British Society of Aesthetics

Calls for Papers
Goodman Today
The Laboratory of History of Science and Philosophy - Archives Henri-Poincaré (Université de Lorraine/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) organizes, in Nancy, 8-11 September 2014, an international symposium devoted to the work of Nelson Goodman.

The four areas in which it is possible to submit are:

(1) Metaphysics
(2) Philosophy of Language
(3) Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art
(4) Epistemology and Pragmatism.

Of course, proposals must have a relationship to the thought of Goodman.

The invited speakers also form the Scientific Committee of the conference:

Catherine Elgin (University of Harvard)
Gerhard Heinzmann (University of Lorraine/Archives H.-Poincaré)
Mikael M. Karlsson (University of Iceland/Archives H.-Poincaré)
Jacques Morizot (University of Aix-Marseille)
Roger Pouivet (University of Lorraine/Archives H.-Poincaré, President of the Scientic Committee)
Oliver Scholz (University of Münster)


They will examine the proposals (500-600 words, without the name of the author in the text) sent to this address:

Roger.Pouivet@univ-lorraine.fr


Communications will last 25 minutes followed by 15 minutes of discussion

Proposals must be submitted by February 1, 2014.
Languages of the conference are French, English and German.


Exploring Awe and Wonder
6-8 September 2013
Institute for Simulation and Training
University of Central Florida, Orlando, Florida
Sponsored by the John Templeton Foundation's Research Grant: Space, Science and Spirituality
www.chdr.cah.ucf.edu/spaceandspirituality

The concepts of awe and wonder occupy an important place in the history of ideas, often associated with the beginnings of philosophy and with religious experience. In contemporary times, however, they are under-studied and rarely discussed. It is not clear that such experiences are more rare in our time. One might argue that given our ability to explore more and more corners of the physical and intellectual universe using technology and advanced science, and our capacity for representing the results of such explorations in art, film and various mass media, we should expect that experiences of awe and wonder are more common.

The interdisciplinary conference, Exploring Awe and Wonder, will bring together researchers in psychology, emotion theory, neuroscience, philosophy, art history, religious studies, and other relevant fields to explore the science and phenomenology of awe and wonder. Proposals for presentations in these areas are welcome. A special session on Space, Science and Spirituality is being organized to present current research on the experience of awe and wonder during space flight.


Keynote speakers
Jesse Prinz (Philosophy, CUNY Graduate)
Michelle Shiota (Psychology, Arizona State University)


Invited speakers
Jonathan Cole (Neuroscience, Bournemouth University)
Joerg Trempler (Art History, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität and the Yale Center for British Art)
Jeff Williams (NASA, Astronaut)

Send abstracts and session proposals by June 15, 2013 to:

Bruce Janz
Department of Philosophy
Center for Humanities and Digital Research
University of Central Florida

Bruce.Janz@ucf.edu


ASAGE (American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-journal)
Call for Participation: Authors, Book Reviewers, Blind Reviewers

ASAGE is a peer-reviewed, graduate journal of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, sponsored by the American Society for Aesthetics. We publish articles, book reviews, dissertation abstracts, and interviews. For details on how to contribute as an author, reviewer, or blind reviewer, please visit the site. The submission period for Issue 5.2 is now open.

Deadline for article submissions:30 May 2013.
New Deadline for book review proposals: 20 May 2013
Deadline for dissertation abstracts: 5 May 2013.


Any questions or comments can be directed to editor@asage.org.


