Art, History and Perception

Schedule

Friday May 5 (Miller Lash House, University of Toronto Scarborough)

9:00-9:30 Refreshments
 9:30-10:50 Bence Nanay

Global Aesthetics

 11:00-12:20 Sonia Sedivy

Aesthetic Properties, History and Perception

 12:20-1:10 Lunch
 1:10-2:30  Diarmuid Costello
The Problem of the Detail: Roger Scruton and Michael Fried on Intention in Photography
 2:40-4:00  Jason Gaiger

Pictorial Experience and the Perception of Rhythm

 4:10-5:30  Robert Hopkins

Pictures and Non-Conformity

 

Saturday May 6 (Department of Philosophy, Jackman Humanities Building 418)

9:00-9:30 Refreshments
9:30-10:50  Kendall L Walton

Abstraction in Music and the Visual Arts

 11:00-12:20  Belinda Piercy

Attending to the Immediate: Dewey and Isenberg on Aesthetic Attention

 12:20-1:10 Lunch
 1:10-2:30  Paul G. Smith

‘The Most Beautiful Blue’: Art, Science, and the Phenomenology of Coloured Shadows

 2:40-4:00  Yi (Evie) Gu

Perspective as Symbolic Form in China

 4:10-5:30  Dominic McIver Lopes

The Spectator’s Brief

 5:30 Reception