Call for papers

Arts and Humanities Postgraduate Conference ‘Creative Humanities: Thinking, Making and Meaning’ 19th and 20th October 2016 Royal Northern College of Music Call for papers The AHRC North West Consortium Doctoral Training Partnership is pleased to announce that its annual conference … Read More

2017 Biennial Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Deadline for initial proposal of Associates or Themed Sessions: 30 June 2016 Conference dates: 13-14 July 2017 http://www.musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/mpsg2017/ Strand Campus, King’s College London With the move to … Read More

Estetika ‒ The Central European Journal of Aesthetics (http://aesthetics.ff.cuni.cz) invites submissions for a special issue on the topic of Aesthetic Reasons. The submissions should not exceed 9000 words and must be written in English and prepared for blind peer review … Read More

International conference on “Blanchot. Writing and Power” at Universidad Diego Portales. 23, 24, 25 November 2016 By “placing” itself between literature and philosophy, in no defined position or in both places simultaneously, Blanchot’s writing constantly plays with power: his text … Read More

Call for Contributions to an Edited Volume As a conscious and unconscious, sustained, even efficient effort at ‘making and letting die’ (Mbembe), necropolitics is systemic to capitalism. The grand-scale destruction of the earth’s ecosystems, the overt and covert forms of … Read More

The Philosophy of the City Research Group is now accepting submissions for their session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, January 4 – 7, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel. The theme … Read More

Philosopher Susanne Langer’s work exerted a significant influence on the arts and aesthetic debates of mid-century. Figures as diverse as composer Elliott Carter, performance artist Allan Kaprow, music theorist Leonard Meyer, and more recently literary and cultural theorist Sianne Ngai … Read More

Kirchberg am Wechsel, 7–13 of August 2016 AESTHETICS TODAY. Contemporary Approaches to the Aesthetics of Nature and of Art Scientific Organizers: Stefan Majetschak (Kassel) Anja Weiberg (Vienna) Sections: 1. Wittgenstein 2. Aesthetics in a Globalised World 3. Analytical Theories of … Read More

The heritage Etienne Souriau (1892-1979) left to aesthetics is significant both from an intellectual and an institutional standpoint. Along with Charles Lalo and Raymond Bayer, Souriau founded la Revue d’esthétique in 1948, chaired the Société Française d’esthétique, headed the International … Read More