British Society of Aesthetics

Calls for Papers
"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)


Film-Philosophy III
The University of Warwick, with the support of its Humanities Research Centre, is hosting Film-Philosophy III: the third annual conference of the Film-Philosophy journal, 15-17 July 2010. The organisers welcome proposals for 30 minute papers that explore any aspect of the relationships between film, film studies and philosophy. Proposals should be sent to film.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk by 28 February 2010. Conference registration will open in mid-January 2010. Details of the on-campus accommodation, conference dinner and registration fee will be provided in mid-January on the conference website at www.warwick.ac.uk/go/film-philosophy For general enquiries please contact film.philosophy@warwick.ac.uk. For details about the journal please go to www.film-philosophy.com


EXPRESSION AND THE INNER: 6th INTER-UNIVERSITY WORSHOP ON MIND, ART AND MORALITY
VI Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality
EXPRESSION AND THE INNER
University of Oviedo (Spain) April 8-10, 2010

Invited Speaker:
DAVID H. FINKELSTEIN (University of Chicago) Author of Expression and the Inner (Harvard U. P., 2003) and several papers on epistemology, metaphysics and the philosophy of mind. His book offers an expressivist account of the special authority with which we speak about our own thoughts and feelings, and of the distinction between conscious and unconscious mental states.

The workshop
The Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art and Morality promotes the relation among different areas of philosophy; more specifically, the Workshop aims at exploring those issues where ethical, aesthetical and the philosophy of mind’s discussion topics converge and interweave. In former editions, the Workshop has been devoted either to the work of the philosophers Richard Wollheim, Jonathan Dancy, Christine Korsgaard, Shaun Nichols or to broad subjects such as the Philosophy of Music (with the presence of Peter Kivy, Noël Carroll or Derek Matravers). In this occasion, the Workshop will receive David H. Finkelstein who will present his recent research on first-person authority

Contributed Papers
We invite philosophers and other scholars interested in discussing these or other related topics to join the Workshop, for an exchange of ideas on these subjects. Contributions focused on David Finkelstein’s book are especially encouraged, but papers on any aspect of the first-person authority, self-knowledge, expression, conscious and unconscious states, are also welcome. Papers should be about 15 pages long (5000 words), to be presented in 40 minutes maximum, and to allow 20 minutes discussion. Extended abstracts, of about 2000 words, will also be accepted for review.