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The American Society for Aesthetics and the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ are pleased to announce that  will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the American Society for Aesthetics in Baltimore October 22-25, 2025.

Professor Smith is Professor of Philosophy, Art, and Film, and Director of the Aesthetics Research Centre at University of Kent. He was a Leverhulme Research Fellow (2005-6), a Laurence E. Rockefeller Fellow at Princeton University’s Centre for Human Values (2017-18), and President of the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (2014-7). He is a member of the editorial boards of the British Journal of Aesthetics, Series, and Cinema: Journal of Philosophy and the Moving Image. He works primarily in film theory broadly, but especially the ‘philosophy of film’ – film theory informed by analytic philosophy – and classical film theory; cognitive and evolutionary approaches to cinema, and to art in general; empirical and experimental approaches to the arts.

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The Richard Wollheim Lecture is jointly sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics and the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ. The ASA nominates a lecturer to speak at the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ annual conference in even years and the ÌÇÐÄÊÓƵ nominates a lecturer to speak at the ASA annual meeting in odd years.

Previous Wollheim Lecturers:

â–ª 2024: Garry Hagberg

â–ª 2023: Elisabeth Schellekens

â–ª 2022: Rachel Zuckert

â–ª 2021: Matthew Kieran

â–ª 2020: Yuriko Saito

â–ª 2019: Eileen John

â–ª 2018: Carolyn Korsmeyer

â–ª 2017: Derek Matravers

â–ª 2016: Susan Feagin

â–ª 2015: Catherine Wilson

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â–ª 2013: Gregory Currie

â–ª 2012: Kendall Walton

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â–ª 2010: Noël Carroll

â–ª 2009: Peter Lamarque