CFA: Sustainable City Life. Exploring Aesthetic Values in Urban Settings
The XIth IIAA International Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics Lahti, Finland, 6-8 August 2015 Urbanization is one of the major trends of the contemporary world posing problems in need of urgent solutions. Especially questions of sustainability have been in the … Read More
CFA: Theory and Practice in Ricoeur’s Work
October 9-11 2015, Atlanta, Georgia 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 … Read More
CFA: Cognition and Neuroethics in Science Fiction
March 20–21, 2015 Insight Institute of Neurosurgery and Neuroscience Flint, Michigan The theme should be interpreted broadly. Potential topics may include, but are certainly not limited to: * Neuro-evidence as functions of crime detection and justice * Omnipotence, omniscience, and … Read More
CFP: Found Footage Magazine
Found Footage Magazine is an independent semi-annual publication distributed worldwide and printed both in English and Spanish. It offers theoretical, analytical and informative contents to Found Footage filmmaking. In view of the absence of a periodical forum for the divulgation … Read More
LAF: Experiencing Photographs: Between Perception and Memory
Paloma Atencia-Linares (Kent) @ London Aesthetics Forum (Institute of Philosophy) Wednesday, 14 January 2015 (4-6pm) Senate House, G35 In this talk I explore the peculiar phenomenology of photographic pictorial experience and propose a novel account for the special relation in … Read More
CFP: The Aesthetics and Politics of Irony
Organizers: Elsa Alves (University of Copenhagen / CECC) and Ana Dinger (CECC, Catholic University of Portugal) CFA: Following on from the Fourth Graduate Conference in Culture Studies, Irony: framing (post)modernity, held in January 2014 at the Catholic University of Portugal, … Read More
CFP: Liberal Arts and Sciences Education and Core Texts in the European Context
11-12 September 2015, Amsterdam University College, Over the last century, European universities have evolved to become advanced research institutions, mainly offering academic training in specialised disciplines. The Bologna process that started in the late nineties encouraged European institutions of higher … Read More
CFP: Intermediality and Transmediality in Contemporary Artistic Practices
University of Genoa, 13-14 November 2015 The conference aims at offering an opportunity to carry on pondering over different theoretical approaches; over how to conceptualise the various relations within the creative and reception processes of any art work; and finally … Read More
Reminder: INTERACT! British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference
7-8 February 2015, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK We are pleased to announce the first British Society of Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference: Interact! This conference is intended to provide a supportive and stimulating environment for postgraduate students to share and discuss … Read More
Art and Negative Emotions
IX Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality University of Murcia (Spain) 30 September-2 October 2015 Invited Speakers: SUSAN FEAGIN (Temple University); EILEEN JOHN (University of Warwick) The Interuniversity Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality promotes the relation between different … Read More
Workshop of the European Society for the Study of Emotions: Love and Time
Galilee, Israel, 8-10 March, 2015 Submission deadline: 9 January 2015 This interdisciplinary workshop will take place in Hacienda Forest View Hotel, Galilee, Israel, March, 8-10, 2015. We shall cover the costs of accommodation and meals of those whose abstracts will … Read More
How Colours Matter for Philosophy
23-26 March, 2015 Federal University of Ceará (UFC) Fortaleza, Brazil For our tentative programme: https://sites.google.com/site/iccn2015/ Colours are so familiar for us that we cannot help wondering why they can be so troublesome and enigmatic for Philosophers. They can be found … Read More