Royal Institute of Philosophy Annual Conference 2013
CFP DEADLINE 31 MAY
Philosophy and Museums: Ethics, Aesthetics and Ontology
24-26, July 2013
University of Glasgow

There has been much interest lately on the part of academics, museum professionals and policy makers on interactions between universities and museums. Critical theory, influenced by Continental philosophy, has had a shaping role on the discussions which have taken place; however, so far there has been little attention to what the insights of philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition might bring to the table. This conference will highlight the scholarship of philosophers in the Anglo-American tradition who have engaged with museums and taken seriously the philosophical questions they raise.
This international conference will bring together philosophers from a spectrum of philosophical sub-disciplines, ranging from ethics, through aesthetics, to metaphysics and philosophy of religion. It will explore how their work contributes to the understanding of museums and what light it can shed on the philosophical questions raised by museum practices. The conference will address such questions under three main headings: Ethics, Aesthetics and Ontology.
Papers should take 30 minutes to present and be submitted in a form suitable for blind review. The aim is to involve speakers with a variety of perspectives. It is intended that papers presented at the conference should be suitable for publication as a special supplementary volume of Philosophy (scheduled to appear with Cambridge University Press in 2014). It is a condition of accepting the invitation to participate in the conference that we would have the first right of refusal on a final version of any paper delivered at the conference. Please consult the conference website for further details of the topics which papers might address:


Art and the Nature of Belief
11-12 October 2013
Humanities Research Centre, University of York

Invited Speakers:

Gregory Currie & Anna Ichino (University of Nottingham)
Stacie Friend (Heythrop College)
Allan Hazlett (University of Edinburgh)
Eva-Maria Konrad (University of Regensburg)
Peter Lamarque (University of York)
Daniel Whiting (University of Southampton)

Conference Theme

The conference aims to bring together recent work on belief and its connection to truth, with issues concerning belief that arise in aesthetics. The question of whether we can arrive at truth, and indeed gain knowledge, from engaging with artworks has received much attention in aesthetics. However, much less has been said about the nature of the beliefs formed as a result of engaging with art.

Suitable topics/questions might include but are not limited to:

Are beliefs formed on the basis of engaging with artworks aimed at truth or governed by a norm of truth?
Are some value-laden beliefs about artworks influenced by motivational factors?
Do beliefs formed on the basis of engaging with artworks exhibit transparency to truth? Are they sensitive to evidence in the same way or to the same degree as garden-variety beliefs?
Given that pictures need not represent the world accurately, how reliable is a belief that is formed on the basis of pictorial experience?
Why are we less able to form beliefs, or change our beliefs, on the basis of aesthetic testimony? Does aesthetic testimony count as evidence but has less weight than testimony in the ordinary case? Or does aesthetic testimony not count for evidence for aesthetic beliefs at all?

Submissions should be 2500-3000 words in length, starting with an abstract of 200-300 words. Submissions should be prepared for blind review, be in Word format, and sent to julie.kay@york.ac.uk no later than Friday 19th July. Please include your name, institutional affiliation, and title of your paper in the body of the email.

Any queries should be sent to the conference organisers, Helen Bradley and Ema Sullivan-Bissett, at art.belief.conference@gmail.com. Further information will soon be available on the conference website: https://artbelief.wordpress.com/


Evental Aesthetics: Asceticism and Poverty
Evental Aesthetics welcomes both full-length articles (4,000-10,000 words, excluding endnotes) and Collisions (1,000-2,000 words). Collisions are brief (but well-written and thoughtful) responses to aesthetic experiences that raise philosophical questions for discussion, but that do not necessarily enact the discussion in full. More information on Collisions is available at eventalaesthetics.net/for-authors/.

Each issue of Evental Aesthetics will now have two parts, one dedicated to a specific theme, and the other (“unthemed”) devoted to aesthetic, philosophical questions of any kind. The Editors therefore seek submissions in two categories.

1. Aesthetics and philosophy (“unthemed”): This section will be devoted to philosophical matters pertaining to any aesthetic practice or experience, including but not limited to art and everyday aesthetics.
2. Asceticism and Poverty: The themed section of this issue will focus on aesthetic practices that are necessitated, constrained, inspired, or otherwise characterized by asceticism or poverty. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to: Aesthetic constraints born of financial ones
Ascetic practices in art, e.g. the deliberate use of stillness, sparseness, the minimal
Aesthetic practices that are unique to those in financial poverty
Philosophies of art outreach
Art that addresses poverty in financial or other forms, e.g. moral poverty
Poverty as an aesthetic and political condition
Aesthetic differences between asceticism and poverty
Aesthetic manifestations of the concepts of lack or dearth
Abject art
The aesthetics of failure
Both categories may be freely interpreted, however all submissions must address philosophical matters.

