2010 CONFERENCE PROGRAM
ROCKY
MOUNTAIN DIVISION OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS
SANTA
FE, NEW MEXICO
JULY 9-11, 2010
FRIDAY,
9 July 2010
8:00: Registration (De Vargas Room)
The De Vargas Room is located to the west
of the Hotel Lobby, past the elevator and Concierge Desk. The Boardroom is accessed through the arch doorway
in the southeast corner of the Lobby, directly to the left of the fireplace.
8:45:
Opening Remarks (De Vargas Room)
9:00-10:30: First & Second
Sessions, Concurrent.
First Session (De Vargas Room): Defininitions
and Cosmologies.
Chair: Linda Dove, Independent Scholar
(English)
· S.K.
Wertz, Philosophy (Emeritus), Texas Christian University
“Tao Chi’s Theory of Painting: Chinese Cosmic Landscapes”
·
Erman Kaplama, Humanities and Cultural Studies, University of London
“Cosmological Aesthetics through The Kantian Sublime and
Nietzschean Dionysian”
Second Session
(Boardroom): Literary Aesthetics.
Chair:
Michael Manson, Independent Scholar (English).
·
Frances Downing, Architecture, Texas A&M University
“The Edge of a Novel”
· John
Samson, English, Texas Tech University
“The Bearable Lightness of Being: Nabokov’s Ada, or Ardor”
· George
Moore, English, University of Colorado-Boulder
“Rage for Order: Fascist Politics and Modernist Aesthetics”
10:30-11:00:
Coffee Break (served in the Lobby)
11:00-12:30: Third Session,
Plenary.
Third
Session (De Vargas Room): The Representation of Environment / Native Cultures.
Chair:
Cornelia Tsakiridou, Philosophy, La Salle University
·
Allison Hagerman, Philosophy, University of New Mexico
“An Uncanny Nature: Taking a Side Road to Aesthetic Appreciation of Environment”
·
Roger Paden, Philosophy, George Mason University
“A New Aesthetics of Nature and the Absence of the Sublime”
·
David Conter, Philosophy, Huron University College
“Cowboy Art, Indian Art, Romanticism, Nostalgia,
Truth”
·
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·
12:30-2:00:
Lunch on your own.
2:15-3:45: Fourth Session, Plenary (De
Vargas Room).
Chair: Allison Hagerman, Philosophy, University of New Mexico
*Manuel Davenport Keynote Address*
Dr. Mary Domski
Department of Philosophy,
University of New Mexico
“Unity as Natural, Reason as Divine:
The Beauty of Systems in Seventeenth-Century
Natural Philosophy”
* * *
Dinner on your own.
SATURDAY, 10 July 2010
9:00-10:30:
Fifth & Sixth Sessions, Concurrent.
Fifth Session (De Vargas Room): Time
Passages.
Chair:
Elizabeth Graham, Sociology, Brandon University
·
Michael Manson, Independent Scholar (English), and Scott Stewart,
Philosophy, Cape Breton University
“Stranger
in a New World: J.M. Coetzee’s Disgrace”
· Patrick
McKee, Philosophy, Colorado State University
“Old
Age Style and the Sublime Landscape”
·
Sixth
Session (Boardroom): Aesthetics and Ethics.
Chair: S.K.
Wertz, Philosophy (Emeritus), Texas Christian University
·
Lawrence Rhu, English / Comp Lit, University of South
Carolina
“Emersonian Affinities:
Reading Richard Ford through Stanley Cavell”
· Norman Fischer,
Philosophy, Kent State University
“Georg Lukacs’s
Hegelian Marxism and Scott’s Novels of Knighthood and Pre-Modern Clans”
10:30-11:00:
Coffee Break (served in the Lobby)
11:00-12:30: Seventh Session,
Plenary.
Seventh
Session (De Vargas Room): On Music, Nature, and Art.
Chair: John
Samson, English, Texas Tech University
·
Rudolf Brun, Biology (Emeritus), Texas Christian University
“Simplexity in Music and Nature"
Karen Hillier, Practicing
Artist, Texas and New Mexico
“I
Remember”
·
12:30-2:00:
Lunch on your own.
2:15-3:45: Eighth Session, Plenary (De
Vargas Room).
Chair: Linda Dove, Independent Scholar (English)
The
Artist at Work
Elizabeth Dove
Department of Art,
University of Montana
“Imperfection’s Gift:
Embroidered Hair, Text Dust and Navels”
6:00-8:00: Conference Reception
(Hotel Lobby)
* * *
Dinner on your own.
SUNDAY, 11 July 2010
9:30-11:10:
Ninth Session, Plenary.
Ninth Session (De Vargas Room): Aesthetics
and The Visual.
Chair: George Moore, English, University of Colorado-Boulder
· Raphael
Sassower, Philosophy, University of Colorado-Colorado Springs
“Visual Literacy as Activism”
· Cornelia
Tsakiridou, Philosophy, La Salle University
“Enargeia:
The Living Image in Icons and in Some Photographs by Sebastiao Salgado”
· Flo
Leibowitz, Philosophy, Oregon State University
“The Hubble Photographs as Aesthetic Objects”
11:30-12:30:
Business Meeting (De Vargas Room)
Adjournment
* * *
American Society for Aesthetics,
Rocky Mountain Division
Officers
President: Linda
Dove
Vice President:
James Mock
Secretary
/ Treasurer: Elizabeth Graham
* * *
Sustaining Institution:
Center for Philosophical Studies,
Lamar University
