CFP: American Society for Aesthetics Pacific Division Meeting

The ASA Pacific Division is pleased to announce the Call for Papers for its 2027 meeting at the Graduate Hotel, Berkeley, CA, March 5-6, 2027. The submission deadline is November 1, 2026. 

The ASA Pacific Division invites excellent paper and panel submissions on any topic in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, but we especially encourage papers on environmental aesthetics and/or everyday aesthetics. 

We hope to assemble a vibrant program of diverse topics and speakers, and we encourage submissions from students, from early career philosophers, and from members of historically underrepresented groups. 

Authors will have 15 minutes to introduce their paper. Commentators will then have 5 minutes to present two discussion questions, followed by 20 minutes of audience questions. 

Paper submissions should be no longer than 3,000 words, prepared for anonymous review, and accompanied by anonymized abstracts of no more than 300 words. 

Panels, author-meets-critics sessions, and other special sessions are not part of the pre-read sessions.

Proposals should include a brief description of the topic or theme, the names and affiliations of all participants, and long abstracts of 400-500 words for all papers. 

There are no concurrent sessions, which promotes engaged participation and in-depth discussion of all accepted papers and panels. You may submit a paper or participate in a panel, but not both. All presentations and commentaries must be delivered in person at the meeting. 

We are excited to announce Yuriko Saito (Professor Emerita, RISD) as the keynote speaker, who will discuss the aesthetics of care for the artifactual world. 

Please send submissions in PDF or Word format to the 2027 Program Chair, Tony Chackal, at [email protected]. Please also use this address to contact the program chair if you have any questions or if you would like to volunteer to comment on a paper or chair a session. 

$1,000 in total funds will be available for Irene H. Chayes Travel grants from the American Society for Aesthetics for presenters who have no other access to travel support. To apply, please note in your submission email that you wish to be considered and include an estimate of your travel costs. Please do not include this information in your paper or panel proposal. 

ASA Policies: Papers presented at ASA Divisional meetings may not be presented at the ASA Annual Meeting. Everyone on an ASA program must be a member of the ASA. Submissions from non-members are welcome, but if you are accepted for the program, you must join ASA within 30 days of the conference. Everyone must also register for the meeting. This applies to presenters, panelists, commentators, and chairs