Events

This is a two-day workshop (16-17th December) in which we aim to explore the philosophical foundations of artistic rights along three main axes: (i) the nature of artistic authorship and the artist-work relationship; (ii) the role of the artist’s authority in … Read More

The Welsh Aesthetics Forum | Fforwm Estheteg Cymru Presents: Dr Christopher Earley (Edinburgh) “Art and the Aesthetics of Inquiring” Wednesday 26th November 20254:10-5:30pmJohn Percival Building, Room 3.47, Cardiff University All Welcome! Abstract Philosophers of art often argue that there is a close relation between an artwork’s cognitive value and its … Read More

12th in vivo Dubrovnik Conference on the Philosophy of Art, April 2026 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 … Read More

“Loving Attention and Aesthetic Appreciation” Wednesday 15th October 2025 4:10-5:30pm John Percival Building, Room 2.03, Cardiff University All Welcome! Abstract Might my love of Picasso make me a better partner? Can practicing aesthetic appreciation improve my capacity for loving attention in my … Read More

10th Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Department of Music, Dublin City University; Thursday and Friday, 9th-10th 2026 Call for Papers for Themed Sessions Themed Sessions invite papers centred on a shared topic. These sessions … Read More

 The 10th Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music & Philosophy Study Group, Dublin City University, Thursday and Friday, 9–10 July 2026 https://musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/call-for-papers-mpsg26/ Keynote speakers to be announced The RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group warmly invites session and paper proposals for this two-day international … Read More

University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Wednesday, June 4 to Saturday, June 7   Co-hosted by the University of Alberta and the University of Lethbridge About the Conference SCSMI is an interdisciplinary organization of scholars interested in cognitive, philosophical, aesthetic, historical, psychological, neuroscientific, … Read More

This event brings together celebrated authors and scholars to discuss the experience and depiction of the self in the twenty-first century. Date: 16.06.25 Reference to the self is ubiquitous in contemporary culture. But what is the self? Is it discovered … Read More

Programme All sessions on Warwick campus, in Social Sciences 0.20 (aka S0.20 – campus map) Friday 6 June 2025 10.00-10.30: Welcome and Coffee/Tea 10.30-12.00: Zach Weinstein (Auburn), ‘Celebration: What It Is and Why It Matters’ Respondents: Karen Simecek (Warwick) and David … Read More

The Department of Philosophy, Division in Aesthetics and Epistemology, University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy issue a CFP for the international conference on Attention, imagination and morality in philosophy and literature to be held in October, 29h and … Read More

‘Key Questions in Meta-Aesthetics’ is a workshop funded by the British Society of Aesthetics and the Aristotelian Society and will take place on Tuesday, June 10th at the University of Nottingham. This will also be a hybrid event, featuring talks from … Read More

The ‘Perspectives on Play’ workshop will take place on Tuesday, June 3rd at the University of Nottingham and will be a hybrid event featuring talks from Aaron Meskin (University of Georgia) and Celia Coll (University of Nottingham). Those interested in attending … Read More

The Fourth International Conference on Beauty and Change “Aesthetic Experience and the Drive for Knowledge” will be held in Turin, Italy, 15-18 October 2025. Deadline for submissions: 1 June 2025 The BraIn Plasticity and Behavior Changes (BIP) research group at … Read More

5 June 2025 School of Arts and Humanities University of Lisbon The Language, Mind and Cognition Group (LanCog) of the Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon (CFUL), in collaboration with the multidisciplinary group Clepsydra (University of Lisbon), is … Read More

The Department of Philosophy, Division in Aesthetics and Epistemology, University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy issues a CFP for the international conference ART AND THE HUMANITIES to be held on September 9 th and 10th , … Read More

Dates Thursday, 20 February 2025 | 9:30 AM – 6:45 PMFriday, 21 February 2025 | 9:30 AM – 6:00 PM Location Basement Lecture TheatreInstitute of NeurologyQueen Square, London WC1N 3BG Event Overview This two-day conference, funded by the British Society … Read More

September 19 – 20, 2025 at the University of Basel, Switzerland Organizers Stephanie Schuster (University of Basel) Markus Wild (University of Basel) Sponsors Swiss National Science Foundation Workshop Goals The aim of this workshop is to investigate how experiences of … Read More

University of Warwick, UK24th-25th April 2025 In the wake of global movements like Black Lives Matter and #MeToo, questions around the inclusion of oppressed voices and whose body is ‘allowed’ to perform what role sit at the heart of the performing arts … 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 2025, the centre will host the eleventh in vivo Dubrovnik Conference on the Philosophy of Art. The … Read More

Philosophy of Poetry A conference at the University of Genova, 27-28 January 2025 Although many classic treatments of literature throughout the history of philosophy view poems as the paradigmatic literary works, poetry seems to be quite neglected in contemporary philosophy … Read More

2nd ENPM Conference AI in Music: Creation, Performance and Interpretation September 25–27, 2025 | Strasbourg (France) The European Network for the Philosophy of Music (ENPM) invites submissions of paper abstracts for its second conference, which will be hosted by the … Read More

On the 30th of October at Newnham College, Dr Milena Ivanova is hosting an event, sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics, to think about the Future of Art in the AI Age. The event will explore questions like: This … Read More

Registrations are invited for an International Workshop on “The Foundations of Fiction”, which will be held in person at the University of Milan (Sala 113, via Festa del Perdono, 7, 20122, Milan, Italy), as well as be accessible online. The event … Read More

A two-day connections conference funded by the British Society of Aesthetics to be held on Thursday, 20th February 2025 (9:30-18:45) and Friday, 21st February 2025 (9:30-18:00). Call for Panel PresentationsIn her recent work, On Violence and On Violence Against Women, … Read More

The WELSH AESTHETICS FORUM – FFORWM ESTHETEG CYMRU PRESENTS: “Crisis, Mourning and Everyday Aesthetics” Professor Paul C. Taylor (UCLA)Wednesday 29th May, 20244:10-6pmJohn Percival Building, Room 0.31, Cardiff University ALL WELCOME! Abstract:In a reflection on what she calls “the future of time,” Toni Morrison … Read More

The Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent warmly invites attendance to its upcoming research events for the summer term:  Weds 15 May, 4pm, Jarman Studio 5 (Teams link here) ‘Self-Presentation and External Validation: Vulnerability and Trust in Rineke Dijksta’s … Read More

A conference on Atmospheres of Places, Objects and Events will be held at the University of Genoa on 20-21 November 2024. In recent years, the general interest in ecological processes has reconfigured the concept of “atmosphere” —one of the most … Read More

A conference on Philosophy of Architecture will be held at the University of Genova on 18-19 November 2024. Throughout the history of philosophy, architecture has not received as much attention as other art forms. Even in contemporary aesthetics architecture is … Read More

Registrations are invited for a conference on Art, Imagination, and Morality, to be held on the 20-21st June at Trinity College, Oxford. This conference aims to bring into dialogue graduate and early-career researchers working in Aesthetics, Ethics and Philosophy of … Read More

After its inaugural meeting in Rome in June 2023, the European Network for the Philosophy of Music (ENPM) will celebrate its first conference next April 18–20, 2024, hosted by the Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal). The event … Read More

The Third International Conference on Beauty and Change will address the topic of ‘Aesthetics and Human Flourishing: Theories, Experiments and Applications‘. Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2024 The Brain Plasticity and Behavior Changes (BIP) Group at the Department of Psychology, University … Read More

The Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality seeks to explore the interconnections between different areas of philosophy and, more specifically, issues lying at the intersection of ethics, aesthetics and the philosophy of mind. In previous editions, the Workshop has … Read More

The Department of Philosophy, Division in Aesthetics and Epistemology, University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invite paper submissions for an international conference on Scientific, Neuroscientific and Philosophical Approaches to Learning from Art. The conference will be … Read More

The third annual symposium of the International Society for Philosophy in Film (ISPiF) will take place on August 29th-31st, 2024 in London. The ISPiF promotes philosophical engagement with film by conceiving film as a form or expression of thought. Rather … Read More

The 9th RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group Conference is a two-day, in-person, international conference, to be held on Thursday 11th and Friday 12th of July 2024 at King’s College, London. The event will offer an opportunity for those with an interest … Read More

The Aesthetic Division at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy are running a conference dedicated to the philosophical legacy of Immanuel Kant. The conference is organised as part of the research project … Read More

A workshop on ‘cognitive art histories’ will take place at the Department of Art History, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic on Tuesday, May 28, 2024. Confirmed speaker: Prof. Whitney Davis (UC Berkeley) The workshop aims to bring together scholars interested … Read More

A philosophy conference on ‘Forms of Experience and the System of the Arts’ will be held at the Università di Genova, 22-24 May 2024 The arts have often been studied in relation to ‘aesthetic experience’, however, it is possible that … Read More

Submissions are invited for ‘Art, Imagination and Morality‘, a conference to be held at Trinity College, Oxford on 20-21 June 2024. This conference aims to bring into dialogue graduate and early-career researchers working in Aesthetics, Ethics and Philosophy of Mind to … Read More

The University of British Columbia is hosting three days of workshops and presentations on Rasa theory from May 19-22, 2024. Art and Emotion Art without emotion is hard to imagine. Sadness and joy, disgust and humour: ingredients like these go … Read More

The Henry Moore Foundation has issued two calls for papers for events at their upcoming 2024 Constantin Brâncuşi themed research season Brâncuşi and Britain, which looks at the reception of the artist in this country and accounts of his contemporary … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Garry Hagberg will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the BSA Annual Conference at Oxford University, St Anne’s College, September 6-8, 2024. Professor Hagberg … 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 2024, the centre shall be hosting the tenth … Read More

