The organisers invite scholars working in aesthetics, philosophy of art, philosophy of education, and other philosophical areas, as well as those coming from any other branch of the humanities such as film studies, literary studies, art criticism or art history, cognitive scientists and media scholars, social scientists, and others interested in questions concerning the arts and humanities in a wide sense of both terms, to join us at a conference dedicated to the exploration of contemporary philosophical issues that arise at the intersection of art and the humanities. The plenary speakers are:

Malcolm Turvey (Tufts University)

Helen Small (University of Oxford)

One aim of the conference is to explore the way in which our discussions about art can profit from art’s embeddedness in a wider cultural background, of which various subjects in the humanities play a central role, as well as to see what is the distinctive manner in which the humanities relate to art and artistic practices, primarily from the perspective of aesthetic education.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• What is the value of the humanities, and how should we approach that question?
• What are contemporary challenges the humanities are facing, and how should they be addressed?
• What is the role of humanistic research in the creation, engagement, and evaluation of art?
• How should we conceive of art’s relation to humanism?
• What cognitive benefits are available in various art forms, ranging from literary fiction and film to poetry and theater, and how do these relate to distinctly humanistic concerns?
• Does philosophy need empirical research to properly answer its questions?
• How can philosophers cooperate with other scientific domains in order to answer questions about art’s potential to convey knowledge, inspire aesthetic pleasure, or motivate social change?
• What are some of the methodological or conceptual challenges of such cooperation?

In addition to these issues, the organisers are particularly interested in exploring questions related to the contemporary status of the humanities within our culture and education, and about their capacity to respond to urgent social issues such as climate change, immigration, or armed conflicts, primarily in the context of the growing dismissal of their practical value.

The organisers invite submissions for 30 minute presentations to be followed by 15 minutes of Q&A. Please send your title, along with a short abstract (max. 350 words), by May 20th, 2025, to Iris Vidmar Jovanović (ividmar@ffri.uniri.hr). Notification of acceptance will be sent out by June 1st. There is no conference fee.

This conference is organized as a research activity within the AEtNA research project funded by the Croatian Science Foundation. Organizing committee: Iris Vidmar Jovanović, David Collins, Rafe McGregor and Ema Luna Lalić.

The conference runs along similar lines to the Dubrovnik Philosophy of Science Conference also held in April each year. This means that the organisers shall not be asking those wishing to attend for copies of their papers in advance, but we do ask for a title and a brief abstract by March 14^{�ٳ���}at the latest, and earlier if possible.��The organisers will notify all those who provide abstracts and titles as to whether their proposals have been accepted within a couple of days of that deadline, and earlier in the case of submissions received before the deadline.��They can also provide, if requested, formal letters of invitation for those whose submissions have been accepted – these may be helpful in obtaining funding from institutions or granting agencies.��A draft of the programme will be circulated to participants in the weeks prior to the conference, allowing for adjustments to be made if necessary to accommodate the schedules of those arriving late or departing early. There will be five or six sessions each day, with a lengthy lunch break (up to 3 hours) to allow participants to continue their discussions at a restaurant or other place of hostelry in the Old Town, or to explore the city.��Presentations in regular sessions should be no longer than 40 minutes. Graduate students and those wishing to present shorter papers can give 20 minute presentations, with two such events taking up a single one-hour slot in the programme.

The organisers are unfortunately not able to pay any expenses for participants, but hope this will not prove too much of a discouragement.��Participants should be able to obtain reasonable accommodation at hotels frequented by other participants at IUC conferences – details can be provided to those interested.��Apartment accommodation  in the Old Town is also available at a very reasonable cost. There will be a small conference fee (around 50 Euros, waived for students) in order to cover our obligations to the IUC for the use of the conference centre.

If you are interested in participating in the conference, please send a title and a brief abstract to David Davies at david.davies@mcgill.ca by March 14^th 2025 at the latest. For further information, or if you are interested in attending, but not presenting at, the conference, please also contact David Davies at the same e-address.

Congratulations to our 2024 winner, Joseph Kassman-Tod (Berkeley), for his paper, ‘The ‘Poetic’ Quality of Art Criticism’.

