Dutch Association of Aesthetics
Annual Conference
May 27th-28th, 2011
Ghent
The Dutch Association of Aesthetics (https://nge.nl/daa/) is a society for everyone interested in theoretical, philosophical and critical reflection on the arts and the aesthetic dimensions of contemporary culture. The association offers a meeting place for philosophers, artists, art critics, art scientists, and people employed in art education and art policy.
On Friday May 27th and Saturday May 28th 2011, the Dutch Association of Aesthetics holds its annual conference at Ghent, Belgium. Keynote speakers are:
Paul Crowther (National University of Ireland, Galway)
and
Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)
Full program see below
Please register by sending an e-mail to Annelies Monseré: annelies.monsere@ugent.be
Registration: regular: 40 euro (NGE membership included)
students: 10 euro (NGE membership included)
members NGE: 15 euro
student members NGE: free
Conference venue: Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Suggestions for accommodation can be found here:
http://www.ibishotel.com/nl/hotel-1455-ibis-gent-centrum-opera/index.shtml
Organising Committee: Hans Maes, Annelies Monseré, and Bart Vandenabeele
| VRIJDAG / FRIDAY 27/05/2011 | ||
| 10.00 | Registratie / Registration | |
| 10.30-10.50 | Welkom / Welcome | |
| 10.50-12.10 | Nicola Crosby ‘Kant’s Three-Tier Account of the Symbol’
Ralph Palm ‘Kant and the Aesthetic of Interest’ |
Leen De Bolle ‘Jeff Wall and the Poetic Picture:With Bergson and Deleuze towards a Virtual Ontology as the basis for a Picture Theory
beyond Representation’ Corry Shores ‘Cézanne and the Phenomenon: |
| 12.10-12.30 | Pauze /Pause | |
| 12.30-13.30 | Prof. dr. Jerrold Levinson ‘Artistic Achievement, Aesthetic Experience, and Artistic Value’ | |
| 13.30-15.00 | Lunch | |
| 15.00-17.00 | Derek Allan ‘Time: The Forgotten Dimension of Art’
Sarah Willems ‘Artistic creativity and imagination. Comments on Berys Gaut’s theory’ Natalya Sukhonos ‘Aesthetics and Play in 20th century Latin American and Russian Literature’ |
Maarten Steenhagen ‘Representing the Trinity’
Randall Van Schepen ‘Clear-Eyed Aesthetics for Foggy Art’ Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin ‘From the Abstract Spiritual to the Concrete Religious: On the Complex Relation between Faith and Art in Kandinsky and Ofili’ |
| 19.00 | Conferentie diner/ Conference dinner | |
| ZATERDAG / SATURDAY 28/05/2011 | ||
| 10.00-11.20 | Rob van Gerwen ‘How the Current Rise of Implication Art Helps Clarify Both the Definition of Art and its Moral Autonomy’
Michael Newall ‘An Aesthetics of Pornography’ |
Janneke Wesseling ‘Towards a reception aesthetics of contemporary art’
Margaux Sladden ‘Artist as “lieu de passage” Boris de Schloezer’s conception of creative process’ |
| 11.20-11.45 | Pauze /Pause | |
| 11.45-12.45 | Prof. dr. Paul Crowther ‘Objectivity in Aesthetic and Artistic Value’ | |
| 12.45-14.00 | Lunch | |
| 14.00-15.20 | Cain Todd ‘Fitting Attitudes and Relative Aesthetic Value’
Matthew Rowe ‘The Use of Imaginary Artworks in Thought Experiments in the Philosophy of Art’ |
Gulben Salman ‘On Political Art: Lyotard contra Kant, Rancière contra Lyotard’
Kirsti Ringger ‘Meaning, Deconstruction, and Abjection in Contemporary Art’ |
| 15.20-15.40 | Pauze / Pause | |
| 15.40-17.00 | Patrícia Esquivel ‘End of Art? What Art? What End?’
Leung Kwong Yiu ‘Danto’s Definition of Art’ |
Arthur Cools ‘Photography as an Art of Representation’
Vlad Ionescu ‘What do you see? The image between icon and pure visuality’ |
| 17.00 | Einde / End | |