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Newsletter 1/2021

The European Society for Aesthetics Newsletter (Issue 1, Vol. 2, June 2021) was published on June 8th 2021. It features the address by the ESA President Paca Pérez-Carreño as well as an interview with the winner of Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize in 2020, Jeremy Page. It also includes invitations to online events, journal announcements, and calls for papers. You can download a second issue of the newsletter here.

The 2021 Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize Awarded

The executive committee of the European Society for Aesthetics is happy to announce that the winning essay of the 2021 Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize is “Interpretive Authenticity: Performances, Versions and Ontology” by Nemesio García-Carril Puy (University of Murcia). The committee appreciated careful, well-informed, and convincing argumentation backed up by a great choice of examples. Nemesio will present the paper on Wednesday, June 23rd, 2021 at the ESA conference. A longer version of the winning essay will be published in Estetika: The European Journal of Aesthetics.

The ESA Essay Prize for PhD students and early career researchers was launched in 2017 in memory Fabian Dorsch, a co-founder and the first secretary of the European Society for Aesthetics. Its former winners include Jeremy Page (2020), Irene Martínez Marín (2019), Mark Windsor (2018), and Servaas van der Berg (2017).

Programme of the 2021 ESA Conference Announced

The conference of the European Society of Aesthetics is taking place online on June 21 – 23, its structure, however, closely follows the format of a real event. For a full programme, please go here. To attend the conference, please register by June 17.

Volume 12 / 2020

Edited by Vítor Moura and Connell
Vaughan

Table of Contents

Complete Volume

Marta Benenti and Lisa Giombini The Aesthetic Paradox of Tourism 1-31
Monika Favara-Kurkowski A Reflection on the Criteria for Identifying Design 31-48
Lilli Förster Against the High Culture – On Leo Tolstoy’s Aesthetics 49-65
Charles Lebeau-Henry Nietzsche’s Artistic Ideal in Human, All Too Human and the Case of Music 66-83
João Lemos Moral Aspects’ Aesthetic Relevance 84-99
Ancuta Mortu The Repertoire as Aesthetic Category 100-121
Salvador Rubio Marco Aesthetic Values, Engaging Perspectives, and Possibilities 122-152 ...

9/2020 // Call for contributions to ESA Newletter #2

Dear members of the European Society for Aesthetics, please do submit your short (up to 150 words) contributions to a 2nd issue of the ESA newsletter. We are interested in: upcoming conferences, online events, recently published books and journals (or the forthcoming ones), joint project invitations, and any important news related to the field of aesthetics. The deadline for submissions has been extended to September 21st. Please, send your submissions (or any questions regarding the contents) to tereza.hadravova@ff.cuni.cz.

Expected publication of the newsletter is in October 2020.

The first issue of the newsletter, published in May 2020, can be downloaded here.

5/2020 // The ESA Newsletter #1 is Out

May 11 2020 A first issue of the ESA Newsletter has just been published. You can download it here.

The ESA Logo Contest Reopened

Since no winner was selected, the executive committee have decided to open the call for the ESA logo, originally closed in March 2020, to new entries. A call for the ESA logo design is to be found here.

Deadline: August 31st 2020. Submissions to be emailed to secretary@eurosa.org.

The selected logo will be awarded a one off payment of €500.

Volume 11 / 2019

The eleventh volume of the ESA Proceedings has just been published. It has been edited by Connell Vaughan and Iris Vidmar Jovanović and contains papers presented at the ESA Conference 2019 held in Warsaw.

PROGRAMME AND REGISTRATION

The twelfth ESA conference takes place on June 21 – 23, 2021 online and it closely follows the format of a real event. Please, download the full programme here. 

Keynote Speakers:

  • Professor David Davies (McGill)
  • Professor Bence Nanay (Antwerp)
  • Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin)

REGISTRATION (for those who do not present their papers at the conference)

To attend the conference, one needs to send an e-mail to the ESA Treasurer Adam Andrzejewski (a.andrzejewski@uw.edu.pl) expressing his/her interest in participating in the event and (preferably) including a receipt certifying paying the conference fee. The conference fee is 10 euro and the deadline for registration is June 17. 