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Submissions are still open for the Fall 2013 issue - Animals and Aesthetics

Described in CFP below, the Fall issue will also feature two sections: aesthetics and philosophy (unthemed) and a themed section on Animals. Note that the deadline for the Fall issue is July 15, 2013
Animals and aesthetics: July 15, 2013
Asceticism and poverty: August 31, 2013
General topics on aesthetics: essays may be submitted for either deadline.


Patterns of Thought: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Aesthetics, Education and the Arts
21-22 June 2013, The Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool
www.lyceumproject.com

Organised by the University of Liverpool and the Bluecoat Gallery in collaboration with National Museums Liverpool, FACT, METAL, and Liverpool Biennial, this 2-day event brings together philosophers, artists, education theorists, museum professionals, policy makers and practitioners in order to explore and develop education programmes and practices for children and families in galleries and art organizations. This forms part of the larger AHRC Patterns of Thought Project, led by Dr Panayiota Vassilopoulou, that seeks to develop and promote the early-years teaching of reflective skills through engagement with art, especially in gallery and exhibition spaces. We hope that this event will bring pedagogical methods, as well as philosophical reflection more broadly, into productive interdisciplinary conversation with education theory, curatorial studies and the arts, so as to co-ordinate aims and objectives in planning strategically for the future. The conference will consist of keynote talks and roundtable discussions with an important emphasis placed on group discussion and dialogue between disciplines. The conference is supported by the AHRC, the British Society for Aesthetics, and the School of the Arts, University of Liverpool. Confirmed speakers include Dr. Eileen John (Warwick), Jeremy Newton (Prince’s Foundation) Dr. Morag Morrison (Cambridge), Prof. Nicola Shaughnessy (Kent), Peter Worley (Philosophy Foundation) and representatives from our partner institutions.

The organisers welcome short papers (15-20 minutes) from artists, curators, educators, policy makers and academics from a range of disciplines responding to the general theme of arts education for young children and/or families. Prospective themes include, but are not limited to, the following:

- Arts and Well Being: Aesthetic Engagement as a Catalyst for Personal Development.
- Museums, Galleries and the ‘Educational Turn’: A 21st Century Perspective.
- Philosophy and Aesthetics for Children.
- Measuring the Efficacy of Arts Education in the Academy and the Artworld.
- Learning Outside of the Classroom: What’s Special About Gallery Education?
- The Arts and Intellectual Emancipation: Preventing Stultification and Alienation in Galleries.
- Outreach and Diversity: How Can Education Expand the Reach of the Arts?

The deadline for abstracts is 22nd May 2013. Please email anonymised abstracts of around 300 words to Shaun May at shaun.may@liv.ac.uk. For more information please email Shaun May at shaun.may@liv.ac.uk, Dr. Panayiota Vassilopoulou at p.vassilopoulou@liv.ac.uk or visit www.lyceumproject.com/patterns-of-thought


Performance Philosophy Working Session
For more information, check out the website: http://www.astr.org/conference

"Beyond the Turn: Performance Philosophy Now" (2 Hour Session)
Conveners: Will Daddario, University of Minnesota ( w.daddario@gmail.com) & Gabriella Calchi-Novati, Trinity College Dublin (calching@tcd.ie)

The international, interdisciplinary research network known as Performance Philosophy seeks to draw upon and develop the philosophical activity alive within ASTR’s membership to determine the benefits, challenges, theoretical obstacles, and performative potential Performance Philosophy offers to scholars and practitioners in the present moment.

