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Sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics 30 June-1 July 2016 London College of Fashion London, UK Keynote Speakers: Professor Claus-Christian Carbon (Psychology, Bamberg) Cynthia Freeland (Philosophy, Houston) Organisers: Jason Kass (London College of Fashion) Carolyn Mair (London College of … Read More

Coimbra, University of Coimbra, Faculty of Letters, 27th – 29th October, 2016 Department of Philosophy, Communication and Information / LIF (R&D unit) In the History of Philosophy, Plato is many times referred to as the father of the notion of … Read More

ASAGE is a peer-reviewed, graduate journal of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics. We are now inviting submissions for the Fall/Winter issue (8.1). DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: January 20, 2016. Articles: ASAGE accepts papers … Read More

This special issue of CounterText is interested in exploring encounters between literature and the multisensory. The importance of the multisensory as a category for debate and study arises from the impact of digital culture and the performative turn on story … Read More

Film-Philosophy has just updated its latest volume (19, 2015) at http://www.film-philosophy.com/ All articles are Open Access and are freely available to download via our website. We are also pleased to announce that we are now accepting new article submissions (max … Read More

A reminder that the deadline for proposals to the Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image 2016 conference is coming up on January 1. This year the conference takes place at Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, June 1-4, 2016. Keynote … Read More

June 17-20, 2016, Ascea, Italy The negative – whether in judgements of the ugly, experiences of the derelict, or sensations of the revolting – is a phenomenon that is often unacknowledged in the philosophical literature. Are such features properly to … Read More

www.pheno.ulg.ac.be/colloques/201604-imagination/en/ April 25-29, 2016, University of Liège (Belgium). For its 10th edition, the Research Seminar will focus on the topic of imagination taken as a mental function which is different from both perception and conception. Kant notoriously made of imagination some (rather … Read More

The Society for Ricoeur Studies is pleased to announce the theme of the 2016 conference “Crossing Boundaries: Ricoeur in a Global Age” in celebration of the 10-year anniversary of the Society. The conference will be held in Chicago, Illinois. We … Read More

University of Kent, 22nd – 23rd April 2016 This interdisciplinary conference, hosted by the University of Kent, takes as its starting point the range of complex and contradictory engagements between masculinity and the developing metropolis since the beginning of the … Read More

How does art respond to financial crisis? What can art teach us about the economy? Can art predict, intuit, or explain the global market? We are pleased to announce ‘Art/Money/Crisis’, a two-day interdisciplinary conference, to be held at the University of … Read More

The Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters invites applications for the Somaesthetics Doctoral Fellowship. The successful candidate will be admitted to the College’s Ph.D. program in Comparative Studies on the basis of a general application to the program, … Read More