The first postgraduate journal of the Ironbridge Institute has been launched. furnace is a newly forged Postgraduate within the Ironbridge International Institute of Cultural Heritage (IIICH), University of Birmingham. Cultural heritage is an ever expanding and diversifying discipline; we hope … Read More
14 -15 October, University of Birmingham, Department of Philosophy and School of Law www.birmingham.ac.uk/beautydemands This workshop focuses on whether a global dominant beauty norm is emerging; one with less cultural variation and less sites of resistance. Some practices suggest this … Read More
September 20 – 23 , 2015 at Cloister Heiligkreuztal CALL FOR APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 15, 2015 — Topic “De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum,” was a maxim of scholastic philosophy, stating that matters of taste can’t be rationally solved. … Read More
28 August 2015, University of Sydney Topic: 18th Century Philosophy in Dialogue The Research Day will begin with an interdisciplinary panel discussion with experts from a number of fields speaking on the relationships between philosophy, music, literature, art and architecture … Read More
The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its fourth lecture: Professor Emily Brady (Edinburgh) “Sublimity and Art” Wednesday, 10th June, 2015, 4:15 – 6:00pm Dugald Stewart Building, Room 1.20, University of Edinburgh (https://www.facebook.com/events/1590208141234748/) The lecture is free and open … Read More
Volume 17, Number 1 Issue date: January 2016 Submission deadline: September 30, 2015 Editor: Robert Fudge (Weber State University) Contemporary analytic philosophers typically treat ethics and aesthetics as largely distinct areas of concern. This contrasts with much of the history … Read More
Abstracts are invited for a proposed special issue of the British Journal for the History of Philosophy on the theme of language, aesthetics and emotions in the work of the British Idealists. We invite contributions which explore these themes as … Read More
University of Warwick, 6 February 2016 Deadline for submission: 15 September, 2015 Confirmed Keynote speakers: Professor Bill Gray (University of Chichester), Professor Arthur Graesser (Memphis, Oxford) Conference website: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/hrc/confs/ssc/ The success of recent Nobel Prize winner Alice Munro, the movie … Read More
October 29-31, 2015, Universidade do Minho (Braga, Portugal), Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas After Valladolid in 2014, Braga will host the second Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics. These meetings intend to foster the collaboration between Portuguese and Spanish scholars on … Read More
19-20 May 2015, Leeds, UK This is the final call for registration for Race and Aesthetics: A British Society of Aesthetics Connections Conference. The registration deadline is this Wednesday, May 13th. Conference information, including conference themes, the program, talk abstracts, … Read More