Please compose 500-word proposals that present an abstract of your paper and a brief description of how the paper relates to your primary area of research. Proposals should include complete contact information and organizational affiliation (if any).

Send your proposal (as MS Word attachments) to both conveners by June 3, 2013. After selecting participants who engage with such themes, we will group the papers together by theme and create sub-groups. We will ask members of each sub-group to attend to the interconnection of themes evident in the initial abstracts so as to build connections between the papers. Individuals accepted to the working session will be expected to submit full 10- to 12-page papers no later than October 1, 2013, in order to facilitate pre-conference conversations.


Fourth International Transforming Audiences Conference

The previous Transforming Audiences conferences, in 2007, 2009 and 2011, have seen this event become Europe’s major international conference series for audience/user studies, bringing together researchers from all over the world. The organisers particularly invite papers that connect with the themes making connections, creative cultures and open everything.

Making connections — friends | followers | connections | networks | communities | tags | favourites |
playlists | channels | emotions | affect | information | knowledge | circulation | movement | share

Creative cultures — critical making | memes | do-it-yourself | do-it-with-others | collaboration |
participation | read-write | edit | hacking | modding | coding | creativity

Open everything — Big Data | data journalism | visualisation | mapping | activism | commons |
business models | access | education | MOOCs | private | public | surveillance | visibility

Submission guidelines

You can submit proposals for individual papers or for themed panels. Individual papers will each have 15 minutes plus discussion time. Panels should consist of three presentations of 15 minutes each, to be followed by fifteen minutes of discussion for a total session of one hour.

For individual papers, please send a 300-word abstract and brief biographical note of up to 70 words. Abstracts should highlight the original theoretical or empirical contribution. They should also include the presenter’s name, institutional affiliation, title of paper, email and work address.

Proposals for panels or alternative formats should include a 300-word overview as well as individual abstracts following the guidelines above.

All proposals should be sent by 26 April 2013 to TA4@westminster.ac.uk
Electronic submissions only. Successful applicants will be notified by mid-May.


The Philosophical Novel for Children: History, Theory and Prospects
Symposium of the Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children at the 2013 American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meeting, December 27-30 2013, at the Marriott Waterfront, Baltimore, Maryland, USA.

The Institute for the Advancement of Philosophy for Children (IAPC) is calling for papers that explore the theoretical and pedagogical significance of the philosophical novel for children, to be presented at the IAPC group session of the 2013 American Philosophical Association Eastern Division Annual Meeting, December 27-30, in Baltimore, MD. Presented papers will also be considered as part of a proposal for an edited book collection.

Possible topics:
Theories and forms of narrative and narrativity that support and/or challenge the theory and practice of children’s philosophy
The construction and/or reconstruction of the history of philosophy via the philosophical novel/stories
The relationship between philosophical argument and philosophical narrative
The question of whether philosophical novels are sufficient for the teaching of philosophy
The philosophical novel/story as model of/for philosophical praxis
Qualitative and/or quantitative research studies of philosophical novels

Electronic submissions are required and should be sent to Darryl De Marzio at darryl.demarzio@scranton.edu. Papers must be in MS Word (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Papers may not exceed 3,000 words in length. Submissions should include a word count and 150-word abstract (not counted in total word count) on the title page. Papers should not contain any information identifying the author of the submission. In a separate title page document, please submit the following: title of the paper, abstract of the paper, author’s name, affiliation, e-mail address and phone number. Submission deadline: Papers must be received by Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Authors of accepted papers will be notified by 31 May 2013. As requested by the APA, all papers will be posted on the IAPC website prior to the conference (www.montclair.edu/iapc). Presenters will be required to pay the conference registration fee, and APA members are encouraged to maintain their APA memberships. APA members are also encouraged to submit papers to the main program, in addition to participating in this group session. At the group session, a laptop and projector will be provided. Presenters who wish to use PowerPoint slides must submit them to darryl.demarzio@scranton.edu no later than December 5, 2013.


