British Society of Aesthetics

Events

MUSIC AND REPRESENTATION Merton College, University of Oxford, 26th - 28th March, 2010 In recent years, there has been increasing academic interest in the ways listeners interpret music to convey meanings, including in music’s interaction with the visual arts, and in its uses in identity construction and social movements. These trends have made the study of questions relating to representation in music more relevant than ever, and yet no recent conference has dealt extensively with the subject. This conference assembles an international group of scholars to discuss and debate the concept of representation in music. The broad range of speakers will provide an interdisciplinary response to the conference theme, incorporating the perspectives of musicology, art history, and philosophy. For more information, please click here.
EXPRESSION AND THE INNER: 6th INTER-UNIVERSITY WORSHOP ON MIND, ART AND MORALITY University of Oviedo, Spain, 8th - 10th April, 2010 Invited Speaker: DAVID H. FINKELSTEIN (University of Chicago), Author of Expression and the Inner (Harvard U. P., 2003) and several papers on epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. His book offers an expressivist account of the special authority with which we speak about our own thoughts and feelings. The workshop The Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality promotes the relation among different areas of philosophy; more specifically, the Workshop aims at exploring those issues where ethical, aesthetical and the philosophy of mind’s discussion topics converge and interweave.
WHITE ROSE AESTHETICS FORUM Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds, Monday 19th April, 2010 The next meeting of the White Rose Aesthetics Forum will be Monday 19th April: 1:00 Coffee 1:30 Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore) "Substances, Subjects, Emotions, and the Work of Poetry" 3:00 Break 3:15 David Owens (Sheffield) “Pleasure and Beauty” Ends 4:45. The meeting will take place at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. All are welcome and there is no registration fee but please notify Aaron Meskin (a.meskin@leeds.ac.uk) if you intend to come. For the Forum, see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/profiles/wraf.html
EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS CONFERENCE 2010 University of Udine, Italy, 27 -29 May 2010 The conference will be co-organised by the ESA and the Associazione Italiana degli Studiosi di Estetica and will take place from the 27th of May until the 29th of May 2010 at the University of Udine in Italy. We would like to thank the British and the German Societies of Aesthetics for their generous support. Keynote speakers: * Thierry de Duve (University of Lille III) * John Hyman (Queens College, Oxford) * Sergio Givone (University of Florence) * Lambert Wiesing (University of Jena) For more information, please click here.
AGENCY AND AUTONOMISM: PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART SINCE THE SIXTIES Tate Modern, London, 10th - 12th June, 2010. ‘Agency and Automatism’ is the culminating conference of the 3 year AHRC research project ‘Aesthetics after Photography,’ co-directed by Margaret Iversen (Dept of Art History & Theory, University of Essex) and Diarmuid Costello (Dept of Philosophy, University of Warwick). The conference aims to bring art history and philosophical aesthetics into dialogue at the point of their intersection around questions of agency and automatism in the photographic process. Invited speakers include: Carol Armstrong, Cynthia Freeland, Robin Kelsey, Joel Snyder, Jeff Wall. For more information, please click here.
18th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS University of Bejing, 9 - 13th August 2010 The Eighteenth International Congress of Aesthetics (ICA) is the largest conference on aesthetics in the world and represents the highest level of scholarship in this discipline. The theme of the Beijing Congress will be 'Diversities in Aesthetics'. For more information, please click here.
REWEAVING THE RAINBOW: LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY 1850-1910 University of Exeter, 10th - 11th September 2010 Confirmed keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Wood (Princeton) This two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the vicissitudes of influence, appropriation, interaction and disciplinarity in 'English literature' and 'philosophy'. It will address the ways in which literature is philosophical and philosophy is literary, and how their interactions evolved in the course of this period. More information to follow.
BRITISH SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS CONFERENCE 2010 Heythrop College, University of London 17-19 September 2010 The British Society of Aesthetics 50th Anniversary Annual Conference will be held at Heythrop College, University of London 17-19 September 2010. The Richard Wollheim Lecture will be presented by Noel Carroll. The keynote speaker will be Jean-Marie Schaeffer. For more information, please click here.
5th MEDITERRANEAN CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS Cartagena (Spain), 4th-8th July 2011 Since the first Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetic held in Athens (Greece) in 2000, several editions of these encounters have taken place around the Mediterranean (Carthage, 2003; Portoroz, 2006; Irbid, 2008). The next edition will take place in Cartagena (Spain), 4th-8th July 2011 organized by the University of Murcia (Spain) in collaboration with the University of Cartagena. Confirmed invited speakers are:Dominique Chateau (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Rachida Triki (University of Tunis), José Luis Molinuevo (University of Salamanca). The general subject of the Congress is “Art, Emotion and Value”. For more information, please click here.
MORE EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS Misc. See Calls For Papers page for details.
TO SEE YOUR AESTHETICS RELATED EVENT LISTED HERE: Please email k.d.simecek[at]warwick.ac.uk (replace [at] with @).

