We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 9th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Berlin, 14-17 … Read More
The Sixth International Symposium on Music and Sonic Art: Practices and Theories (MuSA 2015) is an interdisciplinary event to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikinformatik (IMWI) (http://www.hit-karlsruhe.de/hfm-ka/imm/). MuSA 2015 is also supported by Middlesex … Read More
17-18 July 2015, University College Cork, Ireland “Aesthetics and the Feminine” is supported by The Society for Women In Philosophy Ireland (SWIP-I) and The Schools of Philosophy and Politics at University College Cork (UCC). This conference aims to provide a … Read More
Wednesday, 22nd April, 2015, 4:15 – 6:00pm Dugald Stewart Building, 3.10-3.11, University of Edinburgh Event Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/678593888935896/ The lecture is free and open to all! Abstract: “Cinema was born as technology and rapidly grew into an art. What is … Read More
20-21 June 2015, Research Centre, University of Sheffield http://www.shef.ac.uk/philosophy/research/conferences/valuesofart This conference will discuss issues such as the relationship between intrinsic and instrumental values of art, the nature of arts participation, and the state support of the arts in the UK. … Read More
19 June 2015, St Mary’s College, Durham Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Michael Pincombe (Newcastle), Dr Leon Burnett (Essex) A hint of the far reaching and rich symbolic potential of the word “exotic” resides in one twentieth-century dictionary’s definition of the … Read More
This conference is being held at Wolfson College, Oxford on the 7th November 2015, funded by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Janet Todd and Professor Karen Hunt. Scholars … Read More
Monday 22 June 2015, University of Nottingham Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University) To travel is unavoidable, whether as part of the everyday or the exceptional. It can be political or leisurely, routine or unexpected, real or imaginary. … Read More
Deadline: 30th June, 2015 In 2008 Tiago Baptista published a relevant essay with the suggestive title The invention of Portuguese Cinema. In the form of a photographic album he warned us of the “permanent invention” of an object called “Portuguese … Read More
The Emotions of Others explores our understanding of the knowledge of emotions and their signature facial expressions. The documentary essay features a diverse range of filmed participants, combined with a conversation between a ‘voice of doubt’ and a ‘voice of … Read More