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The White Rose Aesthetics Forum (WRAF) is pleased to invite you to its one-day conference on philosophical aesthetics, which will take place on Tuesday 20th September 2016 at the University of Sheffield. This conference was made possible by the generous … Read More

Title: The Auditory Object Advisory Editors: Elvira Di Bona (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), Vincenzo Santarcangelo (University of Turin) Mail to: elviradibona@gmail.com, vincenzosantarcangelo@yahoo.it and rivista.estetica@gmail.com Deadline for submission: December 30th, 2016 Description The concept of “auditory object” has recently attracted … Read More

Transatlantic Literary and Cultural Relations, 1776 to the Present Guest Editors: Dr Li-hsin Hsu (National Chengchi University, Taiwan) and Dr Andrew Taylor (University of Edinburgh, UK) Due 30 June 2017 This special issue seeks essays of 6,000 to 10,000 words … Read More

We are pleased to advertise this day-and-a-half CHASE-funded event to offer specific training for a select group of emerging scholars working with ‘the comic’ in an interdisciplinary manner. The aim of this event is to allow postgraduate researchers to become … Read More

On April 19-20, 2017 the Institute of Philosophy of KU Leuven (University of Leuven, Belgium) organizes a symposium entitled ‘Between Metaphysics, Aesthetics and Religion’ in honor of the retirement of Prof. William Desmond (KU Leuven and Villanova University). The keynote … Read More

We are delighted to invite you to submit paper proposals for the 3rd Annual British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference organized by the Aesthetic Research Centre at the University of Kent on 27th-28th January 2017. The conference is entitled: ‘Art, … Read More

The British Society of Aesthetics is seeking to appoint five new ordinary members of the Trustees Committee, with effect from September 2016. Any member of the Society is entitled to stand for election. Previous engagement with the BSA is desirable … Read More

A new issue of the Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics has just been published: pjaesthetics.org. This issue features two of the strongest papers from the British Society of Aesthetics first postgraduate conference, Interact! The abstracts for the two articles are as … Read More

Workshop date: April 21-22, 2017 Organizing institution: European Philosophical Society for the Study of Emotions (EPSSE) In the ongoing upsurge of studies on emotions the topic of narrativity has continuously been present. While some have claimed that emotions themselves have … Read More

Registration: http://understandingvalue.weebly.com/registration.html Dates: 27th–29th July, 2016 Location: The University of Sheffield Understanding Value is an annual conference for postgraduates and recent PhDs dedicated to the philosophical discussion of value. The theme’s breadth means that the conference has an extremely diverse … Read More

St Anne’s College, Oxford, 16-18 September 2016 We are pleased to announce the programme for our 2016 conference in Oxford. Registration and the full schedule details are now available here. Book before 15 August for: – early bird discounted fees … Read More

Bern, Switzerland 19th – 20th May 2017 The Institute of Philosophy of University of Bern invites abstracts for papers to be presented at the two-day conference ‘Authenticity versus Improvisation in the Philosophy of Music?’, organized in collaboration with the Hochschule … Read More