Race, Art and Aesthetics in the 21St Century

Exploring Beauty and Truth in Worlds of Color:

Race, Art and Aesthetics in the 21st Century

Oberlin College - September 29-30, 2017

Graduate Student Travel Grants

Call for Applications

Our conference aims to take part in this growing movement to examine the role of race and ethnicity in the production of various arts and in aesthetic experience, appreciation, and judgment (where these are construed broadly to include popular culture and many aspects of everyday experience, as well as their appreciation and other aesthetic engagement with them). Race, Art and Aesthetics aims to go beyond the racial binary of Black/White to include the complexity of race and aesthetics in a multi-ethnic, multi-racial society. With this in mind, we have included scholars who will discuss Jewish, East-Asian, and Latino/a perspectives, as well as African and African-American expressions.

Our general approach is deeply interdisciplinary. This conference brings together both scholars from a wide range of fields – such as critical race studies, literature, film studies, English, Studio Art, Art History, History, African and African American Studies, Ethno-musicology, Fashion Studies and Comparative Literature and practitioners in these fields – with an eye toward examining the production, consumption, and appreciation of various art forms. Interdisciplinarity is also manifest within the more narrow field of philosophical aesthetics in the sense that Continental and broadly analytic perspectives are brought into conversation with one another. These various perspectives, positions, methodologies and approaches will create a gumbo of thought and discussion.

We invite applications for travel grantsfor graduate student members of the American Society for Aesthetics (ASA) to attend the symposium.

We are inviting graduate student members of the ASA to apply for travel grants of up to $350. Student membership in the ASA is $35.00, which can be submitted at the ASA site asyou apply, if you aren’t already an ASA member. A total of 3 grants will be awarded.

Applications should submit a statement of interest (500-750 words) and a short CV (1-2 letters of recommendation not required, but will be considered). In your statement, please speak to previous work you have done on race and aesthetics in the broad sense signaled above, and indicate how this subject informs your studies.

Please send your applicationto Charles Peterson (yJuly 15th

Notification of awardsexpected by August 15.