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ESA conference 2012 Guimarães

MONDAY
25th June
School of Architecture
(Guimarães)		Auditorium A1
Auditorium A2
Auditorium A3
Room 1.58
8-9 amRegistration
9-9.30 amOpening
9.30-11 amPlenary Session
Krystyna Wilkoszewska
(Kraków)
Transcultural Studies in Aesthetics:
The Ups and Downs
11-11.30 amCoffee Break
11.30-12.30 pmScience, Art, Aesthetics
Vladimir J. Konečni
(San Diego)
Empirical Psycho-Aesthetics
and Her Sisters: Substantive
and Methodological Issues		Phenomenology of Art
Nikola Mirkovic
(Freiburg)
Beyond Aesthetics:
Heidegger’s Ontology of Art		Aesthetics of Environment
Dan E. Ratiu
(Cluj)
Remapping the Realm of
Aesthetics:
Recent
Controversies about the
Aesthetic and the Aesthetic
Experience in Everyday Life		Literature, Fiction,
Narrative
Dina Mendonça
(Lisbon)
The Experimental Solution
for the Paradox of Fiction
and the Paradox of Tragedy
12.30-1.30 pmScience, Art, Aesthetics
Vid Simoniti
(Oxford)
New Directions in
Neuroaesthetics and Their
Relevance to Philosophy of
Art		Phenomenology of Art
Cristian Hainic
(Cluj)
An Investigation into the
Heideggerian Roots of the
Aesthetics of Everyday Life:
A Hermeneutical Approach
to Art		Aesthetics of Environment
Rainer Kazig
(Munich)
Embedded aesthetics:
Outline of a Social-scientific
Approach to Everyday
Aesthetics		Literature, Fiction,
Narrative
Dimitria Electra Gatzia &
Eric Sotnak
(Akron)
Fact, Fiction and Pretense
1.30-3 pmLunch Break
3-4 pmScience, Art, Aesthetics
Stephen Davies
(Auckland)
Kinds of mind/brain
modularity and their
relevance to connecting art
and evolution		Phenomenology of Art
Noel Fitzpatrick
(Dublin)
Revisiting Ekphrasis: The
Early Hermeneutic
Phenomenology of Paul
Ricoeur		Aesthetics of Environment
María José Alcaraz León
(Murcia)
Aesthetic Insight: The
Aesthetic Value of Damaged
Environments		Literature, Fiction,
Narrative
Monique Roelofs
(Amherst)
Aestheticizing Abandonment:
The Promise of a
Compromised Aesthetic
4-5 pmScience, Art, Aesthetics
Jérôme Pelletier
(Paris)
Narrative/Fiction: Inverted
Forms of Cognition		Phenomenology of Art
Jay Hetrick
(Amsterdam)
From Phusis to Poiesis in
Heidegger and Deleuze		Aesthetics of Environment
María del Mar Rosa
(Murcia)
On Brady’s Imagination and
the Aesthetic Appreciation of
Nature		Literature, Fiction,
Narrative
James Hamilton
(Kansas)
The Richness of Narrative
per se
5-5.30 pmCoffee Break
5.30-6.30 pmScience, Art, Aesthetics
Shen-yi Liao
(Kansas)
Aesthetic Explanation		Aesthetics of Painting
Toni Hildebrandt
(Basel)
Jean-Luc Nancy and the
Onto-aesthetics of Drawing		Aesthetics of Environment
Marta Tafalla
(Barcelona)
Anosmic Aesthetics		Literature, Fiction,
Narrative
David Davies
(Montreal)
Fictionality, Fictive
Utterance, and the Assertive
Author
7.30 pmConference Dinner
TUESDAY
26th June
Nogueira da Silva Museum
(Braga)		Salão Nobre
Sala Jorge Barradas
Galeria 2
Galeria 3
9.30 amBus Transfer to Braga
Azurém Campus
Parking Lot
10-11.30 amPlenary Session
Noël Carroll
(New York)
The Creative Audience:
Some Ways in which Readers, Viewers, and/or Listeners
Use their Imaginations to Engage Fictional Artworks
11.30-12 pmCoffee Break
12-1 pmAesthetics of Painting
Evrim Emir
(Amsterdam)
Painting the Impossible		History of Aesthetics
Adam Blincoe
(Kentucky)
The Priority of Reason:
Mendelssohn’s Rationalist
Aesthetics		Aesthetics of Music
Ulrich Seeberg
(Halle-Wittenberg)
Birdsong and Music:
Philosophical Reflections		Definitions of Art and the
Aesthetic
Simon Fokt
(St Andrews)
Why History Matters to a
Cluster Theorist
1-2 pmAesthetics of Painting
Jill Murphy
(Cork)
Images of Death by
Deprivation in Steve
McQueen’s Hunger in
relation to Holbein’s The
Body of the Dead Christ in
the Tomb		History of Aesthetics
Thomas Heyd
(Victoria)
Re-reading Kant on Free and
Adherent Beauty		Aesthetics of Music
Alessandro Bertinetto
(Udine, Berlin)
Improvisational Listening?
