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Women in Aesthetics. Féminiser la philosophie de l’art. Conference Venue: Department of Aesthetics and Theory of Art, Sorbonne University      Date:  17 November 2023     Keynote speaker: Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)     This conference is centred on the role of women in aesthetics and philosophy of art, which has been traditionally neglected or obscured in dominant … Read More

As part of our commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion within British Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art, the British Society of Aesthetics bestows a New Horizons Award for the best paper submitted to the Annual Conference by a member of … Read More

The Brain Plasticity and Behaviour Change (BIP) Group at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin and the Giorgio Amendola Foundation are delighted to invite contributions for the Second International Conference on Beauty and Change, a three-day international and interdisciplinary … Read More

The University of Warwick’s Centre for Research in Philosophy, Literature and the Arts and the University of Hertfordshire are pleased to host an online panel event on the topic of bad art and its place in both philosophical aesthetics and … Read More

A British Society of Aesthetics/University of York Conference  5 – 6 JulyUniversity of York, Room ENV/005 On the occasion of Peter Lamarque’s retirement from York, there will be a full-on philosophical celebration of his work. Both long-time interlocutors and early-career … Read More

23 – 24 November 2023Mozarteum Salzburg & Museum der Moderne Salzburg Last summer, the volume Notions of Temporalities in Artistic Practice was published by Degruyter. The contributions to this publication explore concepts of time and temporality within the context of … Read More

26 – 27 May, 2023Darwin College, University of Kent We are pleased to announce the 8th BSA Postgraduate Conference, which will take place as a hybrid event (online and in-person) later this month. The theme of this year’s conference is Aesthetics and … Read More

19 – 21 June 2023University of Liverpool Sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics Connections grant.  In analytic philosophy recently, there has been a shift of interest towards political culture. Topics like ideology, propaganda, persuasion and epistemic injustice are now … Read More

May – June 2023Organised by Vanessa Brassey (KCL) Announcing a Broadcast Virtual Conference ‘Time for Beauty’, sponsored by a British Society of Aesthetics small grant award 2022-3.   Venue: Online access by request here https://forms.gle/tBAo8R2rRcHjxRMx6 The organisers are delighted to invite registrations … Read More

The dream of virtual reality has always been the creation of a digital world that is indistinguishable from our physical world. This is illustrated by current technological innovations, whose goal seems to be the development of ever more complex virtual … Read More

LAF 2021-2022 Organising Group:Stacie Friend (Birkbeck), Alex Grzankowski (Birkbeck), Tim Stoll (Birkbeck); Sarah Kiernan (PhD Student, Birkbeck); Taylor Enoch (PhD Student, UCL) ProgrammeDerek Matravers (Open University): “On Being Misled by Non-Fiction” Wednesday, 13 October 2021Karen Simecek (Warwick): “Embodying Words: The … Read More

31st August – 1st September 2021, Cambridge.Organisers:Mark Pinder & Derek MatraversThe Open University Like many other events scheduled to take place during the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020, British Society of Aesthetics Connections: Conceptual Engineering and Aesthetics took place in 2021. … Read More