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Objectives:
- cooperation, and understanding among Chinese and American scholars on a topic of mutual interest.
- American scholars and students.
- art, and ethics in a global context of East/West scholarship.
Scholars East and West are invited to explore the Interre¬lations of Philosophy, Art, and Ethics East/West. Invited Speakers include: Gao Jianping (aesthetics and literary theory), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences); Liu Yuedi (aesthetics, contempo¬rary art theory), Chinese Academy of Social Sciences; Peng Feng (aesthetics, philosophy), Peking University; Wang Chunchen (contemporary art), Central Academy of Fine Arts; Eva Man, (philosophy) Hong Kong Baptist University; Zhou Xian, (aesthet¬ics and literary theory), Nanking University; Liu Chengji (phi-losophy), Beijing Normal University); Cheng Xiangzhan, (aes¬thetics and literary theory), Shandong University; Noel Carroll (aesthetics and ethics), Graduate Center, CUNY; Stephen Davies, (philosophy, aesthetics), University of Auckland; Ivan Gaskell, (art history), Harvard University; John Lysaker, (philosophy), Emory University; Garry Hagberg (aesthetics and ethics), Bard College; Richard Shusterman (philosophy), Florida International University; Jason Wirth, (philosophy, film), Seattle University; and Mary Wiseman (comparative philosophy), CUNY. Papers from the Conference will be published in a book.
Contemporary Relevance of this Conference: The interest in literally all aspects of cultural exchanges between China and the West, from economic and trade concerns to philosophy, art, and ethics, are at the forefront and intersection of pressing contemporary issues. This conference, which brings scholars into cross-cultural conversation, aims to bring forth new insights into the conceptual and social interrelations of philosophy, art, and ethics. Examining these interwoven topics will both contribute to a global appreciation and critical analysis of the worth of philosophy, art, and ethics in Chinese and Western thought.
Conference Schedule:
Opening Keynote Address and Reception: Haggerty Museum,
5:30 pm October 12, 2011
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We invite you to consider submitting an abstract for the upcoming
International Congress Image, Imagination, Fantasy. Twenty years without Vilém Flusser
at Universidade Federal de Ouro Preto, Brazil.
The CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION for the congress is available:
www.abrestetica.org.br
English website:
http://www.abrestetica.org.br/abrestetica/vilem.html
Please distribute widely.
Best regards,
Imaculada Kangussu
Vice-President of ABRE - Associacao Brasileira de Estetica
Call for papers from Tropos. Journal of Hermeneutics and Philosophical Criticism. (Directed by Gianni Vattimo & Gaetano Chiurazzi). Tropos invites submissions of papers on topics related to creativity, between philosophy and arts. Guest editors: Alessandro Bertinetto and Alberto Martinengo.
Deadline for subimission: August 31st, 2011.
International Symposium - CFP: Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture. Istanbul, May 21-22, 2011.
This international symposium will be addressed by keynote speakers Professors Stephen Bann, Victor Burgin and Lisa Parks.
Lewis Johnson
Department of Photography and Video
Bah esehir University
CFP: Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture
International Symposium in Visual Culture
Bahcesehir University, Faculty of Communications, Department of Photography and Video 20, 21 May 2011
Deadline: 31.3.2011
Mobility and Fantasy in Visual Culture, the first of a series of international symposia on visual culture to be held at Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, aims to enable discussion and debate on topics critical in the conceptualization, analysis, evaluation of and intervention in visual culture today.
Dutch Association of Aesthetics - Call for Abstracts - Annual Conference - May 27th-28th, 2011 - Ghent, Belgium
The Dutch Association of Aesthetics (http://nge.nl/daa/) is a society for everyone interested in theoretical, philosophical and critical reflection on the arts and the aesthetic dimensions of contemporary culture. The association offers a meeting place for philosophers, artists, art critics, art scientists, and people employed in art education and art policy.
On Friday May 27th and Saturday May 28th 2011, the Dutch Association of Aesthetics holds its annual conference at Ghent, Belgium. Keynote speakers are:
Paul Crowther(National University of Ireland, Galway)
and
Jerrold Levinson (University of Maryland)
Papers on any topic in aesthetics or the philosophy of art are invited. Abstracts should be appr. 1,000 words, and must be prepared for blind review. The deadline for abstracts is March 10th 2011. Conference languages are Dutch and English.
