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Tuesday, September 12, 2006

A Conference in Honour of Kendall Walton

Posted by ameskin on September 12, 2006 at 12:06 PM in calls for papers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

CALL FOR PAPERS (deadline March 1, 2007)

Mimesis, Metaphysics, and Make-Believe: A Conference in Honour of Kendall Walton

21-23 June 2007

University of Leeds

The Department of Philosophy and the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind are pleased to announce the upcoming Mimesis, Metaphysics and Make-Believe conference to take place June 21-23 at the University of Leeds. Confirmed conference speakers are Kendall Walton (Michigan), Berys Gaut (St. Andrews), Shaun Nichols (Arizona), and Stephen Yablo (MIT).

We welcome submissions of papers on any theme related to the work of Kendall Walton.  Papers that actively engage with Professor Walton’s work will be strongly preferred.

Up to two places have been reserved for submitted papers. One place has been reserved for a young researcher (i.e., Ph.D. within the last five years or not yet received). Authors submitting in the ‘young researcher’ category should include a separate note explaining how they qualify.

Papers of no longer than 8,000 words should be prepared for blind review and sent by email in pdf, word or rtf format to Dr. Aaron Meskin, Department of Philosophy, University of Leeds, email: phlaesth@leeds.ac.uk.  The closing date for submissions is March 1, 2007. Notification will be made by April 1.  For more information, contact Aaron Meskin at phlaesth@leeds.ac.uk.

The conference is sponsored by the British Society of Aesthetics, the University of Leeds Department of Philosophy, the Centre for Metaphysics and Mind, and the Leeds Humanities Research Institute.

Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Call For Papers: Danto Conference. First Online Conference in Aesthetics

Posted by Michal Gal on August 1, 2006 at 12:16 PM in calls for papers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

CALL FOR PAPERS:
 
First Online Conference in Aesthetics
Arthur Danto’s Transfiguration of the Commonplace—25 Years Later
 
The organizers of the First Online Conference in Aesthetics seek submissions for an interdisciplinary conference on Arthur Danto’s Transfiguration of the Commonplace, which this year celebrates its 25th anniversary. Most recent discussions of Danto's work have focused either on his art criticism or his historical claims about the end of art. This conference aims to focus instead on topics raised by Danto’s earlier work. Papers might take several approaches, including:
 
1. Critical discussion of Danto's arguments in Transfiguration.
2. Comparisons of Danto's philosophy of art to that of others, whether within or outside the analytic or Western traditions.
3. Explorations of questions raised or left open by Danto’s book.
4. Specific discussions of the Transfiguration’s continued relevance within aesthetics or its application to particular arts (painting, music, literature, dance, etc.).
 
The conference, to be presented online in January 2007, will feature papers from scholars in philosophy, art history, and other fields impacted by Danto’s work. Keynote papers will be offered by Richard Shusterman (Philosophy, Florida Atlantic) and David Carrier (Art History, Case Western). Professor Danto will close the conference with a response to the papers presented.
 
To be considered for the conference, please submit an abstract (no longer than 300 words) to soucek at uchicago dot edu (convert "at" to @ and "dot" to .) by October 1, 2006. Authors of accepted abstracts will then be asked to provide a full paper (of approximately 2500 words) by December 15, 2006.
 
A prize of $250 will be given for the best paper written by a graduate student. Support for this and other conference expenses comes from Vanderbilt University’s Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities, the Franke Institute for the Humanities at the University of Chicago, and the Philosophy Departments at Vanderbilt and Tel Aviv University. Please address any questions to one of the conference organizers:
Brian Soucek (University of Chicago): soucek at uchicago dot edu
Jonathan Neufeld (Vanderbilt University):  jonathan.a.neufeld at vanderbilt dot edu
Michalle Gal (Tel Aviv University): michalga at post dot tau dot ac dot il

Saturday, January 08, 2005

Eastern ASA Call for Papers

Posted by Jonathan Neufeld on January 8, 2005 at 11:28 AM in calls for papers | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack

This is just a reminder that January 15 is the deadline for submission to the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division meeting in Philadelphia. The conference is fairly small and very friendly. In addition to Noël Carroll's keynote, I believe the conference is scheduled to coincide with the Monroe Beardsley Memorial Lecture in aesthetics at Temple. Hopefully someone can confirm this, and even tell us who is giving the lecture. I also assume that the excellent jazz ensemble Aesthetic Attitude will be playing (again, hopefully this will be confirmed). The call for papers is below the fold.

ASA Eastern Division Meeting

April 8-9, 2005, Philadelphia

Keynote speaker: Noël Carroll (Temple University)

Papers on any topic in aesthetics are invited, as well as proposals for panels, author-meets-critic, or other special sessions. Volunteers to serve as session chairs and commentators are welcome. All participants must register for the conference.

Papers should take no more than 20 minutes to present (approximately 10 pages). Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged (attachments in Word or as rtf), although a diskette via standard post will also be accepted. (If submitting via standard post, please be sure to include a diskette.) Papers should be accompanied by a 100-word abstract.

Deadline: January 15, 2005

Anne Eaton
Philosophy Department
Bucknell University
Lewisburg PA 17837

<aeaton@bucknell.edu>

Tim Costelloe
College of William and Mary

<tmcost@wm.edu>