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“Philosophy of Performance: Beyond the Analytic/Continental Divide” at the University of Kent, Friday 24th May 2019. Confirmed keynotes: Aili Bresnahan (University of Dayton), Laura Cull Ó Maoilearca (University of Surrey), Tom Stern (University College London). The last decade has seen … Read More

The British Society of Aesthetics is offering a grant of up to £5,000 to support its sixth postgraduate conference in aesthetics. The conference should be a general aesthetics conference or on some theme in aesthetics. Though it must be for … Read More

The conference will be held at the University of Leeds, 23 – 24 May 2019. ​​ The organisers invite topics on all areas related to imagination, including (but not limited to): ​ Imagination in philosophy of fiction Imagination in aesthetics … Read More

The British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference 6-8 September 2019, St Anne’s College, Oxford Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2019 CONFIRMED KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Elisabeth Camp (Rutgers) Paul C. Taylor (Vanderbilt) Stewart Lee (stand-up comedian, writer, director) SYMPOSIA Proposals for symposia … Read More

In the recent past, interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary research has provided remarkable progress and development within the humanities and social sciences. The early phase of this development witnessed preliminary dialogues between separate disciplines and their representatives who have gathered to discuss … Read More

Reminder of the call for abstracts, workshop on Creativity (15 April 2019. Deadline 1 February. Please see below. ***************** We are pleased to announce the British Society of Aesthetics Connections Conference 2019 Creativity Across the Arts and Sciences Bristol, 16–17 … Read More

We are pleased to invite you to submit abstracts to the fifth British Society of Aesthetics postgraduate conference. This three-day event will be held at the University of York on the 29th-31st March 2019, and our keynote speakers are Yuriko … Read More

Wednesday January 23rd University of Leeds Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI), Seminar Room 1. Schedule 12:00-1:00 lunch 1:00-2:00 Dominic Gregory (Sheffield)   ‘Vision and the Contents of Imagistic Representations’. 2:00-2:10 break 2:10-3:00 Jamie Cawthra (York)  “Puzzles (Actual Ones, Not Philosophical Ones)” … Read More

CfP: Philosophy of the City Summer Colloquium 2019: “Urban Aesthetics” Philosophy of the City Research Group (PotC) and International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA)  June 17–19, 2019 University of Helsinki, Finland Locations: Lahti (17.–18.6) & Helsinki (19.6.) https://philosophyofthecity.org/summer-colloquium Next summer, … Read More

On the Primitive Accumulation of Aesthetics (Karlsruhe, 6-7 Dec 18) Karlsruhe, Staatliche Hochschule für Gestaltung, Großes Studio, Lorenzstraße 15, December 6 – 07, 2018 From various theoretical and historical perspectives, eight international scholars approach the question of the role of … Read More

CfP: Parody May 24-27, 2019 Ascea, Italy Parody is a familiar enough term, one commonly used. Writers on parody seem to suppose it applies mainly to the arts; but, while virtually absent in many fields (Sokal being an exception), it … Read More

Peter Kivy Prize The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce that the Board of Trustees has unanimously approved the establishment of the Peter Kivy Prize. The prize will be awarded to up to three people in 2020 to … Read More