The Pleasure of Doubt in Arts, Aesthetics and Everyday Life
The International Research Training Group “InterArt”, in cooperation with the Berlin Institute for Cultural Inquiry (ICI), will host an international conference on “The Pleasure of Doubt in Art, Aesthetics, and Everyday Life” from June 19 to June 21. Doubt pervades … Read More
IP London Aesthetics Forum: Marina Wimmer – How we develop an understanding of pictorial representation
May 7, 2014, Room 243, Senate House, WC1 Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics Ambiguous figures have fascinated researchers for almost 200 years. The physical properties of these figures remain constant, yet two distinct interpretations are possible; these reverse … Read More
Goldie-Hamilton PhD Studentship, University of Manchester
Closing Date: 16 May 2014 Award Details: Home/EU Fees: £4,000 (per annum) Stipend: £13,863 (per annum) Research Training Support Grant: £750 (per annum) Information Philosophy at Manchester invites applications for the Goldie-Hamilton doctoral studentship, for a three year programme starting … Read More
I know what art is when I see it. Reasons (not) to define art
19-20 May 2014 This conference will examine the motivations behind the project of defining art. Recent voices in the philosophy of art have argued that the project has been wrongheaded and irrelevant. The most plausible of the contemporary attempts to … Read More
Philosophy, Literature, America
University College Dublin, 30-31 May 2014 Stanley Cavell has spent a philosophical career urging that American philosophy and American literature have always called for and communicated with each other, that in a romanticized New World literature for philosophy is neither … Read More
Performance Philosophy Working Session at the American Society of Theatre Research conference
November 20-23, 2014 Baltimore Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore MD Convened by Will Daddario, Illinois State University (w.daddario@gmail.com) and Ioana Jucan, Brown University (ioana_jucan@brown.edu) Building on last year’s ASTR session, the international, interdisciplinary research network known as Performance Philosophy seeks to continue … Read More
Arts of Existence: Artistic Practices, Aesthetics and Technique
Wednesday 14 May 2014, 4.30 – 6.30pm Goldsmiths RHB 137a Lewisham Way, New Cross, London SE14 6NW Free. Simon O’Sullivan (Dept Visual Arts, Goldsmiths) Art Practice as Fictioning (or, Myth-Science) ….theres some thing in us it dont have no name…it … Read More
Colloquium: The Aesthetics of Rhythm
Music Department, Palace Green, Durham University 28-29 June 2014 Andy Hamilton and Max Paddison are hosting a colloquium on “The Aesthetics of Rhythm”, as part of their project on this a neglected topic in aesthetics. The project draws on philosophical … Read More
Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image
Aniki: Portuguese Journal of the Moving Image (ISSN 2183-1750) accepts original essays on, among others, the following areas: cinema, television, media archaeology, video, digital cultures, sound and the moving image, history and theory of the moving image. It is an … Read More
Animal Encounters: Performance, Animality and Posthumanism
TaPRA Theatre Performance and Philosophy Interim Event 2014 One-day international conference event organised by Roehampton University and TaPRA Theatre, Performance & Philosophy Group in association with the University of East London (Centre of Performing Arts Development) Date: Saturday 31 May … Read More
Acinemas: Aesthetics and Film in the Philosophy of Jean-François Lyotard
University of Dundee 7-8 May 2014 This international conference brings together academics from the UK, France, Belgium, Korea, Australia and the US to discuss Jean-François Lyotard’s aesthetics and philosophy of film. It responds to the recent publication in bilingual versions … Read More
While We’re Waiting for Kick Off: The Aesthetics of Football
Thursday 19 June, 2014 9am-4.15pm The Lupino Screening Room, University of Kent, Canterbury Programme 09.00-10.00: Graham McFee, University of Brighton/California State University, Fullerton — The Not-So-Beautiful Game 10.00-10.15: Coffee 10.15-11.15: Steffen Borge, Norwegian University of Science and Technology — This … Read More