February 11, 2007

Time extension

Since there is still a lot here to chew on, the discussion is still lively, and we don't have to pay for extra hotel nights, we will leave  comments open for another week.

(We've had a total of 3000 visitors and still have somewhere in the neighborhood of 300 page views per day--we'll give a more complete report next week, if anybody is curious.)

January 09, 2007

Schedule

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