The next annual conference of the European Society for Aesthetics is taking place on 6-8 June, 2024 in Naples, Italy. The conference is co-organised by the ESA and the Università di Napoli “L’Orientale”. The conference venue is Palazzo del Mediterraneo, Via Marina, Napoli, Italy. … Read More

Rice University’s Global Center in Paris, France, will be holding a conference on the “Aesthetics of Consciousness” on 12-13 April 2024. Questions to be covered include whether conscious experiences are legitimate objects of aesthetic appreciation, whether conscious experiences can be … Read More

The Annual Conference of the Society for German Idealism and RomanticismSponsored by the DAAD Cambridge HubUniversity of Cambridge, St. John’s College10-11th May 2024 The organisers welcome all submissions pertaining to the broad categories of the philosophy of art and aesthetic … Read More

Dates: July 26-27, 2024Location: Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI, USA The aim of this conference is to investigate how works of art, and certain kinds of aesthetic practices or aesthetic experiences, can be of existential importance to people.  Consider the … Read More

The Lisbon Kant Group is organising its third annual conference, to take place next spring. They are currently inviting submissions of abstracts for presentations. The Group is a working group dedicated to the study of Kant’s philosophy as well as … Read More

In November, a workshop on grief and aesthetics will take place at the University of York. The workshop is part of the AHRC-funded project ‘Grief: A Study of Human Emotional Experience’. ​The overarching aim of this project is to develop … Read More

Women in Aesthetics. Féminiser la philosophie de l’art. Conference Venue: Department of Aesthetics and Theory of Art, Sorbonne University      Date:  17 November 2023     Keynote speaker: Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)     This conference is centred on the role of women in aesthetics and philosophy of art, which has been traditionally neglected or obscured in dominant … Read More

The Brain Plasticity and Behaviour Change (BIP) Group at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin and the Giorgio Amendola Foundation are delighted to invite contributions for the Second International Conference on Beauty and Change, a three-day international and interdisciplinary … Read More

The University of Warwick’s Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts and the University of Hertfordshire are pleased to host an online panel event on the topic of bad art and its place in both philosophical aesthetics and … Read More

A British Society of Aesthetics/University of York Conference  5 – 6 JulyUniversity of York, Room ENV/005 On the occasion of Peter Lamarque’s retirement from York, there will be a full-on philosophical celebration of his work. Both long-time interlocutors and early-career … Read More

23 – 24 November 2023Mozarteum Salzburg & Museum der Moderne Salzburg Last summer, the volume Notions of Temporalities in Artistic Practice was published by Degruyter. The contributions to this publication explore concepts of time and temporality within the context of … Read More

26 – 27 May, 2023Darwin College, University of Kent We are pleased to announce the 8th BSA Postgraduate Conference, which will take place as a hybrid event (online and in-person) later this month. The theme of this year’s conference is Aesthetics and … Read More

19 – 21 June 2023University of Liverpool Sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics Connections grant.  In analytic philosophy recently, there has been a shift of interest towards political culture. Topics like ideology, propaganda, persuasion and epistemic injustice are now … Read More

May – June 2023Organised by Vanessa Brassey (KCL) Announcing a Broadcast Virtual Conference ‘Time for Beauty’, sponsored by a British Society of Aesthetics small grant award 2022-3.   Venue: Online access by request here https://forms.gle/tBAo8R2rRcHjxRMx6 The organisers are delighted to invite registrations … Read More

LAF 2021-2022 Organising Group:Stacie Friend (Birkbeck), Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck), Tim Stoll (Birkbeck); Sarah Kiernan (PhD Student, Birkbeck); Taylor Enoch (PhD Student, UCL) ProgrammeDerek Matravers (Open University): “On Being Misled by Non-Fiction” Wednesday, 13 October 2021Karen Simecek (Warwick): “Embodying Words: The … Read More

31st August – 1st September 2021, Cambridge.Organisers:Mark Pinder & Derek MatraversThe Open University Like many other events scheduled to take place during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, British Society of Aesthetics Connections: Conceptual Engineering and Aesthetics took place in 2021. … Read More

June 2022.BSA Small Grants Award.Main Applicant: Adriana Clavel-Vázquez The Diversity Reading List (DRL) has produced and released three Reading Group Blueprints in aesthetics as part of the second release of the project in June 2022. You can find further details on … Read More

7-8 July 2022, King’s College London.Report: Dominik Ralph Miterrer (Durham) Last year’s RMA Music & Philosophy conference included a diverse range of topics, spanning from Aesthetics, Ontology, and Epistemology, via Performance Studies and Philosophy, Theorie(s) of Music, History of Ideas, … Read More

10-11th November 2022, King’s College London. Sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics and the Centre for Philosophy and Art, the workshop challenged researchers to discuss concepts of public art, public space, memorialisation, and monumentality. In the course of two … Read More

The SAF Conference on Aesthetics and Social Epistemology took place on July 1st and 2nd, at the University of St Andrews, supported by the British Society of Aesthetics, the Scots Philosophical Association, and the CEPPA and Arché research centres. Social … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Elisabeth Schellekens will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the ASA Annual Meeting at Arlington, VA, November 15-18, 2023. Professor Schellekens is Chair Professor … Read More

11-12 September 2023, The University of Manchester.Coordinators:Benjamin Matheson (University of Valencia)Tomas Koblizek (Czech Academy of Sciences, Prague) The workshop will take place as part of the MANCEPT Workshops at the Manchester Centre for Political Theory, a leading international forum dedicated … Read More

Wednesday 29th March, 5pm; Jarman Studio 5, University of Kent; or via teams. The Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent invites you to a seminar on aesthetic properties, led by Sonia Sedivy. All are welcome. Aesthetic properties are … Read More

29th May – 1st June 2023, Lake Como. https://dgae.lakecomoschool.org/ In 1936 the philosopher Walter Benjamin wrote about a great change triggered by the technological reproduction of images. Photography and cinema were transforming not only the forms of art, but also … Read More

2-4 May 2023, Barcelona.Organising Committee:Filippo Contesi (Universitat de Barcelona)Manuel García-Carpintero (Universitat de Barcelona)Enrico Terrone (Università degli Studi di Genova) The University of Barcelona and the LOGOS research group invite you to a workshop focussed on Fiction, Literature and Beyond. The … Read More

The Aesthetic Division at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invite you to a conference dedicated to AESTHETIC EDUCATION AND SCREEN STORIES With key note speakers Murray Smith &  Joerg Fingerhut                     … Read More

11th July 2023, The Magic Circle Theatre, LondonDeadline: 1st MayInvited speakers:Robert Hopkins (Philosophy, NYU)Bence Nanay (Philosophy, Antwerp)Jasmina Stevanov (Psychology, Bristol & Cambridge) The aim of this one-day interdisciplinary workshop is to explore the role and significance ofillusion in aesthetics and … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics, the British Society of Aesthetics, and the Kent Aesthetics Research Centre (ARC) are pleased to announce the 2023 Virtual Summer Aesthetics Festival to enable persons interested in aesthetics to share work-in-progress with other such scholars for … Read More

The next annual conference of the European Society for Aesthetics is taking place on 29 June – 1 July 2023 at the House of Music Hungary. The conference is co-organised by the ESA and the Kodolányi János University. Conference fee is 40€ for students and unwaged, and 80 … Read More

The Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent warmly invites you to its upcoming autumn research seminar. Thurs 17 November, 5pm, Jarman Studio 5 (+ Teams link to follow) My project ‘a philosopHER walks’ aims to philosophically and physically … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Michael Morris will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the ASA Annual Meeting at Arlington, VA, November 15-18, 2023. Professor Morris is Emeritus Professor … Read More

The BraIn Plasticity and Behavior Changes (BIP) research group (Department of Psychology, University of Turin, Italy) and Fondazione Giorgio Amendola (Turin, Italy) are delighted to present the international congress “Interdisciplinary perspectives on Beauty and Change”, to be held in Turin, … Read More

Philosophy and Comedy University of Kent, 12-13 July 2022 In July 2022 we held a small, open workshop at the University of Kent involving comedians and philosophers (and some academics from theatre studies) to discuss topics of mutual interest. Topics … Read More

10-11th November 2022, King’s College London Hybrid format (in-person and online) Extended deadline: 2nd September Keynote speakers:  Vid Simoniti (University of Liverpool)  Sarah Hegenbart (Technical University of Munich)  Carleen de Sözer (artist)  Recent protests against statues and monuments associated with … Read More

May 31-June 3, 2023 in Wilmington, North Carolina, USAHosted by the Film Studies Department at the University of North Carolina Wilmingtonhttp://scsmi-online.org/conference Deadline for proposals: Midnight (EST) December 12, 2022The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image (SCSMI) invites proposals … Read More

Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, Budapest, Hungary, 11-13 May 2023 EVANET – Everyday Aesthetics Network and the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest (MOME), warmly invite paper proposals for the three-day international conference ‘Designing Everyday Experience’. Celebrating the 25th anniversary … Read More

The Aesthetic Division at the Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invite you to a conference dedicated to the 28th anniversary of the publication of the book that greatly influenced the development of … Read More

Aesthetic Value as the Highest Good: The Very Idea(s) Thursday 11 August 2022: 10am PDT (6pm BST) Presenters: Nick Riggle (USD) & Clinton Tolley (UCSD) Abstract:  In this talk we explore the idea of what we call ‘aesthetic suprematism’: the idea … Read More

Tuesday July 19, 2022:  10:00 am PDT Panel on The Political Power of Visual Art: Liberty, Solidarity, and Rights, by Daniel Herwitz Presenter: Daniel Herwitz (University of Michigan Frederick G. L. Huetwell Professor of Comparative Literature, History of Art, Philosophy … Read More

