Welcome fellow postgraduates
This section of the BSA website is for postgraduates interested in aesthetics. Here you can find the Society's Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics, as well as information on postgrad events, calls for papers, sources of funding, etc.
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Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics
The aim of this journal is to offer postgraduates interested in aesthetics a space to exchange ideas, and also to foster a resource that will promote high quality essays relevant to postgraduates' interests. The journal is published three times annually, in April, August and December.
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Events and Calls for Papers
PJA Spring Issue: Call for Papers
The Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics invites contributions from
postgraduate students for its Spring/April 2010 issue (vol. 7 no. 1).
Submissions may be on any topic in aesthetics and the philosophy art.
The PJA welcomes papers from diverse perspectives (including analytic,
continental and historical ones). Submissions should be accessible,
concise and have recognisably philosophical content. They should be
roughly 3,000 words in length, but not longer than 3,500. On issues of
formatting (referencing style, etc.) authors should refer to the
current issue of the journal at:
http://www.british-aesthetics.org/pjacurrent.aspx
Papers to be considered for this issue should be submitted by April
1st 2010 in Rich Text Format (.rtf) via email to
pgjeditor@british-aesthetics.org with 'PJA Submission' in the subject
line. Submissions will be refereed blind by a member of the editorial
board.
The PJA is pleased to announce that this issue will feature an invited
contribution, “Aesthetic Relativism”, by Dr. Derek Matravers
(Cambridge/OU).
The British Society of Aesthetics 50th Anniversary Annual Conference
Heythrop College, University of London 17-19 September 2010
Please note the change of location from previous years. Heythrop College is located in Kensington Square W8, one of the oldest squares in London in one of the loveliest sections of the city.
Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2010
BSA/ASA Wollheim Memorial Lecture: Noel Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center)
Keynote speaker: Jean-Marie Schaeffer (CNRS/EHESS)
William Empson Lecture: Geoffrey Hill, poet and critic.
Papers in philosophical aesthetics should be submitted with a 200 word abstract and formatted for blind review (author's name, etc., on separate cover page). Papers should not exceed 3500 words (or 30 minutes reading time). Abstracts cannot be considered in lieu of papers. There are slots reserved for postgraduate papers (to be marked as such when submitted) with a £100 prize to be awarded to the best one. Postgraduate papers should not exceed 2500 words (or 25 minutes reading time).
Submissions should be submitted in Word format by email to Stacie Friend (s.friend@heythrop.ac.uk).
Programme Committee: Emily Brady (Edinburgh), Stacie Friend (Heythrop), Dominic McIver Lopes (UBC), Kathleen Stock (Sussex). Programme Chair: Stacie Friend
Postgraduate Bursaries and Funding
AHRC and ESRC
Consult the Arts & Humanities Research Council Homepage for details of the studentships scheme. The Economic and Social Research Council may also have relevant information, and particular universities may have fellowships to offer.
BSA Studentship Award
The British Society of Aesthetics proposes to award up to one Ph.D. studentship full-time maintenance grant of £13,290 (or within the City of London or the Metropolitan Police district: £15,290) plus tuition fees up to a maximum value of £3,500 from Sept. 2010 for up to 3 years.
The studentship is designed to support a promising philosopher in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, by enabling him or her to pursue full time doctoral research.
For more information, please click here