Events

The Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent is hosting several research events in the spring term: Weds 6 March, 5pm, Jarman Studio 5 (Teams link here) ‘YouTube Video Essays and Aesthetics: Communication, Narrative, and Arthood’, James MacDowell, University of Warwick Abstract: This … Read More

The Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent warmly invites you to its upcoming autumn research seminar. Weds 30 November, 4pm, Jarman Studio 5 (+ Teams link to follow). In this paper I examine the changes wrought to women’s/lifestyle media … Read More

University of Liverpool, 19 – 21 June 2023  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 … 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

An Interdisciplinary Conference Confrmed Keynote Speakers: Tom Geue (University of St Andrews)Nicholas Thoburn (University of Manchester) Hosted by the Institute of Advanced Study, University of Warwick, UK. 20 – 21 May 2022 Organised by Leonello Bazzurro, Melissa Pawelski, Alessandra Tafaro, and Leanne Weston The figure … Read More

The European Society for Aesthetics invites you to submit an abstract of a paper for presentation at the ESA Conference. They invite papers from all traditions and on any topic in philosophical aesthetics. Both systematic and historical presentations are acceptable. … Read More

We were extremely sorry to announce that the British Society of Aesthetics Synergy Conference on Poetry and Philosophy, scheduled to take place at the University of Warwick on 16-17 March 2020, was cancelled. This was due to concerns about the … Read More

March 27th, 6pm The Bluecoat, Liverpool Part of The Liverpool Royal Institute of Philosophy Lecture Series Why do musicians, painters, and poets compete with each other? Why do painters paint enraged musicians and distressed poets? This lecture uses the early … Read More

Universitat de Barcelona, 29–30 April 2020 CALL FOR ABSTRACTS  Literature has so far played a central role in the philosophical debates concerning fiction, narrative and the cognitive relevance of art. The goal of this conference is to explore whether the … Read More

5th-6th October 2019, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK Two days of talks and demonstrations exploring contrasts between process and product, the unfinished and finished work, spontaneity and structure.Stellar lineup of guest presenters: improvising musicians, interpreters and researchers from jazz and beyond. All … Read More

Please see the final Call for Papers for the Dreams and Atrocity symposium, which will take place from 12-13 September 2019 at the Humanities Research Institute, University of Sheffield The organisers invite abstracts from postgraduate and early career researchers that offer diverse interpretive theorisations or applications … Read More

The event is a must-attend for: artists, grass-roots activist, members of the academia and non-profit, public, and private sector members who are interested in the latest research and academic developments in social sciences, university faculty and staff, faculty members and lecturers, … Read More

CFP from the Polish Journal of Aesthetics: “New Materialism: The Mattering of the Arts, Crafts, and Aesthetics” Editors: Katve-Kaisa Kontturi (University of Turku, Finland; University of Melbourne, Australia), Milla Tiainen (University of Turku, Finland), Adrian Mróz (The Jagiellonian University in … Read More

Institute of Aesthetics and Art Culture of Faculty of Arts of University of Presov in Presov and Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia (SPES) invites you after the first event of the “cycle” of international scientific conferences held on 18-20 May … Read More

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its next lecture:   Dr Louise Hanson (Cambridge) “Robust Moral Realism and Robust Aesthetic Realism” Thursday, 26 April, 2018, 4:15 – 6:00pm Dugald Steward Building, Room 3.11 University of Edinburgh   The lecture is free and … Read More

Aesthetics and the Political Actions of Art Estudios de Filosofía No 58, june-december 2018 Philosophy journal This thematic issue seeks contributions about the relationship between art and politics. We are particularly interested in articles that address questions such as: how … 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

Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics invites applications for the post of Editor-in-Chief. Originally a Czechoslovak academic journal of philosophical aesthetics and art studies (founded in 1964), Estetika was transformed into an international journal in 2006 with the mission … Read More

Aesthetics of Popular Culture Conference 4th-6th May, 2018 University of Warsaw Keynotes: David Davies (McGill University, Montreal) Tomas Kulka (Charles University, Prague) Granting that we are constantly bombarded with various forms of popular culture with little room for reprieve, how … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce ASA opportunities in 2018. Dissertation Fellowship for 2018-19 http://aesthetics-online.org/?page=dissfellowships DEADLINE: January 1, 2018 ASA Summer Seminar, University of British Columbia, July 9-27, 2018 http://beauty2018.arts.ubc.ca DEADLINE: January 14, 2018 Aesthetics Speakers at … Read More

Dealine: 15th September. Utopia – UK Portuguese Film Festival, Camões Institute & Centre for Portuguese Language and Culture (King´s College) are delighted to invite you to submit proposals to the film and literature conference From Text to Screen and Back … 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

