Welcome fellow postgraduates
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.
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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.
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Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics
The aim of this journal is to offer postgraduates interested in aesthetics a space to exchange ideas, and also to foster a resource that will promote high quality essays relevant to postgraduates' interests. The journal is published three times annually, in January, May and September.
Deadline for submissions for the Spring issue is 1 April 2012.
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Events and Calls for Papers
Graduate/early career workshop in aesthetics
The AHRC funded project “Method in Philosophical Aesthetics: the challenge
from the sciences”, now
in its third year, will host a graduate and early career workshop on the
26th of June at the University of Leeds. The keynote speaker will be Dominic
McIver Lopes (UBC). Offers of papers are warmly invited from graduate
students, postdoctoral researchers and other early career researchers who do
not yet have a tenurable or permanent post.
Papers should be no more that 3,000 words long and may address issues
concerning the arts and the aesthetic in the broadest sense. Thus papers on
the imagination, on knowledge in and from the arts, on aesthetic value in
relation to other kinds of value, on creativity, etc are very welcome.
Papers should in some way address the relevance of scientific findings, but
need not be sympathetic to empirically oriented philosophy.
Papers should be prepared for blind refereeing and accompanied by a cover
sheet identifying the author and providing contact information. The cover
sheet should also provide some indication as to your career status to
demonstrate eligibility. Papers should be sent to apxah1@nottingham.ac.uk by
Friday March 9th. Outcome will be communicated by Friday March 30th
British Society of Aesthetics 2012 Annual Conference
Submissions are welcome on any area of philosophical aesthetics from students enrolled in MA or doctoral degree programmes (these must be marked as a postgraduate paper at the time of submission) and may not exceed 2500 words excluding abstract (around 25 minutes reading time). All submissions should include a 200 word abstract and must be prepared for blind review. Abstracts without full papers, papers that are not prepared for blind review, and papers that exceed the maximum length will not be considered.
Students whose papers are accepted will receive a stipend to defray conference fees and accommodation costs. The winner of the prize for the best paper by a student will also receive £100 and a grant for travel to the conference.
Submissions should be sent by email attachment in Word format to: admin@british-aesthetics.org with the author’s name, affiliation and contact details in the body of the email. The deadline for submissions is 1 April 2012.
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American Society for Aesthetics Graduate E-journal
Submissions are welcome for ASAGE's Spring/Summer 2012 issue. The deadline for this issue is March 1, 2012, although submissions (particularly for book reviews and dissertation abstracts) are also accepted on a rolling basis throughout the year.
ASAGE accepts papers on any topic in aesthetics, written by graduate students who have not yet completed final requirements for the doctoral
degree. Submissions should be under 3000 words (although exceptions may be
made at the editor's discretion, to a maximum of 5000 words, particularly in
the case of historical papers). They must be accompanied by an abstract of
no more than 250 words and a word count.
Book reviews and dissertation abstracts are also needed, as are article
reviewers.
Please see www.asage.org for more detailed information on submitting an
article, book review, dissertation abstract or reviewer application.
Call for Abstracts: Understanding Value Graduate Conference
University of Sheffield, 11th-13th July 2012
Keynote speakers:
Dr Miranda Fricker, Birkbeck College, University of London
Professor Christopher Hookway, University of Sheffield
Professor Peter Lamarque, University of York
Determining the nature of value is a project that has a bearing on most areas of philosophy. For this reason, the conference aims to bring together graduate students working on a range of philosophical topics (including ethics, metaethics, aesthetics, epistemology, political philosophy and philosophy of mind) to discuss value. The conference will focus on a discussion of value from the perspective of three philosophical disciplines, broadly construed: (i) ethics; (ii) epistemology; and (iii) aesthetics. Cross-disciplinary papers that consider the nature of value from a range of philosophical perspectives, and papers exclusively focussed on value are also welcome. Papers from graduate students, or those who have submitted a PhD in the last two years are welcome. Due to the generous support of the Mind Association and the Analysis Trust the conference fee will be subsidised and bursaries will also be available.
How to submit your proposal: Submissions will be blind-reviewed and should include:
· A cover note containing your name, institutional affiliation, email address, and the title of your paper.
· An abstract of between 500 and 1000 words of a paper suitable for a 30-minute presentation.
All submissions should be emailed to
valueconference@shef.ac.uk by 1st March 2012.
More information available at
www.understandingvalue.webeden.co.uk.
Postgraduate Study in Aesthetics
Specialist degrees in aesthetics
Postgraduate Bursaries and Funding
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.
BSA Studentship Award
The British Society of Aesthetics proposes to award up to one Ph.D. studentship full-time maintenance grant of £13,290 (or within the City of London or the Metropolitan Police district: £15,290) plus tuition fees up to a maximum value of £3,500 from Sept. 2010 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.
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