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2022 in Tallinn
The ESA Conference 2022 is to be held on 28–30 June 2022 at Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. The keynote speakers are Emmanuel Alloa, Jacques Rancière, and Virve Sarapik.
Call for Abstracts 2022
The European Society for Aesthetics invites you to submit an abstract of a paper for presentation at the ESA Conference. You can submit panel proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2022.
Essay Prize Competition
Submit your paper to the ESA Essay Prize for PhD students and early career researchers. The prize was launched in 2017 in memory Fabian Dorsch, a co-founder and the first secretary of the European Society for Aesthetics.
Newsletter 2/2022
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Events

Upcoming Events

2025

Date/Time Event
25. September – 27. September
All Day 		AI in Music: Creation, Performance and Interpretation
Centre de Recherche et d’Expérimentation sur l’Acte Artistique (CREAA), Strasbourg
19. September – 20. September
All Day 		CFP Natural Beauty and the Good Life
University of Basel, Basel
18. September – 19. September
All Day 		Call for Papers - "Eduard Hanslick, 1825–2025: Background, Context, Legacy"
ÖAW Campus, Vienna
17. September – 20. September
All Day 		9th Mediterranean Congress of Aesthetics
Çanakkale Onsekiz Mart University, Çanakkale
01. July
All Day 		CFP Special Issue of Disputatio on New Directions in Virtue Aesthetics
26. June – 28. June
All Day 		Radical Thought in the Anthropocene – Theories and Concepts of Critical Theory
University of Graz, Graz
10. June – 12. June
All Day 		Experiencing Environments – Human Perspectives in the Changing World
International Institute of Applied Aesthetics, Lahti
05. June
All Day 		Lisbon Meetings on the Philosophy of Music
University of Lisbon, Lisbon
24. February – 20. May
All Day 		CfP: Art and the Humanities Conference
01. February – 29. February
All Day 		Aesth-L (NEW MAILING LIST)

Past Events

2025

Date/Time Event
10. April – 12. April
All Day 		Research Seminar on Philosophy, Design and Aesthetics
University of Warsaw, Warsaw
01. April
All Day 		Call for Papers - Rivista di Estetica (1/2026)
16. March
All Day 		JOB: Fribourg Postdoctoral Fellowship in Aesthetics and Philosophy of Art (2025-2026)
University of Fribourg, Fribourg

2024

Date/Time Event
05. December – 06. December
All Day 		Scientific, Neuroscientific and Philosophical Approaches to Learning from Art
University of Rijeka, Rijeka
25. November – 26. November
All Day 		Kant's Critical System
University of Rijeka, Rijeka
13. November – 15. November
All Day 		XVI Inter-University Workshop on Mind, Art, and Morality: Experimental Philosophy
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Barcelona, Barcelona
11. November
09:30 - 17:00 		The Foundations of Fiction
University of Milan, Milan
23. October – 25. October
All Day 		Exploring aesthetic practices
University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä Finland
17. October – 19. October
All Day 		Aesthetics and Human Flourishing: Theories, Experiments and Applications
University of Turin, Turin Italy
15. September
All Day 		Culture and Dialogue: Philosophy and Artificial Intelligence
09. September – 13. September
All Day 		Call for Participation XII. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ästhetik: Medien der Künste / Künste der Medien (Sept 2024)
Fribourg, Fribourg
26. July – 27. July
All Day 		Existential Aesthetics. An international conference
Northern Michigan University, Marquette, MI
22. April
All Day 		Call for Applications: 14 positions Doctoral researchers (m/f/d)
18. April – 20. April
All Day 		European Network for the Philosophy of Music 1st Conference
Instituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto (Portugal), Porto
29. February
15:00 - 18:00 		Kick-Off Event Application for Doc Positions at GRK 2638

2023

Date/Time Event
31. October – 12. February
00:00 		Call for Abstracts/Articles: Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (2023): »Cinematic Images: The Digital Condition of Moving Images«
30. October
All Day 		ARESMUR Seminar: Yuriko Saito "The Aesthetics of House Chores"
11. May – 13. May
09:30 - 19:00 		Designing Everyday Experience. Objects, Environments, Habits
02. May – 04. May
00:00 		Barcelona workshop 12: Fiction, Literature and Beyond
16. February – 17. February
08:00 - 16:00 		Symposium: New Coordinates for Creative Hybrid Space-Experiences

