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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

We kindly invite you to contribute to the new book series sponsored by the International Association of Aesthetics: “Transcultural Aesthetics: The International Association for Aesthetics Book Series”, which will be published by Brill. We welcome proposals for monographs and/or edited … 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

The editors of ESPES. The Slovak Journal of Aesthetics are pleased to invite submissions for the general issue Aesthetic Crossroads 4. We welcome original articles, short essays, interviews, and book reviews on any topic in the philosophy of art or … Read More

What can aesthetics tell us about the way we dwell in the world? What role do atmospheres play in our relationship with the inhabited environment? And how can our gender identity influence the phenomenological experience we have of spaces? Since … Read More

The editors at Debates in Aesthetics are pleased to announce the publication of the general issue Vol 17 No 1 and the winner of the 2021 Debates in Aesthetics Essay prize. In this general issue there are three original articles … 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