Upcoming events in Aesthetics

Ongoing 4 Jun

Conference: Stanley Cavell at 100. An International Centennial Conference

Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne; Sapienza Università di Roma; Boston University

Topics: Aesthetics, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

Ongoing 27 Jul

Conference: School of Materialist Research Summer Institute 2026

HybridPhilosophy, Communications and Media, Cultural Studies, Logic and Language, School for Materialist Research, Arizona State University - CPT, Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities, Goldsmiths University, Polytechnic Milan, Sandberg Institute - Amsterdam

The Limits Of the Political Summer School (July 27), Living Design: Ontological Design Redux (August 3), Realism, Materialism, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought? (August 17P

Topics: Metaphysics and Epistemology, Science, Logic, and Mathematics, Aesthetics

Tomorrow 13 Aug

CFP: The Aesthetics of Games

Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester

Topics: M&E, Miscellaneous, Aesthetics, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

1 Sep

CFP: Biophilia: The Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics of Love for the Living World

Department of Philosophy, Mississippi State University

The Mississippi Philosophical Association Annual Conference 2027

Topics: Aesthetics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

3 Sep

Conference: Popular Arts Conference 2026

Popular Arts Conference

Popular Arts Conference

Topics: Aesthetics

7 Sep

Conference: The Aesthetics of Games

Department of Philosophy, University of Manchester

Topics: M&E, Miscellaneous, Aesthetics, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

11 Sep

CFP: Special Issue of the Journal of Philosophy in Schools: Aesthetic Education

Topics: Epistemology, Aesthetics

15 Sep

CFP: Religious Art and Power – Contestations and Affirmations - Open Theology

Topics: Philosophy of Religion, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

15 Sep

CFP: The Aesthetic Aspects of Metaphor: Philosophical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Dialogue

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics

20 Sep

CFP: "Ricœur, Dead or Alive?" Fonds Ricœur Monthly Seminar (ENS, Paris)

HybridUMR 8547, Pays germaniques, École Normale Supérieure

The seminar "Ricœur Studies Today"

Topics: Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

30 Sep

CFP: Translation—Semiotics—Music

Topics: Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

1 Oct

CFP: AFK in Florida: The 5th Annual Philosophy of Video Games Conference

Department of Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University

Topics: Philosophy of Computing and Information, Aesthetics, Applied Ethics

6 Oct

Conference: "Ricœur, Dead or Alive?" Fonds Ricœur Monthly Seminar (ENS, Paris)

HybridUMR 8547, Pays germaniques, École Normale Supérieure

The seminar "Ricœur Studies Today"

Topics: Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

9 Oct

Conference: 2026 Southern Aesthetics Workshop

University of South Carolina

Topics: Aesthetics

15 Oct

CFP: JAM (Junkyard Anniversary Meeting) - Philosophy of Imagination Conference

Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Claremont McKenna College

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics

5 Nov

Conference: 2026 Latinx Philosophy Conference

Department of Philosophy, Texas A&M University

Topics: Philosophy of the Americas, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

12 Nov

Conference: RADIATION: Connection Across Distance, A Cross-disciplinary Conference

University of the West of England

Topics: Continental Philosophy, General Philosophy of Science, Aesthetics

13 Nov

Conference: Another Sense of Earth at the End of Worlds: Environmental Humanities in the Face of Crises

Department of Philosophy and Religion, University of North Texas

Topics: Aesthetics, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality, Social and Political Philosophy

19 Nov

Conference: Phenomenology and Media: Mapping the Structures of Post-Cinematic Experience

National University for Theatre and Film, Bucharest

Annual conference of the Romanian Society for Phenomenology

Topics: Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics

24 Nov

Conference: Reading philosophies of nature and beauty: close reading as method in the history of philosophy

School of Humanities, University of Sydney

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, European Philosophy, Aesthetics

25 Nov

Conference: The Natural and the Beautiful: Women Philosophers on Nature, Beauty, and Art

University of Sydney

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

15 Dec

CFP: Fiction and Lies: the ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress

School of Philosophy Psychology and Language Sciences, University of Edinburgh

The Association for Studies in Fiction and Fictionality (ASIFF) / La Société Internationale des Recherches sur la Fiction et la Fictionnalité (SIRFF)

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics

12 Feb 2027

Conference: Biophilia: The Ethics, Politics, and Aesthetics of Love for the Living World

Department of Philosophy, Mississippi State University

The Mississippi Philosophical Association Annual Conference 2027

Topics: Aesthetics, Normative Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

26 Feb 2027

Conference: AFK in Florida: The 5th Annual Philosophy of Video Games Conference

Department of Philosophy, Florida Atlantic University

Topics: Philosophy of Computing and Information, Aesthetics, Applied Ethics

2 Apr 2027

Conference: JAM (Junkyard Anniversary Meeting) - Philosophy of Imagination Conference

Gould Center for Humanistic Studies, Claremont McKenna College

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics