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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
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Past Events

2023

Date/Time Event
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

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

2021

Date/Time Event
22. December – 15. January
00:00 		Transcultural Aesthetics (book)
22. December – 01. June
00:00 		ESPES: Dwelling Aesthetics (journal)
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)
11. January – 09. January
All Day 		Third Issue Call for Abstracts/Articles: Yearbook of Moving Image Studies - »Image Temporality: The Relation of Time, Space and Reception of Visual Media«

2015

Date/Time Event
31. December
All Day 		CFP: Aesthetics of Urban Life: Special Issue of the Journal of Aesthetics and Phenomenology
19. November – 20. November
09:45 - 18:00 		MOVING IMAGES 2015: PERCEPTION – RECEPTION – INTERACTION. VARIETIES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF MEDIA IMAGE PROCESSING. - CONFERENCE OF MOVING IMAGE SCIENCES IN KIEL, GERMANY, 19TH AND 20TH NOVEMBER 2015 -
University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Germany, Kiel Schleswig-Holstein
19. November – 20. November
All Day 		Congress -- Moving Images 2015
University of Applied Sciences Kiel, Kiel
15. November
All Day 		CFP: Global Adorno. International Conference at the University of Amsterdam
University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam
05. November – 06. November
All Day 		Philosophy & Architecture International Postgraduate Conference 2015
Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon
31. October
All Day 		CFP: 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
29. October – 31. October
All Day 		II IBERIAN MEETING ON AESTHETICS - “AESTHETIC CONCEPTS”
Universidade do Minho, Instituto de Letras e Ciências Humanas, Braga
18. September – 20. September
All Day 		British Society of Aesthetics - Annual Conference 2015
Homerton College, Cambridge, Cambridge
17. August – 18. August
All Day 		Conference: Use-Value in Architecture: Reconceptualizing Buildings' Functions
Wittgenstein house, Vienna
06. August – 08. August
All Day 		Sustainable City Life. Exploring Aesthetic Values in Urban Settings.
Lahden Aikuiskoulutuskeskus, Lahti Päijät-Häme
01. August
All Day 		Second Issue - Call for Papers: Yearbook of Moving Image Studies -- »Image Embodiment: New Perspectives of the Sensory Turn«
17. July – 18. July
All Day 		Fifth Annual Conference of the Music and Philosophy Study Group
King’s College London, London
17. July – 18. July
All Day 		Aesthetics and the Feminine Conference
University College Cork, Cork
11. June
19:00 - 20:00 		ESA General Assembly and Elections
Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin
11. June – 13. June
All Day 		ESA Conference 2015 – Dublin
Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin
04. June – 05. June
All Day 		Congrès de la Société Française d’Esthétique, 4 et 5 juin 2015 « Extension du domaine des arts »
Fondation L. Paye, Cité universitaire internationale, Paris
01. June
All Day 		CFP Philosophy & Architecture International Postgraduate Conference 2015‏
Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon, Lisbon
28. May – 30. May
00:00 		CfP: Annual Conference of The Nordic Society of Aesthetics 2015
Aarhus Institute for Advanced Studies, Aarhus University, Aarhus
05. May
All Day 		Call for Candidates: ESA Presidency

Latest Newsletter

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.

Past Newsletters

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.

Newsletter #4

Issue 2, Vol. 2

November 2021

A new issue of the ESA Newsletter was published on November 21, 2021. It features an interview with the 2021 winner of Fabian Dorsch ESA essay prize Nemesio García-Carril Puy and much more. It also includes invitations to conferences, journals’ and books’ announcements, and calls for papers. You can download it here.

Newsletter #3

Issue 1, Vol. 2

June 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 2019, Irene Martínez Marín. It also includes invitations to online events, journal announcements, and calls for papers. You can download it here.

Newsletter #2

Issue 2, Vol. 1

Dec 2020

The European Society for Aesthetics Newsletter (Issue 2, Vol. 2 December 2020) was published on December 8th 2020. It features the address by the ESA President Paca Pérez-Carreño as well as an interview with the creator of the new logo of the European Society for Aesthetics, Fernando Infante del Rosal. It also includes invitations to online events, journal announcements, and calls for papers. You can download a second issue of the newsletter here.

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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.

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