The editor soliciting abstracts for a book on Jonathan Swift and Philosophy (Lexington Books/Rowman & Littlefield). Although Jonathan Swift is one of the most well-known authors of the English language, this prolific and original writer is still little understood, and … Read More
Thursday 14 May, 2015, Humanities Research Centre, University of York Website: rethinkingdisabilityonscreen.com Twitter: @rdos2015 * Deadline for abstracts: 16th January 2015 * Keynote speakers: Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film and Director of the Leeds Centre for Medical … Read More
Collecting Texts & Manuscripts, 1660-1860, is interested in book collections of any kind, including libraries, private collections, manuscript and archive conservation, and all other aspects of book collecting in this period. The conference will take place on 16th and 17th … Read More
Paris, France, 8-10 October 2015 Organised jointly by IRCAM, IReMus (Paris-Sorbonne University and CNRS), and CTEL (Nice-Sophia Antipolis University). This conference brings together researchers interested in artistic creativity and the study of processes of musical and sound creation of the … Read More
The editors of the Radical Cultural Studies series invite proposals for monographs which focus on the relationship between space, place and culture with a particular emphasis on studies which explore emerging oppositional and creative cultures which emerge from the spatial … Read More
24 August 2015, Birkbeck College London Pragmatist and embodied approaches to aesthetics consider aesthetics to be the study of everything that goes into the human capacity to make and experience the bodily pre-linguistic cognitive, emotional and sensory-perceptual conditions of meaning … Read More
Columbia, South Carolina, March 19-21 2015 Three Rivers Philosophy Conference at the University of South Carolina in cooperation with the BiCoDa Alliance (Bielefeld, Columbia, Darmstadt) – What are the roles of pictures and diagrams in mathematical proofs, in formal reasoning, … Read More
Please direct all questions/submissions to Michele Merritt at mmerritt@astate.edu Until recently, very little attention has been paid to the philosophy of dance. Aside from the rare article, or even rarer book (cf. The Phenomenology of Dance, Sheets-Johnstone, 1967/1980), philosophers tended … Read More
October 24-25, 2014, Franciscan University Keynote Address: “Beauty and Desecration” Roger Scruton “Beauty will save the world,” writes Dostoevsky, yet beauty is often seen as a weak and expendable arrow in the metaphysical quiver that includes the more robust good … Read More
September 22 2014, University of Leeds One of the goals of the Experimental Philosophical Aesthetics project (Marie Curie Action Grant PIIF-GA-2012-328977) is to facilitate the transfers of knowledge and skills between researchers of diverse backgrounds. We think promoting works of early … Read More