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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

23 – 25 March 2020, University of Padua, Italy, Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education Science and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), Philosophy Division. Deadline for submissions: 31 August 2019 Notification of acceptance: by 1 December 2019 Submit to: spacesiteinstallation@gmail.com Keynote speakers: Sondra … Read More

The 2020 meeting of the Pacific Division of the American Society of Aesthetics will be the division’s second meeting at the Berkeley City Club in Berkeley, CA. The organisers invite paper submissions on any topic in aesthetics, broadly construed. Papers … Read More

The 13th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games: The Aesthetics of Computer Games Conference Committee: Program Chair: Feng Zhu (King’s College London) feng.zhu@kcl.ac.uk Conference Chairs: Alina Latypova (St Petersburg State University) latypova.al@gmail.com Konstantin Ocheretyany (St Petersburg State University) … Read More

Queen Mary University of London, November 15-16, 2019 Website available here. The project has received funding from the British Society for Aesthetics. Confirmed keynotes: Professor Brian Winston, Lincoln Chair, Lincoln School of Film and Media, University of Lincoln. Dr Stacie Friend, … 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

The BSA is happy to support Notes From a Biscuit Tin, inspired by Mary Midgley’s actual biscuit tin! This year-long project will bring together philosophers and poets to spark new thoughts from one another and celebrate the philosophical work of … Read More

The editors of Debates in Aesthetics are pleased to invite submissions for the Summer/Autumn 2019 issue (Vol.16, No. 1). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 15 July 2019 For this issue we welcome original articles, book reviews, and interviews from postgraduate and professional … Read More

University of Kent, Canterbury, 25-27 October 2019 Deadline for Abstracts 1 June The organising committee of the BSA Synergy Conference How to Do Things With Jokes seek high quality abstracts for presentations in our open sessions. The conference will be … Read More

London Aesthetics Forum: Beyond the Pleasure Principle: Autonomy in Kant’s Aesthetics Friday 24 May, 4-6pm, Senate House: room G35. Abstract: Aesthetic hedonism is the view that to be aesthetically good is to please. For most aesthetic hedonists, the normativity of … Read More

The two-day workshop ‘Philosophy of Music – Perspectives on Antiquity’ will take place from 11-12 July 2019 at Durham University (The Castle, Senate Suite). It brings together scholars specialising in ancient music with experts in (the history of) the philosophy … Read More