2022

Date/Time Event
20. December – 31. January
00:00 		In Celebration of Peter Lamarque - Conference
University of York, York
23. September – 24. September
00:00 		Re-Imagining Socially Engaged Art
03. August – 12. December
00:00 		Society for Cognitive Studies of the Moving Image conference
03. August – 25. August
00:00 		Full-time PhD position in Aesthetics and Ecology (4 years)
23. June – 24. June
All Day 		Call for Papers – Bewegtbilder 2022 (23.-24.06.2022) – Symposium der Forschungsgruppe Bewegtbildwissenschaft Kiel|Münster: „Neue Erzählformen in dynamischen Bildtechnologien – Formprobleme zwischen Populärkommunikation und autonomer Kunst“
Muthesius Academy, Kiel
19. May – 20. May
00:00 		Aesthetic Dis/interestedness and Affects
23. March – 01. March
00:00 		Thémata 67: Concept and praxis. Skepticism and art (CfPs)
23. March – 01. July
00:00 		Laocoonte 9: Images, Action and Power (CfPs)
23. March – 15. September
00:00 		Estetika: Special Issue on Failures in Aesthetic Judgements (CfPs)
18. March – 31. March
00:00 		CFP: Toward a Sustainable Attitude: Aesthetics, the Arts, and the Environment
11. March – 01. April
00:00 		The People We End Up Being: Art, Ethics and Agency
11. March – 01. May
00:00 		Philosophy and Literature in Dialogue
01. January – 31. January
All Day 		CfP: ‘Aesthetics in Korea’ (ESPES)

2021

Date/Time Event
22. December – 15. January
00:00 		Transcultural Aesthetics (book)
22. December – 01. June
00:00 		ESPES: Dwelling Aesthetics (journal)
01. December – 01. January
All Day 		CfP: Aesthetic Dis/Interestedness and Affects (workshop)
10. July – 15. October
00:00 		CFA: Warren Zevon and Philosophy
12. June – 13. June
11:00 - 15:45 		The Canadian Society for Aesthetics Conference (online)
14. May – 20. May
00:00 		Summer School: Aesthetics, Technique and Emotion (call for applications)
14. May – 01. July
00:00 		CfA: Fact, Fiction and Narration
14. April – 31. December
00:00 		CfP: MORAL ART: Is art allowed to be moral? (ZÄK)
14. April – 30. June
00:00 		CfP: ART MORALITY: Does art have to be moral? (ZÄK)
02. March – 25. April
00:00 		Summer School: Aesthetics, Technique and Emotion (call for applications)
Lake Como, Como
12. February – 30. April
00:00 		CfP: Stefan Morawski (Cultural Studies Review)
03. February – 10. June
All Day 		Editor Search (JAAC)
03. February – 15. July
00:00 		CfP: Everyday Aesthetics (ESPES)

2020

Date/Time Event
15. September
All Day 		CFP "Studi di Estetica" 1/2020: Rethinking Hegel's aesthetics
01. September
00:00 		CFP "Studi di Estetica" 3/2020: Estetica, arte e vita/Aesthetics, art and life
28. May – 30. July
00:00 		Call for Papers—Rivista di Estetica (3/2021) Title: The Senses of Smell: Scents, Odors and Aromatic Spaces
04. May – 31. March
00:00 		Aisthema, International Journal - Call for papers 2021 - In search of (lost?) Style: for a Philosophy of Fashion
04. May – 30. September
00:00 		Aisthema, International Journal - Call for papers 2020 - Aesthetics and Politics of Lifestyles
31. March
All Day 		ESA Newsletter (April 2020) - call for contributions
23. March – 25. March
All Day 		Space, Site, and Installation. Philosophy, Art Theory, and Art Practice - postponed
Department of Philosophy, Sociology, Education Science, and Applied Psychology (FISPPA), Philosophy Division, Padua
01. February
All Day 		ASA Peter Kivy Prize for Philosophy of Music

2019

Date/Time Event
31. December
All Day 		CFA: Fiction, Narrative and Art Beyond Literature, Universitat de Barcelona, 29–30 April 2020
01. September
All Day 		CFP "Studi di Estetica" 3/2019: Aesthetics and economics reconciled
03. July – 05. July
09:00 - 17:00 		The Art of Football 3-5.07.2019 TUDublin & GradCAM. Call For Papers
TUDublin,, Dublin Ireland
16. May – 18. May
All Day 		ZoneModa Conference 2019: Be Cool! Aesthetic Imperatives and Social Practices (extended deadline)
Palazzo Ruffi-Briolini, Department for Life Quality Studies, Rimini
28. February
All Day 		CFP "Studi di Estetica" 1/2019: L'educazione estetica/The aesthetic education

