Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Dates: 22-24 September, 2016 Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2016 Confirmed participants: Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Melbourne) Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne) Keti Chukhrov (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana) Bojana … Read More
The British Society of Aesthetics invites postgraduate students in the UK to apply for stipends of up to £800 towards travel and accommodation costs for participation in conferences or research visits to other universities on topics in aesthetics and the … Read More
Presented by Luca Baptista, Room 2.17, ID Building, FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon It might seem that memorization and creativity are at opposite ends, but actually the traditional art of memory emphasized the creation of striking images to be put in a fixed … Read More
Culture Studies, Colloquium Lecture Prof. Simone Mahrenholz, University of Manitoba The Paradox of Precision, or: The Logical Birth of Aesthetics from the Dead-End of Rationalism The talk claims that we are entertaining conflicting ideas on what “precision” in judging and … Read More
Philosophy and Art – panel event and discussion Wednesday 30th March 6-7.30pm Pennethorne’s Drawing Room (Somerset House)* www.pennethornes.co.uk What role, if any, should philosophy play in the creation of art? Philosophers of art are not art critics. While the critic … Read More
Congress at the Muthesius University Kiel and University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany (19–21 May 2016) – Thursday (Muthesius University) 5:00 pm – 6:00 pm: Welcome and introduction 6:00 pm – 7:30 pm: Norbert M. Schmitz (Kiel): Die doppelte Immersion … Read More
National University of Ireland Galway, Thursday May 12 2016. Over the last 25 years Paul Crowther has developed a wide-ranging normative and cognitivist aesthetics that explains why the making and experience of art is so important for humanity. Uniquely, he … Read More
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday,16 March 2016 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 246 Peter Kivy (Rutgers) Knowledge and Novel Knowledge: Quelle Difference? I have written often and at times at length on the question of whether … Read More
Essence and Context: A Conference Between Music and Philosophy Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre (Tilto g. 16, Vilnius, LITHUANIA) 31st August — 3rd September 2016 Keynote speakers include: •Professor PAUL BOGHOSSIAN (New York University) •Professor VYTAUTAS LANDSBERGIS (Lithuania) •Professor … Read More
Deadline 15th March 2016 24–25 June 2016, University of Kent, Canterbury Video games have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment today. Many of them possess a wide array of artistic and aesthetic qualities and there is growing … Read More