Tuesday 5th July 2022: 4pm BST Presenter: Alice Harberd (University College London) Chair: Colette Olive (University College London) Registration: To register, please email alice.harberd.19@ucl.ac.uk.  The Zoom link will be sent via private message to the registered participants and on the day will give access … Read More

Join us, either in person or online via Zoom, on July 1st-2nd 2022, for a conference exploring the connections between the fields of aesthetics and social epistemology.   This conference is generously supported by the British Society of Aesthetics, the Scots Philosophical … Read More

University of Kent | 7-8 July 2022 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Jason Mittell (Middlebury College) Iris Vidmar Jovanović (University of Rijeka) The Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent is delighted to invite paper proposals for ‘Television Aesthetics: Now What?’ (7-8 … Read More

April 27-28 University of Eastern Piedmont Amedeo Avogadro (UPO) San Giuseppe building, Piazza Sant’Eusebio, 5, Vercelli (VC), Italy Sponsored by SIE – Italian Society of Aesthetics Program Rome Time-Zone April 27 Venue: Room 5B Meet link: https://meet.google.com/cwp-vzkh-znq?hs=224 02.15 – 02.30 … Read More

Conference website: https://philevents.org/event/show/98877 Organizer: Zed Adams (New School for Social Research) Speakers:  Paul Kottman (New School for Social Research) Gregg Horowitz (Pratt Institute) Francey Russell (Columbia University) Responses by Robert Pippin Hosted by the Philosophy Department at the New School … Read More

Conference website: https://philevents.org/event/show/98857# Organizer: Zed Adams (New School for Social Research) Speakers:  Aaron Meskin (University of Georgia) Sanna Lehtinen (Aalto University) Zed Adams (New School for Social Research) Symposium Overview In The Great Good Place, Ray Oldenburg coined the term … Read More

Friday 10 June 2022: 3:00-5:00 pm EDT A cover song, on a typical definition, is a recording of a song that had earlier been recorded by someone else. Philosophers of music considering cover songs have debated the adequacy of this … Read More

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

The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Rachel Zuckert will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the BSA Annual Conference at Oxford University, St Anne’s College, September 9-11, 2022. Professor Zuckert … Read More

11-12th of January (1pm-6pm GMT) on Teams The workshop will bring together philosophers who work on art, poetry, literature, language, voice, theatre and dance to explore the following issues: • What is the voice and how does it relate to the … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics, the British Society of Aesthetics, and the Kent Aesthetics Research Centre are pleased to announce the 2022 Virtual Summer Aesthetics Festival to enable persons interested in aesthetics to share work-in-progress with other such scholars for dialogue … Read More

Feeling, Form, Mind: A Conference on the Thought of Susanne K. Langer An interdisciplinary conference by the Susanne K. Langer Circle in cooperation with the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics, Frankfurt am Main, Germany June 22–24, 2022 Susanne K. … Read More

University of Kent, Friday 7th – Sunday 9th February 2020 Sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics and hosted by the Aesthetics Research Centre, the conference stimulated conversations about the connections art and aesthetics have with medicine, medical education, healthcare … Read More

Imagine a sculpture made to be heard, or a picture that can be played on a banjo. Although many artworks are multi-sensory in the sense that they invite appreciation by sight, sound, movement and even touch (e.g film and immersive … Read More

As we enter the global era, exchanges between the East and the West are becoming more and more important also in the field of aesthetics. To encourage interaction among Western and Eastern aestheticians and promote transcultural discussion, ESPES. The Slovak … Read More

During 2020-1 the Institute of Philosophy London Aesthetics Forum (LAF) has continued to hold its regular series of seminars on topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, but have switched to an online Zoom format, due to COVID. The … Read More

Amidst the challenges caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, we at the Scottish Aesthetics Forum have found ways of adapting to restrictions with a robust programme of online talks and a work-in-progress workshop for postgraduates. In what follows, we summarise the … Read More

British Society of Aesthetics: Conceptual Engineering and Aesthetics Conference Venue: Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge. Date: 31st August and 1st September 2021. The conference will be hybrid – there are options for in-person and online. There is no registration fee. Speakers include Kendall Walton, … Read More

5-6 July 2021 10:30-17:30 BST The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is hosting a Zoom workshop for postgraduates working in aesthetics from the 5th to the 6th of July.  The workshop is pre-read, so registration is necessary for attending.  This is an … Read More

Aesthetic Education through Narrative Art and Its Value for the Humanities The Department of Philosophy (University of Rijeka) and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy invite you to an interdisciplinary workshop on Monday July 5th 2021 CEST Central European Summer … Read More

International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA) 14thInternational Summer Conference You are warmly welcomed to join the three-day online conference Aesthetics in the Age of Environmental Crises on June 3–5, 2021, via the Zoom platform. Entry to the online conference is free but requires registration. For technical reasons, we can only admit a limited … Read More

Registration is now open for Art and Affect in the Predictive Mind, a three-day international and interdisciplinary conference that will bring together philosophers, art historians, and cognitive scientists for the first systematic exploration of the intersections between predictive processing and aesthetics. The conference … Read More

Registration is now open for the British Society of Aesthetics conference “Aesthetics and Ethics in the Digital Age.” The conference will be a ‘hybrid’ conference, taking place in person and online via Zoom. Date: 6th to the 8th July, 2021. … Read More

The Department of Philosophy (University of Rijeka) and Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy issue a CFP for the international conference to be held on September 22nd and 23rd 2021, online. We invite scholars working in aesthetics, philosophy of art and … Read More

The annual Philosophy of Art conference moves online this year, and will take place over two days, Tuesday 13th and Wednesday 14th April 2021. Speakers from Croatia, Canada, the US and the UK discuss a range of issues in the … Read More

A special issue of ENRAHONAR: An international journal of theoretical and practical reason ed. by Adam Andrzejewski Aesthetics is often perceived as something detached from the world we live in. Although beauty and sublime make the world a more desired … Read More

The Journal of Somaesthetics, vol. 7 no. 2 (2021) Guest editor: Adam Andrzejewski The relationship between the human body and cultural artifacts, such as design artifacts, artworks, and religious artifacts, is both fascinating and peculiar. For example, various art forms depict human and non-human bodies or … Read More

Scottish Aesthetics Forum Since the beginning of the pandemic, many of the smaller conferences in aesthetics have not taken place due to restrictions on gatherings. These smaller conferences have been important forums where postgrads have had the opportunity to present … Read More

Tuesday 23 March, 5-7pm. Book Symposium on Satire, Comedy and Mental Health with Dieter Declercq (Lecturer in Film and Media Studies, Kent), Heike Bartel (Associate Professor in German, Nottingham), Daniel Flavin-Hall (Consultant & Professor of Psychiatry, Mayo Clinic, Rochester Minnesota), Sheila Lintott (Professor of Philosophy, Bucknell) & Orla Vigsö (Professor of Media … Read More

UPDATE: Please note that this event will now be held online and free of charge. The deadline for applications has been extended to the 20th May 2021 and only a limited number of students will be selected. Como (Italy), 6 … Read More

The Aesthetics Research Centre seminar with Dr Kathrine Cuccuru has now been moved to a new date: Wednesday 3 March, 3-5pm GMT. All welcome! Zoom link: https://kent-ac-uk.zoom.us/j/98157343010?pwd=Q1hnRzkrQjJDYS9HZ3BiWkl6a0tRQT09 Meeting ID: 981 5734 3010 Passcode: 231496 Dr Kathrine Cuccuru (Associate Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy, … Read More

July 9th and 10th, 2021 The Society for the Philosophic Study of the Contemporary Visual Arts (SPSCVA) together with Film and Philosophy are sponsoring an online workshop to take place on July 2 – 3, 2021. We are open to … Read More

April 19th – 20th, 2021 – hosted via Zoom The inaugural MMRN Conference will hold a broad focus on the subject of Music and Adversity amid the backdrop of the Covid-19 pandemic. Among the many challenges we have faced during … Read More

Beyond Human: The Aesthetics of Nature and Technology The Sixth British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference ‘Beyond Human: The Aesthetics of Nature and Technology’ was hosted by the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent on the 28th and … Read More

LOGOS Extra Talk (online): Tuesday, 9 February 2021, 4pm (Spain time)Dimitrios Dentsoras (Manitoba), “Aesthetic Value, Location, and Narrative: TheCase of the Parthenon Marbles.” The talk’s abstract, as well as all up-to-date details of future LOGOS Extra Talks,are on: http://www.ub.edu/grc_logos/other-talks.php The … Read More

Online (Live from Tokyo) ZoomFollow this link to join the meeting. Date & Time 7pm in Tokyo / 10am London (UTC)Saturday 12th December 2020 Information for guests This event will be conducted in English. Poet Yasuhiro Yotsumoto and philosopher Istvan Zardai will host … Read More

Our friends at The Finnish Society for Aesthetics invite us to attend their autumn webinar on “Aesthetics Now”. The details and schedule are listed below. The webinar will be held on Zoom on the 7th December 2020 at 12:15-16:30 (Helsinki time, … Read More

Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent, 24 May 2019 The British Society for Aesthetics conference, Philosophy of Performance: Beyond the Continental/Analytic Divide, took place on Friday 24 May 2019 at the University of Kent in Canterbury. It was generously supported … Read More

During 2019-20 the Institute of Philosophy London Aesthetics Forum (LAF) has continued to hold its regular series of seminars on topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, albeit with a disruption in our schedule from March due to COVID-19. … Read More

This workshop was hosted by the organisers Dr Liila Taruffi (Durham University) and Dr Mats Küssner (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) on 19 June 2020. Over the last decades, live music experiences have undergone a drastic aesthetic transformation, becoming a space for … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics’ Virtual Aesthetics Festival continues with the following events: Monday, June 15:5 pm Italy (CEST)/ 11 am New York (EDT)”The Aesthetic Values in the Living Experience:  From the House to the City” Presenter: Aurosa Alison, Politecnico di Milano, Naples, … Read More