Joseph receives a £500 honorarium and a grant of up to £1000 to attend the conference in September and will be encouraged to review the paper for submission to the British Journal of Aesthetics.��

Confirmed speakers include Alessandro Arbo (University of Strasbourg), Marta Benenti (University of Murcia), Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin), Clément Canonne (CNRS-IRCAM), Josef Fulka (Univerzita Karlova), Lisa Giombini (University of Roma Tre), Vincenzo Granata (CREAA Strasbourg), Krzysztof Guczalski (Jagiellonian University of Krakow), Vítor Guerreiro (University of Porto), Eran Guter (Max Stern Yezreel Valley College), Inbal Guter (Buchmann-Mehta School of Music, Tel Aviv University), Christoph Haffter (University of Fribourg), Ana Hofman (Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana), Slávka Kopčáková (University of Presov), Hugo Luzio (University of Lisbon), Elzė Sigutė Mikalonytė (University of Cambridge), Dušan Milenković (University of Niš), Vítor Moura (University of Minho), Margarida Neves (University of Coimbra), Magda Polo (University of Barcelona), Nemesio G. C. Puy (Complutense University of Madrid), Marcello Ruta (University of Bern), Ewa Schreiber (University of Poznań), Pablo Seoane (University of Santiago de Compostela), Tiago Sousa (University of Minho), Rūta Stanevičiūtė (Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), Markéta Štefková (Academy of Music and Performing Arts Bratislava), Férdia Stone Davis (University of Cambridge – Chair RMA Philosophy Study Group), Edvardas Šumila (The New School for Social Research in NYC/ Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre), Małgorzata A. Szyszkowska (Polish Society for Aesthetics), Marcin Trzęsiok (Music Academy of Katowice), Monika Voithofer (Vienna university).

For this first conference, all speakers have been invited by the members of the Steering Committee of the ENPM. Conference attendance is however open to all, and anyone is very welcome. Information about the details of the event can be found at the ENPM website: . If you are planning to attend, any further requests about information can be addressed by email to this address: enpm.philosophyofmusic.@gmail.com.

The ENPM is a network of scholars interested in the philosophy of music working primarily, but not exclusively, at academic and music professional institutions in Europe. The main goal of the ENPM is to promote research in the philosophy of music, facilitating the development of existing debates and stimulating the emergence of new topics and discussions. Find more information at .

Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2024

The Brain Plasticity and Behavior Changes (BIP) Group at the Department of Psychology, University of Turin and the Giorgio Amendola Foundation are delighted to invite contributions for the Third International Conference on Beauty and Change, a three-day international and interdisciplinary conference that will be held in Turin, Italy on 17-19 October 2024.

Established in 2022, the International Conference on Beauty and Change is a highly successful interdisciplinary forum for discussing recent advancements in philosophical and empirical aesthetics. This year’s conference will gather leading scholars from the fields of philosophy, psychology, and neuroscience to reflect on how our aesthetic experiences impact our well-being and our psychological functioning.

Confirmed invited speakers:
Anjan Chatterjee (University of Pennsylvania)
Emily Cross (ETH Zürich)
Joerg Fingerhut (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Shaun Gallagher (University of Memphis)
Stefan Koelsch (University of Bergen)
Helmut Leder (University of Vienna)
Lucia Sacheli (University of Milano-Bicocca)

The Theme
According to a long-standing philosophical tradition, backed up by present-day research in psychology and neuroscience, our aesthetic encounters contribute in important ways to our individual and collective flourishing. The ways in which they are said to do so are many. Some argue that engaging with great art offers valuable knowledge about our world and our condition, our social lives and our relationships, or our mind and its workings. Others claim that our aesthetic experiences can boost or promote certain capacities, such as learning, problem-solving, attention, and empathy. Still others claim that engaging with the arts can constitute a form of emotion regulation and help alleviate anxiety, depression, and other psychopathological conditions. Artistic endeavours are also said to be potent vehicles of self-expression and self-transformation, deeply involved in the development of our personal identities. On a collective level, having an aesthetic sensitivity towards how objects, spaces, and environments are built and altered is said to promote deeper, richer, and more caring forms of interactions with others and with nature. Plausible as they might seem, however, these claims are subject to sustained theoretical debates, and the current empirical evidence in favour or against them is far from being conclusive.

The aim of the Third International Conference on Beauty and Change is to probe all these lines of enquiry in a thoroughly interdisciplinary way, to get a clearer picture of whether and how the arts and aesthetics are conducive to human flourishing. Philosophers, psychologists, neuroscientists, and professionals working in the arts, design, architecture, and urban planning will gather to discuss the theoretical underpinnings of the various proposals in the debate, their empirical support, and their applications in concrete scenarios. The organisers are therefore looking for well-informed theoretical or empirical contributions that might be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience.

