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Submissions are invited for the upcoming conference British Society of Aesthetics Connections: Conceptual Engineering and Aesthetics. The conference will take place on 7–8 September 2020 in Cambridge, UK.  Fully anonymised abstracts of up to 1,000 words should be submitted as an … 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

We are pleased to announce that as part of our commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion within British aesthetics and philosophy of art, the British Society of Aesthetics will bestow a New Horizons Award to the best paper submitted to … Read More

King’s College London, 20-21 July 2020 The British Society of Aesthetics is delighted to sponsor Sound Pictures, a conference bringing together theorists, researchers, and postgraduates from within philosophy to explore the topic of multi-sensory appreciation of the arts. Papers on either … Read More

Conference and Kantian Review special issue: Kant, aesthetics and contemporary artCardiff, Wales, UK, 23–24 October 2020. Abstract submission deadline: April 3, 2020Notification of acceptance for conference: April 20, 2020. Keynote speakers:Diarmuid Costello (University of Warwick, UK)Paul Guyer (Brown University, USA)Fiona … Read More

University of Rijeka, Croatia, 22-23 May 2020 The Department of Philosophy, University of Rijeka and the Croatian Society for Analytic Philosophy issue a Call for papers for the third international conference Perspectives on Art, dedicated to POETRY, NARRATIVE, FICTION. We … 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

A Roundtable Workshop, 15-17 June 2020, University of Reading (Whiteknights) Call for Abstracts In honour of Herbert Read’s zeal to promote ‘art now’ and to celebrate the 60th anniversary of his collaborative founding of the Society, the British Society of … Read More

We are delighted to report that The Finnish Society for Aesthetics has awarded the Article of the Year 2019 prize to BSA member Dr Mark Windsor (University of Kent) for his article “What is the Uncanny?”, published in The British … Read More

In recent years, there have been heated debates both in the public opinion and in academic contexts over the phenomenon of “cultural appropriation” – i.e. when ‘members of one culture … take for their own, or for their own use, … Read More

The British Society of Aesthetics is pleased to announce that the first issue of the British Journal of Aesthetics produced by the new Editors – Paloma Atencia-Linares (UNAM) and Derek Matravers (Open University), with Hans Maes (Kent) as Reviews Editor … Read More

The Journal of Comparative Literature and Aesthetics (since 1977) is pleased to announce that it is bringing out soon a Special Issue on Somaesthetics (in two volumes, theory and applications) to felicitate Prof. Richard Shusterman on his 70th birth anniversary. Many eminent scholars like Thomas W. … Read More