Here is the schedule of the conference. On the dates listed, we will post the papers for that day's session for download in PDF format. At the same time, a comment thread will be opened for each of the papers. Comment threads for all papers will be open through Sunday, February 11. We look forward to your participation!
Monday, January 22:
Introduction and Keynote
Introductory Essay: Lydia Goehr
Confessions of the Commonplace
Keynote: Richard Shusterman
Art As Religion: Transfigurations of Danto's Dao
Comment: Aaron Meskin
Wednesday, January 24:
Aesthetics
Michael Kelly
Making a Brillo Box Red, White, and Blue is Easy: Making it an Artwork Isn't
Kalle Puolakka
Is There Room for Aesthetic Experience in Transfiguration of the Commonplace?
Elisabeth Schellekens
On the 'Sense of Beauty'
York Gunther
Content, Embodiment, and Aesthetic Force
Friday, January 26:
Interpretation
Sherri Irvin
Are Artworks Constituted by Interpretation?
Robert Stecker
Danto on Interpretation and Ontology of Art
John Dilworth
How to Reform Danto's Vehicle Fetishism
Scott Walden
Ethical Art
Monday, January 29:
Style
Sondra Bacharach
How Transfiguration Saved the Style Matrix
Regina Wenninger
The Transparency of Style
Stephen Snyder
The Ontology of Style
Wednesday, January 31:
Connections
Mario Wenning
Transfiguration and the Illusion of the Real: Danto and Adorno on the Political Meaning of Aesthetic Semblance
John Carvalho
Revenge of the Mere Real Things
Francis Halsall
Danto and Luhmann: Ontological Systems of Art
Jerome Langguth
Aesthetic Disappointment in Danto and Kant
Friday, February 2:
Theory
Theodore Gracyk
Danto, Popular Music, and Indiscernible Counterparts
Brandon Cooke
Why Did Plato Hate Art?
Robert Kraut
Aesthetic Theory and Artistic Practice: Danto's Transfiguration of the Artworld
Stephen Davies
Life is a Passacaglia
Monday, February 5:
Keynote and Conclusion
Keynote: David Carrier
Is Danto's Aesthetic Truly General?
Comment: Jonathan Neufeld
Concluding Remarks: Arthur Danto
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