2018

Date/Time Event
06. December – 07. December
10:00 - 17:00 		Beauty
Roskilde University and University of Copenhagen, Roskilde
01. December
All Day 		FURE+: The Future of Reading and Media. A bilingual Design-meets-Science-Conference at the MSD – Münster School of Design in Münster, Germany, 30.11.2018 to 01.12.2018
MSD – Münster School of Design, Münster
30. November – 01. December
All Day 		CfP: FURE+ The Future of Reading and Media. A bilingual Design-meets-Science-Conference at the MSD - Münster School of Design in Münster, Germany, 30.11.2018 to 01.12.2018
MSD – Münster School of Design, Münster
08. October
09:30 - 16:30 		ART & TUBE Workshop Dom McIver Lopes: Beind for Beauty
University of Turin, Turin Italy
26. September
20:00 - 21:30 		Søren Kierkegaard and French Philosophy
Fondation Danoise – Det danske Studenterhus i Paris, Paris France
01. September
All Day 		CFP "Studi di Estetica" 3/2018: Towards a digital aesthetics
31. August – 01. September
All Day 		Moving Art – Psychological and Philosophical Explorations
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
02. August – 31. October
00:00 		Call for Papers-deadline extended (October 31, 2018)
17. May – 18. May
All Day 		Revisiting the Sublime / Revisiter le sublime
Sala Napoleonica – University of Milan, Milan Italy
02. April – 31. August
All Day 		CFP for a Contemporary Aesthetics special issue on "Aesthetics and Terrorism," deadline: August 31, 2018
14. February – 17. February
All Day 		X. Congress of the German Society of Aesthetics
Hochschule fuer Gestaltung Offenbach am Main, Offenbach am Main
15. January
All Day 		CFP: MARGINS, FUTURES AND TASKS OF AESTHETICS
Aalto University, Espoo

2017

Date/Time Event
26. December – 28. December
All Day 		Compassion in Dante's Inferno. Literary and Philosophical Encounters
Mandel Building, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mount Scopus Campus, Jerusalem
05. November
All Day 		Call for Abstracts: Image Evolution. Technological Transformations of Visual Media Culture (Yearbook of Moving Image Studies)
31. August – 02. September
All Day 		The Cognitive Relevance of Aesthetics
University of Tampere, Tampere
08. June – 10. June
All Day 		The Nordic Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference: Aesthetic Experience: Affect and Perception
University of Bergen, Bergen
31. May – 02. June
All Day 		Considerations in Urban Aesthetics: Planning, Mobilities, and Everyday Life
Lahti University Campus, Lahti
31. May
All Day 		CFP: Thinking Contemporary Art with Heidegger. Special Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
25. May – 27. May
All Day 		The European Society for Aesthetics Conference 2017
Institute of Philosophy/Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
04. May – 06. May
All Day 		Moving Images 2017: Mediality – Multimodality – Materiality: Concepts for Media and Image Studies in the Era of the »Technosphere«. Bilingual Conference on Moving Image Sciences in Kiel, Germany, 4th to 6th May 2017
University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany, Kiel Schleswig-Holstein
04. May – 06. May
All Day 		Conference - Moving Images 2017: Mediality – Multimodality – Materiality: Concepts for Media and Image Studies in the Era of the »Technosphere«. Bilingual Conference of the Society of Interdisciplinary Image Science on Moving Images (Kiel, Germany, 4th to 6th May 2017)
Fachhochschule Kiel, Kiel
18. April
All Day 		CFA: The Cognitive Relevance of Aesthetics, Tampere, Finland
University of Tampere, Tampere
20. February
All Day 		CFP: The Nordic Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference: Aesthetic Experience: Affect and Perception
University of Bergen, Bergen
31. January
All Day 		CFP: Considerations in Urban Aesthetics: Planning, Mobilities, and Everyday Life
Lahti University Campus, Lahti
15. January
All Day 		CFP: The European Society for Aesthetics Conference 2017
Institute of Philosophy/Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin
15. January
All Day 		CFP: Aesthetic Foundations May 18-21, 2017 Ascea, Italy
Wassard Elea, Ascea

