The organization of the twelfth edition of the Iberian Meeting on Aesthetics invites researchers in philosophical aesthetics and in related disciplinary areas to submit proposals for papers. The submission of abstracts will be open until April 1st.
\nDates &\; Venue
The Meeting will take place on October 22\, 23\, and 24\, 2026\, with institutional hosting by the Institute of Philosophy of the University of Porto\, Research Group Aesthetics\, Politics and Knowledge (APK).
Theme: Modalities of Attention: Contemplation\, Critical Virtues\, and Agency
One of the problems of our contemporary world is that of attention: paying attention to things requires time and energy\, resources increasingly mobilised almost exclusively for consumption or incessant productivity. The sweeping technological and cultural transformations we face &mdash\; or are imposed upon us &mdash\; are accompanied by equally profound changes in how we attend\, how we experience things\, and even how we conceive of and value attention and experience themselves. This concerns our practical life\, as much as it does aesthetic theory.
Although contemporary aesthetics goes beyond the experience of art\, encompassing our relation to a degraded natural world and to an everyday life that is ever more massified\, gentrified\, and touristified\, attention is the knot in which all these strands converge. Thus\, a fundamental and enduring value of at least some works of art lies in their capacity to show us new ways of attending to things and of reconfiguring our experience of the world.
\nAs a philosophical concept\, aesthetic attention has been the object of debate and\, in particular\, of incisive criticism across various traditions of thought. Whatever perspective we adopt on the nature of aesthetic value and its role in human well-being\, what we attend to\, and how we attend\, will continue to be a decisive aspect of what it means to be the subject of a life.
\nWe invite researchers in aesthetics and the theory of the arts to submit proposals for papers within the following thematic lines:
\nTHEMATIC LINES
\nHow art teaches us to see and to listen: aesthetics and the education of the senses.
\nAttention as action: authorship\, interpretation\, and completion.
\nAffective attention: the role of emotions in aesthetic experience.
\nAttention and memory: the role of memory in aesthetic experience.
\nThe prosaic and the mundane: aesthetic attention beyond art.
\nAesthetic attention and the environment: from contemplation to the construction of nature.
\nArchitecture\, urbanism\, and aesthetic attention: life in cities and the experience of dwelling.
\nAesthetic attention in education: philosophical perspectives.
\nTechnology and politics: challenges to aesthetic attention\, from hyperconnectivity to AI.
\nFrom aesthetic attention to critical attention: whatever became of the philosophy of art criticism?
\nAesthetics and virtues: contemporary aretaic perspectives on attention.
\nFrom Critical Theory to the present: the political dimension of aesthetic attention.
\nPopular culture: from collective protest to memes.
\nDigital art and new media: dispersion\, fragmentation\, and recentring.
\nAesthetics and epistemology: are there collective forms of aesthetic attention?
\nTranscultural perspectives: aesthetic attention in non-Western contexts.
\nABSTRACTS
\nDocument 1: anonymous
\nTitle of the proposal
\nAbstract (maximum 500 words)
\nBibliography (maximum of five references)
\nFive keywords and the thematic line to which the proposal is assigned
\nDocument 2: non-anonymous
\nTitle of the proposal
\nBrief biographical note of no more than 200 words
\nInstructions for sending:
Both documents (Word) will be named with the title &ndash\; or a part of it &ndash\; plus its corresponding numbering (Example: Title_1 and Title_2\, depending on whether it is anonymous or not) and will be sent to the following e-mail address: encontroibe.porto@letras.up.pt \;
Important information:
The selection will be made taking into account the scientific quality and the relevance to the theme of the Meeting.
The presentation time for each paper will be 20 minutes\, plus 10 minutes for discussion.
The official languages will be Portuguese\, Spanish\, and English.
IMPORTANT DATES
\nApril 1: Deadline for submission of abstracts
\nFrom May 15: Acceptance reply
\nMay 30 - June 30: Speaker registration
\nJuly 15: Program announcement
\nUntil September 30: Attendee registration
\nOctober 22-24: Congress date
\nREGISTRATION
\nSpeaker registration: 70 &euro\;
\nSpeaker registration (SEyTA member): 50 &euro\;
\nAttendee registration: 50 &euro\;
\nAttendee registration (SEyTA member) or student: 40 &euro\;
\nGrants for PhD students
Three grants of 200 &euro\; each will be awarded.
To be eligible\, it is necessary to be a member of SEyTA or a PhD student in Portugal and to justify the relation between the theme of the congress and the theme of the thesis.
The grant is awarded retrospectively\, once the PhD student submits the certificate of participation to SEyTA.
ORGANIZERS
\nSociedad Españ\;ola de Esté\;tica y Teorí\;a de las Artes
\nFaculdade de Letras da Universidade do Porto
\nInstituto de Filosofia da Universidade do Porto
\nGrupo de investigaç\;ã\;o Aesthetics\, Politics &\; Knowledge
\nORGANIZING COMMITTEE
\nVí\;tor Guerreiro
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nDomingos Faria
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nSí\;lvia Bento
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nPablo Seoane
\nUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela
\nTECHNICAL COMMITEE
\nSusana Costa
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nVanessa Pelerigo
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nPaula Lima
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nJoana Rego
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nMarco Dias
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nSCIENTIFIC COMMITTEE
\nAna Marí\;a Rabe
\nUniversidade de Santiago de Compostela
\nCarlos Valente
\nUniversidade da Madeira
\nCarla Carmona
\nUniversidad de Sevilla
\nErika Rodrigues
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nCarlos Vara Sanchez
\nUniversidad Complutense de Madrid
\nFilipa Afonso
\nUniversidade de Lisboa
\nJoaquí\;n Macarro
\nUniversidad de Salamanca
\nMaria de Fá\;tima Lambert
\nEscola Superior de Educaç\;ã\;o do Instituto
\nPolité\;cnico do Porto
\nMagda Polo Pujadas
\nUniversidad de Barcelona
\nMá\;rio Correia
\nUniversidade do Porto
\nRosa Bené\;itez
\nUniversidad de Salamanca
\nTiago Sousa
\nUniversidade do Minho
\nCONTACT:
encontroibe.porto@letras.up.pt \;