18-19 March 2020, New Orleans Aestheticians are invited to register for this conference exploring the value of cultural heritage, and the threat to it from conflict. Register here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/heritage-in-war-tickets-79518603283 Categories Conference Workshop Tags agency architecture art art practice art. imagination … Read More

  In Parenthesis and British Society of Aesthetics present, Notes from a Biscuit Tin, a year-long centenary celebration of the philosophical and poetic vision of Mary Midgley At Somerville College Oxford, 2pm, Saturday 12th October 2019. Join poet Ruth Padel and philosopher Jane Heal for Tea and Biscuits in the Mary … Read More

University of Southampton Friday 14th June Organiser Daniel Whiting Details This is the second in a series of workshops on Higher-Order Evidence in Epistemology, Ethics, and Aesthetics supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AH/S006338/1). Humans are fallible: we … Read More

Shakespeare in Philosophy symposia 2019 at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton (London) David Garrick built his Shakespeare Temple beside the Thames at Hampton in 1755 as a place where ‘the thinkers of the world’ would meet to reflect on the … Read More

Società Italiana di Estetica (Italian Society of Aesthetics) Summer School 2019: “L’Estetica e le arti: traiettorie e percorsi” Scuola di Procida per l’Alta formazione, Conservatorio delle Orfane (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) June, 17-21 2019 The Società Italiana di Estetica (Italian Society … Read More

Wednesday January 23rd University of Leeds Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI), Seminar Room 1. Schedule 12:00-1:00 lunch 1:00-2:00 Dominic Gregory (Sheffield)   ‘Vision and the Contents of Imagistic Representations’. 2:00-2:10 break 2:10-3:00 Jamie Cawthra (York)  “Puzzles (Actual Ones, Not Philosophical Ones)” … Read More

On the Primitive Accumulation of Aesthetics (Karlsruhe, 6-7 Dec 18) Karlsruhe, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Großes Studio, Lorenzstraße 15, December 6 – 07, 2018 From various theoretical and historical perspectives, eight international scholars approach the question of the role of … Read More

Creativity Across the Arts and Sciences Conference, 16–17 April 2019 Workshop,  15 April 2019 Bristol, UK Philosophical discussion of creativity and related capacities, such as imagination, falls largely within the domain of aesthetics. Yet, it is clear that we find … Read More

Dr Michael Newall (Kent): “Painting with Impossible Colours” Friday, 19 October, 2018, 4:00 – 6:00pm Room 3.10, Dugald Steward Building, University of Edinburgh The lecture is free and open to all! Abstract: “Impossible colours are mixtures of hues that do … Read More

British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference ‘The Good, the Bad and the (Extra)Ordinary’ University of York, March 29th-31st 2019 We are pleased to invite you to submit abstracts to the fifth British Society of Aesthetics postgraduate conference. This three-day event … Read More

CALL FOR RESPONDENTS: Narrative Justice: A BSA Conference on Aesthetic Education from Theory to Practice Narrative Justice: A British Society of Aesthetics Conference on Aesthetic Education from Theory to Practice is a two day conference that will be held at … Read More

European Society for Aesthetics Conference 2019 University of Warsaw The European Society for Aesthetics annual conference 2019 will be co-organised by the ESA and Institute of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw, and will take place in Warsaw (Poland) 12th-14th … Read More

Dr Jon Robson (Nottingham): “God and the Nature of Aesthetic Properties” Wednesday, 19 September, 2018, 4:15 – 6:00pm Room 3.10, Dugald Stewart Building, University of Edinburgh The lecture is free and open to all! Abstract: “There are a number of … Read More

Workshop on Empathy and the Arts University of York (UK), 20 September 2018 Speakers Margrethe Bruun Vaage (University of Kent), “Empathy, morality and fiction” Peter Lamarque (University of York), “Literary Emotions” Heleen Pott (Erasmus University Rotterdam), “Empathy, fiction, and aesthetic … Read More

The Philosophy of Food 17th July 2018 University of Sheffield The White Rose Aesthetics Forum would like to invite interested parties to attend an afternoon of talks on the Philosophy of Food. This is a free event on philosophical aesthetics, … Read More

The Philosophy of Photography: What are we looking at when we look at a photograph? Wednesday, 6th JUNE 2018 5:30 – 7:00 Stour Space Mezzanine, 7 Roach Rd, London E3 2PA This will the first of a series of talks … Read More

White Rose Aesthetic Forum   We are pleased to invite you to the summer meeting of the White Rose Aesthetic Forum. This is a free event on philosophical aesthetics, open to all. The event will take place on the 5th … Read More

Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise (Utrecht, 16-20 Jul 18) Utrecht, Netherlands, July 16 – 20, 2018 Deadline: Jun 1, 2018   The BAK Summer School: Art and Practice in the Otherwise is an advanced, interdisciplinary course that … Read More

University of Leeds and The Hepworth Wakefield, June 26 – 27, 2018 Registration deadline: Jun 18, 2018 (Re-)Forming Sculpture Conference Association for Art History, The Hepworth Wakefield and University of Leeds Keynote Speakers: Martina Droth, Deputy Director of Research, Exhibitions, … Read More

Call for Proposals: Analytic Aesthetics and Film Studies University of Warwick, October 26–27, 2018 Confirmed keynotes: Dr Catharine Abell, Reader in Philosophy, The University of Manchester. Dr Andrew Klevan, Associate Professor, Non-Tutorial Fellow and University Lecturer in Film Studies, University … Read More

An Interdisciplinary Panel on ‘The Gaze’: In Response to Tate’s ‘All Too Human’ Exhibition Sat 12th May 1300-1500 Clore Auditorium, Tate Britain, London Join an artist, a historian and a philosopher to explore the concept of the gaze within the … Read More

Thinking Art Graduate Conference University of Warwick Thursday 3 May 2018 10:30AM-6PM @ Social Sciences S.019 All welcome! Organised by the Warwick Philosophy and the Arts MA Student Committee The University of Warwick’s postgraduate Philosophy and the Arts programme invites … Read More

Categories Conference Workshop Tags agency architecture art art practice art. imagination artistic production practices arts ASA beauty bodies book launch books BSA BSA Philosophy in the Gallery cinema city cognitive sciences comedy computer costume creativity dance Deleuze depiction embodiment emotion … Read More

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its next lecture: Dr Peter Lamarque (York) “Experiencing Poetry” Wednesday, 28 March, 2018, 4:15 – 6:00pm 7 Bristo Square, Room 1.203 University of Edinburgh The lecture is free and open to all! … Read More

Call for Registration Deception and Authenticity in Art: Morality, Language and Aesthetics Gustavianum, Uppsala University, 9-10 April 2018 In this conference, we will bring together leading philosophers of art with leading scholars on deception within ethics and the philosophy of … Read More

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its next lecture: Dr Stacie Friend (Birkbeck) “The Factual Basis of Learning from Fiction” Thursday, 1 March, 2018, 4:15 – 6:00pm 7 Bristo Square, Room 1.203 University of Edinburgh The lecture is … Read More

Art & Aesthetics Club at Stour Space Wednesdays at 7:00pm Stour Space, 7 Roach Road, E3 2PA London A space to discuss the philosophy of art and design. This group will be a great resource for artists who want to … Read More

Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture ‘Cloud Aesthetics’ by Professor Esther Leslie University of Wolverhampton, MK045 – George Wallis Building – City Campus Wednesday 7th February 2018, 5:30-7:30 (tea and coffee from 5:00)   Abstract: Clouds have long been a … Read More

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its next lecture: Dr Kathleen Stock (Sussex) “Pornography, speech acts, and fiction” Wednesday, 24 January, 2018, 4:15 – 6:00pm 7 Bristo Square, Room 1.203 University of Edinburgh The lecture is free and … Read More

London Aesthetics Forum Date: 06 Dec 2017, 16:00 to 06 Dec 2017, 18:00 Series: The London Aesthetics Forum Type: Seminar Venue: Room 234, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU See More: https://philosophy.sas.ac.uk/events/event/14074 Description “This is Awesome!” But is … Read More

  The lecture is free and open to all! Abstract: “Impossible colours are mixtures of hues that do not appear on the colour wheel. They are widely taken to be impossible to mix, experience or even imagine. This paper draws on … Read More

White Rose Aesthetics Forum – York Workshop 12 – 5pm December 12th, in K/133, King’s Manor, York We invite you to attend this free event, open to anybody with an interest in philosophical aesthetics. To register, to reserve a place … 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 2018, we shall be holding the seventh Dubrovnik … Read More

6th Oxford Brookes International Hume Workshop: Hume and Aesthetics Saturday, November 25, 2016​ Oxford Brookes University Programme: ​10​.30-11​ Welcome and coffee 11-12​ Krista Rodkey (Indiana), ‘’Judicial Aesthetics? Hume on Fancy, Imagination and Justice’ 12-1 Andy Hamilton (Durham): ‘Hume’s Aesthetics: Elitism … Read More

Scaling. What happens when we scale things up or down? Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media Studies Internationales Kolleg für Kulturtechnikforschung und Medienphilosophie (Bauhaus-Universität Weimar) German Department (Princeton University) Princeton, New Jersey, June 16–24, 2018 The Princeton-Weimar Summer School for Media … Read More

London Aesthetics Forum Non-Foundational Direct Access: What it is and Why it Matters for the Epistemology of Aesthetics Errol Lord (University of Pennsylvania) Date: 01 Nov 2017, 16:00 to 18:00 Venue: Room 234, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London … Read More

