Beauty has been the key concept in aesthetics since Antiquity. The debate as to whether beauty is in the eyes of the beholder or in objects themselves is still going on. In philosophical aesthetics, there has been times during which problems of beauty have played only a minor role, but more recently the discussion has become lively again. In this conference of the Nordic Society of Aesthetics, we encourage scholars to take both traditional and radical perspectives into the problem of beauty. Issues to be covered are, for example, the following:
• Has beauty become obsolete?
• Is there a place for beauty in the arts?
• Does beauty change?
• Beauty as an aesthetic value and in relation to other values
• Beauty and politics
• Digitalization and beauty
• Gendered beauty
• Beauty in fashion and appearances
• Environmental problems and beauty
There are two rooms where the presentations will be held: I Tetra & II Skiftnyckel
Monday 27th May
12:00-13:00 Registration
13:00-13:15 Welcome: Arto Haapala
13:15-14:15 Keynote: Reinold Schmücker: Beauty – no place, nowhere?
14:15-14:45 Break
14:45-15:15 I Oiva Kuisma: Beauty as a Principle of Learning and Self-Education in Plato
II Martta Heikkilä: The Unpresentable Beauty
15:15-15:45 I Elisabetta Di Stefano: The Aesthetics of Ordinary Objects between Beauty and Functionality
II Matilde Carrasco-Barranco: Laughing at ugly people: On humour as the antitheses of human beauty
15:45-16:15 I Hanna Mattila: How to Utilize Aesthetics in Urban Revitalization Without Falling Into the Traps of Aestheticization?
II Virve Sarapik: Beauty of the fear: The White Ship and World War III
16:15-16:30 Break
16:30-17:00 I Michaela Pašteková, Jozef Kovalčik: Where Beauty and Art Practice Collide
II Tingwen Li: A Cognitivist Account of Beauty in Forgery Artworks
17:00-17:30 I Matti Tainio: Too Much Beauty. The Aesthetic Quality of Photographic Documentation
II Iida Kukkonen, Outi Sarpila, Tero Pajunen & Erica Åberg: Applying the concepts of aesthetic capital and labour in the study of beauty as a source of inequality
18:00 Bus transport from Hanaholmen to Aalto University
18:30-19:15 Aalto University campus tour
19:15-21:00 Reception at Aalto University (Dipoli)
Tuesday 28th May
9:00-9:30 I Janne Vanhanen: Beautiful Noise? On the painful pleasure of music
II Harry Lehmann: Is There a Place of Beauty in the Arts?
9:30-10:00 I Hanne Appelqvist: Hanslick on the Purposiveness of Musical Form
II Zoltan Somhegyi: Beauty, Environment, and the Changes in Man-made Sublime
10:00-10:30 I Małgorzata A. Szyszkowska: Beauty in Music: A Singing Perspective
II Guðbjörg R. Jóhannesdóttir: Beauty and Landscape in Environmental Decision Making
10:30-10:45 Break
10:45-11:15 I Kimmo Sarje: Beauty and Deconstruction – Ornament in my Montage Art
II
Vesa Vihanninjoki: Cities are not supposed to be beautiful
11:15-11:45 I Mats Dahllöv: Beauty and the Absolute in Benjamin Höijer´s Philosophy of Art
II Lenka Lee: New Beauty: Between Hipsters and Folklore
11:45-12:15 I Davide Dal Sasso: Beauty and Contemporary Art
II Harri Mäcklin: Immersive Beauty
12:15-13:15 Lunch
13:15-14:15 Keynote: Sabine Roeser: The Role of Art for Emotional-Moral Reflection on Risky and Controversial Technologies
14:15-14:45 I Sue Spaid: The Aesthetic Enchantment Approach: Gauging Nature’s Wellbeing to Reverse Degradation
II Gabriela Kurylewicz: It is Worthless Without Beauty: Plato’s Philosophy of Music
14:45-15:15 I Cecilia Sjöholm: Love as a “physicien”; Descartes on beauty and the gaze
II Riikka Latva-Somppi: Traces from the Anthropocene
15:15-15:45 Coffee
15:45-16:45 Panel: Hege Charlotte Faber, Solveig Bøe, Brit Strandhagen: The Beauty of the Beast: Aesthetics of the Wild
16:45:17:30 Finnish Society for Aesthetics Session
17:30-18:30 Annual General Meeting
19:00 Conference dinner
Wednesday 29th May
10:00-10:30 I Peter Brezňan: Beauty as Element of Dominance and Subordination
II Xiao Ouyang: Beauty and Its Cross-cultural Predicament
10:30-11:00 I Constantinos V. Proimos: Beauty and the Beast. The Dark Side of Love
II Rina Sugawara: (Un)like Beauty: The Cute-Uncanny Aesthetic in My Neighbor Totoro
11:00-11:30 I Sarka Lojdova: Beauty after the End of Art: Sedivy and Danto
II Václav Křížek: The Return of Beauty – About the relationship of memory and aesthetic experience
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-12:45 Panel: Knut-Ove Eliassen, Carsten Meiner, Christopher Messelt: Beauty and the Beach
Closing
12:45-13:45 Lunch
