Aesthetics and Ethics Research Group Inaugural Conference
- Date: 26 May 2025, 09:15 – 27 May 2025, 17:00
- Location: Blåsenhus, see below
- Type: Conference
- Organiser: Department of Philosophy
- Contact person: Nils-Hennes Stear
Monday, May 26
Campus Blåsenhus, Sidney Alrutz Hall
Tuesday, May 27
Campus Blåsenhus, Sidney Alrutz Hall
Programme
Monday, May 26
9:15–10:45 Panos Paris: "The Axiological Foundation of Taste"
Break
11:00–12:30 Clotilde Torregrossa: "What is Creative Resistance"
Lunch
13:45–15:15 Jonathan Neufeld: "'By Means Impossible to be Anticipated': Benito Cereno and Political Criticism in Literature"
Break
15:30–17:00 Adriana Clavel-Vázquez & Jimena Clavel Vázquez: "Failures of Imagination and Prophetic Artworks"
Tuesday, May 27
09:45–11:15 Anne Thompson: "Aesthetic Obligations and the Appreciation of Nature"
Break
11:30–13:00 Anne Eaton: "Aestheticizing Rape as Aesthetic Injustice"
(The talk discusses “high art" pictures and refrains from showing or describing in detail especially graphic depictions.)
Lunch
14:15–15:45 Nils-Hennes Stear: "Some Arguments for Aesthetic Immoralism"
Break
16:00–17:00 AERG Planning Discussion
Speakers
- Adriana Clavel-Vázquez
- Jimena Clavel Vázquez
- Anne Eaton
- Jonathan Neufeld
- Panos Paris
- Nils-Hennes Stear
- Anne Thompson
- Clotilde Torregrossa
Financing
The conference is financed by Riksbankens Jubileumsfond.
Master's and PhD Stipend Recipients
- Ying Yao
- Emily Kay Williamson
- Katerina Georgantziki