Is art dangerous or harmless? Is it still meaningful to talk about beauty in art? What is the role of art, if there is any role at all? These questions have been playing a central role in philosophical reflection since … Read More
CALL FOR PAPERS The Philosophy of Portraits: An international conference April 13-14, 2018 University of Maryland College Park Portraits are everywhere. One finds them not just in museums and galleries, but also in newspapers and magazines, in the homes of … Read More
On Thursday 25th and Friday 26th of January 2018 the Humanities Department of the Open University the Netherlands organizes the international conference ‘The Icon as Cultural Model: Past, Present and Future’. We cordially invite scholars from various disciplines to send … Read More
Machiado Suite, University of Nottingham, 26th and 27th July 2017 Aesthetic considerations have frequently played an important role within various religious traditions. For example, certain religious doctrines ascribe beauty to God, to various religious exemplars, and even to the cosmos … Read More
Musée du quai Branly & IRCAM, Paris, 8th-10th November 2017 The “Music & Hacking: Instruments, Communities, Values” conference intends to look at musicians and technicians’ practices which – explicitly or implicitly – could be seen as musical hacking activities. Since … Read More
This is the Call for Papers for the 5th Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC), to be held in Berlin, Germany, Germany, 25–27 August 2017. https://www.vsac2017.org/ Conference Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The Visual Science … Read More
Vol. 11, N. 2/2017: The Languages of Art Edited by Cristina Meini Deadline: 30.06.2017 www.rifl.unical.it Depending on whatkind of thing“language” is intended to be, different artistic–communicative codes can be considered as languages. For example, music is arguably a communicative code … Read More
November 9-10, 2017 The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a 2-day conference, November 9-10, 2017 at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Bodies are the primary platform where self-cultivation techniques develop in … Read More
*Call for Papers – International Conference “Politics of Theatre. Current and Future Transnational Strategies for Building and Improving the Theatrical Experience”, 28–29 November, 2017* *Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment, University of Milan* *Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2017* This … Read More
THe Fifth Biannual Northern Postcolonial Network Symposium at York St John University, Friday 5th May 2017, organised by Sarah Lawson Welsh with NPN ‘Culinary Cultures’ Call for Papers The academic study of food has undoubtedly been one of the growth … Read More