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The American Society for Aesthetics
an association for aesthetics, criticism and theory of the arts
56th Annual Meeting
November 4 - 7, 1998
Indiana Memorial Union Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
Host and support from Indiana University
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 4 Registration 6:00 - 9:00 p.l11. Ind iana Memorial Union (lMU) Conference Lounge Unless otherwise noted all sessions will be held in the Ind iana Memoria l Union (lMU)
Finance Committee Meeting 9:00 - 11:00 a.m. IMU Distinguished Alumni Room
Board of Trustees Meeting 1:30 - 5:30 p.l11. (Break 3:30 p.m.) IM U State Room West Dinner at 6:00 - 7:00 p.m. IM U State Room West
Welcoming Reception (I nformal) 8:30 - 10:30 p.m. Indiana Universi ty An Museum Atrium and School of Fine Arts GaBery, Kinsey Institute exhibit
10:00 p.m. - I :00 a.m. rM U University Club. cash bar. Open nightly. No smoking permilled on campus excepr in hotel designated smoking rooms.
George Raft, Marlene Dietrich, Edward G. Robinson in "Manpower", a Warner Brothers First Nat ional Piclllre
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5 Registration 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Indiana Memorial Union Conference Lounge
Concurrent Sessions
Ia LYDIA GOEHR'S THE OUEST FOR VOICE: MUSIC. POLITICS AND THE LIMITS OF PHILOSOPHY 9:00 - 10:50 a.m . The Oak Room Chair Mary ''''iseman, Philosophy
Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY
Speakers Marc Weiner, Germanic Studies Indiana University Garry Hagberg, Philosophy Bard College
Respolldent Lydia Goehr, Philosophy Columbia University
Ib AUTHORIAL INTENTIONS 9:00 - 10:50 a.l11. The Maple Room Chair Pradccp Dhillon, Communications
University of Illinois Speakers Saam Trivedi. Philosophy
University of Maryland "An Epistemic Dilemma for Actual Intentionalism" Raja Halwani. Liberal Arts School of Arl lnstitutc of Chicago "Authorial Responsibility"
COII/mentator Paul C. Taylor, Philosophy Uni versity of Kentucky
Ie NIETZSCHE 9:00 - 10:50 a. m. The Walnut Room Chair Daniel Breazeale, Philosophy
University of Kentucky Speakers Thomas Leddy. Phi losophy
San Jose State Uni vers ity "Nietzsche, Matriarchal Aesthetics and Defining Art" Philip Pothen, Philosophy University of Sussex "Taste is Character: Nietzsche Contra Kant on Disinterestedness and the Judgmcnt ofthe Beautiful"
CommenTator Salim Kern:,., Philosophy University of Dundee
Break 10:50 - II: 10 a.m.
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5
IIa CLASSICAL MUSIC AND POSTMODERN KNOWLEDGE 11:IOa.m. -I:OO p.m. The Oak Room Chair Michael Krausz, Philosophy
Bryn Mawr College Speakers Naomi Cumming, Philosophy
University of Melbourne David Schwarz, Music Amherst College Lawrence Kramer, English and Music Fordham University
lIb THE METAPHYSICS OF FICTION II: 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Maple Room Chair Stephanie Ross, Philosophy
University of Missouri, St. Louis Speakers Deborah Knight , Philosophy
Queen's University
COli/menU/lOr
"In Fictional Shoes: Mental Simulation and Fiction" Katerina Reed-Tsocha, Philosophy University of Oxford " From Work to Text: The Analytic Twist" Peter Lamarque, Philosophy University of Hull
lIe FILM AESTHETICS: THE CLOSEUP II: 10 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Walnut Room Chai,. David Fisher, Philosophy
North Central College Speakers lain Morrison, Philosophy
University of Texas at Austin "Modernism and the French New Wave" Malcolm Turvey Qctober "Anti~Skepticism in Film Theory: Bahizs on the Inner"
Commelltator Allan Casebier, Motion Pictures University of Miami
Feminist Caucus RoundL'lble Discussion and Lunch Meeting II: 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Location: IMU State Room West Box lunch ava il able on s ite at members' expense. Cost is $7.25. Vegetarian option Topic
Chair
Speakers