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its next lecture:   Dr Angela Breitenbach (Cambridge) “Aesthetic reflection and scientific understanding” Thursday, 2 November, 2017, 4:15 – 6:00pm Room 7.01, Dugald Stewart Building, University of Edinburgh   The lecture is free and … Read More

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its next lecture: Dr Chiara Ambrosio (UCL) “Who is Afraid of Mimesis?” Thursday, 5 October, 2017, 4:15 – 6:00pm Room S1, 7 George Square, University of Edinburgh The lecture is free and … Read More

Saturday, November 25, 2017 Oxford Brookes University Keynote : Timothy M. Costelloe (William & Mary) The annual Oxford Brookes International Hume Workshop series continues this year with Hume and Aesthetics. This follows the successful 2012 Hume and the Virtues. 2013 … Read More

An international philosophy-literature workshop will be held at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem this coming December (26th-28th). Philosophers, literary critics and Dante scholars will discuss the notion of compassion in Dante’s Inferno. For speakers and contact information, see https://dantecompassion.wordpress.com/ Categories Conference … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce the Calls for Papers for several ASA meetings and co-sponsored conferences in 2018. ASA MEETINGS: ASA Pacific Meeting, Asilomar Conference Center, Pacific Grove, CA, April 4-6, 2018 http://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=956043 DEADLINE: November 1, … Read More

VIDEO GAMES AND VIRTUAL ETHICS CONFERENCE Friday, July 21, 2017 – 09:30 to Saturday, July 22, 2017 – 17:30 Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Study, University of London Is it morally wrong to play violent video games? Academics across … Read More

Religion and Aesthetics conference 26-27th July University of Nottingham Aesthetic considerations have frequently played an important role within various religious traditions. For example, certain religious doctrines ascribe beauty to God, to various religious exemplars, and even to the cosmos itself. … Read More

St Anne’s College, Oxford, 8-10 September 2017 British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference 2017 Registration and the full schedule details are now available online here.  Book before 15 August for: – early bird discounted fees – BSA member discounts – … Read More

Department of Music and Department of Philosophy, King’s College London 13-14 July 2017 Registration closes June 30th http://musicandphilosophy.ac.uk/mpsg2017/ The conference is conceived as a hub of interaction where people can meet and discuss work informally as well as formally. As … Read More

Szeged, Hungary, June 26-28th, 2017 The conference is organized by the MTA SZAB Filozófiai és Történettudományi Szakbizottság, the Hungarian Philosophical Association, the Philosophy Department of the University of Szeged and the Pro Philosophia Szegediensi Foundation. Conference Venue: MTA SZAB, conference … Read More

August 22-23 Senate House, London Funded by a British Society of Aesthetics Connections Grant   Organised by: Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck) & Cain Todd (Lancaster) This will be a two-day event featuring nine speakers representing the philosophy of mind, philosophy of psychology, and aesthetics. … Read More

II Blasco Disputatio: Singular Terms in Fiction (Valencia, 19-20 October, 2017) Final Call for papers [Deadline 16 June] BLASCO DISPUTATIO is a yearly workshop designed to promote the discussion on topics in epistemology, metaphysics, the philosophy of mind and the philosophy of … Read More

European aesthetic thinking and artistic creation: sources, metamorphoses and their relevance The intellectual and mental cohesion of European intellectuals, thinkers, researchers and artists winding through the cultural history of humanity has helped to form what we today label as the … Read More

We explore the relevance of the historical concept of cosmic harmony for contemporary philosophical debates spanning music aesthetics and listeners’ participation, communication in music-making, and the inter-subjective and bodily aspects of sympathy as Early Modern concept, when understood as harmony … Read More

We explore the relevance of the historical concept of cosmic harmony for contemporary philosophical debates spanning music aesthetics and listeners’ participation, communication in music-making, and the inter-subjective and bodily aspects of sympathy as Early Modern concept, when understood as harmony … Read More

A reminder of the Aesthetics Today event, taking place at the University of Kent, Canterbury, June 5-6, and featuring invited speakers Catharine Abell, Jerrold Levinson, Derek Matravers, and Dawn Wilson, focussing on new books by Hans Maes and Murray Smith. … Read More

MORAL AND AESTHETIC TESTIMONY – a two-day conference University of St Andrews 5-6 June 2017 School II, St Salvators Quad, North St, St Andrews The purpose of the conference is to bring together researchers from aesthetics and metaethics—especially moral epistemology—to … Read More

See https://fsagaetanomassa.wordpress.com/2017/05/24/primo-articolo-del-blog/ FILOSOFIA, TEOLOGIA, ESTETICA E RELIGIONE FRA ANTICHITÀ E RINASCIMENTO RENAISSANCE, ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL PATTERNS: PHILOSOPHY, THEOLOGY, AESTHETICS, RELIGION Third Annual Conference Foro di Studi Avanzati “Gaetano Massa” May 28-31 ROMA 2017 Casa per Ferie “Santa Lucia Filippini”, Largo Santa Lucia … Read More

The PTS (Pratiche estetiche, Trasformazioni Antropologiche, Scenari del contemporaneo) research unit of the University of Florence is pleased to announce a joint workshop with the Universidade Nova de Lisboa on the following theme: Contemporary scenarios in aesthetics, artistic practices and lifeforms. It … Read More

James Harold (Mt. Holyoke) Turning a work of literature into a movie: some puzzles about adaptation Date: 24 May 2017, 16:00 to 18:00 Venue: Room 246, Second Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Abstract The adaptation of stories from one medium … Read More

School of Philosophy, Religion and the History of Science, University of Leeds 18-19 July   Schedule Tuesday 18th July 11-11.15  Welcome 11.15-12.45  Catherine Elgin “Beyond Truth and Beauty: The Role of Aesthetic Values in Science” 12.45-1.45  Lunch 1.45-3.15  Milena Ivanova “Beauty, Truth and Understanding” 3.15 … Read More

June 6, 2017, 10–13 h, 15–17 h; University of Basel, eikones Forum, Rheinsprung 11, CH-4051 Basel Lydia Goehr (Columbia)  “Picture this!” Using opera and the arts to experiment with thought / Using thought to experiment with opera and the arts … Read More

Porto, Portugal | Faculdade de Letras – Universidade do Porto October 11-13, 2017 The Philosophy of the City Research Group is a global community of scholars who are dedicated to understanding the city and urban issues. We invite you to … Read More

We are very happy to announce the program for our upcoming conference Women in Philosophy: Philosophy in Action to be held at Uppsala’s Museum Gustavianum on the 22nd- 23rd May.  22nd May             Aesthetics 9.30 – 10.45  Anne Eaton (Chicago) TBA 10.55- 11.40              Jessica … Read More

Registration is now open for “The Arts of Spinoza + Pacific Spinoza”, the annual Interstices conference, which will take place 26-28 May 2017, at the University of Auckland and AUT University. [X][X] Plenary events: Friday 26 May — URBAN NATURES … Read More

Im Rahmen der Gastvortragsreihe “Philosophische Dimensionen des BegriffsObjektivität” lädt Das Innovationszentrum Wissensforschung (IZW) / Berlin Center for Knowledge Research ein zu einem Vortrag von Dr. Fernando Silva (Universität Lissabon): “Im Gerhin Lerm schlagen”: Kant on wit as an anthropological-aesthetic category Ort: Hauptgebäude … Read More

COLUMBIA GLOBAL CENTERS – PARIS Conférence HUMANISME DE L´AUTRE : Art, Espace, Architecture (Columbia Global Centers | Paris, 4 rue de Chevreuse 75006) Vendredi 12 mai 10h Mots d’accueil (Doris von Drathen et Raphael Zagury-Orly, Loren Wolfe) 10h15 – Bernhard … Read More

T he University of Hertfordshire Philosophy Department, in association with the F. R. Leavis Society, the New College of the Humanities and Bloomsbury Philosophy are delighted to invite you to a public debate on ‘WHY LITERATURE MATTERS’. The debate will take place on Wednesday 17 May 2017 … Read More

Call for Registration: The White Rose Aesthetics Forum 2017: Medium, Translation and Adaptation Friday May 26th, University of Leeds Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI), Seminar Room 1. Keynote Speaker: James Harold, Mount Holyoke College Schedule: 12:00 – Lunch 13:00 – … Read More

One-day symposium on April 1, 2017 at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, London (TW12 2EJ) Organised by Kingston Shakespeare in collaboration with Kingston University and Garrick’s Temple. Programme: 10.00: Jennifer Bates (Duquesne University): ‘Hegel and Shakespeare on the Measure for … Read More

Summer School, “The Evidence of the Senses: Drama between the real and the virtual”, University of Milan, Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment, July 17–28, 2017 Summer School Director: Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis (University of Milan) With its interdisciplinary and international expertise, … Read More

University of Warwick 12 May 2017 Organised by the Warwick Philosophy and the Arts MA Student Committee Call for extended abstracts – due 31st March The University of Warwick’s postgraduate Philosophy and the Arts programme will be hosting a one-day … Read More

This competition aims to award 16 one-month research visit fellowships in Italy at university departments to as many young investigators of any nationality carrying out research outside of Italy.The project From the Aesthetic Mind to the Symbolic Mind: Perceptual Dynamics, … Read More

6.30 – 8pm | Tuesday 31 January 2017 Wolfson Theatre, LSE This event is free to attend and does not require a ticket Speakers Esther Leslie Professor of Political Aesthetics, Birkbeck, University of London Daniel Miller Professor of Anthropology, University … Read More

The conference will take place on the weekend 13th to 15th January 2017 in Schloss Wartin (close to Berlin, Germany). We offer a shuttle bus from Berlin to Schloss Wartin. The timetable for the conference will be confirmed soon. Speakers … Read More