Embodied Music Cognition Conference (EMuCog): An Interdisciplinary Perspective
University of Edinburgh, 22-23 July 2013

Plenary speakers:
Tom Cochrane (Philosophy, Sheffield University)
Marc Leman (Musicology, University of Ghent)
Nikki Moran (Music, University of Edinburgh)
Rebecca Schaefer (Music, University of Edinburgh)

Over the past few decades, developments in the field of cognitive science have slowly but surely reshaped our understanding of the relationship between the brain, body, and world. Furthermore, these movements have
developed concurrently with experimental and theoretical work on "embodied" human activities, such as various forms of artistic practices and sensorimotor tasks. The purpose of this conference is therefore to explore the current state of the field relating to music and music cognition, as well as critically examine contemporary questions and problems elicited by such research.

The organisers are now accepting submissions for both paper and poster presentations. Papers will consist of a 20-25 minute presentation followed by a 10-minute discussion period. Posters will be displayed and browsing times scheduled after final selections have been made. All submissions should be prepared for blind review in either PDF or Word form and sent to EMuCogSubmissions@gmail.com with the subject title "Embodied Music Conference Submission". Please include a cover sheet with the following: name, status (student, postdoctoral researcher, etc.), contact details, and title of submission. Preferred format of the submission should also be specified (poster/paper). Papers should include a separate long abstract of approximately 500-750 words while posters should include a separate 250-350 word abstract for the selection process. Please also include the title of the paper with the abstract.

The submission deadline is 1 June 2013.


Utopia in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences
University of North Georgia Arts and Letters 2014 conference
28 February - 2 March 2014

From early ideas of a perfect human condition to a more modern conception of technological or social nirvana, visions of utopia have permeated our histories. Their genesis is often in response to social and political struggle, or is a reaction to imperfect reality. They are commentaries on the aspirations of our predecessors and present dreamers for the potential that lives within us all. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to examine how human experience and culture has impacted our idea of utopia in the present, in times and places past, and in the future. What do these visions of utopia tell us about ourselves? How have they been conceived during centuries past, and how have they changed? How has our conception of utopia propelled us and shaped our intellectual activity and creative output? How does it impact what we do today, and what we envision for the future?

The idea of utopia raises interesting interpretive questions about all of the arts and humanities. These questions are investigations into the nature of humankind. They reflect our curiosity about ourselves, and about our place in the whole human enterprise.

Please contact:
George Wrisley
Assistant Professor of Philosophy
Department of History, Anthropology, and Philosophy
University of North Georgia


Kant's Aesthetics
Workshop with Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University)
June 28 & 29, 2013, University of Konstanz
Organizers: Jochen Briesen, Dina Emundts
www.uni-konstanz.de/FuF/Philo/Philosophie/philosophie


This workshop with Eckart Förster (Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore) will centre primarily on questions regarding Kant’s theory of beauty in the Critique of Judgement (CoJ). In addition to reading and discussing articles by Eckart Förster on this topic, the following issues will be discussed:
(1) The Analysis of Beauty
(2) Why is there a Dialectic in the CoJ?
(3) Genius and Aesthetic Ideas
(4) Beauty as a Symbol
(5) Why is the Critique of Taste transformed in a Critique of Judgement?

Eckart Förster will also give a lecture the evening before the workshop. (Workshop languages will be German and English.)

Date/Time:
Evening lecture by Eckart Förster – Juni 27, 18:00-20:00
Workshop – June 28-29, 10:00-12:00 & 14:00-18:00

Room:
Senatssaal V 1001

Registration:
Registration is free, but the organisers request that you register ahead of time (by June 10, 2013), as space is limited. Please register by sending an email to Lehrstuhl.Emundts@uni-konstanz.de.

Call for papers:
Certain participants will have the opportunity to present short papers (max. 20 minutes reading
time). Please send your proposal (ca. 3500 words) together with a short CV to:
Lehrstuhl.Emundts@uni-konstanz.de by May 10, 2013. Submissions should concern issues
directly related to Kant's theory of beauty in the Critique of Judgement.