How Has Feminist Thought Affected Aesthetics? Estella Lauter, English University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh Hilde Hein, Philosophy College of The Holy Cross Victoria Berdon, Philosophy Indiana University
Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. On your own
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 5
IlIa PANEL DISCUSSION: THE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AESTHETICS 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Chair
Speakers
RespOlldel1l
Summal)'
The Oak Room Anita Silvers, Philosophy Sun Francisco State Universit y \Vhitney Davis. Art History & Director, Humanities Center. Northwestern University Susan Feagin. Philosophy University of Missouri, Kansas City Gregg Horowitz. Philosophy Vanderbilt University Michael Kelly, Philosophy Columbia University Anita Silvers, Philosophy San Francisco SLale University
IIIb BENJAMIN AND ADORNO 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Chair
Speakers
Commellfafor
The Maple Room Lambert Zuidervaart, Philosophy Calvin College Nathan M. Knispel , Philosophy Temple University "Kant and Benjamin on Aesthetic Economy" Seung Hyan Park, Telecommunications Indiana University "Critical Perspective on Film: Adorno and the Culture Industry" Andrew Benjamin. Philosophy UniverSity of Warwick
lIIe PREJUDICE AND INTEREST 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Chair
Speakers
Commentator
The Walnut Room Dabney Townsend, Philosoply Armstrong Atlantic State University Michelle Mason, Philosophy UniverSity of Chicago "Moral Prejudice and Aesthetic Deformity" Rachel Nussbaum, History Cornell University '''True Art' and 'Skillful Entertainment': Schonberg and Mass Culture'" Alex Neill, Philosophy University of St. Andrews
The Presidential Address 5:00 - 6:00 p.m. IMU Whiuenberger Aud itorium Chai,. Noel CarrOll, Vice President
Reception
The American Society for Aesthetics Ted Cohen, Philosophy University of Chicago "Metaphors of Personal Identification"
6:30 - 7:30 p.m. Bryan House. home of Indiana University President Myles Brand and Peg Brand. lOCated between Indiana Memorial Union (lMU) and the Musical Arts Center (MAC).
Editorial Board Meeting The JOl/mal of Aestherics alld An Criticism 8:00 p.m. - JM U The Federal Room Philip Alperson. Editor
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
Registration 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. Indiana Memorial Union Conference Lounge
1999 Program Committee Meeting 7:30 a.m. IMU Cafeteria, Reserved section Chair Stanley Bates, Philosophy
Middlebury College
Concurrent Sessions
Ia JERROLD LEVINSON'S MUSIC IN THE MOMENT 9:00 - J 0:50 a.lll. The Oak Room Chair Douglas Dempster, Philosophy and
The Eastman School
Speakers
Respolldelll
University of Rochester Gary Iseminger, Philosophy Carleton College Justin London, Music Carleton College Jerrold Levinson, Philosophy University of Maryland
Ib ARTISTIC AUTONOMY AND SOCIAL CRITICISM 9:00 - 10:50 a.Tn. The Maple Room Chair Crispin Sartwell, Philosophy
Penn State-Harrisburg Speakers Casey Haskins, Philosophy
SUNY-Purchase "Paradoxes of Autonomy: Of, Why Won't the Problem of Artistic justification Go Away?" Stein Haugom Olsen, Humanities Lingnan College, Hong Kong "Criticism of Art and Criticism of Culture"
Commelltaror Joseph Margolis. Philosophy Temple University
Ie THE FEMALE BODY IN ART 9:00 - 10:50 a. m. The Walnut Room Chair Carolyn Korsmeyer, Philosophy
State University of New York at Buffalo Speakers Angela Bolte. Philosophy
Washington Unjversity "Bodies, Spectators, and Dance" john Carvalho, Philosophy Villanova University "Annunciations: Figuring the Ideal Female in Renaissance Painting"
CO/ll/llel/wtor joyce Brodsky, Art University of California, Santa Cruz
Break 10:50 - II: 10 a.m.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
IIa BEYOND STRUCTURAL LISTENING? 11: 10 a.m. - I :00 p.m. The Oak Room Chair Jenefer Robinson. Philosophy
University of Cincinnati Panelists Andrew Dell' Antonio, Musicology
