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The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its next lecture: Dr Cain Todd (Lancaster) “Transparency, Imagination, and Time in Aesthetic Experience” Thursday, 27 April, 2017, 4:15 – 6:00pm Room 1.20, Dugald Stewart Building, University of Edinburgh The lecture is … Read More

Musée du quai Branly & IRCAM, Paris, 8th-10th November 2017 The “Music & Hacking: Instruments, Communities, Values” conference intends to look at musicians and technicians’ practices which – explicitly or implicitly – could be seen as musical hacking activities. Since … Read More

This is the Call for Papers for the 5th Visual Science of Art Conference (VSAC), to be held in Berlin, Germany, Germany, 25–27 August 2017. https://www.vsac2017.org/ Conference Venue: Berlin School of Mind and Brain, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. The Visual Science … Read More

Vol. 11, N. 2/2017: The Languages of Art Edited by Cristina Meini Deadline: 30.06.2017 www.rifl.unical.it Depending on whatkind of thing“language” is intended to be, different artistic–communicative codes can be considered as languages. For example, music is arguably a communicative code … Read More

University of Tampere, Finland, 31 August – 2 September 2017 Confirmed Speakers include: Gregory Currie (York) Jonathan Gilmore (CUNY) Lydia Goehr (Columbia) Peter Lamarque (York) Jonathan Neufeld (Charleston) Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala) We are pleased to invite proposals for presentations on … Read More

One-day symposium on April 1, 2017 at Garrick’s Temple to Shakespeare, Hampton, London (TW12 2EJ) Organised by Kingston Shakespeare in collaboration with Kingston University and Garrick’s Temple. Programme: 10.00: Jennifer Bates (Duquesne University): ‘Hegel and Shakespeare on the Measure for … Read More

November 9-10, 2017 The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a 2-day conference, November 9-10, 2017 at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Bodies are the primary platform where self-cultivation techniques develop in … Read More

The British Society of Aesthetics is pleased to support the Art and the Limits of Perception Network conference, which will be held on the 24-25 of April at the University of York.  Please see the project website for more details. … Read More

*Call for Papers – International Conference “Politics of Theatre. Current and Future Transnational Strategies for Building and Improving the Theatrical Experience”, 28–29 November, 2017* *Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment, University of Milan* *Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2017* This … Read More

Convenors: Professor Stefan Sperl, SOAS, University of London Professor Trevor Dadson FBA, Queen Mary University of London Dr Yorgos Dedes, SOAS, University of London Thu 9 Nov 2017 09:30 to Sat 11 Nov 2017 17:00 The conference is intended to … Read More

The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to announce its next lecture: Dr Hans Maes (Kent) “Portraits of Philosophers and the Philosophy of Portraits” Thursday, 6 April, 2017, 4:15 – 6:00pm 7 Bristo Square, Room G.009 – Richard Verney Health Centre, … Read More

What is Abstraction in Photography? Diarmuid Costello (Warwick) Date: 22 Mar 2017, 16:00 to 18:00 Venue: Holden Room 103, First Floor, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU Abstract On the default view, photography is at bottom an automatic process … Read More