ESA Conference Programme 2023

Contact: conference(a)eurosa.org

29.06.2023/ Thursday

9.30-10.00 Opening
Lecture hall (ground floor)

10.00-11.30 Plenary Session
Alva Noë
Enacting Value
Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff
Lecture hall (ground floor)

11.30-12.00 Coffee break (Café, 1st floor)

29.06.2023 Thursday	Essay Prize Panel I Chair: Francisca Pérez Carreño Lecture hall (ground floor)	Displays Chair: Alessandro Bertinetto Library/Könyvtár (2nd floor)	Topics in the History of Aesthetics I Chair: Dan Eugen Ratiu Room 203 (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Matters I Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff Room 204 (2nd floor)
12.00-12.45	Andrew Wynn Owen Does a Plausible Construal of Aesthetic Value Give us Reason to Emphasize Some Aesthetic Practices over Others? If Not, What Might? Response: Stacie Friend	Giulia Rainoldi Immersive Museums’ Images as Nancean Bodies: Rethinking Aesthetic Immersion Topologically	Andrea Vitangeli Rapture and Attunement: Heidegger’s Attempt at Overcoming Nietzsche’s Aesthetics CANCELLED	Onerva Kiianlinna Simulationist versus Embodied Approaches in Aesthetics
12.45-13.30	(the panel continues)	Gizela Horvath Displaying Participatory Art	Ben Campion Understanding the Relation of Action and Knowledge in Flusser’s Theory of Photography	Adrián Kvokačka Climate Change Anxiety and Contemporary Climate Aesthetics

13.30-15.00 Lunch break (MAP)

29.06.2023 Thursday	Mistakes about Art Chair: Connell Vaughan Lecture hall (ground floor)	Artistic Activism Chair: Jochen Schuff Library/Könyvtár (2nd floor)	Philosophy of Music I Chair: Vítor Moura Room 203 (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Matters II Chair: Elena Tavani Room 204 (2nd floor)
15.00-15.45	Zsolt Bátori Failures of Engagement with Artworks	Lev Kreft Ressentiment, Artivism and Magic	Marcello Ruta Performed Understanding: The Amphibious Characterization of Musical Interpretation	Emanuele Arielli AI-aesthetics and the Artificial Author
15.45-16.30	Matthew Rowe The Implications of Mistakes About Art: Ontological and Epistemological	Sue Spaid On Distinguishing Activist Art from Protest Props	Małgorzata A. Szyszkowska The Impression of Music. Edmund Gurney’s Ideas about Music in The Power of Sound	Leonardo Lenner From Concept to Image (and vice versa): The Philosophical Frontispiece

16.30-16.45 Coffee break (Café, 1st floor)

29.06.2023 Thursday	PANEL: Aesthetics of Architecture Chair: Elena Tavani Lecture hall (ground floor)	Affect Theories Chair: Tereza Hadravová Library/Könyvtár (2nd floor)	Theories of Conservation Chair: Connell Vaughan Room 203 (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Matters III Chair: Regina-Nino Mion Room 204 (2nd floor)
16.45-17.30	Borbála Jász, Pedro Borges de Araújo, Sofia Miguens, Sérgio Pinto Amorim Aesthetic Judgement in Architecture	Thorsten Botz-Bornstein Guilt is Ethical, Shame is Aesthetic	Lisa Giombini Care in Conservation Ethics	Arthur Cools Impersonal Imagining
17.30-18.15	(the panel continues)	Efi Kyprianidou Moral Disgust and Imaginative Resistance	Zoltán Somhegyi How to Conserve a Fake Ruin? Heritage Dilemmas between Aesthetics and Practice	Francesco Pierini Composite Images

18.15-18.30 Coffee break (Café, 1st floor)

18.30-20.00 ESA Assembly (for all participants and members of the ESA society)
Lecture hall (ground floor)

