2022 RMASA: 2022 Rocky Mountain Division Meeting, American Society for Aesthetics Drury Plaza Hotel Santa Fe, NM, United States, July 15-17, 2022 |
Conference website | https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1173362&group= |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=2022rmasa |
Submission deadline | April 1, 2022 |
The Thirty-Seventh Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics will take place at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 15-17, 2022.
Submission Guidelines (Deadline: April 1, 2022)
We welcome presentations in all fields and disciplines pertaining to the history, application, and appreciation of aesthetic understanding. We are always particularly interested in research involving interdisciplinary and intercultural approaches emphasizing the natural and cultural character of the American Southwest.
The conference is organized into 1.5-hour sessions with each of three speakers allotted 20-25 minutes to present and 5 minutes for Q & A. The ASARMD Division’s long-standing practice has been to invite proposals, in the form of abstracts, for papers that speakers wish to present. Proposals should be no more than 250 words in length and follow the format of a typical abstract, which is to say, offer a formal, albeit succinct, summary of the work to be presented, including conclusion(s) to be drawn. Panel presentations should consist of either three or four papers and include each participant’s abstract.
Proposals are due March 15 and must be submitted via EasyChair. Documents must be in .doc, .docx, or .pdf format. Notifications of acceptance and rejection will be made via EasyChair as well. If you are interested in organizing an entire panel of three or four papers for the conference, please query the officers for information about how to put together a panel proposal. Panel proposals must have at least three participants. We encourage complete panel proposals.
Manuel Davenport Keynote Address: Gregory Currie
Greg Currie was educated at the London School of Economics and the University of California, Berkeley. He has taught at universities in Australia, Italy, New Zealand and the United States and now teaches at the University of York, UK. He is a fellow of the British Academy, a past president of the Australian Academy of Humanities, a past fellow of St John's College, Oxford and a life member of Clare Hall, Cambridge. He has written a number of essays and books on topics concerning the arts and the mind. His latest book is Imagining and Knowing: the shape of fiction, Oxford University Press, 2020. He hopes (rather than believes) he will complete a book entitled The Agency in Art quite soon. He is also working on the problem of how to develop a quite general theory of irony of all kinds.
Michael Manson Artist Keynote Address: Anya Monteil
Anya Montiel is a curator at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian. Previously, she was a curator at the Renwick Gallery and an assistant professor of art history at the University of Arizona. She received her MA and PhD in American Studies from Yale University and her BA in Native American Studies and anthropology from the University of California at Davis. She has written for American Indian magazine, Art in America, First American Art Magazine, and the Oxford Handbook of American Indian History as well as exhibition essays for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, the Heard Museum, the Hood Museum of Art, and the Renwick Gallery.
Acknowledging the History and Heritage of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Our conference is annually held in Santa Fe, New Mexico, a region that is still recognized as Oga Po’geh, meaning “White Shell Water Place,” by the people of Tatsúgeh Oweengeh (Tesuque Pueblo). This region was inhabited for thousands of years by the communities of the Northern and Southern Tewa, and this area is richly described in the oral traditions of the Nambe Pueblo, the Diné, Cochiti, Tao, and Hopi Pueblos.
The area referred to as Santa Fe was occupied four centuries ago by the Spanish, and this occupation involved displacement of people indigenous to this region. This occupation brought immigrants from Spain, Mexico, Greece, and Portugal to this area, and resulted in the enslavement of (according to ecclesiastical records) Aa, Apache, Diné, Kiowa, Pawnee, Paiute, and Ute peoples. Many more enslaved people were simply recorded as “Mexican Indians.”
As a conference, we acknowledge this indigenous and colonial history, and we pledge allyship to the peoples and traditions colonial practices have harmed and violently displaced. The Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics will strive to perpetuate the stories of the indigenous people who call Santa Fe their ancestral home, and we see acknowledgement of these realities as a first step toward equity for these peoples.
New Oga Po’geh Essay Prize
Because of our commitment to the traditions and history of Santa, Fe, we have a specific interest in the aesthetics of indigenous and Latinx communities geographically adjacent to our division. To this end, we are excited to announce the Oga Po’geh Essay Prize. We are interested in essays of 3000 words in length devoted to Latinx and/or Native American indigenous art practice and cultural thought. This prize is not merely devoted to traditions and peoples of the American Southwest, as our division extends into the Rocky Mountain region of Canada; we encourage submissions devoted to Canadian First Nation aesthetics as well. Essays may draw from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives, but they should advance and advocate for greater representation from these communities and to promote allyship and shared understanding, both within the academy and beyond.
Winners of this prize will receive a $500 award and their conference fee will be waived. The winner will be asked to read their essay in a special session of the conference program. Those who wish to submit their essay for the prize should provide both an abstract via EasyChair by April 1 and a full, complete essay for consideration (pdf, .doc, .docx format) by May 15 to Jeremy Killiam (jkillian@memphis.edu).
Graduate Student in Philosophy Essay Prizes
The Center for Philosophical Studies (CPS) at Lamar University will again be offering its Best Graduate Student in Philosophy Essay Prizes in the amount of $150.00 each. Dr. Arthur Stewart, CPS Director, and Professor James Mock, of the University of Central Oklahoma, will serve as primary referees. Professor Eva Dadlez, also of UCO, will serve as a third, tie-breaking voter, should the need arise.
Competition Procedure: Graduate students in philosophy should provide along with their abstracts (due April 1 via EasyChair) information about their official degree aspirations and academic affiliation. Upon acceptance to the program, full completed essays will be required and will be due no later than May 15. They should be sent to: afstewart@lamar.edu and to jmock@uco.edu. Referees’ decisions will be announced no later than June 1.
Iren H. Chayes Travel Fund
The Division has $1000 provided by the American Society for Aesthetics to support travel to the meeting for persons with papers accepted for the program who have no other access to professional travel funds at their teaching institution(s) during the academic year.
To be eligible for a travel grant from these funds:
- You must be a member of ASA in good standing in the calendar year of the paper submission and presentation and you must register for the meeting.
- Eligible persons include faculty members, independent scholars, and students.
- If you have some access to travel funds from your institution but prefer to use it for a different meeting, you are not eligible for a Chayes Travel Grant this year.
To apply for a travel grant this year:
- Submit your abstract via EasyChair as you normally would by April 1.
- Include at the end of your abstract a statement that you wish to be considered for a Chayes travel grant and an explanation of why you are eligible.
The Division’s review committee will make the final decisions on which persons receive a Chayes travel grant and the amounts.
Funding from the British Society of Aesthetics
The British Society of Aesthetics has a program that provides travel grants for full-time students and recent PhDs to present their work at an aesthetics meeting not sponsored by BSA. That includes all four ASA divisional meetings. If you are eligible for those funds, it will be possible to combine grants from both BSA and ASA Chayes funds for your travel.
Registration Fees and Hotel Rates
Regular Registration: $135 (early bird rate, up to one week prior to the conference; $5 surcharge for onsite registration)
Emeritus Faculty and Graduate Students: $75
To register for the conference, please go to: http://aesthetics-online.org/
June 2 is the deadline for reserving hotel rooms. The conference room rate at the Drury Plaza Hotel for registered ASARMD conference attendees is as follows:
Single/Double Room: $179.
Triple Room: $189.
Quad Room: $199.
The guestroom rate will be extended for guests arriving/departing three days pre/post conference dates, based on availability.