Conference Program
Conference Venue
Henry Moore Room, Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
09:00-09:50 registration and coffee
09:50-09:55 opening remarks
10:00-11:05 Nathaniel Adam Tobias C̶o̶l̶e̶m̶a̶n̶ (University College London): 'I'm a Sexual Racist!'
11:10-12:15 A.W. Eaton (University of Illinois - Chicago): 'What Makes You Beautiful': On the Racialization of Bodily Taste
12:15-13:15 catered lunch
13:15-14:20 Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma): Icons of False Hope?: The Role of Images in Thinking about Racial Justice
14:25-15:30 Nils-Hennes Stear & Robin Zheng (University of Michigan): Imagining in Oppressive Contexts, or, What's Wrong with Blacking Up?
15:30-15:45 coffee and tea
15:45-16:50 Ron Mallon (Washington University in St Louis): Humor, Automaticity, and Automata
16:55-18:00 Charles W. Mills (Northwestern University): White Lies / Black Humor
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
09:00-09:30 registration and coffee
09:30-10:35 Paul C. Taylor (Pennsylvania State University): An Aesthetics of Resistance: Deweyan Experimentalism and Epistemic Injustice
10:40-11:45 Alia Al-Saji (McGill University): Waiting in Racialized Time: A Phenomenology of Racialization through Image and Film
11:45-13:15 catered lunch
13:15-14:20 James Camien McGuiggan (University of Southampton): Brett Bailey's Exhibit B: A Case Study in Ethics and Art
14:25-15:30 Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University): Negative Space: Black Feminist Thought and Racialized Aestheticization
15:30-15:55 coffee and tea
15:55-17:00 Katharine Jenkins & Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield): The Pragmatics of Inclusivity: Visual and Linguistic Cues to Group Membership
17:05-17:15 closing remarks by Shirley Tate (University of Leeds)
19:00-21:00 conference dinner at Hansa's Gujarati Vegetarian Restaurant
Please click here for talk abstracts.
Please click here to download a pdf of the conference program.
Other Organizational Information
Conference Organizers
Shen-yi Liao (University of Leeds / University of Puget Sound)
Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds)
Conference Assistants
Daniel Abrahams (University of Leeds)
Kristi Boone (University of Leeds)
Primary Support
British Society of Aesthetics Connections Grant
Additional Support
Centre for Aesthetics, University of Leeds
Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds
Leeds Art Gallery
Henry Moore Room, Leeds Art Gallery
The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA
Tuesday, May 19th, 2015
09:00-09:50 registration and coffee
09:50-09:55 opening remarks
10:00-11:05 Nathaniel Adam Tobias C̶o̶l̶e̶m̶a̶n̶ (University College London): 'I'm a Sexual Racist!'
11:10-12:15 A.W. Eaton (University of Illinois - Chicago): 'What Makes You Beautiful': On the Racialization of Bodily Taste
12:15-13:15 catered lunch
13:15-14:20 Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma): Icons of False Hope?: The Role of Images in Thinking about Racial Justice
14:25-15:30 Nils-Hennes Stear & Robin Zheng (University of Michigan): Imagining in Oppressive Contexts, or, What's Wrong with Blacking Up?
15:30-15:45 coffee and tea
15:45-16:50 Ron Mallon (Washington University in St Louis): Humor, Automaticity, and Automata
16:55-18:00 Charles W. Mills (Northwestern University): White Lies / Black Humor
Wednesday, May 20th, 2015
09:00-09:30 registration and coffee
09:30-10:35 Paul C. Taylor (Pennsylvania State University): An Aesthetics of Resistance: Deweyan Experimentalism and Epistemic Injustice
10:40-11:45 Alia Al-Saji (McGill University): Waiting in Racialized Time: A Phenomenology of Racialization through Image and Film
11:45-13:15 catered lunch
13:15-14:20 James Camien McGuiggan (University of Southampton): Brett Bailey's Exhibit B: A Case Study in Ethics and Art
14:25-15:30 Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University): Negative Space: Black Feminist Thought and Racialized Aestheticization
15:30-15:55 coffee and tea
15:55-17:00 Katharine Jenkins & Jennifer Saul (University of Sheffield): The Pragmatics of Inclusivity: Visual and Linguistic Cues to Group Membership
17:05-17:15 closing remarks by Shirley Tate (University of Leeds)
19:00-21:00 conference dinner at Hansa's Gujarati Vegetarian Restaurant
Please click here for talk abstracts.
Please click here to download a pdf of the conference program.
Other Organizational Information
Conference Organizers
Shen-yi Liao (University of Leeds / University of Puget Sound)
Aaron Meskin (University of Leeds)
Conference Assistants
Daniel Abrahams (University of Leeds)
Kristi Boone (University of Leeds)
Primary Support
British Society of Aesthetics Connections Grant
Additional Support
Centre for Aesthetics, University of Leeds
Centre for Ethnicity and Racism Studies, University of Leeds
Leeds Art Gallery
