Registration is now open and the full programme is available at \;
The deadline for early booking is \;August 15.
NEW FOR 2013:
The BSA provides a subsidised rate for students enrolled in masters and doctoral programmes.
The William Empson Lecture:
Adrian Piper
Papers:
Margrethe Bruun Vaage (Norwegian University of Science &\; Technology)\, &lsquo\;Hitchcockian Suspense and Moral Evaluation&rsquo\;
Emily Caddick Bourne (ICE\, Cambridge)\, &lsquo\;Poetic Justice&rsquo\;
Tom Cochrane (Sheffield)\, &lsquo\;Positively Ugly: Appreciating Revolting Artworks&rsquo\;
Florian Cova (Geneva) and Naar (Manchester)\, &lsquo\;Fiction\, Belief and the Emotions&rsquo\;
David Davies (McGill)\,&lsquo\;Neo-Goodmanian&rsquo\; Aesthetics and the Problem of &lsquo\;Fast Art&rsquo\;
Iskra Fileva (North Carolina)\, &lsquo\;Playing with Fire: Art and the Seductive Power of Pain&rsquo\;
Michalle Gal (Tel Aviv)\, &lsquo\;The Artwork as Gesture: Picasso to Palestine&rsquo\;
Louise Hanson (Oxford)\, &lsquo\;Conceptual Art and the Acquaintance Principle&rsquo\;
Andrew Huddleston (Oxford)\, &lsquo\;Finding Content in Absolute Music&rsquo\;
Nicholas Riggle (New York)\, &lsquo\;Personal and Artistic Style&rsquo\;
Robert Stecker (Central Michigan)\, &lsquo\;Aesthetic Autonomy and Artistic Heteronomy&rsquo\;
Nick Zangwill (Durham)\, &lsquo\;Music\, Autism and Emotion&rsquo\;
Symposia:
&lsquo\;Art and Technology&rsquo\;
Bence Nanay (Antwerp/Cambridge)\, &lsquo\;Perceptual Demands of Technological Innovations in Art&rsquo\;\; Katherine Thompson-Jones (Oberlin College)\, &lsquo\;Aesthetics of Digital Imagery&rsquo\;\; John Zeimbekis (Patras)\, &lsquo\;Digital Imagery and the Concept of Authenticity&rsquo\;
&lsquo\;Creativity and Problem Solving&rsquo\;
Ken Gilhooly (Brunel/Hertfordshire)\, &lsquo\;Creativity: The Approach from Cognitive Psychology&rsquo\;\; Berys Gaut (St Andrews)\, &lsquo\;Problems\, Problems\, Problems&rsquo\;\; Matthew Kieran (Leeds)\, &lsquo\;Creativity\, Conformity and Independence of Mind&rsquo\;
&lsquo\;Experimental Philosophical Aesthetics&rsquo\;
Shen-yi Liao (Kansas State) &\; Aaron Meskin (Leeds)\, &lsquo\;What&rsquo\;s the Matter with Aesthetic Adjectives?&rsquo\;\; Hanna Kim (Washington &\; Jefferson College)\, &lsquo\;Experimental Aesthetics: Impossible Metaphors&rsquo\;\; Nina Strohminger (Duke)\, &lsquo\;The Unstable Role of Disgust in Art Appreciation&rsquo\;
Postgraduate Papers:
Solveig Aasen (UCL) &lsquo\;Pictures\, Presence and Visibility&rsquo\;
Thomas Baker (Nottingham)\, &lsquo\;The Fine Art of Beer&rsquo\;
Helen Bradley (York) &lsquo\;Misrepresentation and the Significance of Style&rsquo\;
Filippo Contesi (York)\, &lsquo\;Disgust\, Transparency and the Paradox of Fiction&rsquo\;
Mojca Kuplen (CEU\, Budapest)\, &lsquo\;Is There a Possibility for an Ugly Aesthetic Idea in Kant&rsquo\;s Aesthetics? Implications for Resolving the Paradox of Ugliness&rsquo\;
Rafe McGregor (York)\, &lsquo\;Narrative Thickness&rsquo\;
Brock Rough (Maryland\, College Park)\, &lsquo\;The Special Problem of Interactive Fiction&rsquo\;
Mark Windsor (Kent)\, &lsquo\;Toward a Theory of the Uncanny&rsquo\;
Programme Committee:
Dan Cavedon-Taylor (St Andrews) co-chair
Stacie Friend (Heythrop College\, London) co-chair
Á\;ine Kelly (University College Dublin)
Bence Nanay (Cambridge/Antwerp)
Murray Smith (Kent)
Dawn Wilson (Hull)
Programme subject to change
In addition to reduced conference fees\, BSA members now enjoy a 20% discount off OUP and Routledge titles. Please see \;