Aesthetics Seminar

The Aesthetics Seminar usually takes place from 16.00-18.00 on Mondays (odd weeks) in the Lecture Room of the Radcliffe Humanities Building.

Please Note: The Seminar will not run in Trinity Term 2025.

Aesthetics Seminar Convenor: Catharine Abell 

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Week 1 (2nd May)

Stacie Friend (Birkbeck)

Fiction and Emotion: The Normative Question
Week 3 (14th May)

Eileen John (Warwick)

 The Experience of Necessity in Poetry
Week 5 (28th May)

Jason Gaiger (Oxford) 

 Parthood and Composition: A Mereological Approach to Installation Art
Week 7 (11th June)

Gwen Bradford (Rice)

 Uniqueness and Intrinsic Value
     

 

Week 2 (28th January) Robert Hopkins (New York University) Artistic Style as the Expression of Ideals
Week 4 (11th February) Keren Gorodeisky (Auburn University) Why Must it be Either One or the Other? Reasons in Criticism
Week 6 (25th February) James Shelley (Auburn University)  What makes aesthetic value aesthetic? 
Week 8 (10th March) Solveig Aasen (University of Oslo) What Is It for Music and Dance to Match? 

 

Week 1 (10th October) James Lewis (Birmingham) Interpersonal Communion and Aesthetic Appreciation
Week 3 (24th October) Hans Maes (University of Kent) Aesthetic Melancholy
Week 5 (7th November) Derek Matravers (Open University) Representations and How We Access Them: Implications for Fiction
Week 7 (21st November) Karen Simecek (University of Warwick) Cultivating Intellectual Humility through Lyric Poetry

 

Week 1 (16th January) David Collins (Oxford) Reformulating Virtue Aesthetics on the Neo-Aristotelian Virtue Ethical Model
Week 3 (30th January) Zoe Walker (Oxford) Tragic Catharsis and Moral Bad Luck
Week 5 (13th February) Victor Dura-Vila (Leeds) The Appreciative Demands of Challenging Art: Originality, Epistemic Gains and Moral Seriousness
Week 7 (27th February) Vanessa Brassey (King's College London) Time for Twofoldedness