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19 June 2015, St Mary’s College, Durham Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Michael Pincombe (Newcastle), Dr Leon Burnett (Essex) A hint of the far reaching and rich symbolic potential of the word “exotic” resides in one twentieth-century dictionary’s definition of the … Read More

This conference is being held at Wolfson College, Oxford on the 7th November 2015, funded by the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing and the Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities. Confirmed keynote speakers: Professor Janet Todd and Professor Karen Hunt. Scholars … Read More

Monday 22 June 2015, University of Nottingham Keynote Speaker: Professor Andrew Thacker (Nottingham Trent University) To travel is unavoidable, whether as part of the everyday or the exceptional. It can be political or leisurely, routine or unexpected, real or imaginary. … Read More

Deadline: 30th June, 2015 In 2008 Tiago Baptista published a relevant essay with the suggestive title The invention of Portuguese Cinema. In the form of a photographic album he warned us of the “permanent invention” of an object called “Portuguese … Read More

The Emotions of Others explores our understanding of the knowledge of emotions and their signature facial expressions. The documentary essay features a diverse range of filmed participants, combined with a conversation between a ‘voice of doubt’ and a ‘voice of … Read More

The final BSA Aesthetics lecture this year will be as follows. Dawn Wilson (Philosophy Department, University of Hull) will give a talk entitled ‘Does Photography Capture a Moment in Time?’ Venue: Seminar Room, 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College. (Enter by … Read More

Atlanta, Georgia, October 2015 This year’s conference will be held in Atlanta, Georgia concurrently with the conference of the Society for Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy (SPEP), which will run October 8-10, 2015. We are pleased to announce that the SRS … Read More

The University of Aberdeen and the SOUND festival, Aberdeen, Scotland, 30-31st October 2015 http://www.abdn.ac.uk/music/musical-modernity-the-beautiful-and-the-sublime-468.php Theodor Adorno noted the difficulty of creating new art that can be beautiful in a truthful way, eschewing any response to musical modernity that would allow … Read More

The Editors of Evental Aesthetics, an independent, double-blind peer-reviewed journal, seek submissions in two categories for our Fall 2015 issue. Deadline: 31 July, 2015. 1. Aesthetic Inquiries: This section will be devoted to philosophical matters pertaining to any aesthetic practice … Read More

8-10 April 2015, University of Nottingham, UK Modernist Musics and Political Aesthetics is a three-day conference bringing together international scholars to develop understanding of the convergences between modernism, music and politics. A full schedule is attached. Keynote speakers: Wednesday 8th … Read More

Edited by Thorsten Botz-Bornstein and Giannis Stamatellos To be published by Brill/Rodopi in the “Philosophy of Film” Series Can Neoplatonic philosophy be used for film studies? Given the often-stated parallels between Plotinus’ and Bergson’s philosophies, it is surprising that Neoplatonism … Read More

3-4 June 2015, 28 Bedford Square, London WC1B 3JS www.birmingham.ac.uk/beautydemands This workshop will explore how cosmetic surgery defines beauty norms and vice versa, and the role of medical professionals in developing, offering and carrying out aesthetic procedures. It will consider … Read More