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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

The American Society for Aesthetics and the British Society of Aesthetics are pleased to announce that Matthew Kieran will be the Richard Wollheim Lecturer at the 79th ASA Annual Meeting in Montreal, November 17-20, 2021. Professor Kieran is Professor of Philosophy and … Read More

The Journal for the Philosophy of Language, Mind, and the Arts, edited by Luigi Perissinotto, has put out a call for papers for Issue 3/2021 on “Images: A debate between philosophy and visual studies”. Description: As we are frequently told, we … 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

UPDATE: The conference will now be held on the 6th, 7th, and 8th July, 2021. The conference will be held both online via Zoom and in person in Cambridge, UK. Submissions are invited for the upcoming conference British Society of … Read More

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 New Horizons Award is Zoë Cunliffe of the CUNY Graduate Center for her conference submission, ‘The Moral Significance of First-Person Trauma Narratives’. The award comes with an honorarium of £1000 … Read More

We are pleased to announce that the winner of the 2020 British Society of Aesthetics Essay Prize is Aviv Reiter of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem for her essay, ‘Kant on the aesthetic ideas of beautiful nature’. The prize is £1,500 and … Read More

We are delighted to announce that Kris Goffin has been awarded the second British Society of Aesthetics Postdoctoral Fellowship, 2020-2021, for his project ‘The Rationality of Emotion & Fiction’.  Kris will be mentored by Stacie Friend at Birkbeck, University of … 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

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce deadlines for ASA opportunities in 2020. Virtual Meeting: North American Kant Society Biennial: Aesthetics DayUniversity of Binghamton, June 5-8, 2020https://bnaks2020.weebly.com/REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 29, 2020 Virtual Conference: “Art, Desire, and God: Phenomenological … Read More