Talks

Selected Presentations {*=invited}

Upcoming

"On the Varieties of Aesthetic Autonomy"

• British Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, University of Oxford, September 2024.

• American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Chicago, November 2024.

TBA

• Scottish Aesthetics Forum, March 2025. *

Past talks

"On the Varieties of Aesthetic Autonomy"

• Higher Seminar in Aesthetics, Uppsala (Sweden) April 2024.*

"Conflicted Aesthetic Aspirants"

•   Boston University Ethics Seminar, November 2023. *

•   UNED. Madrid, December 2023. * (video of the talk).

• AU/UGA Aesthetics Workshop II. Auburn University, March 2023.*

• Stockholm June Workshop in Philosophy, June 2023.*

"Art Collections as Objects of Critical Appreciation"

• Perception, Knowledge and the Prospects of Art Criticism, Templeton Project, March 2023 (online).*

"Is new aesthetic value-acquisition rational?"

• Advanced Research Seminar, King's College London, February 2022.*

• Aesthetics Higher Seminar, Uppsala University, March 2022.*

"Akrasia and the Structure of Aesthetic Rationality" 

• European Society for Aesthetics, June 2021 (Zoom)

• American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Montreal, November 2021. 

"Aesthetic Akrasia and Agency"

• Aesthetics Higher Seminar, Uppsala University, December 2020 (Zoom).

• ARESMUR research seminar, University of Murcia, December 2020 (Zoom).*

“Non-Standard Emotions and Aesthetic Understanding”

• European Society for Aesthetics,  Warsaw,  June 2019. 

• American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Phoenix, October 2019.

• Aesthetic Experience and the Complexity of Perception Workshop, Universidad de Murcia, November 2019.*

"Art Appreciation: whether you like it or not." 

• European Society for Aesthetics, Tallin (Estonia),  June 2020 (Cancelled due to Covid-19).

• British Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, University of Oxford, September, 2019.

"Towards a New Emotional Story for Aesthetics"

• Higher Seminar in Aesthetics, Uppsala (Sweden) April 2019.*

“Intellectual Emotions and Aesthetic Understanding”

• Emotions and Emotions Concepts Conference, University of Bern (Switzerland), November 2018. 

“Appreciating Reflective Emotions in Art”

• British Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, University of Oxford, September 2018.

“The Artist’s Word: Artistic Intentions and Emotional Understanding” 

• American Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting, Toronto, October 2018.

• European Society for Aesthetics, June 2018. (Shortlisted Fabian Dorsch Essay prize).

 “Understanding (without) Feeling. The Case of Nostalgic Expression” 

• The Cognitive Relevance of Aesthetics, University of Tampere (Finland), September 2017.

• The Philosophy Days, Uppsala University, August 2017. 

 “Remembering Seymour Glass: Nostalgia as an Aesthetic Emotion”. 

• Spring School “The Role of Empathy and Emotion in Understanding Fiction”,  Göttingen (Germany), March 2017.

As commentator:

On Quinn White (Harvard) “Beautiful, Troubling Art: Non-Summative Aesthetic Judgment”

Chapel Hill Normativity Workshop, Chapel Hill 14-16 April 2023.

On Rob Hopkin (NYU) "Aesthetic Engagement, Imagining and the Draw of the Real"

Workshop Aesthetic Practices, Uppsala University, 10 January 2020 (Zoom).

On Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland) "Aesthetic Properties Through Thick and Thin"

Uppsala University, November 2019.

On Nick Riggle (University of San Diego) "Invitation and Aesthetic Communication"

Uppsala University, March 2019.

On Christine Tappolet (Université de Montréal) Emotions, Values and Agency (Oxford UP, 2016).

 Workshop Philosophy of Emotions, Uppsala University, April 2018.