White Rose Aesthetics Forum

The Forum is a collaboration between those working in philosophical aesthetics at the Universities of Hull, Leeds, Sheffield and York. It meets three times a year, twice for afternoons of papers from the participating departments, once for a one-day workshop with invited speakers.

Anyone interested in attending (and all are welcome!) should contact any of the organisers for further information:

Robert Hopkins (Sheffield)
Aaron Meskin (Leeds)
Peter Lamarque (York)
Dawn Wilson (Hull)

(For contact details see weblinks to the right)

Next Meeting

Monday June 18th 2012, York (details to be confirmed)

Speakers will include Dawn Wilson. For questions and to let us know you'd like to come, please contact Peter Lamarque.

Previous Meetings

Tuesday December 13th 2011, University of Leeds (Humanities Research Institute)

Robin Le Poidevin (Leeds) 'Photographs and possibilia'
Rob Hopkins (Sheffield) 'Sculpting in Time? Temporal inflection & our experience of film'

Monday June 13th 2011, Sheffield Engineering Boardroom, Mappin Building (170 in square H2 of the (University Map)

Áine Kelly (Edinburgh & York) "A Dance of Frenzy, A Dance of Praise': Fred Astaire Acknowledges America"
Aaron Meskin (Leeds) "The Trouble with Aesthetics: The Unreliability of Aesthetic Judgment and Aesthetic Testimony"

Monday December 6th 2010, York (Heslington Hall)

Margaret Moore (Leeds) "The Contents of Auditory Imagination"
Cain Todd (Lancaster) "Fitting Attitudes and Aesthetic Values"

Monday 19th April 2010, Leeds (Humanities Research Institute)

Matthew Kieran (Leeds) "Artistic Integrity"
David Owens (Sheffield) “Pleasure and Beauty”

Monday 7th December 2009, York (King's Manor)

Aaron Meskin (Leeds) "Instances as Artworks"
Peter Lamarque (York) “Art for Art’s Sake”

Tuesday September 22nd 2009, Sheffield (Humanities Research Institute), one-day conference on The Unity of Imagining

Robert Hopkins (Sheffield) 'Imagining the Past'
Jonathan Ichikawa (Arché, St. Andrews) 'Imaginability: Improbability, Impossibility, and Resistance'
Kathleen Stock (Philosophy, Sussex) 'What kind of content does a mental image have?'
Jonathan Weinberg (Philosophy, Indiana) 'Imagine What?: Imaginative Underdetermination & The Task of the Audience'

Wednesday March 25th 2009, Leeds (Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place, University of Leeds), 1.30 to 4.45.

Matthew Kieran (Leeds) 'On Creativity'
Robert Hopkins (Sheffield) 'Factive Pictorial Experience: What's Really Special about Photographs?'

Wednesday October 29th 2008, Sheffield (Humanities Research Institute), 1.30 to 4.45.

Dominic Gregory (Sheffield) 'Pictures, pictorial contents and vision'
Alix Cohen (Leeds) 'Kant on the ugly'