The next ESA Assembly in Naples on 6 June will select two new members to the ESA Executive Committee. Those interested in setting up as a candidate for the position should send a short (max. 1 page) narrative CV to secretary(at)eurosa.org by 1 June 2024. The CV should list some relevant information about the candidate: education, publications, research interests, and other academic merits. The term of the executive committee member is three years, and it can be extended to another three years. The main responsibility of a committee member is to take part in reviewing the ESA conference abstracts, in January-February every year. Some committee members have more responsibilities. The current distribution of responsibilities can be found on this link.
The candidates:
1) Christopher Earley
Christopher Earley was awarded his PhD in philosophy from the University of Warwick in 2023. Prior to this, he gained an MA in philosophy from King’s College London and an MA in fine art from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. He is currently the British Society of Aesthetics Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Liverpool, UK, and was formerly an early career fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the University of Warwick. He is also the co-editor of the journal Debates in Aesthetics.
Christopher’s current research interests include the philosophy of contemporary art, the connections between art and recent social epistemology, and the ways in which aesthetic experiences might be important for helping us to make sense of our place in history. He has published articles and book reviews in both The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism and The British Journal of Aesthetics. He has also been engaged in outreach projects involving philosophical aesthetics, collaborating with Karen Simecek on the Empowering Young Voices project in Coventry, UK, working with young people to achieve political empowerment through poetry.
Christopher has been an active contributor to the ESA since 2022. He has presented papers at the annual conferences in Budapest, Tallinn, and the 2022 online conference, and will be presenting at the forthcoming conference in Naples. He regularly presents at other conferences in Europe and the UK, as well as giving talks for the general public at art institutions like the Leicester Gallery and the Herbert Mead Gallery.
2) Efi Kyprianidou
Efi Kyprianidou is an Assistant Professor in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art at the Department of Fine Arts, Cyprus University of Technology. She defended her doctoral dissertation in philosophy at the National Kapodistrian University of Athens in 2011. Her main research interests lie at the intersection of analytic aesthetics and the philosophy of mind, focusing on imagination and emotional responses to fiction.
Efi has published on topics such as empathy, moral emotions in fiction, and imaginative resistance. In addition to her main research project, she is also interested in other topics, such as censorship and cultural identities in contemporary Cypriot art, and she has curated various major exhibitions in Cyprus, Greece, and Germany. She has presented her work at conferences of the European Society for Aesthetics in Berlin, Budapest, and Naples, as well as at the London Aesthetics Forum and other academic forums.
She is the co-editor of Empathy and Aesthetic Mind (with K. Bantinaki and F. Vasiliou, Bloomsbury, 2024) and has edited the collections The Art of Compassion (Nissos, 2019) and Weaving Culture in Europe (Nissos, 2017). Efi is the scientific coordinator of the Creative Europe/Horizon project “Empathy & Sustainability” (EMPACT) and the Erasmus+ project “Ethics and Ecology in Technological Education” (ETHICO).
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