CALL FOR PAPERS
The Annual conference of The Nordic Society of Aesthetics will take place at Aarhus University, Denmark between 28-30 May, 2020, focusing on the topic of “The Aesthetics of Attention”. The aim of the conference is to investigate the relationship between aesthetics and attention in various ways: In philosophical aesthetics, in art institutions, within the field of art histories, post-/decolonialism and cultural criticism.
Deadline for abstract submissions: 15 February, 2020.
Please, find further details in the attached pdf.
CALL FOR PAPERS AND CONTRIBUTIONS
Arts and Society launches a call for contributions for HAS, the new digital magazine in English and French for the Humanities and Arts in Society, to be published in Spring 2020. Arts and Society is a project launched on the initiative of UNESCO-MOST, the International Council for Philosophy and Human Sciences (CIPSH), Memoire de l’Avenir (MDA), in partnership with the Global Chinese Arts and Culture Society (GCACS). The goal of this new publication is to analyze current challenges through the lens of the humanities and the arts. The theme of the first issue is: Big Data and Singularities: Creativity as a Basis for Re-thinking the Human Condition.
Deadline for submissions: 31 January, 2020.
Please, find further details in the attached open call and press release.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to welcome submissions for the Peter Kivy Prize. The prize will be awarded to up to three people in 2020 to encourage new, unpublished work on the philosophy of music of Peter Kivy (1934-2017). In order to encourage interdisciplinary consideration of the topic, ASA membership is notrequired. Persons from related disciplines are encouraged to submit their work.
The submission deadline is 1 February, 2020.
Please, find further details in the attached pdf.
ANNOUNCEMENT
The Editorial Board of the Art+Media – Journal of Art and Media Studies from Belgrade is pleased to announce the publication of the last two numbers 19 and 20 of the Journal, with papers connected to the topic of the last ICA in Belgrade.
Please, find the complete issues in the attachment or in the following links: Nr. 19 and Nr. 20.
CALL FOR PAPERS
The European Society for Aesthetics invites interested participants to attend the ESA Conference that will take place in Tallinn (Estonia), between 10-12 June, 2020. The organisers are looking forward to receiving papers from all traditions and on any topic in philosophical aesthetics, and both systematic and historical presentations are welcome.
Deadline for submission of papers: 13 January, 2020.
Please, find further details on the website of the conference.
CALL FOR PAPERS, POSTERS AND ARTIST TALKS
The fourth international conference “Taboo - Transgression - Transcendence in Art & Science“will take place November 26-28, 2020, in Austria, hosted by the University of Applied Arts Vienna. Including theoretical and art practice presentations, TTT2020 continues to focus (a) on questions about the nature of the forbidden and aesthetics of liminality as expressed in art that uses or is inspired by technology and science, and (b) on the opening of spaces for creative transformation in the merging of science and art.
Deadline for proposals: March 31, 2020.
Please, find further information in the attached pdf.
CALL FOR PAPERS (Extended deadline)
The Editorial Board of ESPES journal has postponed the deadline for the thematic issue call on Tomas Kulka’s aesthetics and philosophy of art. More information can be find on the Journal’s website and in this previous IAA announcement.
Deadline for submissions (postponed): September 30, 2019.
CALL FOR PAPERS
IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca is launching a Winter School that aims at critically analysing the multifarious notion of ?cut?. The notion of cut plays a crucial role in different disciplines from the Humanities and the Social Sciences, among others, a circumstance that makes it an ideal subject for careful scrutiny and examination from both an historical and a theoretical perspective. The occasion is particularly favourable as the Winter School is contiguous with the international three day conference on John Ruskin to be held, among other locations, at IMT Lucca on 28th November.
Deadline for application: 6 October, 2019.
Please, find further details in the attachment.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Aesthetics of the everyday life in contemporary cities
Aesthetics as a philosophical discipline is confronted today with the challenge of responding to the complex phenomena of contemporary daily life. The 8th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics focuses on the aesthetics of everyday life, as a field of study that is concerned with the interplay of the active subject with the social-political milieu of contemporary cities.
The congress aims to a creative debate between philosophers, aestheticians, art theorists and theorists of architecture, as well as artists, architects, urban and landscape designers, theorists and researchers of culture and the media, who are interested in formulating a critical contemplation, in relation to the aesthetics of everyday life in contemporary cities.
Deadline for submission of abstracts: 15 December, 2019.
Please, find further details in the attachments.
Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia
Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia (SPES) was established in Prešov in 2011. The key objectives of SPES are (1) to promote freedom of research and thinking in the field of aesthetics, (2) to create conditions for the free professional discussion on aesthetic topics in theory and practice, (3) to spread the latest knowledge in the field of aesthetics for the professional and general public, (4) to promote the results of the scientific research in the field of aesthetics to both specialised professionals and the wider public, including the media, cultural institutions and school practice, (5) to organize scientific and professional events, scientific conferences, seminars, workshops, symposia, lectures, discussions among experts from Slovakia and abroad, (6) to cooperate with similar organizations at home and abroad, and (7) to develop publishing activities mainly in the periodical established by SPES: ESPES online journal as well as in other publications. ESPES journal (electronic magazine of the Society for Aesthetics in Slovakia) is a scholarly, aesthetic and artistic online journal, intended for the professional public in the given departments, for PhD, BA and MA students, as well as for the broader public. ESPES regularly publishes a selection of professional works of various kinds - studies, reviews, essays, reports, etc. Contributions to the journal are anonymously peer-reviewed. The journal is published twice a year, in June and December.
