Editors: Catalin Brylla and Mette Kramer There has been very little convergence between documentary film studies and cognitive film theory. Documentary scholars deem cognitive models too limited in that they only address the hardwired attributes of audience reception, thus hypothesising … Read More
26-28 November 2015, Institut für Philosophie II, Ruhr-Universität Bochum Organization: Albert Newen, Kevin Reuter, Pascale Willemsen It is our pleasure to announce the first conference of the Experimental Philosophy Group Germany. It will take place at Ruhr-University Bochum, Germany, from … Read More
14 -15 October, University of Birmingham, Department of Philosophy and School of Law 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 is … Read More
One way to define cultural property is as objects with so powerful a connection to a community that they continue to influence that community’s dreams, hopes, and self-definitions even after the physical objects themselves have disappeared. Our world today presents … Read More
Aesthetic Investigations solicits contributions for its second issue. Submission may relate to the calls below, but need not. For calls for future issues, please consult the website. Articles 2015 Winter (deadline for submission: September 15 2015): How does one make … Read More
Kazimierz Dolny, Poland – August, 10th to 14th, 2015 http://obf.edu.pl/en/english-placing-art-and-music-in-nature-knew-2015/ Recent scientific research concerning art and music has thrown up a plethora of new aspects to be integrated into our understanding of these phenomena. Individual studies, such as attempts to … 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
The University of the West of England (UWE) Philosophy Annual Graduate Conference invites philosophical and performance submissions on the topic of sound. We take sound to mean any acoustic phenomena in nature involved in communication and information grounding theoretical and … 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
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