Connecting with Others: Empathy, Sympathy, and the Imagination Dates: Wednesday, 30 March, to Friday, 1 April 2016. CCANESA Boardroom (Rm 480), Madsen Building (F09), University of Sydney Organiser: Anik Waldow Wednesday, 30th March: 9.00-9.15 Welcome Understanding Other Minds/Ethics 9.15-10.05 Jeanette … Read More
WORKSHOP Kant and Hegel – Aesthetics and the Philosophy of Art April 15 Venue: Building H. Caulfield Campus Room H8.06/8.05 10.30 – 11.45. Andrew Benjamin (Monash University) Hegel, the Laocoön and the Expression of Grief 12.00 – 12.45 Ben Hjorth … Read More
Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Dates: 22-24 September, 2016 Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2016 Confirmed participants: Andrew Benjamin (Monash University, Melbourne) Justin Clemens (University of Melbourne) Keti Chukhrov (Russian State University for the Humanities, Moscow) Mladen Dolar (University of Ljubljana) Bojana … Read More
Presented by Luca Baptista, Room 2.17, ID Building, FCSH/NOVA, Lisbon It might seem that memorization and creativity are at opposite ends, but actually the traditional art of memory emphasized the creation of striking images to be put in a fixed … Read More
Culture Studies, Colloquium Lecture Prof. Simone Mahrenholz, University of Manitoba The Paradox of Precision, or: The Logical Birth of Aesthetics from the Dead-End of Rationalism The talk claims that we are entertaining conflicting ideas on what “precision” in judging and … Read More
Mental imagery, cognitive penetration and our perception of visual art imagery, cognitive penetration and our perception of visual art Art and vision science talk series. The Courtauld Institute of Art, Somerset House, Strand, London Speaker: Bence Nanay (Antwerp/Cambridge) Abstract: Those … Read More
Point Centre for Contemporary Art 2, Evagorou Avenue, 1097 Nicosia, Cyprus This series of seminars, led by Dr. Christos Hadjioannou and Dr. Andreas Vrahimis, will focus on ideas about art and aesthetics developed by the twentieth century philosophical movement known … Read More
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday, 10 February 2016 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 243 Jennifer Gosetti-Ferencei (Fordham) Imaginative Envisioning: Challenges in Rilke and Kafka To see or perceive visually is one thing; to introspectively imagine or … Read More
British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Stipends The British Society of Aesthetics invites postgraduate students in the UK to apply for stipends of up to £800 towards travel and accommodation costs for participation in conferences or research visits to other universities … Read More
Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) German Department (Princeton University) Princeton, NJ, June 19–26, 2016 The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies – a collaboration between Bauhaus-Universität Weimar (Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie, IKKM) and Princeton University … Read More