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Congress at the Muthesius University and the University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany, 19–21 May 2016 Since Renaissance the aesthetics of immersion has always highlighted the emerging of new media technologies. Most recently this happened in the excited millennium debates, … Read More

Call for Papers – Inaugural Issue Journal of Creative Music Systems (http://jcms.org.uk/) The Journal of Creative Music Systems (JCMS) is a new open-access journal publishing peer-reviewed articles on computational creative systems in the domain of music. JCMS is intended to … Read More

Barcelona, 8 – 10 June 2016 Submission deadline: 15th of January 2016 The European Society for Aesthetics would like to invite you to submit a paper for presentation at the ESA Conference 2016. The conference will be co-organised by the … Read More

London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday, 28th October 2015 | 16:00 – 18:00 Senate House, Room 243 Kristin Gjesdal (Temple) Poetry, Criticism, and the End of Art: Herder and the Promise of Enlightenment Aesthetics The talk will be free … Read More

2-4 June 2016, University of Warwick Conference held at Warwick’s Palazzo Papafava, Venice in collaboration with the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group In modern Western culture, music is often defined as the art of feeling or the … Read More

In ordinary critical practice, we take for granted that we can learn from fictions (literary or visual), i.e., that we can acquire new warranted beliefs on that basis. We similarly assume that we can acquire experiential knowledge – knowledge of … Read More

Philosophy and Religious Studies Programme, Faculty of Arts and Humanities University of Macau ABOUT THE WORKSHOP Theoretical accounts of fiction, once confined to the field of aesthetics, are now widely considered as useful frameworks for philosophical investigation more generally. Fictionalist … Read More

Theme: Aesthetics of Urban Life Guest Editor: Jonathan Maskit, Denison University Submission Deadline: 31 December 2015 Submission Guidelines: http://www.tandfonline.com/action/authorSubmission?journalCode=rfap20&page=instructions Urban life has long been of interest to philosophers and has played an important role in the work of phenomenologists at … Read More

Call for Papers University of North Georgia 2016 Arts and Letters Conference February 26-28, 2016 The 2016 University of North Georgia Arts and Letters Conference will explore the intersection of culture and place. Place is more than location—it is people, … Read More

CFP for the International Journal “Odradek. Studies in Philosophy of Literature, Aesthetics and New Media Theories” vol. 1, no. 2 (2015) edited by Danilo Manca and Alessandra Aloisi Invited authors: David Roochnik (Boston University) Andrew Benjamin (Monash University) Fabio Camilletti … Read More

Richard Wagner’s Gesamtkunstwerk and Christoph Schlingensief’s participatory experiment Opera Village Africa SPEAKERS: Prof John Deathridge (King’s College London), Chris Dercon (Tate Modern), Prof Lydia Goehr (Columbia University, New York), Aino Laberenz (Opera Village Africa), Gregor Muir (ICA) The Courtauld Institute … Read More

The British Society of Aesthetics is pleased to announce a third round of funding for its successful Connections series of conferences. The Society is looking to fund one conference with a grant of up to £12,000. A Connections conference should … Read More