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

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

The Costumed Visions of the Enhanced Body project, kindly funded by the Wellcome Trust, is a collaboration between the Institute for Science Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester, and the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and … Read More

October 7-9, 2015 CJMC: Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Jewish Culture, University of Copenhagen Abstract: This interdisciplinary conference, workshop and PhD course is dedicated to an analysis of interviews with Holocaust survivors. An exemplary recording from the … Read More

We are pleased to announce that registration is open for the Fifth Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group Strand Campus, King’s College London 17-18 July 2015 Co-hosted by the Departments of Music and Philosophy … Read More

Call for Registration: Understanding Value IV, University of Sheffield, 29th – 31st of July Keynote Speakers: •Eileen John (Warwick) •Simon James (Durham) •Holly Lawford-Smith (Sheffield) We are glad to announce that registration for the ‘Understanding Value IV’ conference, at the … Read More

The first postgraduate journal of the Ironbridge Institute has been launched. furnace is a newly forged Postgraduate within the Ironbridge International Institute of Cultural Heritage (IIICH), University of Birmingham. Cultural heritage is an ever expanding and diversifying discipline; we hope … Read More

14 -15 October, University of Birmingham, Department of Philosophy and School of Law www.birmingham.ac.uk/beautydemands This workshop focuses on whether a global dominant beauty norm is emerging; one with less cultural variation and less sites of resistance. Some practices suggest this … Read More

September 20 – 23 , 2015 at Cloister Heiligkreuztal CALL FOR APPLICATION DEADLINE: July 15, 2015 — Topic “De gustibus et coloribus non est disputandum,” was a maxim of scholastic philosophy, stating that matters of taste can’t be rationally solved. … Read More

22nd–23rd June 2015, Humanities Research Centre, University of York Registration is now open for the SWIP-associated mentoring and networking workshop for graduate and early career women in philosophy. We invite women to register for the workshop by Monday 1st June … Read More

Faculdade de Letras, Universidade de Lisboa, 1-4 September 2015 The team of the research project “Poetics of Selfhood: Memory, Imagination, and Narrativity” (PTDC/MHC-FIL/4203/2012), hosted by the Philosophy Center of Lisbon University, launches a call for papers and panels to be … Read More

15-16 December 2015, University of Southampton http://bsafictionalcharacters.weebly.com/ Fictional characters have received unprecedented philosophical attention in last few years including the publication of the following monographs: Thomasson’s (1999) Fiction and Metaphysics, Priest’s (2005) Towards Non-Being, Azzuoni’s (2010) Talking About Nothing, Crane’s … Read More

You are hereby cordially invited to attend the Deleuze & Aesthetics conference at the Radboud University Nijmegen on the 5th of June . This one day conference features 18 panel speakers and a keynote lecture by prof. Mark Hansen (Duke … Read More

6th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference The Department of Classics at the University of Leeds is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference to be held on the 3rd June 2015 at Devonshire Hall, Leeds. Both Symbols and Metaphors … Read More

5 June 2015, Warwick University, the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), Millburn House, Millburn Hill Road, Coventry Symposium theme Just as music has fascinated scholars in the Western world continuously for thousands of years, so time and again they have … Read More

20-21 June 2015, Research Centre, University of Sheffield http://www.shef.ac.uk/philosophy/research/conferences/valuesofart This conference will discuss issues such as the relationship between intrinsic and instrumental values of art, the nature of arts participation, and the state support of the arts in the UK. … Read More

8-10 April 2015, University of Nottingham, UK Modernist Musics and Political Aesthetics is a three-day conference bringing together international scholars to develop understanding of the convergences between modernism, music and politics. A full schedule is attached. Keynote speakers: Wednesday 8th … Read More

Uppsala University hereby invites applications to the following positions in the Department of Philosophy: • PhD in Aesthetics • PhD in Philosophy with specialisation in Theoretical Philosophy • PhD in Philosophy with specialisation in Practical Philosophy Application deadline: 1st April … Read More

19-20 May 2015, Leeds, UK (Please note the revised submission deadline and format.) We invite papers that are on the conference themes: the psychological, political, and methodological intersections between philosophical studies of race and aesthetics. Please send either a *4000-word … Read More

13-14 February 2015, 09:30 – 18:30 A collaboration between the London Aesthetics Forum and the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick. Hosted by the Institute for Philosophy, London: Fri 13- Sat 14 … Read More

Wednesday 18 February, 2015 Eileen John, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick Venue: Seminar Room, 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College. (Enter by main door). Time: 5.00pm to 7.00pm Admission is free, and all are welcome. Categories Conference Workshop Tags agency … Read More

San Diego, July 26 – August 8, 2015. The application deadline is March 1, 2015. Complete guidelines are here: http://spwp.ucsd.edu/ The SPWP Facebook page is here: https://www.facebook.com/UCSD.SPWP The American Society for Aesthetics is very proud to sponsor one of the … Read More

Catharine Abell (Manchester) Wednesday, 4th February 2014 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 102 I argue that what’s true according to a fiction is given by the contents of authors’ fiction-making illocutionary acts. According to this account, much less … Read More

Friday, 20 March 2015, Emmanuel Centre, University of Leeds Speakers Revd Dr Michael Armstrong (Congregational Federation) Professional and Ordinary Conceptions of Life after Death: Some Interesting Differences of Theological Opinion Dr Fiona Bowie (King’s College London) Experiential Themes in Afterlife … Read More

1-2 July 2015, University of Manchester Atmospheres play a significant role in, and add an important quality to, our intimate, domestic and public lives, yet are often overlooked in social research, not least because of the methodological challenges involved in … Read More

Institute of Philosophy, London, September 16-17, 2015. The conceptual apparatus of philosophy of perception has been used in as diverse corners of aesthetics and philosophy of art as debates about depiction, aesthetic experiences, character engagement, our engagement with fictions, our … Read More

Wed Jan 28th 6pm ; Feb 11th 6pm and Feb 18th 6pm. Chandaria Lectures, Senate House (London WC1), Room 349, third floor. Cognitive neuroscience can shed new light – from its own methodological reductionist perspective – on the aesthetic quality … Read More

To mark its tenth anniversary in 2015, the AHRC is looking to extend its partnership with Cheltenham Festivals by inviting applications from researchers to present their research at one of a series of four engaging public events at the Times … Read More

University of Genoa, 13-14 November 2015 The conference aims at offering an opportunity to carry on pondering over different theoretical approaches; over how to conceptualise the various relations within the creative and reception processes of any art work; and finally … Read More

19-20th May 2015, Leeds, UK CONFIRMED SPEAKERS Alia Al-Saji (McGill University) Nathaniel Adam Tobias C̶o̶l̶e̶m̶a̶n̶ (University College London) Kristie Dotson (Michigan State University) A.W. Eaton (University of Illinois – Chicago) Sherri Irvin (University of Oklahoma) Ron Mallon (Washington University in … Read More

Paloma Atencia-Linares (Kent) @ London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday, 14 January 2015 (4-6pm) Senate House, G35 In this talk I explore the peculiar phenomenology of photographic pictorial experience and propose a novel account for the special relation in … Read More

7-8 February 2015, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK We are pleased to announce the first British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference: Interact! This conference is intended to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for postgraduate students to share and discuss … Read More

Galilee, Israel, 8-10 March, 2015 Submission deadline: 9 January 2015 This interdisciplinary workshop will take place in Hacienda Forest View Hotel, Galilee, Israel, March, 8-10, 2015. We shall cover the costs of accommodation and meals of those whose abstracts will … Read More

23-26 March, 2015 Federal University of Ceará (UFC) Fortaleza, Brazil For our tentative programme: https://sites.google.com/site/iccn2015/ Colours are so familiar for us that we cannot help wondering why they can be so troublesome and enigmatic for Philosophers. They can be found … Read More

3 December 2014, 18.00 (drinks and nibbles from 17.30) Ashmolean Museum, Education Centre (nearest entrance from St. Giles). Free – All welcome – no booking required. Events get busy so please arrive early to secure a seat. Organised by the … Read More

Wednesday 19 November 2014, 4-6pm Senate House, G34 Shen-yi Liao Nanyang, Leeds: The Dual Character of Art Concepts There is a dormant debate about the concept of art. Some have claimed that calling a work “art” involves making a positively-valenced … Read More

On the 6th of November Daniel Came will speak on the topic ‘Nietzsche on Art and Philosophy’ at the ongoing seminar series organised by the Humane Philosophy Project and the Ian Ramsey Centre for Science and Religion. Time: 8:30pm, preceded … Read More

Lancaster University and the Northern Theory School 28 November, Management School Lecture Theatre 9 1pm-5pm Lancaster University, in conjunction with the Northern Theory School, has invited Kathrin Rosenfield to present work the fruit of more than a decade’s research into … Read More

The 36th Annual Conference of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association (SWPACA) 11- 14 February 2015, Albuquerque, New Mexico Proposal/Abstract Submission EXTENDED Deadline: November 15th 2014 at http://conference2015.southwestpca.org In the last decade there has been a dedicated exploration of popular culture … Read More

June 17-20th 2015, Birkbeck, University of London The Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Images (SCSMI) invites proposals for presentations at its annual conference, to be held June 17th to 20th, 2015, at Birkbeck, University of London, in Bloomsbury, … Read More

The German Society for Analytic Philosophy (GAP) invites submissions of papers and posters for its ninth international conference, GAP.9, to take place in Osnabrück, Germany, September 14-17, 2015. The overall topic of the conference is “Philosophy Between Armchair and Lab”, … Read More

Thursday 14 May, 2015, Humanities Research Centre, University of York Website: rethinkingdisabilityonscreen.com Twitter: @rdos2015 * Deadline for abstracts: 16th January 2015 * Keynote speakers: Stuart Murray, Professor of Contemporary Literatures and Film and Director of the Leeds Centre for Medical … Read More

