Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

Programme

We are happy to announce that Stacie Friend has been added to the programme. She will replace Kendall Walton, who has unfortunately had to pull out of the conference.

Tuesday 31st August (all times BST)

09:30
Welcome
09:40
Matti Eklund (Uppsala): Maps, Predication, and Alien Languages
11:00
Break
11:30
Delia Belleri (Lisbon): Conceptual Engineering, Language Use and the Neutral Implementation Challenge
12:50
Lunch
14:00
Sai Ying Ng (CUNY): In Praise of Morally Objectionable Artworks
14:45
Elizabeth Cantalamessa (Miami): A Portrait of the Artist as a Conceptual Engineer
15:30
Break
16:00
A.W. Eaton (Chicago): Functions, Normativity, and Conceptual Enginerring
17:20
End of day
19:00
Conference Dinner [in-person attendees only]

Wednesday 1st September (all times BST)

09:40
Herman Cappelen (Hong Kong): The Abandonment of ‘Art’
11:00
Break
11:30
Esa Díaz-León (Barcelona): Descriptive vs. Ameliorative Projects in Aesthetics
12:50
Lunch
14:00
Ariane Nomikos (Buffalo): Everyday Aesthetics as Conceptual Engineering
14:45
Nadia Mehdi (Sheffield): Disrupting Beauty
15:30
Break
16:00
Stacie Friend (Birkbeck): Waltfiction as a Theoretical Construct
17:20
Final words
17:30
End of conference