30.06.2023/ Friday

30.06.2023 Friday	Aesthetic Agency I Chair: Jochen Schuff Lecture hall (ground floor)	Aesthetic Agency II Chair: Elena Tavani Library/Könyvtár (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Concepts Chair: Connell Vaughan Room 203 (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Case Studies Chair: Iris Vidmar Jovanović Room 204 (2nd floor)
9.30-10.15	Alistair Macaulay Between Action and Artwork: Linking Liberty and Creativity in Improvisation	Lorenzo Gineprini Material Agency within Aesthetics	Monika Jovanović Weakness of Taste and Aesthetic Akrasia	David Cseh At the Fountain of Youth – About the Rejuvenating Power of Art in Zeami Motokiyo’s Nō Play Yōrō 養老
10.15-11.00	Kaisa Mäki-Petäjä Drawing as a Way of Weaving Oneself into a Place	Sarah Hegenbart Democratic and Aesthetic Participation as Imposition: On the Aesthetics of the Collective	Lisa Schmalzried The Kitsch-Man and Different Kinds of Kitsch Attitudes	Milica Czerny Urban Rethinking the Known: The Case of The Triumph of the Will
11.00-11.45	Thomas Symeonidis On the Different Meanings of Aestheticization	Kinga Lendeczki In the Search of a Political Subjectivity	Lukáš Makky Revisiting the Concept of the End of Art	Tareeq Jalloh Prospects of a Progressive Critique of Rap: The Challenge of Oppressive Double Binds

11.45-12.00 Coffee break (Café, 1st floor)

30.06.2023 Friday	Philosophy of Literature Chair: Iris Vidmar Jovanović Lecture hall (ground floor)	Topics in the History of Aesthetics II Chair: Elena Tavani Library/Könyvtár (2nd floor)	Theories of Fiction I Chair: Vítor Moura Room 203 (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Matters IV Chair: Tereza Hadravová Room 204 (2nd floor)
12.00-12.45	Andrew Huddleston Virginia Woolf, Epiphanies, and the Modernist Novel	Davide Mogetta Between Art and Philosophy. Patterns of Baxandall’s Criticism	Jeffrey Goodman Should We Reject Fictional Universals?	Clément Canonne and Pierre Saint-Germier What’s Wrong with Aesthetic Empiricism? An Experimental Study
12.45-13.30	Colette Olive More Than Metaphor: Defending the Cognitive Value of Literature	Eran Guter Forgoing Foreignness: Wittgenstein’s Open Aesthetics	Francisca Pérez Carreño Fiction as Representation, or the Verbal Icon Revisited	Peter Hajnal Aesthetic Education, Conversation, and the Ontology of the Classroom

13.30-15.00 Lunch break (MAP)

15.00-16.30 Plenary Session
Stacie Friend
Fact, Fiction and Understanding
Chair: Connell Vaughan
Lecture hall (ground floor)

16.30-16.45 Coffee break (Café, 1st floor)

30.06.2023 Friday	Essay Prize Panel II Chair: Iris Vidmar Jovanović Lecture hall (ground floor)	Topics in the History of Aesthetics III – Kant Chair: Elena Tavani Library/Könyvtár (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Matters V Chair: Vítor Moura Room 203 (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Matters VI Chair: Jochen Schuff Room 204 (2nd floor)
16.45-17.30	David Collins Expanding Davies’ Pragmatic Constraint for Philosophizing about Art Response: Alva Noë	João Lemos Kant and Rhetoric: What Makes Bad Rhetoric Deceitful in the First Place?	Merel Semeijn Make-believe and Common Belief	Elettra Villani Aesthetic versus Functional: Overcoming Their Dichotomy in T. W. Adorno’s “Functionalism Today”
17.30-18.15	(the panel continues)	Pablo Genazzano Negative Pleasure: Kant’s Answer to Mendelssohn’s Theory of the Sublime (1763)	René Jagnow Multisensory Experience of Paintings	Giulia Zerbinati The Truth of Art. A Reflection Starting from Hegel and Adorno

19.45 Conference Dinner at Café Vian (registration and payment)
Liszt Ferenc square 9, 1061 Budapest
(https://www.cafevian.com/)

