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
This conference is being held at Wolfson College, Oxford on the 7th November 2015, funded by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Janet Todd and Professor Karen Hunt. Scholars … Read More
Monday 22 June 2015, University of Nottingham Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University) To travel is unavoidable, whether as part of the everyday or the exceptional. It can be political or leisurely, routine or unexpected, real or imaginary. … Read More
Deadline: 30th June, 2015 In 2008 Tiago Baptista published a relevant essay with the suggestive title The invention of Portuguese Cinema. In the form of a photographic album he warned us of the “permanent invention” of an object called “Portuguese … Read More
Atlanta, Georgia, October 2015 This year’s conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia concurrently with the conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), which will run October 8-10, 2015. We are pleased to announce that the SRS … Read More
The University of Aberdeen and the SOUND festival, Aberdeen, Scotland, 30-31st October 2015 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/music/musical-modernity-the-beautiful-and-the-sublime-468.php Theodor Adorno noted the difficulty of creating new art that can be beautiful in a truthful way, eschewing any response to musical modernity that would allow … Read More
The Editors of Evental Aesthetics, an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, seek submissions in two categories for our Fall 2015 issue. Deadline: 31 July, 2015. 1. Aesthetic Inquiries: This section will be devoted to philosophical matters pertaining to any aesthetic practice … Read More
Edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos To be published by Brill/Rodopi in the “Philosophy of Film” Series Can Neoplatonic philosophy be used for film studies? Given the often-stated parallels between Plotinus’ and Bergson’s philosophies, it is surprising that Neoplatonism … Read More
The International Society for the Philosophy of Architecture is pleased to announce this summer’s Call for Papers Given the wealth of new ways of conceptualizing building, its practice, and its meanings, this call for papers prompts authors to reconceptualize the … Read More
Institute of Philosophy, London, September 16-17, 2015. The conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception has been used in as diverse corners of aesthetics and philosophy of art as debates about depiction, aesthetic experiences, character engagement, our engagement with fictions, our … Read More