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The 9th Beyond Humanism Conference will take place at John Cabot University in Rome from the 19th of July until the 22nd of July 2017. Posthuman Studies – Humanities, Metahumanities, Posthumanities http://beyondhumanism.org/ Keynote Speaker: Sven Helbig (http://www.svenhelbig.com/) On the first … Read More

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 16 – 18, 2017Deadline: Jan 24, 2017 International Workshop 16, 17 and 18 June 2017, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin This three-day international workshop provides an opportunity for an in-depth examination of contemporary developments in the genre of landscape and its … Read More

The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce travel support for students to present and/or attend several ASA meetings and co-sponsored conferences in 2017: ASA MEETINGS: ASA Eastern Meeting, Philadelphia, April 28-29, 2017 DEADLINE: January 9, 2017 http://aesthetics-online.org/resource/resmgr/conferences/CFP_EASA_2017.pdf ASA-Eastern … Read More

May 18-21, 2017, Ascea, Italy The question of what makes any kind of encounter a particularly aesthetic one cuts to the heart of the discipline at its most complex. Not only are there divergent approaches to locating the aesthetic – … Read More

Twenty-First Annual Meeting October 21-23, 2017 Sheraton Memphis Downtown, Memphis, Tennessee Following the 56th Annual Meeting of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP) 2017 Keynote Speaker: Kyle Powys Whyte Timnick Chair of Humanities, Michigan State University IAEP offers … Read More

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, June 16 – 18, 2017 Deadline: Jan 24, 2017 International Workshop 16, 17 and 18 June 2017, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin This three-day international workshop provides an opportunity for an in-depth examination of contemporary developments in the genre … Read More

Viterbo University (La Crosse, WI) is having its 3rd annual undergraduate Philosophy and Pop Culture Conference on the theme Science Fiction and Human Nature April 29, 2017. Undergraduate students interested in discussing how philosophy can clarify, critique, explain, or incorporate … Read More

Philosophers have long been interested in the nature of the self and in the meaning and narrative structure of human lives. Many philosophers have themselves written autobiographies. Descartes’s Meditations, Augustine’s Confessions and Rousseau’s Confessions are all frequently cited as early … Read More

The conference will take place on the weekend 13th to 15th January 2017 in Schloss Wartin (close to Berlin, Germany). We offer a shuttle bus from Berlin to Schloss Wartin. The timetable for the conference will be confirmed soon. Speakers … Read More

8-10 September 2017, St Anne’s College, Oxford Deadline for submissions: 1 March 2017 SYMPOSIA Proposals for symposia are invited in all areas of philosophical aesthetics. Proposals may be for panels on particular themes, author-meets-critics sessions or other special sessions. Proposals … Read More

London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday 7th December 2016, 16:00-18:00 Senate House, Room 234 Anne Eaton (University of Illinois, Chicago) The Power of Pictures Most of the conversation about pictures in contemporary analytic philosophy of art concerns issues pertaining … Read More

13-14 July 2017 King’s College London Closing date for submissions: Thursday 8 December 2016 Due to technical problems to which we have only just recently been alerted, the conference e-mail account has not been receiving messages since mid-October. We’re pleased … Read More