University of Texas at Austin Joseph Dubiel , Music Columbia University Robert Fink, Musicology Eastman School of Music Fred Everett Maus, Music University of Virginia M~lrtin Rudolf'Scherzinger. Music Columbia University Rose Rosengard Subotnik, Music Brown University
lIb ART AND SOCIAL RECOGNITION 11:IOa.m.-I:OOp.m. The Maple Room Chair Denis Dutton, Philosophy
University of Canterbury Speakers Joseph D. Lewandowski. Philosophy
Freie Universilal Berlin
CommenTator
"Art as Symbolic Capital in the Struggle for Social Recognition" Nick Zangwill. Philosophy University of Glasgow "Against the Sociology of Art" Deborah Fitzgerald. Philosophy Furman University
lIe MUSICAL NOISE AND RECORDING TECHNOLOGY 11: 1 0 a.m. - 1 :00 p.m. The Walnut Room Chair Diana Raffman. Philosophy
Ohio State University Speakers james R. Hamilton. Philosophy
Kansas State University "Musical Noise" Andrew Kania. Philosophy University of Auckland "Authentic Recording Practice"
Commentator Carol S. Gould, Philosophy Florida Atlantic University
Lunch 1 :00 - 2:30 p.m. On your own.
Board of Trustees Lunch Meeting 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. IMU State Room West
The American Society for Aesthetics
Pl'csidcnt Ted Cohen. University of C hicago
Vice President t'oel Carrol l, Univers ity of Wiscons in-Madison
Sccrcl:.try-Trcnsurer Curtis L. Carler, Marquette Un iversity
Editor Tile JOllrnal for Aesthetics alld An Criticism Phi l ip A lpersoJl , ex officio
Trustees Marcia Eaton. Uni vers ity o f Minnesota-Twin Cities Tim Gould. Metropolitan Slate University Karen Hanson, Indiana University Gary Isemin ger, Carleton College Jennifer Judkins, UC LA Deborah Knight , Queen's University, Kingston, Canada Thomas W. Leddy, San Jose State Uni versity Domin ic Lopes, Indiana Universi ty at Kokomo Dabney Townsend. Armstrong Atlantic State Uni versity
American Society ror Aesthetics 1998 Program Committee Chair Richard Eldridge. Swath more College Committee Members Stan ley Bates. Middlebury College Curti s Carter. Marquette Uni versity (ex officio) Clai re Detels. Uni versity of Arkansas Michael Fisher, Un iversity o f New Mexico Jen nirer Judkins, UC LA
Local Arrangements Peg Brand, Indian a Uni versity
Program Layout and Design Susan Barnes , Business Manager, The American Society for Aesthe tics
Acknowledgements Indiam. University for host and support. Myles Brand, Pres idcnt. Indiana University and Peg Brand The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender. and Reproduction, Indiana Uni versity, Bloomington. Indiana
Book Exhibit Scholar 's Choice
Cover Art & Ins ide Art Pythagoras Discovers in a forgc the Proportions of the Consonant Intervals, Manuscript. circa 1100. rrom the Sts. Udaliricus and Afm Abbey, Augsburg. From the collection of the Herl ogliche Bibliothek, WolfenbUueL
George Raft , Marlene Dietrich. Edward G. Robinson in "Manpower", a Warner Brothers First National Picture. supplied by The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex . Gender, and Reproduction, Indiana Universi ty, Bloomington. Indiana
The American Society for Aesthetics Marquette University Cudahy Hall , Room 404 P. O. Box 1881 Milwaukee, WI 5320 1-1 88 1 41 4-288·783 1 or414-288·7889 fax [email protected] hn p:\\www.indiana.eduJ-asanl(TheASA website) htt p:\\www. louisv ille.edu/groupsJphilosophy-www/ (The JAAC website)
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 6
lIla AFTER POLITICAL CRITICISM? 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Chair
Speakers
The Oak Room Eileen John. Philosophy University of Louisville Anthony J. Cascardi. Rhetoric, Comparati ve Literature and Romantic Languages, Univers ity of California, Berkeley Daniel Herwitz, Philosophy University of Natal, Durban, South Africa Marjorie Perioff, English Stanford University Shane Phelan, Women's Studies University of New Mexico
IIIb THEORIES OF DANCE: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE 2:30 - 4:30 p.m.
