Just a Game? The Aesthetics and Ethics of Video Games
24th – 25th June 2016, University of Kent, Canterbury We are pleased to open the call for registration for our two-day conference on video games. About the conference: Video games have become one of the most popular forms of entertainment … Read More
CFP: Blanchot, Writing and Power
International conference on “Blanchot. Writing and Power” at Universidad Diego Portales. 23, 24, 25 November 2016 By “placing” itself between literature and philosophy, in no defined position or in both places simultaneously, Blanchot’s writing constantly plays with power: his text … Read More
Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics
The Selma Jeanne Cohen Prize in Dance Aesthetics will be awarded this fall by the American Society for Aesthetics. Our guidelines have been revised. This year we are accepting nominations for articles only published in the past two years (July … Read More
CFP: The Aesthetics of Necropolis
Call for Contributions to an Edited Volume As a conscious and unconscious, sustained, even efficient effort at ‘making and letting die’ (Mbembe), necropolitics is systemic to capitalism. The grand-scale destruction of the earth’s ecosystems, the overt and covert forms of … Read More
The Art of Hegel’s Aesthetics: Hegelian Philosophy and the Perspectives of Art History
Co-organised by the Centre of Hellenic Studies at King’s College London, the New School for Social Research (New York) and the Internationales Kolleg Morphomata (Universitaet zu Koeln), with additional support from the Leverhulme Trust. River Room, King’s Building, King’s College … Read More
ISPA-conference 2016: The Human in Architecture and Philosophy
We are pleased to announce that the registration is open for the ISPA-conference 2016: The human in architecture and philosophy, Tuesday July 19th (7:00pm) to Saturday July 23 2016 Department of Philosophy, University of Bamberg Please register via http://isparchitecture.com/events/3rd-international-conference/ (please … Read More
LAF: Bringing Literature Back Into The Philosophy Of Literature
London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday, 20 April 2016 | 16.00 – 18.00 Senate House, Room 243 Wolfgang Huemer (Parma) Bringing Literature Back Into The Philosophy Of Literature Judging from the amount of recent publications, in particular that of … Read More
Philosophy of the City
The Philosophy of the City Research Group is now accepting submissions for their session at the Eastern Division Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, January 4 – 7, 2017 in Baltimore, Maryland at the Renaissance Baltimore Harborplace Hotel. The theme … Read More
CFP: Susanne Langer Reconsidered
Philosopher Susanne Langer’s work exerted a significant influence on the arts and aesthetic debates of mid-century. Figures as diverse as composer Elliott Carter, performance artist Allan Kaprow, music theorist Leonard Meyer, and more recently literary and cultural theorist Sianne Ngai … Read More
Fellowship: Aesthetics of Emotions
Applications are invited from young scholars of any nationality to participate in the first large-scale international research project on emotions in the arts, merging humanities and scientific perspectives. Selected young scholars will receive funding to spend one-month residential periods of … Read More
SAF: Descriptivism and Its Discontents
The Scottish Aesthetics Forum is delighted to present: Professor David Davies (McGill) “Descriptivism and Its Discontents” Thursday, 28th April, 2016, 4:00 – 5:30pm S37 (Room 2.37), 7 George Square, University of Edinburgh The lecture is free and open to all! … Read More
CFP: Wittgenstein Symposium 2016 – “Aesthetics Today”
Kirchberg am Wechsel, 7–13 of August 2016 AESTHETICS TODAY. Contemporary Approaches to the Aesthetics of Nature and of Art Scientific Organizers: Stefan Majetschak (Kassel) Anja Weiberg (Vienna) Sections: 1. Wittgenstein 2. Aesthetics in a Globalised World 3. Analytical Theories of … Read More