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Conference Announcement Theme: Comparative Everyday Aesthetics Subtitle: East-West Studies in Contemporary Living Type: Online International Symposium Institution: Hong Kong Baptist University Location: Online Date: 12.4.2022 __________________________________________________ The 12 presenters of the symposium are leading international scholars who will conduct analysis and case studies from different cultural settings, exploring aesthetic interest and experience in our daily lives at home, in workplaces, using everyday things in our built and natural environments, and in our relationships and communities. A wide range of views and examples of everyday aesthetics are presented from western philosophical paradigms, Confucian and Daoist aesthetics, and from the Japanese tradition. All indicate universal features of human aesthetic lives with their cultural variations. Please join this meaningful symposium in which we will be reviewing: What is an aesthetic experience of the everyday? Does an explanation cohere with aesthetic experiences of artworks? And what are the cultural settings and living values attached to these aesthetic experiences? Fundamentally, the discussion is about what we do aesthetically now and how that might shape our future living, the way we live, work and play. Date: 12 April, 9:00 - 13:00 (Hong Kong Time) Program Introduction: Prof Eva Kit Wah Man, Chair Professor in Humanities, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Keynote Speaker: Yuriko Saito, Emeritus Professor, Rhode Island School of Design, USA: Living with Everyday Objects: Aesthetic and Ethical Practice Speakers: John M. Carvalho, Professor of Philosophy, Villanova University, USA: Images and Reality Kathleen Higgins, Professor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin, USA: Aesthetics in Friendship and Intimacy Carolyn Korsmeyer, Professor of Philosophy, State University of New York, USA: Memory’s Kitchen: In Search of a Taste Janet McCracken, Chair of Classical Studies, Lake Forest College, USA: Why We Love Our Phones: A Case Study in the Aesthetics of Gadgets Robin R. Wang, Professor of Philosophy, Loyola Marymount University, USA: Dao Aesthetics: Ways of Opening to Sublime Experiences and Transforming Beautifully Thomas Leddy, Professor of Philosophy, San Jose State University, USA: Everyday Aesthetics of Taking a Walk – with Zhuangzi Tanehisa Otabe, Professor of Aesthetics, University of Tokyo, Japan: Dô (Dao) in the Practice of Art: Everyday Aesthetic Life in Japan Through the Japanese Tea Ceremony Peng Feng, Dean and Professor of School of Arts, Peking University, China: Filming the Everyday: Between Aesthetics and Politics Ouyang Xiao, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies at Peking University, China: Divergence and Reconnection: Reflecting on Chinese-Western Comparative Everyday Aesthetics Conclusion Speaker: Jeffrey Petts, UK: Rethinking Everyday Aesthetics Moderators: Dr Mateja Kovacic, Prof Ellen Seiter and Dr Ling Tang, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University Organisers: Prof Eva Man and Dr Mateja Kovacic, Academy of Film, Hong Kong Baptist University Please follow the URL link below for details and registration on the Symposium website. Contact: Mateja Kovacic Email: mat...@hkbu.edu.hk Web: http://af.hkbu.edu.hk/en/events/5480 __________________________________________________ InterPhil List Administration: https://interphil.polylog.org InterPhil List Archive: https://www.mail-archive.com/interphil@list.polylog.org/ __________________________________________________
