British Society of Aesthetics

Calls for Papers
The Catcher in the Rye and Philosophy
Edited by Keith Dromm and Heather Salter

Abstracts are sought for a collection of essays on J. D. Salinger’s The Catcher in the Rye. The volume will be published by Open Court as part of their successful Popular Culture and Philosophy Series.

Abstracts should be for essays that use philosophy to illuminate the novel’s characters, story, or themes. The volume is geared toward a general audience, readers who may have little to no prior familiarity with philosophy. The chapters should be accessible, clearly written, and capable of engaging non-philosophers.

Chapters that introduce readers to classic philosophers (e.g., Plato, Descartes, Wittgenstein, etc.) or philosophical movements (e.g., pragmatism, Kantian ethics, etc.) are especially sought, along with those that use philosophical ideas to illuminate aspects of The Catcher in the Rye. Potential contributors are encouraged to look at other volumes in Open Court’s Popular Culture and Philosophy Series before submitting their proposals.

Guidelines: 1. Abstracts should be 1-2 pages in length. 2. Submit a CV for each author. 3. E-mail submissions in MS Word to catcherandphilosophy@yahoo.com 4. Submission Deadline: May 25, 2010.

Selected contributors will be notified by June 10, 2010. Finished chapters will be due August 20, 2010 and should be 12-15 pages in length. Further guidelines will be provided to selected contributors.


Reweaving the Rainbow: Literature and Philosophy 1850-1910
University of Exeter, 10th - 11th September 2010
Confirmed keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Wood (Princeton)

This two-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the vicissitudes of influence, appropriation, interaction and disciplinarity in 'English literature' and 'philosophy'. It will address the ways in which literature is philosophical and philosophy is literary, and how their interactions evolved in the course of this period. The conference will raise a range of issues including, but not limited to:

* How novels and poetry exploit the philosophical potentialities of literary form, including the treatment and expansion of philosophical issues such as ethics and epistemology in literary works (eg. Henry James' empiricism, Wilde's aphorisms)
* The influence of philosophers on literary writers (eg. Feuerbach and Eliot, Ancient Greek philosophy and Arnold, Nietzsche and Vernon Lee)
* Intellectual and literary culture in Britain (eg. the Classics in Oxford, the British Hegelians, the rise of Positivism, the persistence of Romantic philosophies)
* The philosophy of literature and the arts (eg. Ruskin, George Moore, Arthur Symons)
* The way that science influenced philosophical discourses in essays, novels and poetry (eg. evolution and ethics, Hardy and social Darwinism)

The deadline for submission of abstracts is 2nd April 2010. Please send an abstract of around 300 words and a brief biography to Dr. Kate Hext and EII Research Fellow Alice Barnaby at k.hext@ex.ac.uk no later than this date. Questions and comments are also welcome!


"The Media of Photography" First call for papers
A Special Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism "The Media of Photography", First Call for Papers Guest Editors: Diarmuid Costello (Warwick, UK) and Dominic McIver Lopes (UBC, Canada)

Potential contributors are encouraged to read the full special issue proposal at: jaac.mentalpaint.net. Any philosophical treatment of photography will be considered. Submissions should not exceed 7,000 words and must comply with the general guidelines for submissions (see “Submissions” on the JAAC website: www.temple.edu/jaac). Send submissions as e-mail attachments to both guest editors, indicating clearly that your submission is for the special issue. Deadline for Submissions: 10 January 2011.
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Estetika: The Central European Journal of Aesthetics

Estetika welcomes contributions in English or German on all topics related to aesthetics, the philosophy of art or the history of aesthetics, especially on (but not limited strictly to) the possibilities of the transformation and re-description of traditional concepts (such as the aesthetic experience and the aesthetic object); the cognitive and social dimensions of the Aesthetic (das Ästhetische); the emotions and affects; the history of aesthetics; the history of aesthetics as an institutionalized discipline; and, last but not least, the definition of aesthetics in contrast to traditional and more recent disciplines (such as the theory of art, the psychology of art, cultural theory, and visual theory). The deadline for the submission of articles for the next issue (02/10) is March 31, 2010. Should you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jakub Stejskal: aesthetics@ff.cuni.cz.
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The British Society of Aesthetics 50th Anniversary Annual Conference
Second Call for Papers The British Society of Aesthetics 50th Anniversary Annual Conference
Heythrop College,
University of London
17-19 September 2010

Please note the change of location from previous years. Heythrop College is located in Kensington Square W8, one of the oldest squares in London in one of the loveliest sections of the city.

Deadline for submissions: April 1, 2010

Invited speakers:
BSA/ASA Wollheim Memorial Lecture: Noel Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center)
Keynote speaker: Jean-Marie Schaeffer (CNRS/EHESS)
William Empson Lecture: Geoffrey Hill, poet and critic.

Papers in philosophical aesthetics should be submitted with a 200 word abstract and formatted for blind review (author's name, etc., on separate cover page). Papers should not exceed 3500 words (or 30 minutes reading time). Abstracts cannot be considered in lieu of papers. In keeping with the 50th Anniversary of the BSA, we welcome papers addressing the theme ‘the next 50 years in aesthetics’.

There are slots reserved for postgraduate papers (to be marked as such when submitted). Postgraduate papers should not exceed 2500 words (or 25 minutes reading time). Conference fees will be waived for postgraduate students whose papers are accepted. There will also be a prize for the best paper. The winner will receive £100 and a grant for travel to the conference.

Submissions should be submitted in Word format by email to Stacie Friend (s.friend@heythrop.ac.uk).

Programme Committee: Emily Brady (Edinburgh), Stacie Friend (Heythrop), Dominic McIver Lopes (UBC), Kathleen Stock (Sussex)