Chair
DemOlls fratioll
Discltssa1l1s
Aller Hall , Music Library and Recital Hall, located al Jordan Ave & Third St. Selma Jeanne Cohen, Founding Editor International Encyclopedia of Dance Violette Verdy, Dance Indiana Uni versity Dance Students Sally Banes, Theatre Studies and Dance History University of Wisconsin Arnold Berleant, Philosophy Long Island Uni versity Francis Sparshott , Philosophy University of Toronto
UIe SUBLIMITY AND THE AESTHETICS OF DISRUPTION 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Chair
Speakers
Commentator
The Walnut Room Gary Shapiro, Philosophy UniverSity of Richmond Elaine Miller, Philosophy DePaul Uni versity "Sublime Time: Aesthetic Temporality in Kant and Nietzsche" Marcia S. Morgan, Philosophy The New School ~~The Concept of Mimesis in Adorno's Aesthetics: The Immanent Critique of an Empty Reflection" Martin Donougho, Philosophy University of South Carolina
Recital And Reflections: Janos Starker 5:00 - 7:00 p.m. Auer Hall, Music Library & Recital Hall, Jordan Avenue & Third Street. Chair Richard Eldridge, Philosophy
Swarthmore College
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 Registration 8:30 a.m. ·4:30 p.m. Indiana University Union Conference Lounge
Business Meeting 8:30·9: 15 a. m. IMU Frangipani Room
Concurrent Sessions
Ia NOEL CARROLL'S PHILOSOPHY OF MASS ART 9:30· 11:00 a.m . Chair
Speakers
Responde/It
The Oak Room George Dickie, Philosophy University of Illinois. Chicago Circle Richard Shusterman, Philosophy Temple University Cynthia Willett, Phi losophy Emory Uni versity Noel Carroll, Philosophy Univers ity of Wisconsin
Ib AESTHETICS OF THE PORTRAIT 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. The Maple Room Chair Betsey Buckheit, Art
Carleton College Speakers Ira Newman, Philosophy
Mansfield University ''The Power of Picasso: Reconciling Realism and Anti -realism in Pictorial Art" J. M. Bernstein, Philosophy Vanderb ilt University "The Horror and Obscenity of Nonidentity : Cindy Sherman's Tragic Modernism"
Commentator Nan Stalnaker, Expository Wri ting Harvard University
Ie EXPRESSION IN MUSIC AND IN OTHER ARTS 9:30 - 11:00 a.m. The Walnut Room Chair Gene Blocker, Philosophy
Ohio University Speakers Robert Stecker, Philosophy
Central Michigan University "Expression in Music and in Poetry" Flo Leibowitz, Philosophy Oregon State University "Expression in Film"
Commentator Stephen Davies, Philosophy University of Auckland
Break II :00 · I I :30 a.m .
IIa AESTHETICS ON THE INFORMATION SUPERHIGHWAY 11 :30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Oak Room A panel discussion co-sponsored by the Committee on Aesthetics for Young People and the Comminee on Aesthetics in Higher Education Chairs Claire Detels, Music
University of Arkansas Cynthia Rostankowski, Philosophy San Jose State University
Respolldents
Candy Borland. Program Otlicer Getty Institute for Education Mary Devereaux, Philosophy University of California, San Diego Mark Hansen, Former President NAEA, Forest Lake, MN Schools Dominic Lopes, Philosophy Indiana University, Kokomo Marcia Muelder Eaton, Philosophy University of Minnesota Ronald Moore. Philosophy University of Washington
lib KANT AND SCHLEGEL II :30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Maple Room Chair Timothy Gould, Phi losophy
Metropolitan State University Speakers Daniel Arenas, Committee on Social Thought
University of Chicago "Nature and Spirit in Kant's Theory of Genius" Fred L. Rush, jr., Philosophy University of Kansas "Ironies: The Kantian Roots of Early German Romantic Critical Theories"
Commentator Richard Vclkley, Philosophy Catholic University of America
lIe RADICAL MODERNISM? II :30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. The Walnut Room Chair George Leonard,
Interd isciplinary Humanities, San Francisco State University
Speakers David F. Maier, Philosophy Columbia University "John Cage and the Ontology of Music and Sound" Jennifer M. Jeffers, English Univers ity of South Dakota " Towards a Deleuzian Aesthetics: The Image of Thought in John Virtue's Achromatic Painting"
Commentator Stephen Melville, An History Ohio State University
Lunch 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. On your own.
Committee on Aesthetics & Higher Education and Aesthetics & Young People Lunch Meeting 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. Open to everyone. IMU Cafeteria, Reserved area. Lunch available at members' expense. Chair Claire Detels, Music
University of Arkansas Chai r, Committee on Aesthetics & Higher Educat ion
Chair Cynthia Rostankowski , Philosophy San Jose State University Chair, Aesthetics & Young People
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 7 IlIa BODILY AESTHETICS AND THE KISS: THE KINSEY INSTITUTE COLLECTION 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Choir
Speakers
The Oak Room David Hoekema, Philosophy Calvin College Jo Ellen Jacobs, Philosophy Millikin University ''The Kiss in China" Eva K. "V. Man, Philosophy Hong Kong Baptist College "Bodily Aesthetics and the Politics of Courtesan Culture in Confucian China" Barbara Sandrisser Environmental Aesthetics "The Kiss in Japan"
IIIb ADORNO: MUSIC AND LYRIC 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Chair
Speakers
Commentator
The Maple Room Mark DeBellis, Music Columbia University Roger W. H. Savage, Ethnomusicology UCLA '''Theodor W. Adorno and the 'New' Musicology" Susan Hahn, Phi losophy and The Humanjties Center John Hopkins Universi ty "Authenticity and Irnpersonalit)' in Adorno's Aesthetic Theory" Thomas Huho, Philosophy Wesleyan University
IIIe PHONOGRAPHY: MUSICAL DOCUMENTATION OR TRANSFORMATION? 2:30 - 4:30 p.m. Chair
Speakers
COmmel1l1ll0r
Opera Session Speaker
The Walnut Room Barbara Savedoff, Philosophy Baruch College, CUNY Theodore Gracyk, Philosophy Morehead State University Lee Brown, Philosophy Ohio State University Douglas Hofstadter, Cognitive Science Indiana University Renee Lorraine. Mus ic Universi ty of Tennessee, Chauanooga
5:00 - 6:00 p.m. - lMU Frangipani Room Peter Kivy, Philosophy, Rutgers University "Philosophical Issues in Idomeneo"
6:00 - 6:30 p.m. - IMU Tudor Room, cash bar
Dinner Banquet 6:00 - 7:45 p.m. , lMU Tudor Room. Tickets. Selected Scenes from Idomeneo Performed by members of the Indiana University School of Music 8:00 - 9: 15 p.m., Musical Arts Center (MAC), Jordan Ave. Panel Discussion of Idomcneo 9:30 - II :00 p.m., Musical Arts Ctr. Lobby, Wine & cheese reception. CJU/ir Peter Kivy, Philosophy
DisClIssallts Rutgers University Stanley Cavell, Philosophy Harvard University Vince Liotta, Stage Director, Idomeneo Indiana University Members of the Idomeneo production Indiana University
The American Society for Aesthetics
an association for aesthetics, criticism and theory of the arts
56th Annual Meeting
November 4 - 7, 1998
Indiana Memorial Union Indiana University Bloomington, Indiana
Host and support from Indiana University