CFP: Graduate Conference in Aesthetics

The Graduate Conference in Aesthetics is aimed at facilitating conversations on aesthetics between philosophy graduate students and philosophers working in the fields of aesthetics and the philosophy of art. Submitted papers are refereed by experienced philosophers familiar with the relevant literature. Each presented paper also receives commentary from a professional philosopher.

Call for Papers: High quality papers in any area of aesthetics, in both “analytic” and “continental” traditions, are invited from students enrolled in any graduate program in philosophy. Submissions must make a useful contribution to existing literature in a subfield, but should be understandable to aestheticians outside of that subfield. Five submissions will be selected for presentation. Papers must be less than 3,000 words (not including footnotes), accompanied by a 100-word abstract, and prepared for blind review. Submissions must be in .doc, .docx, .rtf, or .pdf format. Please send submissions and questions to John Dyck [email protected]> and Erum Naqvi [email protected]>.  

Each student whose paper is accepted will receive a $300 travel award. 

Submission deadline: Friday, January 4, 2013.  

Note that the American Society for Aesthetics Eastern Division meeting occurs immediately before the Graduate Conference in Aesthetics, also in Philadelphia. Graduate students are encouraged to submit papers to the ASA-Eastern, but please note that authors may not submit the same paper to both the ASA-Eastern and the Graduate Conference in Aesthetics. The same author(s) may submit different papers to both conferences.