The fee has to be paid to the ESA bank account: 

Account number: 91-281330-5 

IBAN: CH6509000000912813305 

SWIFT/BIC: POFICHBEXXX The Society’s address is: European Society for Aesthetics, c/o University of Fribourg, Department of Philosophy, Avenue de l’Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.

All papers presented at the conference are eligible for publication in the Proceedings of the ESA (details available at http://www.eurosa.org/proceedings/ )

All questions about submissions should ...

2019 Conference Book of Abstracts

Click here for the 2019 Conference book of abstracts

Change of Keynote

Erika Fischer-Lichte (Berlin) has had to cancel due to unforeseen circumstances. She will be replaced by Lydia Goehr (Columbia).

ESA Conference 2019, Warsaw; Registration

Registration requires two steps:

    • First, please send an email to us, stating your full name, affiliation and any dietary requirements for the conference dinner (if applicable).
    • Second, please pay the conference fees (see below).

Please note that the registration deadline is the 24th of May, 2019

Payment of the Conference Fees

Unfortunately, we only accept payment via Paypal at the moment. Please get in contact with Adam if this poses an insurmountable problem for you.

The registration fee is 80.00 EUR for waged and 40 EUR for unwaged (e.g. student) participants. The Conference dinner is 40 EUR .

Please choose the relevant option from the drop down menu below before clicking on the ‘Pay Now’ button, which should redirect you to the Paypal site.


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Volume 10 / 2018

The tenth volume of the ESA Proceedings has just been published. It has been edited by Connell Vaughan and Iris Vidmar and contains papers presented at the ESA Conference 2018 held in Maribor.

ESA Conference 2019 – Warsaw (Poland)

EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS CONFERENCE 2019

Warsaw (Poland): 12–14 June, 2019

The European Society for Aesthetics would like to invite you to attend the ESA Conference that will take place in Warsaw, Poland, from the 12th until the 14th of June 2019.

The conference is co-organised with the Institute of Philosophy at the University of Warsaw.

Keynote Speakers
  • Hanne Appelqvist (Helsinki)
  • Ruth Sonderegger (Vienna)
  • Lydia Goehr (Columbia)
  • Erika Fischer-Lichte (Berlin) – cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances
Programme

We will have both systematic and historical presentations of papers from different traditions and on a large variety of topics in philosophical aesthetics. For each talk, there will be time for a 20-minute presentation, with about another 25 minutes designated for discussion. All accepted and presented papers would be eligible for publication in the proceedings of the ESA.

Conference Programme

Book of Abstracts

ESA General Assembly

Registration

Please register for the conference here.

If you are not yet a member of the ESA, please register first – membership is for free. If you forgot your password, you can set a new one here.

Registration deadline: 24th of May 2019

Venue

Collegium Novum (Old Library), University of Warsaw, Krakowskie Przedmieście 26/28 street, Warsaw, Poland

Travelling ...

ESA General Assembly and Election 2018

The European Society for Aesthetics (ESA) will hold its general assembly at the ESA’s annual conference, Alma Mater Europaea, Maribor, 14.6.–16.6.2018. In connection with the assembly, several new people will be elected to the ESA executive committee to replace the seven current members who will reach the maximum of two consecutive three year terms in the committee at the ESA2018 conference. Three current committee members, including the ESA president, will be stepping up for re-election. Each member will be elected for a term of three years. The ESA now welcomes candidates for the executive committee. 

Volume 9 / 2017

The ninth volume of the ESA Proceedings has just been published. It has been edited by Dan-Eugen Ratiu and Connell Vaughan and contains papers presented at the ESA Conference 2017 held in Berlin. More…

ESA Conference 2018, Maribor – Registration

Registration requires two steps:

  • First, please send an email to us, stating your full name, affiliation and any dietary requirements for the conference dinner (if applicable).
  • Second, please pay the conference fees (see below).

Please note that the registration deadline is the 24th of May, 2018. We will not accept late registration (mainly for logistical reasons).

Payment of the Conference Fees

Unfortunately, we only accept payment via Paypal at the moment. Please get in contact with our treasurer if this poses an insurmountable problem for you.

The registration fee is 80.00 EUR for waged and 40 EUR for unwaged (e.g. student) participants. The Conference dinner is 27 EUR (includes three courses + 3 drinks), and it will take place at Rotovž restaurant.

