American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Meeting

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–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’ 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