2016

Date/Time Event
27. October – 29. October
All Day 		Coimbra International Conference on the Virtual
University of Coimbra – Faculty of Letters, Coimbra Portugal
30. June – 02. July
All Day 		The Beautiful Game: The Poetics and Aesthetics of Soccer in Transnational Perspective
University of Basel, Basel
17. June – 20. June
All Day 		On Ugliness (and other aesthetic monsters)
Ascea, Ascea
26. May – 28. May
All Day 		The Nordic Society of Aesthetics Annual Conference
Uppsala University, Uppsala Sweden
19. May – 21. May
All Day 		Immersion – Design – Art: Revisited. Transmedia Form Principles in Contemporary Art and Technology – Congress at the Muthesius University Kiel and University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany (19–21 May 2016) –
Muthesius University, Kiel
19. May – 21. May
All Day 		CFP - Congress: "Immersion – Design – Art: Revisited. Transmedia Form Principles in Contemporary Art and Technology"
Muthesius University, Kiel
02. April – 03. April
All Day 		Workshop: Art and Imagination: the role of metaphors, tropes and images in shaping experience and guiding action
Westin St. Francis Hotel and SF Ballet School Board Rm, San Fransisco
31. March
All Day 		CFP: On Ugliness (and other aesthetic monsters)
Ascea, Ascea
20. March – 23. March
All Day 		Global Adorno. International Conference at the University of Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
04. March
All Day 		Symposium On Cinema, Embodiment and the Aesthetics of Pornography
University of Kent, Canterbury, Canterbury Kent
01. February
All Day 		Australasian Philosophical Review: Join the Open Peer Community of "The Pleasure of Art"
31. January
All Day 		CFA: Music, Art and Philosophy in Dialogue
Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
27. January – 28. January
All Day 		Colloque international: Quasi-emotion, fiction and self: philosophical and neurocognitive perspectives
Collége de France, Paris
15. January
All Day 		CFP: European Society for Aesthetics Conference 2016
Faculty of Philosophy, University of Barcelona, Barcelona
13. January – 31. December
All Day 		Call for Editorial Board Membership - Yearbook of Moving Image Studies (YoMIS)

Latest Newsletter

ESA Newsletter 2/2024

We kindly invite you to submit a short news announcement to the next issue of the ESA newsletter. The deadline for submission is on 15 April 2025. The word limit for a submission is 150 words (negotiable). The aim of a newsletter is to inform the ESA community about the members’ research activities, recently published or forthcoming books, upcoming aesthetic events, and research and educational opportunities accessible to international students and scholars. Please, send any information you would like to share with the other members of the Society to tereza.hadravova@ff.cuni.cz, typing “ESA NEWSLETTER 1 2025” in the subject of your email. Expected publication date is 15 May 2025. 

The latest edition of the ESA newsletter (2/2024) is available online. This edition features an interview with Beatriz de Almeida Rodrigues, the 2024 Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize winner, details about new books and journals, calls for papers across various journals and events, and a roundup of news from the European Society for Aesthetics.

You can reach the issue here: ESA_Newsletter_2_2024.

Past Newsletters

ESA Newsletter 1/2024

16 May 2024: The latest edition of the ESA newsletter is now available. This edition features the announcement of the 2024 Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize winner, details about new books and journals, calls for papers across various journals and events, and a roundup of news from the European Society for Aesthetics. Additionally, you can get an exclusive look into the private studies of our 2024 invited speakers: Tone Roald, Stefano Velotti, and Hans Maes.

You can reach the issue here.

ESA Newsletter 2/2023

November 23, 2023: The latest edition of the ESA newsletter is now available. It includes an interview with David Collins, the winner of the 2023 Fabian Dorsch ESA essay prize, announcements of new books and journals, calls for papers across various journals and events, and a roundup of news from the European Society for Aesthetics. You can reach the issue here.

Newsletter 1/2023

May 3, 2023. A new issue of the ESA newsletter has just been published. It features information about the upcoming ESA conference in Budapest and a number of invitations to conferences organised by members and friends of the ESA. You may also learn about favorite books of the three keynote speakers at the ESA conference, Veronika Darida, Stacie Friend, and Alva Noë. Please, download the new issue here.

Newsletter 6

Volume 3, Issue 2

December 2022

The issue contains an address by the new president of the ESA, Pauline von Bonsdorff, an interview with Alex Fisher, who received Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize in 2022, call for papers and panel proposals to the coming ESA conference in Budapest and various calls, announcements, and invitations by the members of the Society. You can download it here.

Newsletter #5

Volume 3, Issue 1

May 2022

A new issue of the ESA Newsletter was published on May 5, 2022. It features an interview with Francisca Pérez-Carreño, whose term as the ESA president is approaching its final days, as well as the information on the new elections and conference in Tallinn. It also includes invitations to conferences, book announcements, and calls for papers. You can download it here.

Call for submission to ESA Newsletter

The aim of the Newsletter is to inform the ESA community about the members’ research activities, newly published papers and books as well as online aesthetic events.

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 expected publication of the newsletter is on May/June and November/December.

Deadline for submissions: April 1st and September 1st.

If you want ESA Newsletter to publish any news related to Aesthetics, submit the information to tereza.hadravova [at] ff.cuni.cz (up to 150 words), don’t forget to include your name, email address and also institution or website if any.

Submit an Event

If you want to submit an event please send us an email with all the information (Event Name, When, Where, Details and an image if possible) concerning your event to secretary [at] eurosa.org

Please consider only events (conferences, workshops, talks, calls for papers, etc.) that are closely related to philosophical aesthetics. Your submission will be published after it has have been reviewed by us.

If your event involves a call for papers, please submit two events: one for the deadline of paper submission, and one for the dates of the event proper.

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