Teaching Contemporary Aesthetics: An International Forum

Forming is Australia, mongrel matter presents a pedagogical sequel to Aesthetic Literacy (melbourne, 2023)

The forum will run via Zoom over three days between October 31st and November 2nd: the first day is assigned to the scholars from the Americas, the second day to Europe, and the final day to Australia, Philippines, India, China, and Iran 
Each session will be recorded, edited, and then shared via YouTube as part of the membership-free, unmonetized curriculum available to everyone interested

If you'd like to join us, email Dr Valery Vino: [email protected] (and please specify what day[s] you'd like to attend)

Full programme (including abstracts) is here: https://www.mongrelmatter.com/events

Day 1, October 31st, Tuesday (The Americas)

Eastern Time Zone (GMT-4)

9 am - 9:45 am: “Perception and Engagement” by Arnold Berleant (Long Island University)

9:50 am - 10:35 am:  “Aesthetics and Transformation” by Mónica Uribe-Flores (Universidad de Guanajuato)

10:40 am - 11:25 am: “Aesthetics and Everyday Life” by John Carvalho (Villanova University)

11:30 am - 12.15 pm: “Aesthetics, Video Games, and Play” by Shelby Moser (University of Utah)

12.15 pm - 1 pm: lunch break

1 pm - 1:45 pm:   “The Complicities Among Aesthetics, Colonization and Race” by Carlos Rivera Santana (The College of William & Mary)

1:50 pm - 2:35 pm: “Feminist Latinx Aesthetics” by Gemma Argüello Manresa (National Autonomous University of Mexico)

2:40 pm - 3:25 pm: "Vodou, Salsa, Revolution" by Joshua M. Hall (University of Alabama at Birmingham)

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm “Elemental Aesthetics for the Anthropocene: Earth Air Fire Water” by Gray Kochhar-Lindgren (University of Hong Kong)

4.20 pm - 5 pm: TBA (pre-recorded) by Aderonke A Adesanya (James Madison University)

Day 2, November 1st, Wednesday (Europe)

UK Time (GMT+1) 

9 am - 9:45 am: “Aesthetics in Childhood” by Pauline von Bonsdorff (University of Jyväskylä)

9:50 am - 10:35 am: “Natural Vitality” by Vishwam Heckert (Flowing with Life)

10:40 am - 11:25 am: “Mineral Aesthetics: On Inanimate Animation”  by Hester Reeve (Sheffield Hallam University) & Georgios Tsagdis (Wageningen University)

Please read:

https://monoskop.org/images/5/55/Caillois_Roger_The_Writing_of_Stones_1985.pdf 

11:30 am - 12.15 pm: “Aesthetics and Pop-Culture” Max Ryynänen (Aalto University) and Martin Boszorad (Constantine the Philosopher University)

12.15 pm - 1 pm: Lunch Break

1 pm - 1:45 pm: “Are Literary Fictions Thought Experiments?” by Stefan Valdemar Snaevvar (Inland Norway University of Applied Sciences)

1:50 pm - 2:35 pm: “Punk Poetics” by Jones Irwin (Dublin City University)

2:40 pm - 3:25 pm: “The Aesthetics of Death, Decay and Ugliness” by Joel White (King’s College, London)

3:30 pm - 4:15 pm: “Beauty is in the Mind of the Oppressor: The Black Male Corpse as the Vestibule to the Sublime” by Tommy J. Curry (Edinburgh University)

4:20 pm - 5:05 pm: “How it all started (and how it might end)” by Ruth Sonderegger (Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna)

Day 3, November 2nd, Thursday (Australia, China, Iran, India, Philippines)

Australian Eastern Standard Time (GMT+10)

9 am - 12 pm * This session may still be announced/otherwise:

12 pm - 12:45 pm: “A Tribute to the Filipino Concept of Love” by Christine R. Ramos (Mapúa University)

12:50 pm - 1:35 pm: “The Aesthetic Use of Taxonomy in Knowledge-Oriented Yogas” by Karl-Stéphan Bouthillette (Manipal Academy of Higher Education)

1:40 pm - 2:25 pm: “On Fulfilling Things of Confucian Junzi: a Comparative Care Aesthetics” by Xiao Ouyang (Peking University)

2:30 pm - 3:15 pm: "Exploring Mashhad Artists' Life Journeys Through Metaphors" by Majid Heidari (Ferdowsi University of Mashhad)

3:20 pm - 4:05 pm: “Russian Actionism: Political Art as a Crime” by Lera Radd (mongrel matter)