Boca Raton, November 9-10, 2017 The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a two-day conference, November 9-10, 2017 at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Bodies are the primary platform where self-cultivation techniques … Read More

CFP: Special Issue of Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology (Vol. 4, No. 2, 2017) Theme: Thinking Contemporary Art with Heidegger Extended Submission Deadline: 30 June 2017 Eighty years have passed since Heidegger’s 1935–36 lectures on The Origin of the Work … Read More

Postgraduate Workshop Celebrating the Launch of the MA in Philosophy and the Arts 12th May 2017 University of Warwick PROGRAMME Self-representation and presentation of others in the arts 12:00 pm: Nadia Mehdi (Sheffield): The (Mis)Representation of Others 12:30 pm: Alex … Read More

Convenors: Professor Stefan Sperl, SOAS, University of London Professor Trevor Dadson FBA, Queen Mary University of London Dr Yorgos Dedes, SOAS, University of London Thu 9 Nov 2017 09:30 to Sat 11 Nov 2017 17:00 The conference is intended to … Read More

Call for Papers “Bodies of Virtue: Asian Perspectives on Ethics and Somaesthetics” November 9-10, 2017 The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a 2-day conference, November 9-10, 2017 at Florida Atlantic University, … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics is co-sponsoring many exciting aesthetics meetings and conferences this spring. Some are free to the public; others have modest registration fees. We hope you will consider attending. ASA MEETINGS ASA Pacific Division Meeting, Pacific Grove, … Read More

One doctoral or postdoctoral research fellowship (SKO1017/SKO1352) in Music and Philosophy is available at the Department of Musicology, University of Oslo. It is expected that the successful candidate will work on an independent project dealing with a topic in the … Read More

Moving Images 2017: Mediality – Multimodality – Materiality: Concepts for Media and Image Studies in the Era of the »Technosphere«. Bilingual Conference of the Society of Interdisciplinary Image Science on Moving Images (Kiel, Germany, 4th to 6th May 2017) Thursday, … Read More

An exploration of innovative new ways of conveying philosophical ideas, including live demonstrations of ‘Jazz-Philosophy Fusion’ 12 – 1.30 pm | Saturday 21 January Headley Lecture Theatre, the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford This event is free to attend and … Read More

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 16 – 18, 2017Deadline: Jan 24, 2017 International Workshop 16, 17 and 18 June 2017, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin This three-day international workshop provides an opportunity for an in-depth examination of contemporary developments in the genre of landscape and its … 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

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 on topics in aesthetics and the … Read More

Talk by David Kishik about THE MANHATTAN PROJECT (Stanford, 2015) Walter Benjamin’s Arcades Project, Joe Gould’s Oral History of Our Time, and Joseph Mitchell’s memoir each existed more in their respective author’s imagination than on the written page. In this … Read More

1-2 December 2016 – A Workshop 9:30am-6pm, Lecture Room, The Warburg Institute An interdisciplinary workshop on the philosophic, literary, art historical “language of gestures,” with special attention to the work of Walter Benjamin and Giorgio Agamben. Participants: Andrew Benjamin (London … Read More

We are pleased to advertise this day-and-a-half CHASE-funded event to offer specific training for a select group of emerging scholars working with ‘the comic’ in an interdisciplinary manner. The aim of this event is to allow postgraduate researchers to become … Read More

A one day symposium 15th December 2016, The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, London (in partnership with the University of Manchester) · What does it mean to perform care? · Is caring just an act? · Can art … Read More

14th – 16th December, 2016, University of Warsaw Keynote speakers: Tiziana Andina (University of Turin) Arto Haapala (University of Helsinki) Jason Gaiger (University of Oxford) The aim of this conference is to shed light on the role of ontology in … Read More

A final reminder that registration for the Conference on Aesthetics, Fashion and Psychology closes soon. The Centre for Aesthetics at the University of Leeds and the London College of Fashion are pleased to announce the hosting of an interdisciplinary conference … Read More

4th July 2016, University of Hertfordshire There are no registration costs but please register by 29 June by emailing: shakespeareandphilosophy@gmail.com ​ For further details, including location of the conference, visit the Shakespeare & Philosophy page at: www.bournecaddickbourne.com Schedule 9:15-10:15 Michael … Read More

24th – 25th June 2016, University of Kent, Canterbury We are pleased to open the call for registration for our two-day conference on video games. About the conference: Video games have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment … Read More

The Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics will be awarded this fall by the American Society for Aesthetics. Our guidelines have been revised. This year we are accepting nominations for articles only published in the past two years (July … Read More

