British Society of Aesthetics

Events

LONDON AESTHETICS FORUM Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, Senate House, Spring 2008 Speakers for the 2008 Spring term include: Jonathan Friday (Kent), Rob Hopkins (Sheffield), Andy Hamilton (Durham), Christophe Menke (Potsdam). For more information, please visit: here.
LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY/PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE University of Sussex, 12th - 14th June, 2008 2008 inaugural conference of the Centre for Literature and Philosophy at the University of Sussex. Dates: 12-14 June 2008 Keynote speakers: Paul Davies, Alex Garcia-Duttmann, Jonathan Lear, Stephen Mulhall, Nicholas Royle, Kendall Walton. Theme: Over the last few years there has been a sustained discussion of the relation between philosophy and literature: from within the analytic and the continental philosophical traditions, specific questions are being raised about the metaphysics, value and interpretation of literary texts; from literary theory emerge new forms of literary practice; and, partly as a result of these developments, important questions about disciplinary boundaries are being addressed to both disciplines. For more information, please visit: here.
MIND, ART AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: PERSPECTIVES ON WOLLHEIM Institute of Philosophy, London, 20th June, 2008 The Institute of Philosophy and Heythrop College, University of London. 20 June 2008. Richard Wollheim, former Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College, London and Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley, was one of the most original and pre-eminent philosophers of mind and aesthetics of the late 20th century, whose work reached beyond philosophy to engage psychoanalysts and art historians as well. Yet his thought has received comparatively little comment and discussion. This conference seeks to undo some of that neglect. Invited speakers: Anthony Price (Birkbeck), James Hopkins (KCL), Derek Matravers (Open/Cambridge). The conference will comprise two symposia, one on psychoanalysis, the other on aesthetics, individual papers, and a conference address. For more information, please visit: here
FILM AND PHILOSOPHY/PHILOSOPHY AND FILM University of Western England, Bristol, 4th - 6th July, 2008, Keynote Speakers: Stephen Mulhall (Oxford), Vivian Sobchack (UCLA), Robert Sinnerbrink (Maquarrie), Catherine Constable (Warwick), Karin Littau (Essex), Julian Baggini (editor, The Philosopher’s Magazine) In the last years there has been a growing interest in the relationship between philosophy and film within both analytic and European philosophical traditions. At the same time, film studies as a discipline has always raised philosophical questions and has been enriched by a variety of philosophical traditions. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from both disciplines to examine this shared history, as well as display the current range and state of philosophical film analysis. For more info, please visit: here.
SCRUTON'S AESTHETICS University of Durham, 22nd - 24th July, 2008 Durham University, 22-24 July 2008 Keynote speakers include: Roger Scruton, Jerrold Levinson (on music), Paul Boghossian (on music), Simon Blackburn (on sexual desire), John Hyman (on photography), David Davies (on photography), Greg Currie (on imagination). For more information, please visit: here
INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EMPIRICAL AESTHETICS Chicago, 19th - 22nd August, 2008, 20th Biannual congress of the IAEA will be held from 19th - 22nd of August in Chicago. This congress' theme is "Psychology and Aesthetics into the Future." For more information, please visit: here.
THEATRE, PERFORMANCE AND PHILOSOPHY University of Leeds, 3rd - 5th September, 2008 The Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA, www.tapra.org), will hold its 4th Annual Conference at the University of Leeds from September 3-5, 2008. Ever since Aristotle's Poetics in the West, and Natyashastra in what isnow South Asia, philosophy has played a major role in relation totheatre, both in explaining the phenomena associated with theatre andin influencing theatre practice and theory. Besides examining the oftenoverlooked historical links between philosophy and theatre in the worksand plays of given thinkers like Hegel and Sartre, of particularinterest to the TaPRA Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group will be the use of theatrical metaphors in philosophy and the notion of the "performative" and performance, from Austin's How To Do Things with Words to Derrida's "Signature, Event, Context". For more information, please visit: here.
PHOTOGRAPHY AS A MEDIUM (POST-DIGITALISATION) Stewert House, Russell Sq. London, 21st - 22nd December, 2008 The AHRC funded Aesthetics After Photography Autumn 2008 Workshop. The widespread use of digital technologies in recent years, and their capacity for apparently seamless integration with the traditional photographic input processes on the one hand (standard lenses and shutters) and output processes on the other (the variety of photographic prints) has reawakened interest in the nature of photography as an artistic medium. This workshop will explore such questions from a philosophical perspective in the light of recent technologies. Speakers include: Jonathan Friday (Kent), Robert Hopkins (Sheffield), Patrick Maynard (Western Ontario), Peter Osborne (Middlesex) and Barbara Savedoff (Baruch-CUNY). Plus talks by photographers. For more information, please visit: here.
MORE EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS Misc. See Calls For Papers page for details.
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LONDON AESTHETICS FORUM
Institute of Philosophy, School of Advanced Studies, Senate House, Spring 2008
Speakers for the 2008 Spring term include: Jonathan Friday (Kent), Rob Hopkins (Sheffield), Andy Hamilton (Durham), Christophe Menke (Potsdam). For more information, please visit: here.

LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY/PHILOSOPHY AND LITERATURE
University of Sussex, 12th - 14th June, 2008
2008 inaugural conference of the Centre for Literature and Philosophy at the University of Sussex. Dates: 12-14 June 2008 Keynote speakers: Paul Davies, Alex Garcia-Duttmann, Jonathan Lear, Stephen Mulhall, Nicholas Royle, Kendall Walton. Theme: Over the last few years there has been a sustained discussion of the relation between philosophy and literature: from within the analytic and the continental philosophical traditions, specific questions are being raised about the metaphysics, value and interpretation of literary texts; from literary theory emerge new forms of literary practice; and, partly as a result of these developments, important questions about disciplinary boundaries are being addressed to both disciplines. For more information, please visit: here.

MIND, ART AND PSYCHOANALYSIS: PERSPECTIVES ON WOLLHEIM
Institute of Philosophy, London, 20th June, 2008
The Institute of Philosophy and Heythrop College, University of London. 20 June 2008. Richard Wollheim, former Grote Professor of Philosophy of Mind and Logic at University College, London and Mills Professor of Intellectual and Moral Philosophy at University of California, Berkeley, was one of the most original and pre-eminent philosophers of mind and aesthetics of the late 20th century, whose work reached beyond philosophy to engage psychoanalysts and art historians as well. Yet his thought has received comparatively little comment and discussion. This conference seeks to undo some of that neglect. Invited speakers: Anthony Price (Birkbeck), James Hopkins (KCL), Derek Matravers (Open/Cambridge). The conference will comprise two symposia, one on psychoanalysis, the other on aesthetics, individual papers, and a conference address. For more information, please visit: here

FILM AND PHILOSOPHY/PHILOSOPHY AND FILM
University of Western England, Bristol, 4th - 6th July, 2008,
Keynote Speakers: Stephen Mulhall (Oxford), Vivian Sobchack (UCLA), Robert Sinnerbrink (Maquarrie), Catherine Constable (Warwick), Karin Littau (Essex), Julian Baggini (editor, The Philosopher’s Magazine) In the last years there has been a growing interest in the relationship between philosophy and film within both analytic and European philosophical traditions. At the same time, film studies as a discipline has always raised philosophical questions and has been enriched by a variety of philosophical traditions. The aim of this conference is to bring together scholars from both disciplines to examine this shared history, as well as display the current range and state of philosophical film analysis. For more info, please visit: here.

SCRUTON'S AESTHETICS
University of Durham, 22nd - 24th July, 2008
Durham University, 22-24 July 2008 Keynote speakers include: Roger Scruton, Jerrold Levinson (on music), Paul Boghossian (on music), Simon Blackburn (on sexual desire), John Hyman (on photography), David Davies (on photography), Greg Currie (on imagination). For more information, please visit: here

INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF EMPIRICAL AESTHETICS
Chicago, 19th - 22nd August, 2008,
20th Biannual congress of the IAEA will be held from 19th - 22nd of August in Chicago. This congress' theme is "Psychology and Aesthetics into the Future." For more information, please visit: here.

THEATRE, PERFORMANCE AND PHILOSOPHY
University of Leeds, 3rd - 5th September, 2008
The Theatre and Performance Research Association (TaPRA, www.tapra.org), will hold its 4th Annual Conference at the University of Leeds from September 3-5, 2008. Ever since Aristotle's Poetics in the West, and Natyashastra in what isnow South Asia, philosophy has played a major role in relation totheatre, both in explaining the phenomena associated with theatre andin influencing theatre practice and theory. Besides examining the oftenoverlooked historical links between philosophy and theatre in the worksand plays of given thinkers like Hegel and Sartre, of particularinterest to the TaPRA Theatre, Performance and Philosophy working group will be the use of theatrical metaphors in philosophy and the notion of the "performative" and performance, from Austin's How To Do Things with Words to Derrida's "Signature, Event, Context". For more information, please visit: here.

PHOTOGRAPHY AS A MEDIUM (POST-DIGITALISATION)
Stewert House, Russell Sq. London, 21st - 22nd December, 2008
The AHRC funded Aesthetics After Photography Autumn 2008 Workshop. The widespread use of digital technologies in recent years, and their capacity for apparently seamless integration with the traditional photographic input processes on the one hand (standard lenses and shutters) and output processes on the other (the variety of photographic prints) has reawakened interest in the nature of photography as an artistic medium. This workshop will explore such questions from a philosophical perspective in the light of recent technologies. Speakers include: Jonathan Friday (Kent), Robert Hopkins (Sheffield), Patrick Maynard (Western Ontario), Peter Osborne (Middlesex) and Barbara Savedoff (Baruch-CUNY). Plus talks by photographers. For more information, please visit: here.

MORE EVENTS AND CALLS FOR PAPERS
Misc.
See Calls For Papers page for details.

TO SEE YOUR AESTHETICS RELATED EVENT LISTED HERE:
Please email dan.cavedon.taylor[at]gmail.com
(replace [at] with @).