DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: 31 July 2021

For this issue we welcome original articles, book reviews, and interviews from postgraduate and professional philosophers on any topic in philosophy of art or aesthetics. Submissions should be accessible and concise – around 3,000-3,500 words for articles and interviews and around 1,000-1,500 words for book reviews. All submissions should be anonymised for blind review and in Word Document Format (.docx). Detailed submission guidelines are available on our website.

Articles
3,000-3,500 words
The journal publishes articles on a wide range of topics, from defining satire to photography, musical expression, feminism, fictional truth, aesthetic realism, or expressive qualities in animals, and more… For this issue we welcome work on any topic from philosophical aesthetics.

Interviews
3,000-3,500 words
Sometimes the finest philosophical discussion happens in conversation. The journal has published some excellent interviews with philosophers in the past, including Angela Leighton, Noël Carroll, Alexander Nehamas, and Dominic McIver Lopes. If you are particularly interested in someone’s work, interviewing them could be a great opportunity to not only learn more about their philosophy, but also exchange ideas, and examine the hidden assumptions or implications of their work. We are happy to provide feedback on interview proposals. Prior to submission, please ensure that your interview has been read and approved by the interviewee. We especially encourage interviews with philosophers from underrepresented groups.

Book Reviews
1,000-1,500 words
The journal also welcomes book reviews or critical summaries on books relevant to our field. These should be on a recent publication, and around 1,000-1,500 words. If you would like to review a book, it might be worth looking at publisher’s websites, such as Oxford University Press or Routledge, for new and upcoming releases in aesthetics.

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Debates in Aesthetics is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for articles, interviews and book reviews. Published by the ������Ƶ, the journal’s principal aim is to provide the philosophical community with a dedicated venue for debate in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.
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Claire Anscomb and Sarah Kiernan
Editors Debates in Aesthetics

Email: editor@debatesinaesthetics.org

The Centre of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon is pleased to announce the Call for Abstracts for the Postgraduate Interdisciplinary Conference on Unity, Composition and Identity in Art, to be held in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon, on November 15, 2019.Promoting high-quality research in arts and humanities, the aim of the conference is to provide an interdisciplinary approach to the various processes of creation, perception, judgment or evaluation of artefacts, with a focus on the ideas of unity, composition and identity in art. We are interested in discussing how identity and relationships between unity and plurality have a decisive role in certain artworks (such as polyptychs in painting or sculpture), as well as the concepts of sequentiality and order (for instance, in books such as À la recherche du temps perdu), changing the ways of perceiving and identifying objects.We welcome approaches from different Philosophical and Literary perspectives and from the various traditions of History of Art and Aesthetics. We hope this conference will provide a plural theoretical framework to discuss these topics, with heterogenous temporal periods and intellectual affiliations represented. 

Submission guidelines
PhD candidates in Philosophy, Literature, History of Art, Aesthetics and related subjects are strongly encouraged to submit proposals.

Please send your proposal as a PDF file, with a 500 words abstract and a 300 words CV (including degree currently under study, main publications and academic affiliation). The file name should be your surname.
Proposals are to be send to  no later than September 8, 2019.

All presentations will be 20 minutes long, followed by discussion. There will be no registration fees for paper presentations and the attendance is free. 

Important dates
Submission deadline: September 8, 2019
Notification of acceptance: September 23, 2019
Registration deadline: September 30, 2019
Program announcement: October 7, 2019
Conference: November 15, 2019 

Venue
The conference will take place in the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of the University of Lisbon (Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa; ), in the room 5.2, from 9am to 5pm. 

Keynote speaker
José Miranda Justo (CFUL) 

Organizing committee
Tomás N. Castro (CFUL), chair
Helena Miranda (Museu Nacional da Música)
Inês Rosa (CEAUL)
Pedro Ferrão (CFUL)
Tiago Clariano 

Contacts
If you have any questions regarding the conference, please feel free to email  or check for updates at .

Registration is now open for our upcoming event ‘The Good, the Bad and the (Extra)Ordinary: the 5th ������Ƶ Postgraduate Conference’. This event is an opportunity for postgraduates in aesthetics to meet one another, and to hear about the PG research being conducted in (and beyond) the UK. We are also very excited to be hosting Yuriko Saito and Elisabeth Schellekens as our keynote speakers for the weekend.

The event will be held at the University of York from the 29th-31st March 2019, in the Treehouse (Berrick Saul Building). The conference opens at 2pm on Friday the 29th, and closes at 1pm on Sunday 31st. Further information is available on our conference website, where the programme will also be published in full: .

