British Society of Aesthetics

Welcome fellow postgraduates

 The PJA is pleased to announce the launch of the new website:

www.pjaesthetics.org

In Vol. 9, No, 3, read:
* Hearing Meaning and Poetry: An Interview with Angela Leighton; by
Karen Simecek
* Civil Monsters: The Enlightened Dialectics of Othello; by Sam Gilchrist Hall
* Kierkegaard and the Dialectic of Demonic Despair; by Ryan Johnson
* The Body Thinking; by William Searle

The deadline for submissions for the next issue is 1 December. See the website for details.


This section of the BSA website is for postgraduates interested in aesthetics. Here you can find the Society's Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics, as well as information on postgrad events, calls for papers, sources of funding, etc.  
Join the BSA - student rate!
JOIN US! You can join the British Society of Aesthetics for just £17/€25/$34 per year.

This entitles you to the four issues of the British Journal of Aesthetics, published in January, April, July, and October of each year (including access to the journal on-line), regular Society newsletters, and participation in the Society's activities, including its Annual Conference, which in 2012 will take place 21-23 September 2012 at Queen's College, Oxford. To join, click here

Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics
The Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics is BSA's postgraduate journal, publishing high quality essays written by postgraduates. The journal is published three times annually, in January, May and September.

The pages of the journal have moved! You can find it here: www.pjaesthetics.org/

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Events and Calls for Papers
Postgraduate Study in Aesthetics
Specialist degrees in aesthetics
The UK is a great place to study aesthetics and the philosophy of art; as well as offering general MAs in Philosophy which may involve an aesthetics component, many departments also offer specialist MAs in aesthetics and related areas (let us know of any not listed here!):

MA in Philosophy and Literature at the University of East Anglia

MA, MPHIL and PhD in History and Philosophy of Art at the University of Kent

MA in Aesthetics and Art Theory at Kingston University London

MA in Art, Aesthetics and Cultural Institutions at the University of Liverpool

MA in Aesthetics at the University of Southampton

MA in Philosophy (Aesthetics pathway) at the University of Sussex
MA in Literature and Philosophy at the University of Sussex

MA and PhD in Philosophy and Literature at the University of Warwick

MA in Philosophy of Art and Literature at the University of York




For more information, see our
Guide to Graduate Aesthetics (2004-05)


Postgraduate Bursaries and Funding
BSA Studentship Award
The British Society of Aesthetics proposes to award up to one Ph.D. studentship full-time maintenance grant of £13,590 (or within the City of London or the Metropolitan Police district: £15,590) plus tuition fees up to a maximum value of £4,000 from Sept. 2012 for up to 3 years. The studentship is designed to support a promising philosopher in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, by enabling him or her to pursue full time doctoral research. For more information, please click here


AHRC and ESRC
Consult the Arts & Humanities Research Council Homepage for details of the studentships scheme. The Economic and Social Research Council may also have relevant information, and particular universities may have fellowships to offer.