Please choose the relevant option from the drop down menu below before clicking on the ‘Pay Now’ button, which should redirect you to the Paypal site.


Registration

Registration
Lev Kreft Dandy Socialism 1-23
Robert Elliot Allinson An Aesthetic Theory in Four Dimensions: Collingwood and Beyond 24-37
Cécile Angelini How to Judge a Work of Art Today? Contemporary Echoes of Kantian Aesthetics 38-64
Emanuele Arielli Notes on the Self- Manipulation of Taste 65-78
Zsolt Bátori Categories of Photography 79-88
Rudi Capra Botturas Not-roast Guineafowl. Three Arguments Supporting the Artistic Status of Cuisine 89-103
Stephen Chadwick Artistic Astronomical Photographs and Representation 104-121
Damla Dönmez The Environmental Sublime: From Aesthetics to Ethics 122-145
Petteri Enroth The Cruelty of Form? Notes on the Social-Theoretical Aspects of Adornos Aesthetics 146-163
Jonathan Fine Beauty Before the Eyes of Others 164-176
Eran Guter Toward an Aesthetics of New-Media Environments 177-189
Peter Hajnal Medium and Materiality: Stanley Cavells Navist Theory of Art 190-246
Xiaoyan Hu The Notion ...

ESA Conference 2016, Barcelona – Registration

Registration requires two steps:

  • First, please send an email to us, stating your full name, affiliation and any dietary requirements for the conference dinner (if applicable).
  • Second, please pay the conference fees (see below).

Please note that the registration deadline is the 18th of May, 2016. We will not accept late registration (mainly for logistical reasons).

Payment of the Conference Fees

Unfortunately, we only accept payment via Paypal at the moment. Please get in contact with our treasurer if this poses an insurmountable problem for you.

The registration fee is 80.00 EUR for waged and 40 EUR for unwaged (e.g. student) participants. The Conference dinner is 40 EUR, and it will take place at Restaurante El Salero.

Please choose the relevant option from the drop down menu below before clicking on the ‘Pay Now’ button, which should redirect you to the Paypal site.


Registration
Paul Crowther The Need for Art, and the Aesthetics of the Self: A Copernican Turn 1-21
The Aesthetics Group Turn, Turn, Turn: Civic Instrumentalisation and the Promotion of Autonomy in Contemporary Arts Funding 22-45
Gemma Argüello Manresa Participatory Computer-Based Art and Distributed Creativity: the Case of Tactical Media 46-67
Zsolt Bátori Photographic Deception 68-78
Alessandro Bertinetto Gombrich, Danto, and the Question of Artistic Progress 79-92
Stefan Bird-Pollan Benjamin’s Artwork Essay from a Kantian Perspective 93-103
The Branch Collective Towards Gesture as Aesthetic Strategy 104-114
Camille Buttingsrud Thinking Toes…? Proposing a Reflective Order of Embodied Self-Consciousness in the Aesthetic Subject 115-123
Ilinca Damian On What Lies Beneath the Process of Creation 124-136
Wiebke Deimling Moralism about Propaganda 137-147
Daniel Dohrn According to the Fiction: A Metaexpressivist Account 148-171
Damla Dönmez Saving ‘Disinterestedness’ in Environmental Aesthetics: ...

ESA Conference 2016 – Barcelona

EUROPEAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS CONFERENCE 2016

Barcelona, Spain: 8-11th of June 2016

Registration deadline: 18 May 2016

 
The European Society for Aesthetics would like to invite you to attend the ESA Conference 2016. The conference will be co-organised by the ESA, the Department of Philosophy of the Autonomous University of Barcelona and the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Barcelona, and will take place in Barcelona from the 8th until the 10th of June 2016.

Keynote Speakers
    • Christoph Menke (Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität, Frankurt)
    • Elisabeth Schellekens (Uppsala Universitet)
    • Lev Kreft (University of Ljubljana)
Programme

We will have both systematic and historical presentations of papers from different traditions and on a large variety of topics in philosophical aesthetics. For each talk, there will be time for a 20-minute presentation, with about another 25 minutes designated for discussion. All accepted papers would be eligible for publication in the proceedings of the ESA.

