Wednesday 8 June 2022: 5pm BST Presenter: Robert R. Clewis (Gwynedd Mercy University)Chair: Hans Maes (University of Kent) Abstract: Kant’s thoughts on humour in section §54 of the third Critique can be viewed as part of his aesthetics: his view of laughter … Read More
The Festival is co-sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics, the British Society of Aesthetics, and the Kent Centre for Aesthetics. Attendance is free and open to all. June 3: The Aesthetic Value of Scientific Experiments (panel) June 8: Does Kant … Read More
The Centre for Philosophy and Art and the National Gallery invite you to their upcoming event Art and the Emotions: The Sublime and the Modern World. This is an online panel discussion which will explore the different ways we come to … Read More
Friday 3 June 2022: 2pm BST Presenter: Dr Milena Ivanova (University of Cambridge)Chair: Dr Alice Murphy (Ludwig Maximilians University Munich)Respondents: Dr Claire Anscomb (University of Liverpool) and Dr Alice Murphy Abstract: Scientific products have long been valued for their aesthetic … Read More
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture of Florida Atlantic University invite paper proposals for a conference on “Bodies of Pain: Somaesthetic Explorations”that will be held November 3-4, 2022 at FAU’s Boca Raton campus. The conference’s call for papers is as follows: … Read More
Call for PapersUniversity College London, 11 November 2022 (provisional) It is now widely recognised that the relentless (re)production of visuality, a distinct feature of our digital age, has increasingly problematised the status of the image and the gaze. This has … Read More
University of Liverpool, 9-10 June 2022 Digital technology has had an enormous impact upon image production and reception. New kinds of images, including memes, deep fakes and artworks produced with Artificial Intelligence (AI), have opened up a range of possibilities … Read More
Department of Philosophy, Division in Aesthetics, University of Rijeka and Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy issue a CFP for the international conference, “The People we End up Being: Art, Ethics, and Agency” to be held in April, 21st and 22nd … Read More
The Inter-University Centre in Dubrovnik, Croatia hosts a large number of conferences in a wide variety of disciplines each year, bringing together scholars from Europe, North America, and further afield. In April 2022, we are planning to hold the tenth … Read More
Papers are invited for consideration for presentation at a conference on Vernon Lee’s aesthetics, to be held on at Churchill College, Cambridge on the 12th and 13th September 2022. The organisers are planning for it to be held in person, although will make … Read More