Edited by Sašša Hrnjez and Søren Tinning What does ““emancipation”” mean today? A hermeneutical approach to this question tries above all to investigate the significance of emancipation in relation to human praxis. Yet, in order to answer this question another … Read More
10-12 April 2015, The University of Chicago and the Chicago Cultural Center Keynotes will include: Simon Critchley Matthew Goulish & Lin Hixson With a premiere of a new work-in-progress by Every house has a door Kindly supported by: The Franke … 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
University of Nottingham, 8-10 April 2015 Experimental modernist forms are widely thought to question the suitability of traditional cultural structures to represent experience. Whether it is Ezra Pound’s desire to ‘compose in the sequence of the musical phrase’ or the … Read More
Kyoto, March 2015 The deadlines for this interdisciplinary conference in Philosophy and Literature have been pushed back to: 20th October, 2014: proposed talk title and 150-word abstracts 30th January, 2015: full papers (submitted papers can still be revised any time … Read More
The Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology aims to encourage and promote research in aesthetics that draws inspiration from the phenomenological tradition as broadly understood, where “phenomenology” is inclusive of, but goes beyond the limits of, intellectual practices associated with the tradition … Read More
Cyborgian Images: The moving image between apparatus and body Deadline: December 31, 2014 The double-blind peer-reviewed Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is now accepting articles from scientists, scholars, artists and film makers for the first issue entitled Cyborgian Images: … Read More
Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, 14-17 April, 2015. Organised jointly by the Faculty of Music, University of Oxford, and the University of Newcastle’s International Centre for Music Studies. There have been rapid multidisciplinary advances in scholarly understanding of musical … Read More
University of Leeds, 5-6 September 2014 Invited speakers: Ann-Sophie Barwich (University of Exeter), Otávio Bueno (Miami), Alix Cohen (Edinburgh), George Darby (London), Catherine Elgin (Harvard University), Steven French (Leeds), John Kulvicki (Dartmouth College), Aaron Meskin (Leeds), Dean Rickles (Sydney), Nola … Read More
The Editors of Evental Aesthetics, a peer-reviewed, independent journal devoted to philosophical thinking on aesthetic practices and experiences, continue to invite submissions for the Fall and Winter issues. Themes include: Hijacking (Deadline: June 30, 2014) Vital Materialism (Deadline: September 30, 2014) … Read More