Please direct any questions to: Lehrstuhl.Emundts@uni-konstanz.de.


Fall narratives: an interdisciplinary perspective
18-19 June 2014, University of Aberdeen, Scotland


As the 340th anniversary of John Milton¹s death approaches, the organisers seek to explore the theme of the Fall in a diverse, interdisciplinary context.


The conference, which is organised with the intention of leading to a publication of proceedings, will examine the concept of the Fall across a range of disciplines and languages. The temporal scope extends from antiquity to contemporary times.

The organisers welcome proposals with research interest such as, but not limited to, Literature, Religion, Languages, History, Philosophy, Psychology, Art, Film and Visual Culture, Cultural Studies and Economics.

Potential topics include (but again, are not limited to) the following:

* Milton and Paradise Lost
* Concept of moral and philosophical Falls
* Fall of angels (and demons)
* Adam and Eve
* Religious falls
* Literary falls
* Cinematic falls
* Contemporary falls: in finances, politics, media, sports, entertainment etc.
* Fall of empires: historical, economical, cultural
* Fall of regimes
* Fall of ideologies, ideas, world views, political/ religious movements, etc.
* The linguistics of falling
* The psychology of falling

Abstracts of approximately 200 words should be sent to:

Dr Zohar Hadromi-Allouche and Dr Áine Larkin
z.hadromi-allouche@abdn.ac.uk
a.larkin@abdn.ac.uk


Evaluative Perception: Aesthetic, Ethical, and Normative
13-15 September 2013, University of Glasgow

Keynote Speakers:

Professor Robert Audi (University of Notre Dame)
Professor Robert Hopkins (University of Sheffield)
Professor Dominic Lopes (University of British Colombia)
Dr Jack Lyons (University of Arkansas)
Dr Sarah McGrath (Princeton University)
Dr Kathleen Stock, University of Sussex)
Dr Dustin Stokes (University of Toronto)
Dr Pekka Väyrynen (University of Leeds)

The Centre for the Study of Perceptual Experience at the University of Glasgow is convening a conference on the topic of Evaluative Perception, where ‘evaluative’ is being understood so as to include aesthetic, ethical, and normative perception. The central questions to which the conference will be addressed include:

(i) Are there good reasons for thinking that evaluative perception is possible? Is this limited to
any particular sensory modality/ies?
(ii) Is there anything distinctive about evaluative perception, or particular types of evaluative
perception?
(iii) What are the epistemological consequences of evaluative perception?


Submissions should:

(i) be in English
(ii) include an Abstract (no more than 250 words) and a Paper that can be presented in
approximately 45 minutes
(iii) be prepared for blind review
(iv) be sent as a PDF to evaluativeconference@gmail.com no later than July 1 2013

The conference organisers gratefully acknowledge the generous support of the Aristotelian Society, British Society of Aesthetics, Mind Association, and Scots Philosophical Association. Any enquiries should be addressed to:

Dr Anna Bergqvist a.bergqvist@mmu.ac.uk
Or,
Dr Robert Cowan robert.cowan@glasgow.ac.uk


Evental Aesthetics, Vol. 2 No. 2
The Editors of Evental Aesthetics, an independent, peer-reviewed, online journal dedicated to philosophical and aesthetic intersections, are pleased to invite submissions of full-length articles (4,000-10,000 words, excluding endnotes) and Collisions (1,000-2,000 words) for the forthcoming issue. Collisions are brief (but well-written and thoughtful) responses to aesthetic experiences that raise philosophical questions for discussion, but that do not necessarily enact the discussion in full. More information on Collisions is available at http://eventalaesthetics.net/for-authors/.

