BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Grails iCalendar plugin//NONSGML Grails iCalendar plugin//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260404T105245Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260710T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260712T170000 SUMMARY:American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Meeting UID:20260404T164640Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-f5d4878dd-4s97k TZID:America/Denver LOCATION:828 Paseo de Peralta\, Santa Fe\, United States\, 87501 DESCRIPTION:

The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics will take place at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, July 10th&ndash\;12th\, 2026.

Manuel Davenport Keynote Address: \; Cynthia Willett Cynthia Willett is the Samuel Candler Dobb's professor of philosophy at Emory University. Her current book project\, A Musicology of Everyday Life\, is a study of the social dynamic of musical and vibrational atmospheres through New Phenomenology\, Resonance Theory\, and Attunement Theory. This study probes the nuances of tone\, rhythm\, vibration\, timbre for ethical cultures within and across human and non-human social groups. Her ongoing research focuses on three key areas: music/tragedy/blues\; transspecies cosmopolitanism\; and humor/irony. The research is anchored in ancient and contemporary concepts of eros and hubris\; call and response\; affective attunements and dissonances\; symbolic social space and its violations.

Michael Manson Artist Keynote Address: Liz Harris \; Liz Harris is an artist based on the North Oregon coast. She has recorded and performed since 2005 under the names Grouper\, Nivhek\, Raum\, Helen and Mirrorring\; and releases music and art editions on her imprint YELLOWELECTRIC\, as well as kranky records. Harris&rsquo\; project Nivhek has received various commissions and has been presented internationally\, including performances and installations in Bergen\, Murmansk\, Munich\, Krakow and London. Her most recent commission from Portland Institute of Contemporary Art\, ENGINE\, combines field recordings of drag races and train yards with string arrangements. The work began inside a decade-long obsession with engine noise. \;

You can find the Call for Abstracts at \;https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1869644 \;

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