The American Society for Aesthetics, the British Society of Aesthetics, and the Kent Aesthetics Research Centre (ARC) are pleased to announce the 2023 Virtual Summer Aesthetics Festival to enable persons interested in aesthetics to share work-in-progress with other such scholars … Read More
In Celebration of Peter Lamarque A British Society of Aesthetics – University of York Conference 5-6 July 2023 On 5-6 July 2023 we will celebrate with Professor Peter Lamarque the occasion of his retirement from the University of York and … Read More
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 New Horizons Award is Zoë Cunliffe of the CUNY Graduate Center for her conference submission, ‘The Moral Significance of First-Person Trauma Narratives’. The award comes with an honorarium of £1000 … Read More
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 British Society of Aesthetics Essay Prize is Aviv Reiter of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her essay, ‘Kant on the aesthetic ideas of beautiful nature’. The prize is £1,500 and … Read More
We are delighted to announce that Kris Goffin has been awarded the second British Society of Aesthetics Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020-2021, for his project ‘The Rationality of Emotion & Fiction’. Kris will be mentored by Stacie Friend at Birkbeck, University of … Read More
The American Society for Aesthetics’ Virtual Aesthetics Festival continues with the following events: Monday, June 15:5 pm Italy (CEST)/ 11 am New York (EDT)”The Aesthetic Values in the Living Experience: From the House to the City” Presenter: Aurosa Alison, Politecnico di Milano, Naples, … Read More
The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce deadlines for ASA opportunities in 2020. Virtual Meeting: North American Kant Society Biennial: Aesthetics DayUniversity of Binghamton, June 5-8, 2020https://bnaks2020.weebly.com/REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 29, 2020 Virtual Conference: “Art, Desire, and God: Phenomenological … Read More
In recent years, there have been heated debates both in the public opinion and in academic contexts over the phenomenon of “cultural appropriation”—i.e. when ‘members of one culture … take for their own, or for their own use, items produced … Read More
Mimetophobia. Who’s afraid of resemblance?Edited by Michele Di Monte, Benjamin Paul, Silvia Pedone According to Plato, “God is always bringing like to like, and makes them acquainted.” And yet, the same philosopher also warned us that this is only “half” … Read More
The Aesthetics Research Centre is pleased to announce its first online research seminar, taking place on Thursday 28 May. Please note that the time for the session below has been changed to 5-7pm UK time, with apologies for any inconvenience caused. … Read More