Definitions of Art and the
Aesthetic
Matilde Carrasco Barranco
(Murcia)
The Dogma of Postconceptual Art: The Role of
the Aesthetic in the Art of
Today
2-3.30 pmLunch Break
3.30-4.30 pmAesthetics of Painting
Ken Wilder
(London)
Manet and Vermeer: The
Nature of the Excluded
Spectator		History of Aesthetics
Andrew Huddleston
(Princeton)
Art as Culture and Culture as
Art: Tracing a Theme from
The Birth of Tragedy to
Nietzsche’s Later Work		Aesthetics of Music
Eran Guter
(Yezreel Valley)
On the Impurely Musical
Experience: Beyond
Formalism and Narrativism		Definitions of Art and the
Aesthetic
Sergey Dzikevich
(Moscow)
Towards Semi-institutional
Theory of the Aesthetic:
Some Results of
Metahistorical Thinking in
Aesthetics
4.30-5.30 pmAesthetics of Painting
Miriam Paulo Rosello
(Barcelona)
Beyond the Fourth Wall:
Encountering Mark Rothko’s
Characters		Aesthetics of Architecture
Remei Capdevila Werning
(Barcelona)
From Berliner Stadtschloss
to Humboldt-Box and back
again: Architecture in the
Conditional		Aesthetics of Music
Lydia Goehr
(New York)
The Agon of Improvising on
Broken Strings: Toward a
Theory of Fit and Wit
5.30-6 pmCoffee Break
6 pmGeneral Assembly
WEDNESDAY
27th June
School of Architecture
(Guimarães)		Auditorium A1
Auditorium A2
Auditorium A3
Room 1.58
9.30-11 amPlenary Session
Mário Jorge de Carvalho
(New University of Lisbon)
A Further Point of View on Points of View
11-11.30 amCoffee Break
11.30-12.30 pmImagination and Film
Robert Stecker
(Michigan)
Film Narration, Imagined
Seeing and Seeing-in		Politics, Art, Aesthetics
Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié
(Paris)
What Taste and Perfume Add
to the Political Interpretation
of the Kantian Aesthetic
Judgment by Arendt and
Deleuze		Ontological Topics in
Aesthetics
Salvator Rubio Marco
(Murcia)
Pour un réalisme de l’aspect
et l’expression en esthétique
12.30-1.30 pmImagination and Film
Daniela Tagliafico & Enrico
Terrone
(Turin)
Imagination and the
Cinematic Experience		Politics, Art, Aesthetics
Connel Vaughan
(Dublin)
The Political Basis of
Rancière’s Aestheticsing		Ontological Topics in
Aesthetics
Matthew Rowe
(UK)
Artwork Indication and the
Standard of Neglect		Ethics and Aesthetics
Ya-ping Lin
(Taiwan)
Art for Life’s Sake: Iris
Murdoch on the Relationship
between Art, Morality, and
Ethics
1.30-3 pmLunch Break
3-4 pmImage and Depiction
Simone Neuber
(Heidelberg)
How Depictive
Representations Mandate
Pretence by Being
Recognized in Terms of
What They Depict		Politics, Art, Aesthetics
Hermann Pfütze
(Berlin)
A Global Sense of Beauty		The Interpretation of Art
and Music
Thomas Dworschak
(Leipzig)
A Framework for Musical
Meaning		Between Philosophy and
Literature
Karen Simecek
(Warwick)
On the (Seeming)
Incompatibility between
Poetry and Philosophical
Inquiry
4-5 pmImage and Depiction
Paolo Spinicci
(Milan)
Pictorial Marks,
Anamorphosis, and the
Nature of Depiction		Politics, Art, Aesthetics
Cristian Nae
(Iasi)
Party Pris: Evaluating the
Politicized Practices of
Conceptual Art		The Interpretation of Art
and Music
Zsolt Batori
(Budapest)
The Role of Music Theory in
Music Appreciation:
Scientific Explanation or
Interpretation?		Between Philosophy and
Literature
Eileen John
(Warwick)
Poetry and Instructions for
Thought
5-5.30 pmCoffee Break
5.30-6.30 pmImage and Depiction
Enrico Terrone
(Turin)
The Digital Secret of the
Moving Image		Politics, Art, Aesthetics
Erin Flynn
(Ohio Wesleyan)
The Aesthetic
Representation of Justice in
Eastwood’s High Plains
Drifter		The Interpretation of Art
and Music
Kalle Puolakka
(Helsinki)
Evidence and the
Interpretation of Art		Between Philosophy and
Literture
Alexia Bretas
(Campinas)
I Dream, therefore I Exist:
Aesthetic Reflections of
Fernando Pessoa
6.30 pmEnd of Conference

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