Topics include (but are not limited to):
—Philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific perspectives on what art contributes to our knowledge or understanding, and the role it plays (or should play) in our epistemic practices;
—Philosophical, psychological, and neuroscientific perspectives of how our aesthetic encounters are related to, improve, or impair mental capacities such as learning, problem-solving, creativity, empathy, attention, curiosity, motivation, and critical thinking;
—The role of art and aesthetic practices in emotion regulation, affective scaffolding, and extended affectivity;
—The theoretical underpinnings, benefits, and limitations of art therapy, art-based interventions, and other applications of aesthetics in therapeutic contexts;
—The role of art and aesthetics as vehicles of self-expression and in shaping, defining, and transforming our personal identities;
—The positive and negative impact of the work of art practitioners, designers, architects, and urban planners on our individual and collective lives;
—The ways in which theoretical and empirical research in aesthetics can inform the work of art practitioners, designers, architects, and urbanists and provide them with suggestions on how to promote human flourishing;
—The prospects and potential perils of artification, gamification, experience design, recommendation algorithms, and the rise of AI art for our flourishing and psychological well-being;
—The ways the arts and other aesthetic practices can promote or hamper positive social change.

Submission Guidelines
The organisers accept two types of submissions: talks (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion) and posters. For both types of submission, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words in WORD or PDF format to beautyandchange@fondazioneamendola.it by 30 June 2024.

Abstracts must be written in English and prepared for blind review. In the body of your email, please indicate the names and affiliations of all the authors (specifying the presenting author), and your preferred presentation type (talk or poster). Each author may submit only one abstract as a presenting author but can be a co-author in any number of submissions.

The organisers especially encourage submissions from women, early career researchers and members of underrepresented groups, and we will take diversity into account when making decisions for inclusion in the programme.

Important Dates
Deadline for submissions: 30 June 2024
Notification of acceptance: 15 July 2024
Conference dates: 17-19 October 2024

Conference Costs
Conference fee for students (BA and MA): free
Conference fee for untenured researchers (PhD students and postdocs): €100
Conference fee for tenured researchers: €200
Conference dinner (optional): €45

Student Prizes
Two small monetary prizes of €100 will be offered for the two best contributions (posters or talks) by students (BA, MA, PhD). One of the two prizes will be awarded for a theoretical contribution, the other for an empirical one. The prizes will be assigned by the conference scientific committee based on the quality and relevance of the submitted abstract. The two winners will be announced during the conference. If you would like to be considered for one of these prizes, please indicate so in the body of your submission email, specifying which category (theoretical or empirical) you are applying for.

Scientific Committee
Carola Barbero (University of Turin)
Alessandro Bertinetto (University of Turin)
Elvira Brattico (Aarhus University & University of Bari Aldo Moro)
Alice Cancer (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)
Jacopo Frascaroli (University of Turin)
Irene Ronga (University of Turin)
Maria Luisa Rusconi (University of Bergamo)
Pietro Sarasso (University of Turin)
Sander Van de Cruys (University of Antwerp)

Other Information
Information about venue, travel and accommodation will be made available on the in due course.

The organisers aim to make the conference as accessible as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact the conference organisers to discuss accessibility requirements.

All questions and correspondence should be addressed to the Organising Committee at: beautyandchange@fondazioneamendola.it

The conference comprises sessions in the following areas:

• �����Դdzٱ����from invited speakers.
• �������dz������ٱ��������������DzԲ�, hosted by organisations with related interests.
• Themed Sessions, organised by individual session convenors, who have issued calls for papers on specific topics.
• Free Sessions, inclusive of papers and lecture-recitals on all topics relating to music and philosophy.

Speakers:

Prof Georgina Born
Professor of Anthropology and Music at 

Prof Nick Zangwill
Honorary Research Fellow at 

Further keynotes to be announced.

Registration:

“Early bird” registration is open now and is available until the end of April; this includes discounted registration fees.

There are a number of registration options available, including discounts for members of the RMA/������Ƶ. If you attended the previous MPSG conference you are considered an MPSG member and you are also entitled to this reduced fee. Unwaged and student registration options provide further fee reductions. All delegates, including speakers, are required to register.

