Why Literature Matters
T he University of Hertfordshire Philosophy Department, in association with the F. R. Leavis Society, the New College of the Humanities and Bloomsbury Philosophy are delighted to invite you to a public debate on ‘WHY LITERATURE MATTERS’. The debate will take place on Wednesday 17 May 2017 … Read More
White Rose Aesthetics Forum 2017
Call for Registration: The White Rose Aesthetics Forum 2017: Medium, Translation and Adaptation Friday May 26th, University of Leeds Leeds Humanities Research Institute (LHRI), Seminar Room 1. Keynote Speaker: James Harold, Mount Holyoke College Schedule: 12:00 – Lunch 13:00 – … Read More
CFP: Debates in Aesthetics, Vol. 13, No. 2.
Debates in Aesthetics (formerly the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics) invites submissions from postgraduate students and professional philosophers for its Summer/Autumn 2017 issue (vol.13, no. 2). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 30 June 2017 Debates in Aesthetics is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for … Read More
CFP: Religion and Aesthetics
Machiado Suite, University of Nottingham, 26th and 27th July 2017 Aesthetic considerations have frequently played an important role within various religious traditions. For example, certain religious doctrines ascribe beauty to God, to various religious exemplars, and even to the cosmos … Read More
Scottish Aesthetics Forum: Transparency, Imagination, and Time in Aesthetic Experience
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
CFP: Music & Hacking International Conference
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
CFP: Visual Science of Art Conference
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
CFP: Rivista Italiana di Filosofia del Linguaggio
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
CFA: The Cognitive Relevance of Aesthetics
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
Shakespeare and Hegel
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
CFP: Bodies of Virtue: Asian Perspectives on Ethics and Somaesthetics
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
Art and the Limits of Perception Network
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