The British Society of Aesthetics (BSA) aims to promote study, research and discussion of the fine arts and related types of experience from a philosophical, psychological, sociological, historical, critical and educational standpoint.
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Virtual Summer Aesthetics Festival: Aesthetic Causes of Epistemic Underestimation and the Banality Objection to Aesthetic Cognitivism
Tuesday 5th July 2022: 4pm BST Presenter: Alice Harberd (University College London) Chair: Colette Olive (University College London) Registration: To register, please email alice.harberd.19@ucl.ac.uk. The Zoom link will be... Read More
Call for Papers – Remote Art: Engaging with Art from Distant Times and Cultures (Special Issue of the BJA)
Deadline for submission: April 1, 2023 Guest editors: Ancuta Mortu, Jakub Stejskal, Mark Windsor (Masaryk University). Art objects often cross boundaries between regimes of meaning... Read More
Call for Papers: TELEVISION AESTHETICS: NOW WHAT? (A BSA Conference)
University of Kent | 7-8 July 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) Iris Vidmar Jovanović (University of Rijeka) The Aesthetics Research Centre at the... Read More
2022 VIRTUAL SUMMER AESTHETICS FESTIVAL PROGRAMME
The Festival is co-sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics, the British Society of Aesthetics, and the Kent Centre for Aesthetics. Attendance is free and... Read More
Virtual Summer Aesthetics Festival: ‘The Aesthetic Value of Scientific Experiments’ (Panel)
Friday 3 June 2022: 2pm BST Presenter: Dr Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge)Chair: Dr Alice Murphy (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich)Respondents: Dr Claire Anscomb (University of... Read More
2022 Richard Wollheim Lecturer
The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Rachel Zuckert will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at... Read More