CFP: Symbols and Metaphors
6th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference The Department of Classics at the University of Leeds is pleased to announce the 6th Annual Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference to be held on the 3rd June 2015 at Devonshire Hall, Leeds. Both Symbols and Metaphors … Read More
CFP: Philosophy of Human+Computer Music
University of Sheffield, Wednesday 27 May 2015 We warmly invite you to participate in this one day RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group workshop, to discuss philosophical questions raised by human+computer music. On the musical side, fundamental issues raised by … Read More
Hearing the Voice, Hearing the Soul
5 June 2015, Warwick University, the Institute of Advanced Study (IAS), Millburn House, Millburn Hill Road, Coventry Symposium theme Just as music has fascinated scholars in the Western world continuously for thousands of years, so time and again they have … Read More
CFP: Meaning and Computer Games
We hereby invite scholars in any field of studies who take a professional interest in the philosophy of computer games to submit papers to the 9th International Conference on the Philosophy of Computer Games, to be held in Berlin, 14-17 … Read More
The Sixth International Symposium on Music and Sonic Art: Practices and Theories (MuSA 2015)
The Sixth International Symposium on Music and Sonic Art: Practices and Theories (MuSA 2015) is an interdisciplinary event to be held in Karlsruhe, Germany at the Institut für Musikwissenschaft und Musikinformatik (IMWI) (http://www.hit-karlsruhe.de/hfm-ka/imm/). MuSA 2015 is also supported by Middlesex … Read More
Final CFA: Aesthetics and the Feminine (SWIP Ireland Summer Conference)
17-18 July 2015, University College Cork, Ireland “Aesthetics and the Feminine” is supported by The Society for Women In Philosophy Ireland (SWIP-I) and The Schools of Philosophy and Politics at University College Cork (UCC). This conference aims to provide a … Read More
SFA Lecture: Berys Gaut on Cinematic Art and Technology
Wednesday, 22nd April, 2015, 4:15 – 6:00pm Dugald Stewart Building, 3.10-3.11, University of Edinburgh Event Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/events/678593888935896/ The lecture is free and open to all! Abstract: “Cinema was born as technology and rapidly grew into an art. What is … Read More
Conf: Values of Art
20-21 June 2015, Research Centre, University of Sheffield http://www.shef.ac.uk/philosophy/research/conferences/valuesofart This conference will discuss issues such as the relationship between intrinsic and instrumental values of art, the nature of arts participation, and the state support of the arts in the UK. … Read More
CFA: “The Charm of the Unfamiliar”: Myth and Alterity in Early Modern Literature
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
CFP: Silence in the Archives: Censorship and Suppression in Women’s Life Writing in the Long Nineteenth Century
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
CFP: ‘There and back again’: An Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Workshop on Travel
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
CFP: What is Portuguese Cinema?
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