BSA Final Call for Papers
The British Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference 18-20 September 2015, Homerton College, Cambridge Confirmed keynote speakers: Paul Boghossian (New York University) David Bordwell (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Catherine Elgin (Harvard University) Invited symposia chairs: Emily Brady (University of Edinburgh) Gregory Currie … Read More
CFP: Aesthetics and Normativity
26-27 June 2015, University of Kent Sponsors British Society for Aesthetics Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Keynote Speakers Maria Alvarez (KCL) Carla Bagnoli (Pisa) Sophie-Grace Chappell (Open) John Hyman (Oxford) Aaron Ridley (Southampton) Elisabeth Schellekens Dammann (Uppsala) … Read More
Eating Well: Experience and Value in Meals
Friday 27 March 2015, University of Warwick Please join us for a day of wide-ranging discussion of the complex goods, experiences, processes, problems, and creative possibilities that converge in meals. Speakers and roundtable participants: Dr Rosemary Collier; Dr Carol Bryce; … Read More
Journal of Somaesthetics
On Valentine’s Day, February 14, 2015, the Journal of Somaesthetics (JOS) launched its first issue, entitled Somaesthetics and Visual Art. What is somaesthetics? As its Wiktionary definition indicates, the term derives from combining the somatic with the aesthetic, and it … Read More
Post-anthropocentric Creativity
Call for Submissions, special issue of Digital Creativity, 27:1, January 2016 the flesh that covers me is the flesh that covers the sun (Dylan Thomas) 1. GUEST EDITORS Stanislav Roudavski and Jon McCormack 2. THEME This special issue aims to … Read More
CFA: Being Human Festival
Being Human, the UK’s only national festival of the humanities, led by the School of Advanced Study, University of London, in partnership with the Humanities Research Council and the British Academy, is now inviting applications from across the country for … Read More
CFP: Sussex Annual Graduate Conference in Phenomenology
12-13 June, University of Sussex http://blogs.sussex.ac.uk/sussexphenomenology/2015-conference/ Keynote Speakers: Wayne Martin (University of Essex) and Paul Davies (University of Sussex) We are welcoming submissions for the 6th Annual University of Sussex Graduate Conference in Phenomenology. This year the conference theme is … Read More
CFP: RMA Music and Philosophy Study Group Conference
The fifth Annual Conference of the Royal Musical Association Music and Philosophy Study Group, in collaboration with the Music and Philosophy Study Group of the American Musicological Society and De Musica – Laboratório de Estética e Filosofia da Música (Brasil). Optional) … Read More
UPDATED CFP: Race and Aesthetics A British Society of Aesthetics Connections Conference
19-20 May 2015, Leeds, UK (Please note the revised submission deadline and format.) We invite papers that are on the conference themes: the psychological, political, and methodological intersections between philosophical studies of race and aesthetics. Please send either a *4000-word … Read More
CFA: Placing Art and Music in Nature
10-14 August, 2015, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland Recent scientific research concerning art and music has thrown up a plethora of new aspects to be integrated into our understanding of these phenomena. Individual studies, such as attempts to explain aesthetic responses in … Read More
The New Philosophy of Photography
13-14 February 2015, 09:30 – 18:30 A collaboration between the London Aesthetics Forum and the Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts at the University of Warwick. Hosted by the Institute for Philosophy, London: Fri 13- Sat 14 … Read More
Aesthetic Reasons and Living with Ourselves
Wednesday 18 February, 2015 Eileen John, Department of Philosophy, University of Warwick Venue: Seminar Room, 1 Newnham Terrace, Darwin College. (Enter by main door). Time: 5.00pm to 7.00pm Admission is free, and all are welcome.