Dutch Association of Aesthetics & KU Leuven present:
Dutch Association of Aesthetics Annual Conferentce

Keynote speakers
Prof. Hanneke Grootenboer
Prof Bart Verschaffel


PROGRAMME

Friday February 27, 2015

09:30 - 10:00 Welcome & coffee

10:00 - 10:15
Introduction
Prof. Stéphane Symons (KU Leuven)


10.15 – 11.30 PANEL #1:

Emma Lowe:
Bringing it All Together: Performing Arts and Phenomenology

Asmus Trautsch:
Learning from Theatre: Philosophy of Tragedy today

10.15 – 11.30 PANEL #2:

Belén Pueyo-Ibáñez:
Experience and Aesthetic Quality. On the Continuities within John
Dewey's Philosophy

Robin Weiss:
The Aesthetic Education of Man According To Santayana


11.45 - 13.00 PANEL #3:

Farhan Idris:
The Reconfiguration of Sense: Kūkai's Radicalization of Ranciere's
Aesthetics

Tak Lap, Yeung:
Way from aesthetic experience to political experience: Hannah Arendt's
interpretation of Kant's sensus communis and its difficulties.

11.45 - 13.00: PANEL #4:

Elisa Caldarola:
Caricatures As Prop Oriented Make-Believe

Simon Fokt:
The paradox of fiction: an irrational solution


13.00 - 14.00 LUNCHBREAK


14.00 - 15.15 PANEL #5:

Miguel Gonzalez Virgen:
Nietzsche's aesthetics as a metaphysics for modern and contemporary art

Paul Cruysberghs:
Newman's Sublime: The Pure Idea – Here and Now

14.00 - 15.15 PANEL #6:

Eleen M Deprez:
Exhibitions and Installations: differentiating between curatorial
installation and Installation Art

Iris Laner:
Aesthetic Experience and Knowing-How, On the Epistemic Quality of
Aesthetic Experience in Maurice Merleau-Ponty


15.30 - 17.00
KEYNOTE #1
Prof. Hanneke Grootenboer


Saturday February 28, 2015

10.00 – 11.15 PANEL # 7

Jared Baxter:
Vincent van Gogh's Seemingly Syncretic Symbolist Art

Roxane Baeyens:
On Friedrich Nietzsche

10.00 – 11.15 PANEL # 8

Nemesio García-Carril Puy:
Structural Monism For Musical Works

Joanna Straczowski:
Sublime Perfection


11.30- 13.00 PANEL # 9

Maria Balaska:
Listening to Beethoven and having a moral attitude: Wittgenstein on
aesthetics

Silvia Giurgiu:
Post-Kantian Aesthetic Autonomy as Applied Ethics

11.30- 13.00 PANEL # 10

Chloe Cooper Jones:
Why do I Even Care to Know Who Authored Something?

Kris Goffin:
The Metaphysics of the Emotional Experience of Aesthetic Properties

Mihail Evans:
Art in the Frame: "Spiritual America" and Indecent Images


13.00 - 14.00 LUNCHBREAK


14.00 - 15.15 PANEL # 11

Stefan Schmidt:
The aesthetics of time and memory in the works of Tarkovsky

Katarzyna Durys:
Model Identity in cultural memory construction in Leonardo Bruni's
sepulchre in the church of Santa Croce in Florence.

14.00 - 15.15 PANEL # 12

Filip Buekens:
Dickie's Dangerous Idea: What Really Worried His Critics is prestige
bias!

Geert Gooskens:
What is Design?


15.30 - 17.00
KEYNOTE #2
Prof. Bart Verschaffel


More information:
https://hiw.kuleuven.be/eng/events/1415/dutchassociationofaesthetics/

Registration:
Laura Katherine Smith: laurakatherine.smithstudent.kuleuven.be

Organisers:
Prof. Stephane Symons (Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven), Laura
Katherine Smith (Cultural Studies, KU Leuven), Jonas Rutgeerts
(Institute of Philosophy, KU Leuven).