All papers presented at one of the ESA conferences are eligible for inclusion in the proceedings of the respective year. The papers are reviewed, selected and edited by the members of the Executive Committee of the European Society for Aesthetics.
The selection for the conference happens through standard blind review (though without the provision of editorial comments). The acceptance rate is about 30 – 50 %.
The current editors of the Proceedings are Christopher Early (Edinburgh) and Julia Langkau (Geneva). If you would like to contact them, please write to: proceedings[at]eurosa.org.
The deadline of submission to this year’s Proceedings is the 14th November 2025. We aim to publish in January 2026. The editors reserve the right to request revisions to articles after submission. Suggestions for revisions will be arrived at through consultation of an independent referee or with our editorial board. Though we aim to showcase as many conference papers as we can, the editors also reserve the right to reject submissions.
Please make sure that your paper is submitted in .docx format and conforms to all the style requirements listed on the webpage (‘Submission Guidelines’ on the ESA website). We would greatly appreciate it if you could make sure your papers are adjusted according to the style requirements. Apart from changes to the layout, the paper will be published in the state in which you send it to us. So please make sure that you send us the final version of your paper. We ask that you limit your paper to a maximum of 5,000 words (inclusive of footnotes and bibliography).
The Proceedings are freely accessible, allow for standard citation, possess an ISSN number, and are indexed by EBSCO, the Electronic Journals Database and Google Scholar. Please note that publication in the Proceedings does not prevent you from publishing your paper elsewhere, and that you will retain all rights to your paper.
The Proceedings of the European Society of Aesthetics were founded in 2009 by † Fabian Dorsch (Fribourg).