Co-organised by the Centre of Hellenic Studies at King’s College London, the New School for Social Research (New York) and the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata (Universitaet zu Koeln), with additional support from the Leverhulme Trust. River Room, King’s Building, King’s College … Read More

We are pleased to announce that the registration is open for the ISPA-conference 2016: The human in architecture and philosophy, Tuesday July 19th (7:00pm) to Saturday July 23 2016 Department of Philosophy, University of Bamberg Please register via http://isparchitecture.com/events/3rd-international-conference/ (please … Read More

Applications are invited from young scholars of any nationality to participate in the first large-scale international research project on emotions in the arts, merging humanities and scientific perspectives. Selected young scholars will receive funding to spend one-month residential periods of … Read More

Philosophy and Art – panel event and discussion Wednesday 30th March 6-7.30pm Pennethorne’s Drawing Room (Somerset House)* www.pennethornes.co.uk What role, if any, should philosophy play in the creation of art? Philosophers of art are not art critics. While the critic … Read More

The Nordic Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference 26-28 May 2016, Uppsala University, Sweden Keynote speakers: Noel Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center) Stacie Friend (Birkbeck College, University of London) Jason Gaiger (The Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford) Lydia Goehr (Columbia … Read More

Monday 20th June 2016, University of Nottingham Keynote Speaker: Professor Stephen Daniels (University of Nottingham) Imagined spaces are engaged with on a daily basis, whether they be in the novels we read, the news reports we hear, or in the … Read More

Second International Interdisciplinary Conference, University of Gdańsk, 15-16 September 2016 Deadline: 15 June 2016 What is the phenomenon of solidarity in the current world? What is the sense of talking about it with the increase of violence around the globe? … Read More

Symposium and Film Screening On Cinema, Embodiment and the Aesthetics of Pornograph Information and registration: confinedprojections With the generous support of: The British Society of Aesthetics The Aesthetics Research Centre, University of Kent The Centre for Film and Media Research, … Read More

The Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS) is seeking for expansion of the current editorial board and searches for interested scientists, scholars, artists and filmmakers. The goal of YoMIS is to reflect, trigger and collect the international academic, intellectual and … Read More

Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Letters, 27th – 29th October, 2016 Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information / LIF (R&D unit) In the History of Philosophy, Plato is many times referred to as the father of the notion of … Read More

The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters invites applications for the Somaesthetics Doctoral Fellowship. The successful candidate will be admitted to the College’s Ph.D. program in Comparative Studies on the basis of a general application to the program, … Read More

15 November, Blue Coat, Liverpool Join us for a celebration of all things small and perfectly formed, from the hadron to the haiku, the boson to the butterfly. Activities include talks, exhibitions and hands-on workshops on how we perceive and … Read More

2-4 June 2016, University of Warwick Conference held at Warwick’s Palazzo Papafava, Venice in collaboration with the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group In modern Western culture, music is often defined as the art of feeling or the … Read More

Theme: Aesthetics of Urban Life Guest Editor: Jonathan Maskit, Denison University Submission Deadline: 31 December 2015 Submission Guidelines: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rfap20&page=instructions Urban life has long been of interest to philosophers and has played an important role in the work of phenomenologists at … Read More

A discussion, chaired by Derek Matravers, with David Braben, Louise Hanson, and Jamie Rumbelow. 14th October, 5.00pm to 7.00pm. Seminar Room, Number 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College, Cambridge (enter by the main door on Silver Street). Entry is free, and … Read More

Several decades ago environmental aesthetics emerged as a sub-discipline of philosophy. The number of published works in the field continues to grow. So, too, do the number of students and scholars who have become interested in the interdisciplinary possibilities and … Read More

Theme: Aesthetics of Urban Life Guest Editor: Jonathan Maskit, Denison University Submission Deadline: 31 December 2015 Submission Guidelines: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rfap20&page=instructions Urban life has long been of interest to philosophers and has played an important role in the work of phenomenologists at … Read More

6 November 2015, MIRIAD, Manchester Metropolitan University Keynotes: Professor Carol Mavor (University of Manchester) and Professor Hanneke Grootenboer (University of Oxford) How do art historians interpret matter? And how about artists, makers, theorists and critics? Much recent art historical and … Read More

Comma Press has launched a new fiction platform called MacGuffin which hosts short stories and poetry in text and audio form. Anyone can upload a poem or short story, so long as they also upload a reading. This doesn’t have … Read More

This is a final reminder that the deadline for registration for Aesthetics and the Feminine Conference (17th Saturday – 18th July 2015 at University College Cork, Ireland) is this Friday the 10th of July. Registration for this event is free … Read More