This issue will have two parts, one dedicated to a specific theme, and the other (“unthemed”) devoted to aesthetic, philosophical questions of any kind. The Editors therefore seek submissions in two categories:

1. Aesthetics and philosophy (“unthemed”): This section will be devoted to philosophical matters pertaining to any aesthetic practice or experience, including but not limited to art and everyday aesthetics.
2. Animals and aesthetics: The themed section of this issue will focus on aesthetic matters relating to animals. Suggested topics include, but are not limited to:
· Animals in art
· The aesthetics of zoos
· Wildlife film
· Taxidermy
· Aesthetic matters in zoological science
· Species taxonomy and aesthetics
· Photography of ocean life and other species

Both categories may be freely interpreted, however all submissions must address philosophical matters. Please send submissions electronically in MS Word format (doc or docx), double-spaced in a legible font, in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style (endnotes). Be sure to accompany your submission with an abstract (max. 250 words), a bibliography, and at least 5 keywords that may be used as search terms. Articles must be in English, but we welcome either American or British spelling provided the submission remains consistent throughout. Please note that all submissions must be formatted for blind review.

Before submitting, please review the submission requirements, review procedures, and copyright policy at http://eventalaesthetics.net/for-authors/.

Email your submission to eventalaesthetics(at)gmail(dot)com by July 15 2013. Please include the word “submission” in the subject line. For announcements of forthcoming issues and future calls for authors, sign up for the e-mail list at eventalaesthetics.net


Somaesthetics Essay Prize
The Center for Body, Mind, and Culture at Florida Atlantic University is pleased to announce its second annual Somaesthetics Essay Prize competition. The award for the 2013 prize will be $500. Essays should be academic in style and focus on the interdisciplinary field of somaesthetics from such perspectives as philosophy, aesthetics, art history and theory, literary and cultural studies, dance, design, music, theatre, cognitive science, gender and sexuality studies, sports, movement, and health studies.

Submissions should be between 6,000 and 9,000 words in length including notes and references, and should be emailed in Word format to bodymindculture@fau.edu
The deadline for submissions is September 1, 2013, and the prize winner will be announced in December 2013. Essays will be evaluated by an interdisciplinary panel of judges appointed by the Center for Body, Mind, and Culture.

For more details including bibliographies on somaesthetics, please visit http://www.fau.edu/bodymindculture/Somaesthetics_Essay_Prize.php


Humanities: The Paradox of Horror
Call for papers for a special issue of Humanities open-access quarterly journal. Guest-editor: Dr. Katerina Bantinaki (bantinaki@fks.uoc.gr)

The horror genre has persisted in art for more than a century, gaining gradually popularity among audiences. The emotions on which the horror genre trades, fear and disgust, are generally acknowledged as intrinsically unpleasant emotions that we avoid experiencing in real life. This conception of horror emotions, coupled with the popularity of the genre, gives rise to a paradox: why are we attracted to horror if it generates emotions that we avoid in real life? Humanities invites articles from all fields of humanities that aim to answer this question, making a significant contribution to the existing literature on the topic.

Manuscripts should be submitted online by registering to the journal’s website: www.mdpi.com/journal/humanities


Submission deadline: 30 May 2013.


The Aesthetic as a Site of Feminist Resistance
Despite its manifold permutations, all feminist philosophy is bound by the general principle that the distinction between politics and philosophical thought ought to be troubled. Despite this principle, feminist philosophical aesthetics is still regarded with suspicion, or even, as an impossible undertaking. In her appraisal of the field, Ewa Ziarek outlines this impasse. She notes that for some, the tradition of Western aesthetics appears to undermine the political or ethical emphasis of feminism; while for others, a feminist treatment of philosophical aesthetics may represent the inappropriate instrumentalization of artistic practice or experience.

And yet, as that which is concerned with perception, sensation and affect, philosophical aesthetics presents fruitful opening for feminist thought. Artistic expression is intimately tied to the politics of embodiment or, the power to appear and to speak. Artistic experience may open seams of perception, express a suppressed alterity or introduce a radical possibility. These topics are already themes of central consideration for feminist phenomenology, feminist psychoanalytic theory, feminist postcolonial theory, and feminist philosophies of race.