To register for the conference, please complete the Google Form here:

If you have any questions, please contact the organisers on tgtbteoyork@gmail.com.

A £30 bursary is available to contribute to the costs of travel and accommodation for PG students – claim forms will be available at the event. We also have a limited amount of discretionary funding for accessibility, such as childcare (available near our venue) and specialised resources (including but not limited to: a signer, a sighted guide, formatted materials [large print, Braille, etc.], food and water for assistance animals, travel bursary for a required personal assistant, etc.). Disabled parking is available, and the venue (including toilet facilities) is wheelchair-accessible. The conference venue is equipped with induction loops. This conference will abide by the guidelines set within the BPA/SWIP good practice scheme.

We look forward to hosting you!

Celia Coll & Jamie Cawthra

The Department of Aesthetics at Charles University in Prague and the Czech Society for Aesthetics are now accepting abstracts of papers for its first (post)graduate conference “Aesthetic Experience Today“. The aim of the conference is to present and discuss challenges that the concept of aesthetic experience faces in the current times and explore contexts in which it plays a significant role. Graduate students and early career researchers (up to three years after having received their Ph.D.), especially ones coming from Central European universities, are invited to submit proposals.

The concept of aesthetic experience had been crucial to aesthetics as a philosophical discipline from the 18th through the mid-20th century when, at least in the Anglo-American context, it lost its central place. In the discourse of contemporary aesthetics, however, aesthetic experience has come to the fore again. There has been a surge of interest in neuroscientific and psychological research of aesthetic experience. Aesthetic experience has been discussed in relation to new and emerging art forms and current transformations in practices connected to displaying and exhibiting works of art. It has also been central to the work appearing in the thriving subfields of aesthetics, such as everyday aesthetics or virtue aesthetics. The conference aims at discussing the current understanding to the concept of aesthetic experience in a variety of contexts as well as historical perspectives.

Possible subjects of papers include but are not limited to:
The history of aesthetic experience and the history of aesthetics
Aesthetic experience in analytical and in continental aesthetics
Aesthetic experience and the neurosciences
Philosophical and psychological approaches to aesthetic experience
The temporality of aesthetic experience
Aesthetic experience and everyday life
Aesthetic experience and interactive works of art
The aesthetic experience of art and the aesthetic experience of nature

Please email submissions of abstracts to aestheticexperienceprague2019@gmail.com. The deadline for submissions is May 5. We require long-form abstracts which will include the main topic, short presentation of the discussion it has received until now, and an outline of your own contribution to the discussion. The abstracts should be 400 – 800 words long. With your abstract submission, please send a cover page that includes your name, affiliated institution, contact information, and the title.
Decisions regarding the program will be made by June 20.
Papers presented at the conference should be presentable in 20 minutes, i.e., the final paper should be around 2 500 words long.
For more information regarding the conference organization or your eligibility, please contact
sabrina.muchova@ff.cuni.cz.

Conference fee:
Unwaged (unemployed, part-time positions, and graduate students): EUR 15
Waged (full-time positions): EUR 40.

This conference is supported by the Charles University Research Programme “Progres” Q 14 – Rationality Crisis and Modern Thought.

N.B. Deadline approaching! (Feb 1st)

We invite abstract submissions from postgraduate students on any area of the philosophy of art or aesthetics for the ������Ƶ Postgrad conference, to be held in Southampton, UK, on the 1st-2nd April, 2016. This conference will provide a platform for postgraduate aestheticians to present their research and share ideas in a welcoming and supportive environment.
Aaron Meskin (Leeds) and Katherine Thomson-Jones (Oberlin) will give keynote talks.
Please send abstracts of between 500 and 800 words to the organisers at bsa.soton.2016@gmail.com by 1st February 2016. Any queries should be directed to the same address. Submissions are welcome in any area or tradition of aesthetics and the philosophy of art, and submissions in the philosophy of modern art-forms, such as film, video games, computer art and comic books are especially encouraged. All abstracts will be double-blind reviewed, and we aim to let people know whether their papers have been accepted by mid-February. The University of Southampton is committed to equality along all axes, and submissions from under-represented groups are especially welcome. We will offer a small number of bursaries to postgraduate presenters who would otherwise be unable to afford to attend.

The conference will be held in an accessible building. If you have any particular requirements, including dietary and childcare requirements, please let us know and we will do all we can to accommodate you.

This conference is entirely funded through the generosity of the ������Ƶ.

The conference has a Facebook group at www.facebook.com/bsasoton2016/, and a website for the conference is being maintained at .

The deadline for receipt of submission is: 15 February 2016.