MUSIC AND REPRESENTATION
Merton College, University of Oxford, 26th - 28th March, 2010
In recent years, there has been increasing academic interest in the ways listeners interpret music to convey meanings, including in music’s interaction with the visual arts, and in its uses in identity construction and social movements. These trends have made the study of questions relating to representation in music more relevant than ever, and yet no recent conference has dealt extensively with the subject. This conference assembles an international group of scholars to discuss and debate the concept of representation in music. The broad range of speakers will provide an interdisciplinary response to the conference theme, incorporating the perspectives of musicology, art history, and philosophy. For more information, please click here.

EXPRESSION AND THE INNER: 6th INTER-UNIVERSITY WORSHOP ON MIND, ART AND MORALITY
University of Oviedo, Spain, 8th - 10th April, 2010
Invited Speaker: DAVID H. FINKELSTEIN (University of Chicago), Author of Expression and the Inner (Harvard U. P., 2003) and several papers on epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. His book offers an expressivist account of the special authority with which we speak about our own thoughts and feelings. The workshop The Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality promotes the relation among different areas of philosophy; more specifically, the Workshop aims at exploring those issues where ethical, aesthetical and the philosophy of mind’s discussion topics converge and interweave.

WHITE ROSE AESTHETICS FORUM
Humanities Research Institute, University of Leeds, Monday 19th April, 2010
The next meeting of the White Rose Aesthetics Forum will be Monday 19th April:
1:00 Coffee 1:30 Richard Eldridge (Swarthmore) "Substances, Subjects, Emotions, and the Work of Poetry" 3:00 Break 3:15 David Owens (Sheffield) “Pleasure and Beauty” Ends 4:45. The meeting will take place at the Leeds Humanities Research Institute, 29-31 Clarendon Place, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT. All are welcome and there is no registration fee but please notify Aaron Meskin (a.meskin@leeds.ac.uk) if you intend to come. For the Forum, see: http://www.shef.ac.uk/philosophy/staff/profiles/wraf.html

EUROPEAN SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS CONFERENCE 2010
University of Udine, Italy, 27 -29 May 2010
The conference will be co-organised by the ESA and the Associazione Italiana degli Studiosi di Estetica and will take place from the 27th of May until the 29th of May 2010 at the University of Udine in Italy. We would like to thank the British and the German Societies of Aesthetics for their generous support. Keynote speakers: * Thierry de Duve (University of Lille III) * John Hyman (Queens College, Oxford) * Sergio Givone (University of Florence) * Lambert Wiesing (University of Jena) For more information, please click here.

AGENCY AND AUTONOMISM: PHOTOGRAPHY AS ART SINCE THE SIXTIES
Tate Modern, London, 10th - 12th June, 2010.
‘Agency and Automatism’ is the culminating conference of the 3 year AHRC research project ‘Aesthetics after Photography,’ co-directed by Margaret Iversen (Dept of Art History & Theory, University of Essex) and Diarmuid Costello (Dept of Philosophy, University of Warwick). The conference aims to bring art history and philosophical aesthetics into dialogue at the point of their intersection around questions of agency and automatism in the photographic process. Invited speakers include: Carol Armstrong, Cynthia Freeland, Robin Kelsey, Joel Snyder, Jeff Wall. For more information, please click here.

18th INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS
University of Bejing, 9 - 13th August 2010
The Eighteenth International Congress of Aesthetics (ICA) is the largest conference on aesthetics in the world and represents the highest level of scholarship in this discipline. The theme of the Beijing Congress will be 'Diversities in Aesthetics'. For more information, please click here.

REWEAVING THE RAINBOW: LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY 1850-1910
University of Exeter, 10th - 11th September 2010
Confirmed keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Wood (Princeton) This two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the vicissitudes of influence, appropriation, interaction and disciplinarity in 'English literature' and 'philosophy'. It will address the ways in which literature is philosophical and philosophy is literary, and how their interactions evolved in the course of this period. More information to follow.

BRITISH SOCIETY OF AESTHETICS CONFERENCE 2010
Heythrop College, University of London 17-19 September 2010
The British Society of Aesthetics 50th Anniversary Annual Conference will be held at Heythrop College, University of London 17-19 September 2010. The Richard Wollheim Lecture will be presented by Noel Carroll. The keynote speaker will be Jean-Marie Schaeffer. For more information, please click here.

5th MEDITERRANEAN CONGRESS OF AESTHETICS
Cartagena (Spain), 4th-8th July 2011
Since the first Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetic held in Athens (Greece) in 2000, several editions of these encounters have taken place around the Mediterranean (Carthage, 2003; Portoroz, 2006; Irbid, 2008). The next edition will take place in Cartagena (Spain), 4th-8th July 2011 organized by the University of Murcia (Spain) in collaboration with the University of Cartagena. Confirmed invited speakers are:Dominique Chateau (University of Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne), Rachida Triki (University of Tunis), José Luis Molinuevo (University of Salamanca). The general subject of the Congress is “Art, Emotion and Value”. For more information, please click here.

MORE EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS
Misc.
See Calls For Papers page for details.

TO SEE YOUR AESTHETICS RELATED EVENT LISTED HERE:
Please email k.d.simecek[at]warwick.ac.uk
(replace [at] with @).