Conference programme

Abstracts

The ESA will also hold its general assembly of 2016 during the conference.

Registration

Please register for the conference here.

If you are not yet a member of the ESA, please register first – membership is for free. If you forgot your password, you can ...

ESA General Assembly and Election of the Executive Committee

The European Society for Aesthetics (ESA) will hold its general assembly on the 11th of June 2015 at 19:00 in connection with the ESA2015 conference in Dublin. All members of the ESA are highly welcome to the event! In the assembly, a new president and executive committee will be elected for the society. The ESA committee consist of 11 members including the president. The term of the new committee is three years. Each member of the ESA has a right to vote in the general assembly. Please direct all questions related to the assembly to secretaryeurosa.org.

Candidates for the ESA presidency:

Francisca Pérez Carreño (Murcia, Spain).

Candidates for the ESA executive committee:

Alessandro Bertinetto (Udine, Italy),

Matilde Carrasco Barranco (Murcia, Spain),

Zsolt Bátori (Budapest, Hungary),

Daniel Martin Feige (Berlin, Germany),

Josef Früchtl (Amsterdam, Netherlands),

Isabelle Rieusset-Lemarié (Paris, France),

Kalle Puolakka (Helsinki, Finland),

Dan-Eugen Ratiu (Cluj, Romania),

Karen Simecek (Warwick, UK),

John Zeimbekis (Grenoble, France; Patras, Greece).

ESA Conference 2015 – Registration

Registration requires two steps:

  • First, please send an email to us to conferenceeurosa.org, stating your full name, affiliation and any dietary requirements for the conference dinner (if applicable).
  • Second, please pay the conference fees (see below).

Please note that the registration deadline was the 1st of June, 2015. Registration is now closed

Volume 6 / 2014

The sixth volume of the ESA Proceedings has just been published. It has been edited by Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu and contains papers presented at the ESA Conference 2014 held in Amsterdam. More…

ESA Conference 2015 – Dublin

CALL FOR PAPERS
The European Society for Aesthetics would like to invite you to submit a paper for presentation at the ESA Conference 2015. The conference will be co-organised by the ESA and The School of Art, Design and Printing and The Graduate School of Creative Arts and Media (GradCAM) of Dublin Institute of Technology, and will take place in Dublin from the 11th until the 13th of June 2015. More…

ESA Conference 2014 – Amsterdam

The European Society for Aesthetics would like to invite you to attend the ESA Conference 2014. The conference will be co-organised by the ESA and the Department of Philosophy, University of Amsterdam, and will take place in Amsterdam from the 29th of May (morning) until the 31st of May 2014 (late afternoon). More…

Volume 5 / 2013

The fifth volume of the ESA Proceedings has just been published. It has been edited by Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu and contains papers presented at the ESA Conference 2013 held in Prague. More…

New Website

Since our original website was already rather outdated and moreover threatened to become disfunctional, we decided to set up a new website, which we hope is easier to navigate than the old one. More…

ESA Conference 2013 – Prague

The European Society for Aesthetics held its annual conference in 2013 at the Charles University of Prague from the 17th of June (morning) until the 19th of June (evening) 2013. The conference was co-organised by the ESA and the Department of Aesthetics at Charles University. We would like to thank the for its generous support. More…

Volume 4 / 2012

The fourth volume of the ESA Proceedings has just been published. It has been edited by Fabian Dorsch and Dan-Eugen Ratiu and contains papers presented at the ESA Conference 2012 held in Guimaraes and Braga. More…

Volume 3 / 2011

The third volume of the ESA Proceedings has just been published. It has been edited by Fabian Dorsch, Jakub Stejskal and John Zeimbekis and contains papers presented at the ESA Conference 2011 held in Grenoble. More…

Volume 2 / 2010

The second volume of the ESA Proceedings has just been published. It has been edited by Alessandro Bertinetto, Fabian Dorsch and Cain Todd and contains papers presented at the ESA Conference 2010 held in Udine. More…

Volume 1 / 2009

The first volume of the ESA Proceedings has just been published. It has been edited by Fabian Dorsch and contains papers presented at the ESA Conference 2009 held in Fribourg. More…

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