Collecting Texts & Manuscripts, 1660-1860, is interested in book collections of any kind, including libraries, private collections, manuscript and archive conservation, and all other aspects of book collecting in this period. The conference will take place on 16th and 17th … Read More

University of Parma, October 30-31, 2014 The workshop will be broadcast online. Location physical: Aula A2, via D’Azeglio 85/a virtual: http://www.videoserver10.unimore.it/filosofiainterateneo/ (Login from a browser of your choice as “guest” — no password needed; programme: adobe acrobat connect) Thursday, October … Read More

Paris, France, 8-10 October 2015 Organised jointly by IRCAM, IReMus (Paris-Sorbonne University and CNRS), and CTEL (Nice-Sophia Antipolis University). This conference brings together researchers interested in artistic creativity and the study of processes of musical and sound creation of the … Read More

University of Parma, October 30-31, 2014 http://www.videoserver10.unimore.it/filosofiainterateneo/ Programme Thursday, October 30 (14.30-18.30) MANUEL GARCIA CARPINTERO (BARCELONA): Norms of Fiction-Making: the Case of Films ALBERTO VOLTOLINI (TORINO): The Identity of Fictional Characters CLOTILDE CALABI (MILANO), WOLFGANG HUEMER (PARMA) & MARCO SANTAMBROGIO … Read More

Dublin, Ireland, 11-13 June 2015 The European Society for Aesthetics would like to invite you to submit a paper for presentation at the ESA Conference 2015. The conference will be co-organised by the ESA and The School of Art, Design … Read More

University of Leeds, 12 November 2014, 3.30-6pm In general, we seem to have a preference for “the real thing”. We tend to like people who we find genuine. We tend to find authentic food more delicious. However, nowhere is this … Read More

The University of Liverpool and the BSA are delighted to invite you to the fourth talk in the BSA Philosophy in the Gallery Lecture Series, which take place on Thursday 9 October 2014 at FACT : Big Data 1.0 + … Read More

7-8 May 2015, University of Aberdeen, Scotland CFP deadline 1 December 2014 This conference will explore proportion in Spinoza’s philosophy. We are interested in papers that treat any aspect of this topic both within and outside of philosophy; interdisciplinary papers, … Read More

April 8-10, 2015, Pacific Grove, California Paper and panel submissions from persons in all arts-related disciplines, including graduate students, are welcome. Papers and panels may treat any area of interest within aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Suggested topics include, … Read More

24 August 2015, Birkbeck College London Pragmatist and embodied approaches to aesthetics consider aesthetics to be the study of everything that goes into the human capacity to make and experience the bodily pre-linguistic cognitive, emotional and sensory-perceptual conditions of meaning … Read More

University of Copenhagen, October 21, 2014 Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Modern Culture (CJMC) & PhD School of the Faculty of Theology, In being inter-generationally transmitted, the “haunting legacy“ of the Holocaust (Gabriele Schwab) turns from first-hand … Read More

Durham University, 17-18 September 2014 “Voice-hearing”, or auditory verbal hallucinations (AVHs), refers to the experience of hearing a voice or voice-like sound in the absence of an external stimulus. AVHs are reported by individuals with a range of psychiatric disorders, … Read More

Columbia, South Carolina, March 19-21 2015 Three Rivers Philosophy Conference at the University of South Carolina in cooperation with the BiCoDa Alliance (Bielefeld, Columbia, Darmstadt) – What are the roles of pictures and diagrams in mathematical proofs, in formal reasoning, … Read More

Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, January 29–31 2015 The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a three-day conference. Human bodies are shaped not only by their genetic endowment but also by the … Read More

University of Hertfordshire, 12-13 September 2014 Speakers include: Miranda Anderson (Edinburgh) Owen Anderson (Princeton & Arizona State University) Sophie Battell (Cardiff) Katie Brennan (Temple University) Gregory Currie (York) Max de Gaynesford (Reading) Adele-France Jourdan (K.U. Leuven) Derek Matravers (Open University) … Read More

A London Aesthetics Forum at the Institute of Philosophy 8 September 2014, Senate House, London (Room G34) Registration is free but required. The aim of science is a topic often broached amongst philosophers of science: it deeply informs their discussions … 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

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

Heythrop College, University of London, 26-27 June 2014 This international conference organised by Heythrop College, University of London and the Theology Department of Fordham University, New York aims at fostering an exciting conversation among our chosen disciplines concerning the human … Read More

Bielefeld, Germany, 8-11 July 2014 Many copyright holders think that the restrictions on permissible copying should be more severe. At the same time, many people worldwide make use of the technical means of copying without any sense of guilt, even … Read More

The departments of Music and Philosophy, University of Sheffield, warmly invite you to participate in this one day RMA Music Philosophy Study Group workshop, to discuss philosophical questions raised by human+computer music. On the musical side, fundamental issues raised by … Read More

Fourth Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group, in collaboration with the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the American Musicological Society King’s College London, 27-28 June, 2014 Co-hosted by the Departments of Music and … Read More

Budapest, Hungary, June 2-5 2014 Conference venue: Faculty of Arts, ELTE, 1088 Budapest, Múzeum krt. 6-8, lecture room 34. The conference is organised and supported by the Hungarian Philosophical Association, the Eötvös Loránd University, the University of Szeged, the Central … Read More

University of Stuttgart, June 27-28 Organization: Catrin Misselhorn & Joerg Fingerhut At this workshop Jesse Prinz (City University of New York) is going to present his work on the relationship between emotions and values in the field of ethics and … Read More

The Inaugural Conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE) will take place at the New University of Lisbon on 18-20 July, 2014. Many of the papers presented will be of interest to aestheticians. Those interested … Read More

June 4-5 2014, Central European University, Faculty Tower 809 Organised by the What it is to be human research group Programme June 4 13:15 – 13:30 Welcome 13:30 – 14:15 Thorsten Botz-Bornstein (Gulf University): Kitsch and Bullshit: An Ethical Fault … Read More

The University of Liverpool and the BSA are delighted to announce the launch of the BSA Philosophy in the Gallery Lecture Series, which will be taking place throughout North-West England over the coming months. The opening talk takes place on … Read More

4-6pm May 22 2014, Annexe, Building R, Stadcampus, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Abstract: I will examine three theories according to which emotions are perceptions: (1) Jesse Prinz’s view in Gut Reactions, (2) the “neo-sentimentalist” view that emotions are … Read More

September 27-28 2014 , Torun, Poland Research Areas: Philosophy of Music; Cultural Studies; Musicology; Choreography and Dance Studies; Psychology of Music; Sociology of Music; others related. Organised by the Centre For Philosophical Research (main organizer); Department of the History of … Read More

The conference ‘Truth, Image, Normativity’ focuses on the philosophy of image, both as cognitive image (mnemonic representations, images in metaphors and figurative languages), and as graphic image (graphic representations, drawings). Reflection on figurative languages and visual non-linguistic communication leads us … Read More

The International Research Training Group “InterArt”, in cooperation with the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI), will host an international conference on “The Pleasure of Doubt in Art, Aesthetics, and Everyday Life” from June 19 to June 21. Doubt pervades … Read More

19-20 May 2014 This conference will examine the motivations behind the project of defining art. Recent voices in the philosophy of art have argued that the project has been wrongheaded and irrelevant. The most plausible of the contemporary attempts to … Read More

University College Dublin, 30-31 May 2014 Stanley Cavell has spent a philosophical career urging that American philosophy and American literature have always called for and communicated with each other, that in a romanticized New World literature for philosophy is neither … Read More

November 20-23, 2014 Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore MD Convened by Will Daddario, Illinois State University (w.daddario@gmail.com) and Ioana Jucan, Brown University (ioana_jucan@brown.edu) Building on last year’s ASTR session, the international, interdisciplinary research network known as Performance Philosophy seeks to continue … Read More

Wednesday 14 May 2014, 4.30 – 6.30pm Goldsmiths RHB 137a Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW Free. Simon O’Sullivan (Dept Visual Arts, Goldsmiths) Art Practice as Fictioning (or, Myth-Science) ….theres some thing in us it dont have no name…it … Read More

Music Department, Palace Green, Durham University 28-29 June 2014 Andy Hamilton and Max Paddison are hosting a colloquium on “The Aesthetics of Rhythm”, as part of their project on this a neglected topic in aesthetics.  The project draws on philosophical … Read More

TaPRA Theatre Performance and Philosophy Interim Event 2014 One-day international conference event organised by Roehampton University and TaPRA Theatre, Performance & Philosophy Group in association with the University of East London (Centre of Performing Arts Development) Date: Saturday 31 May … Read More

Thursday 19 June, 2014 9am-4.15pm The Lupino Screening Room, University of Kent, Canterbury Programme 09.00-10.00: Graham McFee, University of Brighton/California State University, Fullerton — The Not-So-Beautiful Game 10.00-10.15: Coffee 10.15-11.15: Steffen Borge, Norwegian University of Science and Technology — This … Read More

X-Phi Aesthetics Workshop Series Thursday, 15 May 2014, 1:30pm An especially curious subset of prop-oriented make-believe involves animating, or pretending to give agency to, objects in service of narratives. We see this with children who play with their dolls. We … Read More

Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp When: May 8, 4-6pm Where: Annexe, Building R, Stadcampus, Antwerp Who: Dom Lopes (University of British Columbia) What: In the Eye of the Beholder. Beauty is eyeballed: aesthetic values and properties are principally … Read More

The final lecture in the series will be by Professor Jerrold Levinson, of the University of Maryland. His talk is entitled: ‘Ain’t that a Shame: Shame in General, and Shame in Music.’ Date: 1 May, 2014. Venue: Seminar Room, 1 … Read More