We invite short and tightly argued critical articles concerning any aspect of Stephen Davies’s published works. Subject to peer-review, commentaries will be published in the special issue along with a response to the commentaries from Stephen Davies.

Stephen Davies has contributed to a range of debates in philosophical aesthetics including those concerning the definition of art, the expressiveness of music and, most recently, whether art serves an adaptive function. A list of his published work is available at http://philpapers.org/s/Stephen%20Davies

Naturally, we strongly encourage submissions from postgraduate philosophers, but we also welcome contributions from professional philosophers alike.

This is the first in what the PJA hopes will be a series of special issues on the work of senior aestheticians and their critics. The aims of this series are to offer a valuable forum for discussing influential philosophical arguments and ideas, create continuity between postgraduate and professional aestheticians, and nurture nascent talent in the postgraduate community.

Submissions should be accessible, concise, and of a standard commensurate to excellent postgraduate level work. They should be up to 3,500 words in length.

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The Postgraduate Journal of Aesthetics is a peer-reviewed, open-access journal for high quality articles, interviews and book reviews in philosophical aesthetics. Published by the ������Ƶ, it offers postgraduates and professional philosophers a space to exchange ideas, and is a valuable resource for anyone interested in aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

Following the publication of the Spring 2015 issue, the journal will be published biannually. Articles are invited from postgraduate students and professional philosophers alike on any topic in aesthetics. The journal wishes to encourage a wide construal of the study of aesthetics to include papers from analytic, continental or historical points of view. Articles should be of a standard commensurate with excellent postgraduate work. We also welcome book reviews of a similar length and proposals for interviews with senior philosophers of art.

Articles are accepted and assessed on a rolling basis, and will be published in the next available issue. Where articles require re-submission or revisions, articles may need to be published in a later issue.

The PJA operates a strict anonymous editorial procedure in order to increase fairness for those from groups currently underrepresented in philosophy. For more information about the journal, and to submit an article, visit the journal’s website.

Keynote speakers
Professor John Skorupski, University of St. Andrews
Professor Alison Stone, University of Lancaster
Professor Robert Hopkins, University of Sheffield

A great many areas of philosophy are concerned with questions about value. From the areas traditionally conceived as a part of ‘value theory’ – ethics, metaethics, aesthetics, social and political philosophy – to epistemology,metaphysics and philosophy of language, mind and psychology, there is an enduring interest in questions about what value is, and about what is valuable.

For this reason the organisers invite submissions of abstracts of 500-1000 words. The organisers welcome submissions from graduate students, or those who have submitted a PhD in the last two years. Submissions may take an analytic, continental, historical or cross-disciplinary approach to any of the many problems surrounding value, broadly construed.

Submissions must be emailed to valueconference@shef.ac.uk by 21 March, 2014

For more details, please visit the website:

The conference runs along similar lines to the Dubrovnik Philosophy of Science Conference held earlier in April each year. This means that we 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 20th. We’ll notify all those who provide abstracts as to whether their proposals have been accepted within a couple of days of that deadline at the latest, and earlier where possible. We’ll then circulate a draft of the programme to participants prior to the opening session, making adjustments if necessary to accommodate the schedules of those arriving late or departing  early. There will be six hour-long sessions each day, with a lengthy lunch break (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.

We 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 very reasonable accommodation at hotels frequented by other participants at IUC conferences – details can be provided to those interested. There will also be a small conference fee 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 20 March 2014 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.

The aim of this conference is to provide a platform for postgraduate students and early career academics with an interest in aesthetics to present their research and share ideas. Papers will be presented from a range of perspectives on a range of topics in aesthetics and the philosophy of art, including literature, music, representation, photography, contemporary art, the aesthetics of everyday life, ugliness and the sublime.

Confirmed keynote speakers:
Bence Nanay (University of Antwerp, University of Cambridge)
Margaret Iversen (University of Essex)

The conference will start at 10.30am on Saturday 25th and finish at approximately 3.00pm on Sunday 26th January. There will be a conference dinner in Canterbury at 8.00pm on Saturday, to which all delegates are invited. The full programme will be circulated closer to the date of the conference.

Registration for the conference is free. To register your attendance, please send an email with ‘registration’ in the subject line, and your full name and, if applicable, the name of your home institution in the body of the email to: pgaesthetics@kent.ac.uk by Wednesday 15 January at the latest. Please also direct any enquiries to the same address.

The conference is organised in association with the Aesthetics Research Centre, and is supported by the ������Ƶ, Analysis Trust, the University of Kent School of Arts and the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities.

www.aesthetics-research.org