Schedule
Friday, May 16
MEDIUM SPECIFICITY IN THE VISUAL ARTS
1:00-2:00 Rachel Zuckert (Northwestern University)
‘Herder’s Aesthetics of Sculpture’2:00-3:00 Jonathan Friday (Kent University)
‘The Experience of Stillness and Motion in Still Photography’3:00-3:15 Break
CATEGORIES OF/AND/IN MUSIC
3:15-4:15 Michael Rings (Indiana University, Bloomington)
‘Covering “My Way”: Generic Resetting in Rock Cover Versions’4:15-5:15 Tiger Roholt (Indiana University of Pennsylvania)
‘A Phenomenological Criticism of Diana Raffman’s Account of Musical Nuance’5:15-5:30 Break 5:30-6:30 Ted Gracyk (Minnesota State University, Moorhead)
‘Agreeably Astray: Imagination and Music’
Saturday, May 17
PROBLEMATIC CATEGORIES: DEFINITION AND APPRECIATION
9:30-10:30 Alex Neill (University of Southampton)
‘The Atheist’s Passion: Religious Music and the Non-Believer’10:30-11:30 Aaron Ridley (University of Southampton)
‘Collingwood on Art and Craft: the Real Distinction’11:30-11:45 Break 11:45-12:45 Michael Morgan (Indiana University, Bloomington)
‘Is Holocaust Film a Genre?’12:45-2:30 Break
CATEGORIES IN MASS MEDIA
2:30-3:30 Nicholas Diehl (UC Davis)
‘Madolyn’s Baby and Madolyn’s Banana: Truth and Myth in Fiction in The Departed’3:30-4:30 Amy Coplan (California State University, Fullerton)
‘Feminist Final Girls: Why Horror Heroines Are Real Women and Not “Dicks in Drag”’4:30-4:45 Break 4:45-5:45 Joshua Shaw (Penn State, Erie)
‘Video Games, Play, and the Games as Art Debate’
Sunday, May 18
HYBRIDITY AND CROSS-CATEGORIAL JUDGMENTS
9:00-10:00 Aaron Meskin (Leeds University)
‘What Sort of Art is the Art of the Comic Book?’10:00-11:00 Henry Pratt (Marist College)
‘Categories and Quality: Towards the Possibility of Legitimate Comparisons of Artworks’11:00-11:15 Break
TRAGEDY AND COMEDY
11:15-12:15 Sandra Shapshay (Indiana University, Bloomington)
‘A Genre that Really Matters: Schopenhauer on the Ethical Significance of Tragedy’12:15-1:15 Matthew Kieran (Leeds University)
‘Satire and Black Comedy’