If you wish to join the optional conference dinner (on the Thursday evening), please ensure that you book this “add-on” during the conference registration process (this appears at the bottom of the registration options listings). The meal can be booked up until 1 month before the conference.

The main conference catering is default vegetarian.

Further details can be found on the .

The conference is generously supported by the Royal Musical Association, the ������Ƶ, and King’s College London.

The conference will feature two keynote speakers –  (Oxford University) and  (Sheffield University) – in addition to eight accepted papers from a mixture of graduate students and early-career researchers (5 years since PhD conferral, excluding career breaks), which will receive comments from faculty.

The organisers invite submissions on topics at the intersection of Art, Imagination and Morality, including (but not limited to):

• Immoral art and artists
• Cancel culture
• Ethics of imagination and fantasy
• Art challenging moral norms
• Pornography
• Imaginative engagement with video games and virtual reality
• Immoral humour
• Art as fostering empathy
• The interaction of aesthetic/ethical value
• Imaginative resistance
• The role of art and imagination in producing ethical knowledge


Submissions for 30 minute (in-person) presentations should comprise an anonymised .pdf containing a title and 500 word abstract. Please include a separate document including name, paper title, institution, PhD conferral date (past or expected) and contact details. Submissions should be sent to Alex Fisher at atbf2@cam.ac.uk. Receipt of submission will be confirmed by email. Please note that the organisers cannot accept more than one submission per person, nor submissions to present online.

The deadline for submissions is 1st March. The organisers aim to notify authors of decisions in mid-March.��Full papers of 3,500 words maximum (excluding abstract, footnotes, and references) will be due by 20th April for distribution to commentators.

The organisers will offer accommodation for all accepted speakers, though they cannot provide reimbursement for travel costs. There will be no attendance fee. The organisers will also cover the cost of a conference dinner for all speakers on Thursday 20th.

The organisers can cater to those with dietary requirements, their venue is wheelchair accessible, and they are very happy to provide further information about . Please contact them with any queries about these aspects.

The event adheres to the BPA/SWIP good practice guidelines and submissions are especially encouraged from women and other under-represented groups.

This conference is supported by the Aristotelian Society, the ������Ƶ, the Society for Applied Philosophy, and Trinity College, Oxford.

For any further information, please contact Alex Fisher at atbf2@cam.ac.uk

Conference organisers:
Dr. Zoe Walker (Trinity College, Oxford)
Alex Fisher (University of Cambridge)

Conference Venue: Department of Aesthetics and Theory of Art, Sorbonne University     

Date:  17 November 2023    

Keynote speaker: Esther Leslie (Birkbeck)    

This conference is centred on the role of women in aesthetics and philosophy of art, which has been traditionally neglected or obscured in dominant approaches to the discipline. The aim of the conference is twofold. It intends, on the one hand, to re-examine the contribution of women philosophers to aesthetics and philosophy of art. On the other hand, it intends to reflect on how feminist art and theory have been integrated into aesthetics, questioning if they raise new aesthetic problems.�������� 

We invite submissions that explore the overlaps between aesthetics, philosophy of art and women. Possible topics include but are not limited to:     

• Women Aestheticians     
• Women Philosophers of Art     
• Women Philosophers in Aesthetics of Music     
• Women Philosophers in Aesthetics of Cinema and Photography      
• Women Philosophers and Aesthetics : New Directions     
• Feminist Aesthetics     
• Art, Politics and Feminism������  

Submission Guidelines:     

Papers should be suitable for a 25-minute presentation. They can be written in English or French.   

To apply, please submit the following documents to Cristina.Parapar-Cabanas@etu.univ-paris1.fr and beatriz.rodrigues@kcl.ac.uk:     

• 500-word abstract, in a Word document or PDF, prepared for anonymous review;    
• Document in a separate attachment with your name, institution and position, email address, and short biography.�������� 

We especially encourage submissions from members of marginalised groups.�������� 

Deadline for submission: 10 August 2023     

Notifications of acceptance will be sent out by 15 August.��  

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Beatriz Rodrigues (King’s College London)   

Cristina Parapar (Sorbonne University)   

The conference follows the First International Conference on Beauty and Change in 2022, which established a highly successful interdisciplinary forum for discussing recent advancements in philosophical and empirical aesthetics. This year’s conference will be devoted to the theme “Aesthetic Experience: Philosophical, Psychological and Neuroscientific Perspectives” and will gather leading scholars from the three fields of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience to strengthen the emerging interdisciplinary interest around the notion of aesthetic experience.

