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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

Call for Papers “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, … Read More

Summer School, “The Evidence of the Senses: Drama between the real and the virtual”, University of Milan, Department of Cultural Heritage and Environment, July 17–28, 2017 Summer School Director: Maddalena Mazzocut-Mis (University of Milan) With its interdisciplinary and international expertise, … Read More

University of Warwick 12 May 2017 Organised by the Warwick Philosophy and the Arts MA Student Committee Call for extended abstracts – due 31st March The University of Warwick’s postgraduate Philosophy and the Arts programme will be hosting a one-day … Read More

THe Fifth Biannual Northern Postcolonial Network Symposium at York St John University, Friday 5th May 2017, organised by Sarah Lawson Welsh with NPN ‘Culinary Cultures’ Call for Papers The academic study of food has undoubtedly been one of the growth … Read More

This competition aims to award 16 one-month research visit fellowships in Italy at university departments to as many young investigators of any nationality carrying out research outside of Italy.The project From the Aesthetic Mind to the Symbolic Mind: Perceptual Dynamics, … Read More

  Many of our current cultural practices are marked by a union of art and entertainment. Underlined by all-pervasive processes of globalization and digitalization, this union comes in all shapes and sizes, transforming culture so that it can no longer … Read More