Tereza Bartonova and
Gabriela Boskova.
The Aesthetics of
Photography in World
Press Photo in the View
of
Visual Semiotics
The Photographic
Image
Chair: Rob Hopkins
Zsolt Batori.
Photographic deception
Lunch
St. Laurence’s Church
On Emotions
Chair: Dan-Eugen
Ratiu
John Holliday.
Reading to Feel Less
Alone: Emotional
Intimacy in Literature
On Emotions
Chair: Dan-Eugen
Ratiu
Karen Simecek.
Poetry, Emotion and
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French Aesthetics 3
Chair: Tina Kinsella
Iris Laner.
Science, Arts, and Knowing-How.
Merleau-Ponty on the Epistemic
Qualities of ‘Experimental Practices’.
Rathdown House 006
Around the picture
Chair: Zsolt Batori
Elisa Caldarola and Matteo Plebani.
Caricatures and Prop Oriented MakeBelieve
French Aesthetics 3
Chair: Tina Kinsella
Ingvild Torsen.
Body in Sculpture. Understanding
modernism with Merleau-Ponty
Around the picture
Chair: Zsolt Batori
John Zeimbekis.
Are digital pictures notational
representations?
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Perspective
15:30–
15:45
15:45–
16:30
16:30–
17:15
Coffee Break
On Emotions
Chair: Alessandro
Bertinetto
Mª José Alcaraz León.
Is there really a puzzle of
the negative emotions
and aesthetic pleasure?
On Emotions
Chair: Alessandro
Bertinetto
Paolo D'Angelo.
Emotions in Everyday
Life, Emotions in Art
Aesthetic Matters 3
Chair: Tim Stott
David Collins.
The Potential of, and Limitations of
Current Work on, Virtue Aesthetics
Creativity and Creation
Chair: Jeanette Doyle
Gemma Arguello Manresa.
Tactical Media: New Approaches to
Hybrid Creativity
Aesthetic Matters 3
Chair: Tim Stott
Anna-Maria C. Bartsch.
How can a “Formal Aesthetics” be
justified?
Creativity and Creation
Chair: Jeanette Doyle
Ilinca Damian.
On what lies beneath the process of
creation
17:15–
17:30
17:30–
19:00
Coffee Break
Plenary Session
Chair: Rob Hopkins
Carole Talon-Hugon
Artialisation of Emotions
ESA Conference Dinner
19:00–
20:00
III DAY
June, 13.
9:00– 9:45
St. Laurence’s Church
Kant revisited
Chair: Dan-Eugen Ratiu
Berta M. Pérez.
Speculative reflection as a form
of the aesthetic “free play of
Rathdown House 005
Aesthetic Matters 4
Chair: Kalle Puolakka
Andrew Huddleston.
Expanding Aesthetic Normativity
Rathdown House 006
The Art (in) Question 3
Chair: Mick O’ Hara
James Garrison
The Aesthetic Life of Power:
Recognition and the Artwork as a Novel
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9:45–10:30
10:30–
10:45
10:45–
11:30
the faculties”
Kant revisited
Chair: Dan-Eugen Ratiu
Damla Dönmez.
Saving “Disinterestedness” in
Environmental Aesthetics: A
Defense Against Berleant and
Saito
“Other”
Aesthetic Matters 4
Chair: Kalle Puolakka
Georg Bertram. Aesthetic Experience
as an Aspect of Interpretive
Activities
Coffee Break
Aesthetics, Art, and Time
Chair: Connell Vaughan
Carmen González.
Facing the real: timeless art
and performative time
Around the Fiction
Chair: Zsolt Batori
Marc Nicolas Sommer.
What is Weird Fiction? Prolegomena
to an Aesthetics of the Weird
11:30–
12:15
Aesthetics, Art, and Time
Chair: Connell Vaughan
Vladimir Marchenkov.
The Chronotope: Forms of
Time and Space in Myth, Epic,
and the Novel
Around the Fiction
Chair: Zsolt Batori
Daniel Dohrn.
'According to The Fiction' -a
Metaexpressivist Account
12:15–
13:00
Aesthetics, Art, and Time
Chair: Connell Vaughan
Jon Robson.
Testimony, the Test of Time,
and Aesthetic Epistemology
Around the Fiction
Chair: Zsolt Batori
Julia Langkau.
Learning from Fiction
13:00–
14:30
The Art (in) Question 3
Chair: Mick O’ Hara
Connell Vaughan.
Lessons from the Pasquino: Public
Space in “Social Practice”
The Art (in) Question 3
Chair: Fabian Dorsch
Matthew Rowe.
Some Irredeemably Singular Artworks
The Art (in) Question 3
Chair: Fabian Dorsch
Oana Voda.
Is Gaut’s Cluster Account a
Classificatory Account of Art?
The Art (in) Question 3
Chair: Fabian Dorsch
Gerard Vilar.
Does Artistic Research Produce
Knowledge?
Lunch
GradCAM Aesthetics Group Press Release RD004
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14:30–
15:15
Film, Video and Philosophy
Everyday Aesthetics
2
Dan-Eugen Ratiu
Chair: Isabelle RieussetGioia Laura Iannilli.
Lemarié
The Aesthechnics of Everyday Life.
Salvador Rubio Marco.
Suggestions for an Aesthetics of the
Philosophizing through movingEveryday in the age of Wearable
image artworks: an alternative
Technologies
way out
15:15 –
16:00
Film, Video and Philosophy
2
Chair: Isabelle RieussetLemarié
Lindsey Fiorelli.
What we see at the Movies
16:00–
16:15
16:15–
17:45
Everyday Aesthetics
Chair: Dan-Eugen Ratiu
Ariane Nomikos.
Illuminating the Everyday
The Art (in) Question 3
Chair: Tim Stott
Luis Eduardo Duarte Valverde.
Net.art as language games
The Art (in) Question 3
Chair: Tim Stott
Kenneth Wilder.
The Configurational Encounter:
Contemporary Art and Reception
Aesthetics
Coffee Break
Plenary Session
Chair: Fabian Dorsch
Francisca Perez Carreño
Keep reading. Aesthetic experience and literary interpretation
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