Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, 1-4 September 2015 The team of the research project “Poetics of Selfhood: Memory, Imagination, and Narrativity” (PTDC/MHC-FIL/4203/2012), hosted by the Philosophy Center of Lisbon University, launches a call for papers and panels to be … Read More
15-16 December 2015, University of Southampton http://bsafictionalcharacters.weebly.com/ Fictional characters have received unprecedented philosophical attention in last few years including the publication of the following monographs: Thomasson’s (1999) Fiction and Metaphysics, Priest’s (2005) Towards Non-Being, Azzuoni’s (2010) Talking About Nothing, Crane’s … Read More
We are pleased to announce the opening of the call for papers for a special issue of Verifiche: Rivista Trimestrale di Scienze Umane, dedicated to Hegel’s Philosophy of Art. The issue will be edited by Luca Illetterati and Francesco Campana … Read More
6th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference The Department of Classics at the University of Leeds is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference to be held on the 3rd June 2015 at Devonshire Hall, Leeds. Both Symbols and Metaphors … Read More
University of Sheffield, Wednesday 27 May 2015 We warmly invite you to participate in this one day RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group workshop, to discuss philosophical questions raised by human+computer music. On the musical side, fundamental issues raised by … Read More
We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 9th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Berlin, 14-17 … Read More
19 June 2015, St Mary’s College, Durham Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Michael Pincombe (Newcastle), Dr Leon Burnett (Essex) A hint of the far reaching and rich symbolic potential of the word “exotic” resides in one twentieth-century dictionary’s definition of the … Read More
This conference is being held at Wolfson College, Oxford on the 7th November 2015, funded by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Janet Todd and Professor Karen Hunt. Scholars … Read More
Monday 22 June 2015, University of Nottingham Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University) To travel is unavoidable, whether as part of the everyday or the exceptional. It can be political or leisurely, routine or unexpected, real or imaginary. … Read More
Deadline: 30th June, 2015 In 2008 Tiago Baptista published a relevant essay with the suggestive title The invention of Portuguese Cinema. In the form of a photographic album he warned us of the “permanent invention” of an object called “Portuguese … Read More