The Sheffield Minorities and Philosophy (MAP) committee is happy to announce that this year's Minorities and Philosophy Annual Lecture will take place on Friday\, 12th of March 2021\, 2:30-4:30 GMT with Adriana Clavel-Vá\;zquez (University of Oxford)! We'll be hearing about &ldquo\;Controlling (Mental) Images and the Aesthetic Appreciation of Racialized Bodies&rdquo\;.
\n\nPlease find the abstract below:
\nAbstract: &ldquo\;The aesthetic evaluation of human bodies is part and parcel of our everyday lives. Not only do we judge Francesca Hayward&rsquo\;s elegance as Odile in Swan Lake\, but we take notice of a stranger&rsquo\;s beauty while walking down the street\, or even a colleague&rsquo\;s scruffiness as they walk into a meeting. These evaluations concern human bodies treated as aesthetic objects\, objects that invite certain responses or attitudes as a result of being perceived as having specific aesthetic properties. Unfortunately\, aesthetic evaluations of racialized bodies favour white individuals. How can we explain this common aesthetic disregard for non-white bodies? This is not simply a problem of aesthetic norms designed to favour white bodies. Aesthetic evaluations depend on aesthetic properties: how we aesthetically evaluate an object depends on the aesthetic properties we regard it as having. And we perceive aesthetic properties. In this paper I argue that racial stereotypes impact how we perceive aesthetic properties because of top-down influences on perception. In particular\, I argue that racist mental imagery we have acquired through our interaction with aesthetic practices structures the way we perceive non-aesthetic properties of bodies so that aesthetic properties are brought into perceptual presence.&rdquo\;
\nWe hope to see you there!
\nThe Sheffield MAP committee
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