2-3 April, 2016, San Francisco Organised by the ArtSense Taste and Community project (Australian Research Council funded project) Submission Deadline: 31st October 2015 This workshop is also sponsored by the American Society of Aesthetics; and hosted in part by the … Read More

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its fourth lecture: Professor Emily Brady (Edinburgh) “Sublimity and Art” Wednesday, 10th June, 2015, 4:15 – 6:00pm Dugald Stewart Building, Room 1.20, University of Edinburgh (https://www.facebook.com/events/1590208141234748/) The lecture is free and open … Read More

The Sixth International Symposium on Music and Sonic Art: Practices and Theories (MuSA 2015) is an interdisciplinary event to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikinformatik (IMWI) (http://www.hit-karlsruhe.de/hfm-ka/imm/). MuSA 2015 is also supported by Middlesex … Read More

8-10 April 2015, Asilomar conference grounds, Pacific Grove, CA The meeting program is now available online at: http://aesthetics-online.org/pacific/ Registration is open: http://www.shop.aesthetics-online.org/index.php?main_page=index&cPath=2 If you would like to volunteer to chair a session or have other queries, please contact the organisers, … Read More

Wednesday 4th March: Renee Conroy, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University at Calumet: ‘Rust Belt Ruins’ 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. Abstract: American … Read More

Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in insights into the perspectives of patients affected by dementia, in their consciousness as well as in their needs and wants. In this context the plea for an ethics of  dementia is also … 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

The XIth IIAA International Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics. Lahti, Finland, 6.8.–8.8.2015 The International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA) will arrange the XIth IIAA Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics in Lahti, Finland, 6.8.–8.8.2015. The theme of the conference is “Sustainable … Read More

The organisers are delighted to announce the Inaugural Conference of the European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE) to be held at the New University of Lisbon, July 18-20, 2014. There is a symposium devoted to Emotions and … 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

Leeds Humanities Research Institute, Thursday June 19 2014, 10am It is commonly thought that engaging with narratives can shape the way we engage with the real world. But how? This workshop aims to connect psychological and philosophical research on the … Read More

Leeds Art Gallery, June 18 2014, 6-7:30pm Can stories change the way you think? Since the times of Plato and Aristotle, many scholars in the humanities have contended that reading stories can change the way one thinks, for better or for … Read More

The Team behind the Film-Philosophy Conference 2014 is very happy to announce that the full programme is now available online. The Conference will this year take place at the University of Glasgow, in Film and Television Studies, from 2 to … Read More

Monday 12 May 2014, 6-8pm. Jarman 1, University of Kent There are a number of puzzles about spectating animated objects. One puzzle is that it seems spectators should not, at least when talking “seriously,” attribute mental states to them. That … Read More

May 7, 2014, Room 243, Senate House, WC1 Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Ambiguous figures have fascinated researchers for almost 200 years. The physical properties of these figures remain constant, yet two distinct interpretations are possible; these reverse … Read More

Closing Date: 16 May 2014 Award Details: Home/EU Fees: £4,000 (per annum) Stipend: £13,863 (per annum) Research Training Support Grant: £750 (per annum) Information Philosophy at Manchester invites applications for the Goldie-Hamilton doctoral studentship, for a three year programme starting … Read More

University of Dundee 7-8 May 2014 This international conference brings together academics from the UK, France, Belgium, Korea, Australia and the US to discuss Jean-François Lyotard’s aesthetics and philosophy of film. It responds to the recent publication in bilingual versions … Read More

MQRES PhD Scholarships (Arts): Philosophy* Project: Cinematic Ethics: Exploring Ethical Experience through Film Closing Date (extended): 30 April, 2014 Reference Numbers: 2014093 2014094 Two full-time Macquarie University Research Excellence Scholarships (MQRES) are available for suitably qualified prospective PhD candidates in … Read More

The School of Museum Studies at the University of Leicester and Glasgow Life are pleased to invite applications from outstanding postgraduates for an AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Award PhD studentship to commence October 2014. This studentship will pay full-time University tuition … Read More

The Philosophy Discipline at NUI, Galway is currently accepting applications for the Structured PhD in Philosophy of Art and Culture For further information, see here For general information about postgraduate study at the university, see here Funding: Galway scholarships here … Read More

University of York, 10-11 April You are warmly invited to the third and final workshop of the AHRC-funded project “Cognitive and Aesthetic Values in Cultural Artefacts”. The project, led by Greg Currie and Peter Lamarque (University of York) examines the … Read More

The School of Philosophy and Art History (SPAH) at the University of Essex is pleased to invite applications for SPAH PhD Scholarships. These awards support talented students to take up a PhD within the School and are available to Home/EU … Read More