Spaces are still available for some of the various MA philosophy and interdisciplinary programmes on offer at University College Dublin. The School has a vibrant MA programme with approximately 25 MA students every year, with a range of extra-curricular events … Read More

18-22 August, 2014 Course Director: Professor Rosi Braidotti The intensive course “Critical Theory Beyond Negativity: the Ethics, Politics and Aesthetics of Affirmation” explores critical theory in the Continental philosophy tradition, with special reference to the work of Gilles Deleuze, Luce Irigaray, … Read More

Budapest, November 14-15, 2014 Visual Learning Lab, Department of Technical Education, Budapest University of Technology and Economics http://vll.mpt.bme.hu  Speakers will include:  Petra Aczel (Budapest) James E. Katz (Boston) Zoltan Kovecses (Budapest/Heidelberg) Dieter Mersch (Zurich) Philipp Stoellger (Rostock), opening plenary talk  … Read More

Literature and Knowledge Dans le cadre du séminaire de Pascal Engel Littérature et connaissance. Mercredis 30 avril et 7 mai de 13h à 15h à l’EHESS, salle 5, 105 bd Raspail 75006 Paris. Fiction and emotion Dans le cadre du … Read More

Department of Philosophy, University of Bergen Room 208/209, Sydnesplassen 12/13 4-6 June 2013 Wednesday, June 4th 11.45 – 12.30 Lunch will be served in room 210 (coffee, tea, sandwiches) 12.30 – 12.45 Welcome 12.45 – 14.45 Keynote lecture by Marina … Read More

The final two of the BSA Cambridge Lecture Series are as follows: 22 April: Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex: ‘Sexual Objectification, Perception, and Images’. 1 May: Jerrold Levinson, University of Maryland: ‘Ain’t that a Shame: Shame in General, and Shame … Read More

The Department of Philosophy at Temple University announces a one-day conference on Friday, May 9, 2014 in honour of Joseph Margolis’s 90th birthday. The conference will be replete with both scholarly papers and personal reminiscences. All are welcome, and there … Read More

Centre for Philosophical Psychology (University of Antwerp) and Ghent Aesthetics Research Group (Ghent University) present Jenefer Robinson (Cincinnati) and Nick Zangwill (Hull). In her book “Deeper than Reason”, Jenefer Robinson argues that emotion plays  a significant role in our appreciation of … Read More

Philosophy@UWS, in collaboration with Fordham University Press, the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the State Library of New South Wales warmly invite you to the 2014 “Thinking Out Loud: The Sydney Lectures in Philosophy and Society.” This year’s lectures, titled The … Read More

  University of Manchester 14 May, 2014. Limited places remaining (for attendees only) Attendees are invited to book a place on the following event. Tickets are limited, and available via Eventbrite: http://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/big-ruins-the-aesthetics-and-politics-of-supersized-decay-tickets-10733583437?aff=eorg As global capitalism intensifies its hold on the … Read More

June 4-5, 2014, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary Organized by the research group What is it to be human? Keynote speaker: Jesse Prinz, CUNY, New York The conference investigates the current philosophical discussions about the various connections between art and … Read More

University of Nottingham, 11-12 July 2014 The emergence of the modern sense of critical time that Reinhart Koselleck defined as the „Verzeitlichung“ (temporalization) of all areas of human knowledge around 1800, of subjectivity, history and nature in the modern experience … Read More

4.30-6pm, 26 March 2014, Heythrop College (Room TBC) Followed by a wine reception Abstract In an essay that has become something of a classic in the literature, Noel Carroll expressed the happy thought that “When we read a literary text … Read More

Third Annual Marc Jeannerod Lecture March 20, 4-6pm, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp Discussions of aesthetic experience from a naturalistic perspective have almost always begun from the standpoint of a perceiver confronting the external world of people, places, … Read More

Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture St Mary’s University, Wednesday 26th March 2014 5.15-6.45pm followed by a drinks reception Senior Common Room, St Mary’s University, Twickenham Abstract Jacques Attali wrote that “… naturalization is one of the functions of ideology. … Read More

Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, March 13, 4-6pm The relational properties perceived in listening to music are highly distinctive. The range of the properties perceived in music is much wider and richer than is commonly recognized; and their … Read More

A British Society of Aesthetics Connections Conference University of Cambridge, 9-10 August 2014 http://www.aestheticsandmetaethics.com Speakers: Russ Shafer-Landau Paul Boghossian Jessica Wilson Rob Hopkins Max Kolbel Simon Kirchin Angela Breitenbach More TBA Are there facts about whether something is beautiful, or … Read More

University of York, 11 June 2014 Speakers: Dr. David Rolinson (Stirling), Dr. David Tucker (Chester) The films of Alan Clarke remain among the most controversial and important examples of British ‘cinematic realism’. Those for which he remains best known, such … Read More

St Mary’s University, Philosophy Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture Wednesday 26 March 2014 5.15-6.45pm followed by a drinks reception Abstract Jacques Attali wrote that “… naturalization is one of the functions of ideology. It occurs when the assumptions of … Read More

University of Leuven, 18-20 September 2014 Panel-convenor: Marije Altorf The notion of dialogue denotes a range of diverse practices. Dialogues have been proven to be the means of averting disaster between warring parties, but the promise of dialogue has also … Read More

UC Davis, April 14-15, 2014 Speakers include: Carrie Ichikawa Jenkins (UBC) Gillian Russell (Washington University in St Louis) Irem Kurtsal Steen (Boğaziçi University) John Hawthorne (Oxford) Michael Glanzberg (Northwestern) Roy Cook (Minnesota) Contact Ted Shear (ebshear@ucdavis.edu) if you plan on … Read More

17-19 March 2014, Vienna, Austria. http://presence2014.univie.ac.at Following a series of 14 successful Presence conferences, this conference will convey an overview over the latest developments in Virtual Reality (VR) research. International experts with diverse scientific backgrounds present their research and discuss … Read More

Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp, March 6, 4-6pm Works in different media can belong to the same genre: there are comic films, plays and novels, and there are noir novels and noir films. Many of the claims made … Read More

University of Exeter, 22-24 July 2014 Can the category of ‘nonsense’, either in its logical, literary or linguistic usage, be found in, or applied to, the ancient world? What types of ancient cultural phenomena do we classify as ‘nonsense’ and … Read More

hosted by the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Zurich Programme: Monday, 17th February 2014 University of Zurich, Room KO2-F-174 18:00 – 18:15 Welcome Address 18:15 – 19:15 Keynote: Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich): Translation, Incommensurability and Indeterminacy 19:15 … Read More

UNSW Australia and the University of Sydney 12-14 March, 2014 The last two decades can be described as witness to a genuine revival of interest in German romantic and idealist philosophy. Philosophers working in a variety of areas have embraced … Read More

St Mary’s University, Philosophy Royal Institute of Philosophy Public Lecture Prof. Len Platt is Professor of Modern Literatures at Goldsmiths College. Wednesday 5 March, 2014 5.15pm – 6.45pm, followed by a drinks reception Senior Common Room, St Mary’s University, Twickenham … Read More

The London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) organises a one-day workshop on: Aesthetic Adjectives and Disagreements about Taste 14 March 2014 Senate House, Room G104, London http://bit.ly/1bEhlrw This workshop will bring together research in aesthetics, philosophy of language and linguistics … Read More

Casey O’Callaghan (Rice University) February 20, 4-6pm, Centre for Philosophical Psychology, University of Antwerp,  Annex, Building R, Stadcampus, Antwerp It is natural to divide the arts into two classes. The first are unimodal art forms, or those whose aesthetically relevant … Read More

21-22 March, 2014 University of Durham Registration deadline: 7 March, 2014 The Philosophy Department at the University of Durham is pleased to announce a two-day, interdisciplinary workshop, including master-classes, artist talks, paper presentations and moderated discussion, on the theme of … Read More

2-3 April 2014 Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford This AHRC-funded workshop, generously sponsored by the Ashmolean Museum, is organised within the framework of an AHRC-funded Research Network Group project on ‘The Ethics and Aesthetics of Archaeology’: https://www.dur.ac.uk/philosophy/research/research_projects/aes.eth.arch/ This wider project … Read More

Saturday, 15 March, 2014, 1:30pm How do people use language to communicate their aesthetic judgments to one another? What can philosophers learn from analyzing the language used to communicate aesthetic judgments? This workshop brings together a linguist and a philosopher to … Read More

As part of the Experimental Philosophical Aesthetics and Human Nature project (Marie Curie Action Grant PIIF-GA-2012-328977), the University of Leeds is hosting a series of workshops that brings together philosophers and researchers in cognate empirical disciplines to discuss topics of common interest. … Read More

The BSA sponsors a series of talks this spring at Darwin College, Cambridge – 20 February –  Peter Kivy, Rutgers University, New York: ‘Joking Morality’. 19 March –  Alexandra Drysdale, Cambridge: ‘Red Vibrations: The Aesthetic and Emotional Significance of Red … 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 2014, we shall be holding the third Dubrovnik … Read More

26–30 May 2014 Registration for the Sexuality Summer School is open to all PhD and Masters students and will go live on 14 February 2014 at estore.manchester.ac.uk. The number of students is limited to 35 so book early to avoid … Read More

hosted by the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Zurich Programme: Monday, 17 February 2014 University of Zurich, Room KO2-F-174 18:00 – 18:15 Welcome Address 18:15 – 19:15 Keynote: Hans-Johann Glock (University of Zurich): Translation, Incommensurability and Indeterminacy 19:15 … Read More

University of Kent, 25-26 January 2014  The aim of this conference is to provide a platform for postgraduate students and early career academics with an interest in aesthetics to present their research and share ideas. Papers will be presented from … Read More