London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday 7th December 2016, 16:00-18:00 Senate House, Room 234 Anne Eaton (University of Illinois, Chicago) The Power of Pictures Most of the conversation about pictures in contemporary analytic philosophy of art concerns issues pertaining … Read More
Final Call for Participation PhD students and Postdocs from the disciplines of philosophy, literary studies, and psychology/neurosciences are invited to submit applications to participate in the interdisciplinary Spring School “The Role of Empathy and Emotion in Understanding Fiction” to be … Read More
The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce the Calls for Papers for several ASA meetings and co-sponsored conferences in 2017: ASA MEETINGS: ASA Pacific Meeting, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, April 5-7, 2017 details here DEADLINE: November … Read More
22-24 September 2016 Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, Italy Programme THURSDAY 22 SEPTEMBER 10.30 Welcome and introduction Chair: Bruno Centrone (Università di Pisa) 11.00 Carlos Lévy (Université Paris-Sorbonne) Fonctions du paradigme musical chez Philon d’Alexandrie 11.45 Coffee break 12.00 Federico M. … Read More
Date: 15/06/2016 – 16:00 – 18:00 Institute: Institute of Philosophy Type: Seminar Venue: Room 243, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Speaker Kathleen Stock (Sussex) Abstract Imaginative resistance’ is a phenomenon supposedly encountered with respect to certain … Read More
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