01.07.2023/ Saturday

01.07.2023 Saturday	Aesthetic Cognitivism Chair: Tereza Hadravová Lecture hall (ground floor)	Philosophy of Landscape and Public Places Chair: Connell Vaughan Library/Könyvtár (2nd floor)	Digital Images Chair: Dan Eugen Ratiu Room 203 (2nd floor)	Philosophy of Music II Chair: Vítor Moura Room 204 (2nd floor)
9.30-10.15	Peter Tsu The Problem of Aesthetic Explanation: A Limited Defence of Particularism	Paolo Furia Landscape Beauty Matters. From “Acting on” to “Acting with” Attitude	Nele Van de Mosselaer Perceiving Digital Gameworlds: Actual, Fictional, and Imaginative Perceptions	Alessandro Bertinetto Habits of Unexpectedness: The Expressive Character of Musical Improvisation
10.15-11.00	Christopher Earley Distance Learning: Insight Through Art and Audience Creativity	Sara Vieira Romão Everydayness in Our Aesthetic Experience of the City	Sonia Emilia Mihai Digital Somatopia – A New Interpretation of the Digital Space in Digital Body Interactive Installations	Nemesio G. C. Puy Performing Past Music: A Twist on Historical Authenticity
11.00-11.45	Alice Harberd Aesthetic Cognitivism and Aesthetic Biases in Epistemic Evaluations	Enrico Terrone The Aesthetic Appreciation of the Universe	Anna Fech What’s the “New” in “New Extractivism”? Tracing Post-Digital Aesthetics in Vladan Joler’s Assemblage

11.45-12.00 Coffee break (Café, 1st floor)

01.07.2023 Saturday	Topics in the History of Aesthetics IV Chair: Tereza Hadravová Lecture hall (ground floor)	Theories of Arts Chair: Pauline von Bonsdorff Library/Könyvtár (2nd floor)	Picture Theory I Chair: Regina-Nino Mion Room 203 (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Matters VII Chair: Alessandro Bertinetto Room 204 (2nd floor)
12.00-12.45	Gregorio Fiori Carones Simmel and the Aesthetics of Luxury	Javier Leñador Ontology of Installation Art: Definition and Implications	Jason Gaiger Analog-Digital Conversion and the Cognitive Value of Visual Representation	Uku Tooming Imagining All the Way Down
12.45-13.30	Emine Hande Tuna Bolzano’s Aesthetic Cognitivism	Harry Drummond Pitches and Paintings: A Conferralist Theory of Art	Dimitris Apostolopoulos Dufrenne on the Spatio-temporality of Pictorial Representation	Vitor Guerreiro Organic Form, Representation, and Cognitive Aesthetic Value

13.30-15.00 Lunch break (MAP)

01.07.2023 Saturday	Essay Prize Panel III Chair: : Regina-Nino Mion Lecture hall (ground floor)	Everyday Aesthetics Chair: Iris Vidmar Jovanović Library/Könyvtár (2nd floor)	Picture Theory II Chair: Francisca Pérez Carreño Room 203 (2nd floor)	Aesthetic Negativity Chair: Jochen Schuff Room 204 (2nd floor)
15.00-15.45	Martino Manca A Discomforting Aesthetics of Discomfort: For a Positive Aesthetics of Literary Nonsense Response: Pauline von Bonsdorff	Jacopo Frascaroli Mind, Agency, and Art: The Ethics and Aesthetics of Designed Worlds	Hannah Fasnacht Different Levels of Narrative Pictorial Content	Enea Bianchi Aesthetics at the End of the World
15.45-16.30	(the panel continues)	Dan Eugen Ratiu Objects at Work: How Do Artefacts Work Aesthetically in Everyday Organisational Life? Two Case Studies	Aloisia Moser Mimesis and Methexis. How Images Yield Knowledge about the World	Pioter Shmugliakov The Economic Problem of Love and Aesthetic Negativity in Seidl, Lanthimos, and Adorno

16.30-16.45 Coffee break (Café, 1st floor)

16.45-18.15 Plenary Session
Veronika Darida
Aesthetics of Gesture
Chair: Zsolt Bátori
Lecture hall (ground floor) CANCELLED