Please send your abstract in PDF or RTF format to Annelies Monseré: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Conference venue: Ghent University, Faculty of Arts and Philosophy, Blandijnberg 2, 9000 Gent
Organising Committee: Hans Maes, Annelies Monseré, and Bart Vandenabeele
Gimme Shelter. Global discourses in aesthetics contains a series of reflections on the impact of globalization on the arts and the aesthetic reflection on the arts. The authors – fifteen distinguished aestheticians from all over the world - discuss a variety of aesthetic questions brought forth by the aforementioned process of globalization. How do artistic practices and aesthetic experiences change in response to these developments? How should we articulate these changes on the theoretical level? When reflections on the significance of art and aesthetic experiences can no longer pretend to be universal, is it still possible to lay claim to a wider validity than merely that of one’s own particular culture? What type of vocabulary allows for mutual – dialogical or even polylogical – exchanges and understandings when different traditions meet, without obliterating local differences? Is there a possibility for a creative re-description of globalization? And is there a meaning of ‘the global’ that cannot be reduced to universalism and unification? Can we seek shelter in a legitimate way?
Yearbook No. 15 is now available in a free Open Access edition and may be downloaded at the IAA Yearbook section of this website.
Figural uniquely offers a platform for scholars and workers of the humanities and the arts as well as the social and natural sciences to publish sayings and apophthegms that express aesthetic concerns or relate to aesthetic issues. The word "aesthetic” is not here restricted to some vague idea of beauty or formal matters; rather, the aesthetic refers to the experience of meaning (as in Hans-Georg Gadamer’s interpretation) at the crossroads of culture and sense perception (as implied in the ancient Greek etymology of the word – aisthesis). Our conception of the aesthetic goes therefore beyond the narrowing field defined by 18th century Europe.
Of course, the appearance and style of aphorisms, or any writing for that matter, are essential but only inasmuch as form and content become indistinguishable. What we care about is the Way that goes beyond skill, as Chuang Tzu would have it. We are interested in aesthetic aphorisms that find thoughtful ways to express perceptual experiences of the reality of this world and to renew such a reality through creative imagination.
The publication series does not aim at providing theoretical explanatory models or narratives of any kind; instead, we seek to publish aphorisms that are neither abstract nor figurative, but “figural,” as Gilles Deleuze defined the word when referring to painting in his Francis Bacon (1981) – aphorisms that are thought, written, and hopefully read as such.
Announcement for Young Scholars Awards
We are pleased to announce that the work of choosing candidates of Young Scholar Awards has come to a conclusion. The following ten papers are chosen by a committee to be the winners of the awards. We herewith send our congratulations to them. Each of the winners will get 500 USD to support their trip to the 19th International Congress of Aesthetics in Krakow.
With best wishes,
Curtis Carter, President
Gao Jianping, Secretary General
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Zhen Yang, “Can Gustatory Sense Be Aesthetic?” (China)
Ji Un Lee, “Digital Art” (Korea)
Barbora Bakošová, “Environmentally Engaged Art/Science Collaboration” (Masaryk University, Czech Republic)
James Garrison, “The Aesthetic Life of Power” (University of Vienna, Department of Philosophy, Austria)
Gloria Luque Moya, “Continuity between Art and Life” (University of Granada, Spain)
Sasa Hrnjez, “Kant’s Sublime” (University of Turin, Italy)
Sanna Lehtinen, “Personal Space and Everyday Aesthetic Experience” (University of Helsinki, Finland)
Cristian Hainic, “Proceduralism Heidegger” (Babes-Bolyai University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Alan Elias Solis Serrano, “On Two Problems for Textualism” (Biola University, USA)
Laura Menatti, “Geophilosophy: Nature and Landscape” (University of The Basque, Spain)
IRCA International Seminar 2013 Rome
The Eastern Impact. The Enigma of Van Gogh?s challenge to Rembrandt, with Ozaki Akihiro (Tohoku University, Sendai, Japan), Roberto Terrosi and Giuseppe Patella (University of Rome Tor Vergata).
March 19th, 2013, 10 a.m.,
University of Rome Tor Vergata
Via Columbia 1
00133 Rome (Italy).
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GESTURE
The 2013 Annual Conference of the Nordic Society of Aesthetics
The Department of Philosophy, Classics, History of Arts and Ideas welcome you to the 2013 Annual Conference of the Nordic Society for Aesthetics. The theme of the conference is “Gesture” and it will take place at the University of Oslo from May 30 – June 1, (Thursday noon through Saturday evening).
The use of gesticulation has always been a means by which human beings have expressed themselves. Being bodily rather than conceptual, its logos lie outside language. Within the fields of art and aesthetics, gesture implies an opening process as a distinctive way of cognition as well as an approach to the particular qualities of artworks. While Jean-François Lyotard associates the artwork with the processuality of gesture, Roland Barthes thinks gesture in terms of the event, and its production of effects, thus seeing gesture at once as a part of the artwork and as transgressing the work “itself”. For Theodor Adorno the gestural in music was a central topic and Ludwig Wittgenstein spoke of architecture as a gesture. Part of our aesthetic experience and of our “answer” to artworks is always gestural.
