CFP: Feast
Feast is seeking submissions for its inaugural online edition launching winter 2015 Beginning a series of responses to Setting the Table the first online edition of Feast takes the theme of cutlery. We are currently seeking contributions that broadly and … Read More
Comma Press launch MacGuffin
Comma Press has launched a new fiction platform called MacGuffin which hosts short stories and poetry in text and audio form. Anyone can upload a poem or short story, so long as they also upload a reading. This doesn’t have … Read More
Costumed Visions of the Enhanced Body
The Costumed Visions of the Enhanced Body project, kindly funded by the Wellcome Trust, is a collaboration between the Institute for Science Ethics and Innovation at the University of Manchester, and the JK Mason Institute for Medicine, Life Sciences and … Read More
Reminder: Aesthetics and the Feminine
This is a final reminder that the deadline for registration for Aesthetics and the Feminine Conference (17th Saturday – 18th July 2015 at University College Cork, Ireland) is this Friday the 10th of July. Registration for this event is free … Read More
CFP: Bodies of Belief
Human bodies are shaped not only by their genetic endowment but also by the belief systems of the cultures in which they develop and function. Such belief systems vary from unarticulated background assumptions to ritualized practices and explicit doctrines or … Read More
CFP: Aesthetic Investigations, Vol. 1:2
Aesthetic Investigations solicits contributions for its second issue. Submission may relate to the calls below, but need not. For calls for future issues, please consult the website. Articles 2015 Winter (deadline for submission: September 15 2015): How does one make … Read More
CFP: The Monist on Science Fiction Making
Deadline for submissions: October 31, 2015 This issue of The Monist addresses the relations between the debate on scientific models in philosophy of science and the debate on the nature of fiction in aesthetics. Although a precursor of the analogy … Read More
CFP: Plotinus and the Moving Image
Edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos To be published in the BRILL “Philosophy of Film” Series. Deadline for abstracts: Sept. 30 2015. Deadline for final papers: June 30 2016. Can Neoplatonic philosophy be used for film studies? Given the … Read More
Placing art and music in nature
Kazimierz Dolny, Poland – August, 10th to 14th, 2015 Placing Art and Music in Nature: KNEW 2015 Recent scientific research concerning art and music has thrown up a plethora of new aspects to be integrated into our understanding of these … Read More
Trauma, Memory, Media
October 7-9, 2015 CJMC: Center for the Study of Jewish Thought in Jewish Culture, University of Copenhagen Abstract: This interdisciplinary conference, workshop and PhD course is dedicated to an analysis of interviews with Holocaust survivors. An exemplary recording from the … Read More
CFP: Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics
The new Brill book series, Studies in Somaesthetics is inviting manuscripts for its first volume provisionally entitled “Aesthetic Experience and Somaesthetics” to be edited by Richard Shusterman. The collected volume of essays will be partly based on papers originally presented … Read More
Bodies of Care: Somaesthetics of Vulnerability
Bodies of Care: Somaesthetics of Vulnerability The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture invites proposals for papers to be presented at a two-day conference, January 28–29, 2016, at Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton. Bodies are obviously the targets of one’s … Read More