Confirmed invited speakers:

Elvira Brattico (Aarhus University & University of Bari Aldo Moro)

Beatriz Calvo-Merino (City, University of London)

Ana Clemente (University of Barcelona)

Gregory Currie (University of York)

Bence Nanay (University of Antwerp)

Sander Van de Cruys (University of Antwerp)

The Theme

Recent years have seen a surge of attention in the interdisciplinary study of aesthetics, with philosophers, psychologists and neuroscientists converging on many core interests and new research aims. On the one hand, philosophers are rediscovering the original vocation of aesthetics as a “science of sensuous cognition” and are looking with increasing interest at the results of the empirical sciences of mind. On the other hand, psychologists are elaborating wide-ranging theories that connect aesthetic experience to other psychological phenomena of general interest such as learning, affect, valence, attention, motivation, memory, well-being, and the dynamics of personal and sub-personal experience. From yet another disciplinary perspective, neuroscientists interested in the study of art and aesthetics are animating the booming subfield of neuroaesthetics, whose latest developments have abandoned overly reductionistic premises and are starting to deliver nuanced insights on several aspects of our aesthetic encounters.

The Second International Conference on Beauty and Change aims at surveying this new and fast-growing interdisciplinary landscape, tackling remaining contrasts between theoretical perspectives and attempting broader syntheses. It will provide a forum where all disciplines can contribute as equal partners in the study of human aesthetic experiences and other crucial aspects of our cognitive makeup. To that end, we are looking for well-informed theoretical or empirical contributions that might be of interest to an interdisciplinary audience. Topics include but are not limited to:

• Philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific perspectives on the definition of aesthetic experience and related concepts (liking, hedonic experience, aesthetic judgement, taste, aesthetic sensitivity, etc.)
• Philosophical, psychological and neuroscientific perspectives on the differences and continuities between aesthetic and non-aesthetic experience
• The relationship between aesthetic experience and other psychological phenomena such as learning, affect, valence, curiosity, attention, motivation, etc
• The relationship between the phenomenology of our aesthetic encounters and underlying neural and psychological processes
• The contribution of particular psychological and neuroscientific theories (e.g. flow, processing fluency, predictive processing, embodied simulation theory, etc.) to our understanding of aesthetic experience
• Aesthetic experiences in different media and with different art forms
• Therapeutical and clinical applications of research on art and aesthetic experience;
• The respective roles of philosophy, psychology and neuroscience in the interdisciplinary study of aesthetics
• Future aims and challenges for the interdisciplinary study of aesthetics

Submission Guidelines

The organisers accept two types of submissions: talks (20 minutes + 10 minutes for discussion) and posters. For both types of submission, please send an abstract of no more than 300 words in WORD or PDF format to beautyandchange@fondazioneamendola.it by 31 July 2023.

Abstracts must be written in English and prepared for blind review. In the body of your email, please indicate the names and affiliations of all the authors (specifying the presenting author), your preferred presentation type (talk or poster), and your preferred conference session (Philosophy, Psychology or Neuroscience).

The organisers especially encourage submissions from women, early career researchers and members of underrepresented groups, and will take diversity into account when making decisions for inclusion in the programme.

Important Dates

Deadline for submissions: 31 July 2023
Notification of acceptance: 15 August 2023

Conference dates: 2-4 November 2023

Conference Costs

Conference fee for students (BA and MA): free
Conference fee for untenured researchers (PhD students and postdocs): €100
Conference fee for tenured researchers: €200
Conference dinner (optional): €40

Scientific Committee

Alice Cancer (Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Milan)

Jacopo Frascaroli (University of Turin)

Irene Ronga (University of Turin)

Maria Luisa Rusconi (University of Bergamo)

Katiuscia Sacco (University of Turin)

Pietro Sarasso (University of Turin)

Sander Van de Cruys (University of Antwerp)

Other Information

Information about venue, travel and accommodation will be made available on the in due course.

The organisers aim to make the conference as accessible as possible. Please do not hesitate to contact the conference organisers to discuss accessibility requirements.

All questions and correspondence should be addressed to the Organising Committee at: beautyandchange@fondazioneamendola.it