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
September 22 2014, University of Leeds One of the goals of the Experimental Philosophical Aesthetics project (Marie Curie Action Grant PIIF-GA-2012-328977) is to facilitate the transfers of knowledge and skills between researchers of diverse backgrounds. We think promoting works of early … 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
Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London will award two bursaries to fund postgraduate study in 2014-5 on the MRes Art: Theory and Philosophy course. The bursaries are provided by the Trask fund, established specifically for the MRes Art: … Read More
18-19 July, 2014 Münzsalon Berlin, Münzstr. 23, 10178 Berlin In contemporary debates within philosophy as much as in the arts, it seems impossible not to confirm the assumption that art is political. The question can be raised, whether the evidence … Read More
We are excited to remind you of the Film-Philosophy Conference that is taking place next week at the University of Glasgow, and is hosted by Film and Television Studies. This year the conference theme is A World of Cinemas. The … Read More
The organisers of the Humane Philosophy Project, in partnership with the Ian Ramsey Centre, are proud to announce the project’s 2014 Summer conference Humane Philosophy and the Arts, 19 July 2014, at Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford. The aim of … Read More
The special two-part course ‘Lyotard’s Aesthetics’, taught by Dr Ashley Woodward (Dundee), begins 11am on Monday 30 June. All classes are in the Law Building at the University of Melbourne. DISTANCE ENROLMENT IS ALSO AVAILABLE. Full details and enrolment: http://mscp.org.au/courses/winter-school-2014 … 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
Conference to take place in Budapest, November 14-15, 2014 Conference organized by the Visual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics. Speakers will include: Petra Aczél (Budapest) James E. Katz (Boston), concluding plenary talk Zoltán … Read More