A workshop on ‘cognitive art histories’ will take place at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Confirmed speaker: Prof. Whitney Davis (UC Berkeley) The workshop aims to bring together scholars interested … Read More
A philosophy conference on ‘Forms of Experience and the System of the Arts’ will be held at the Università di Genova, 22-24 May 2024 The arts have often been studied in relation to ‘aesthetic experience’, however, it is possible that … Read More
Submissions are invited for ‘Art, Imagination and Morality‘, a conference to be held at Trinity College, Oxford on 20-21 June 2024. This conference aims to bring into dialogue graduate and early-career researchers working in Aesthetics, Ethics and Philosophy of Mind to … Read More
The University of British Columbia is hosting three days of workshops and presentations on Rasa theory from May 19-22, 2024. Art and Emotion Art without emotion is hard to imagine. Sadness and joy, disgust and humour: ingredients like these go … Read More
The editors of the journal Debates in Aesthetics are pleased to invite submissions for our next Special Issue on the topic of Beauty and Taste (Vol. 19.2). Beauty and taste are central concepts within aesthetics. There has been an upsurge of interest … Read More
The Henry Moore Foundation has issued two calls for papers for events at their upcoming 2024 Constantin Brâncuşi themed research season Brâncuşi and Britain, which looks at the reception of the artist in this country and accounts of his contemporary … Read More
A new theme issue on “Art, aesthetics and predictive processing: theoretical and empirical perspectives” has recently been published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. The issue was edited by Jacopo Frascaroli, Helmut Leder, Elvira Brattico and Sander Van de Cruys. It contains … Read More
The Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia hosts a large number of conferences in a wide variety of disciplines each year, bringing together scholars from Europe, North America, and further afield. In April 2024, the centre shall be hosting the tenth … Read More
The next annual conference of the European Society for Aesthetics is taking place on 6-8 June, 2024 in Naples, Italy. The conference is co-organised by the ESA and the Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”. The conference venue is Palazzo del Mediterraneo, Via Marina, Napoli, Italy. … Read More
Rice University’s Global Center in Paris, France, will be holding a conference on the “Aesthetics of Consciousness” on 12-13 April 2024. Questions to be covered include whether conscious experiences are legitimate objects of aesthetic appreciation, whether conscious experiences can be … Read More