The organisers encourage the submission of new work that gestures beyond the critique of feminist aesthetics to creatively negotiate or traverse the borders of feminist philosophy and art—broadly construed. We invite abstracts or essays contemplating the intersections between gender, sexual orientation, race, nationality, ethnicity, or ability, and the artistic production or experience of forms including but not limited to:

·Dance
·Performance art
·Music
·Visual art
·Installation art
·Moving image art including film, video and other new medias
·Poetry
·Literature
·Graffiti

Please submit a) an extended abstract or b) a completed paper of approximately 8000 words with a 100 word abstract to: feministaesthetics@gmail.com

All submissions should be in MS Word format. The submission of images where appropriate, is also welcome.

The deadline for submission is June 1, 2013. Please send inquiries to: sarah.tyson@ucdenver.edu, summer.renault-steele@villanova.edu


Rivista di Estetica: Architecture
Since the beginning architecture is a two-headed art as it is anchored on the field of the functional (see the functionalist drifts supported by the theorists of the Modernism in various forms) as well as on the field of the beautiful (which, in extreme cases, takes it to those forms of sculpture/architecture where the use destination annuls itself in the aesthetic experience). This issue of the “Rivista di Estetica” aims to account for the status of the contemporary debate, in the analytic and continental area, by focusing on the questions which nowadays society poses to architecture. Therefore, what is the meaning of the dialectics between the functional and the beautiful in the contemporary architectural culture? To what extent can the aesthetic investigation contribute to the critical debate where the artistic and aesthetic dimension of architecture is pointed at from different perspectives as the legitimacy of a self-referential architecture, which is oriented to purely commercial values and is reduced to a media instrument, to means of cultural colonization? New issues related to globalization, ecology, landscape and environmental protection require an interdisciplinary approach and, above all, the retrieval of an ethics of responsibility. If the contemporary technocratic society too often sets the reasons of the profit above those of ethics, aesthetics, culture and even life, it is perhaps possible, through a new dialogue with classics, with the great masters of the past, to rebuild paradigms which can refer architecture back to its thousand-year task: the material and symbolical elaboration of the vital space of man. In this perspective, the issue of the “Rivista di Estetica” is open to the contribution of scholars of aesthetics as well as of scholars of other philosophical disciplines, humanities and architecture, and of architects directly involved in the design practice.
Advisory editors: Elisa Di Ste
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IIAA Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics
The International Institute of Applied Aesthetics (IIAA) will arrange the X Summer Conference on Environmental Aesthetics in Lahti, Finland, 1-3 August 2013. The theme of the conference is Values in the Environment – Relations and Conflicts.

Environments are arenas for different sorts of values. Environments are valued for their beauty and aesthetic experiences they afford, but there are also moral and ecological values that need to be taken into consideration, for example, in decision-making concerning particular areas both in human and in natural environments.

Different values can also come into conflict with one another. The ecologically best environment is not necessarily the most valuable environment from an aesthetic point of view. How should the weight of the different values present in environments be assessed? Is aesthetic value in some ways inferior to other sorts of values or could aesthetic value perhaps serve as a reason for preserving parts of the environment?

There is also an interesting question about the possibility of aesthetically appreciating damaged environments. How does the morally questionable background of an environment affect its aesthetic value? Can a mine or a quarry, for example, be considered beautiful?

The organisers invite researchers from different fields of the humanities, social and environmental sciences to discuss these questions. People interested in exploring them are asked to send an abstract of about 400 words to iiaa-info@helsinki.fi by the 15th of February 2013. The time allotted to each paper is 40 minutes (30 minutes for presentation and 10 for discussion).

Keynote speakers include: Nathalie Blanc (CNRS, Paris), Yrjö Haila (University of Tampere, Finland) and
Ned Hettinger (College of Charleston, USA).

Conference fee: 100€/50€ graduate students

Contact: kalle.puolakka[at]helsinki.fi