Upcoming events in Aesthetics

Ongoing 2 Sep 2025

Conference: The Value of Consciousness

OnlineRice University

Topics: Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics, Normative Ethics

10 May

CFP: The F-word – Autofiction as Resistance to Patriarchy

Nordic Summer University

NSU study circles

Topics: Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Meta-Ethics

12 May

Conference: Aesthetic Judgment, Criticism, and Conversation

Department of Philosophy, University of Reading

Topics: Aesthetics

14 May

Conference: Stanford-Hopkins 7th Annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference

Philosophy & Literature Initiative, Stanford University

Topics: Aesthetics, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

18 May

Conference: “Rethinking Anthropocentrism: New Technologies and More- than-Human Sensing"

Descartes Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities, Utrecht University

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Cognitive Science, Aesthetics

18 May

Conference: EMW XIV: Aesthetic Attention

Department for Analytic Philosophy, Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences

Ernst Mach Workshop

Topics: Epistemology, Philosophy of Mind, Aesthetics

26 May

Conference: Artificial Creativity in Theory and Practice

Center of Philosophy of the University of Lisbon

Topics: Philosophy of Computing and Information, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

27 May

Talk: Tod und Sterben als ästhetische Erfahrung

Gesellschaft für angewandte Philosophie

Nächte der Philosophie

Lorenz Oscar Homolka (University of Vienna)

Topics: Aesthetics, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

29 May

Talk: Die ästhetische Wende im Denken

Gesellschaft für angewandte Philosophie

Nächte der Philosophie

Lorenz Oscar Homolka (University of Vienna)

Topics: Epistemology, Aesthetics

29 May

Talk: Die ästhetische Wende im Denken

HybridKepler Salon, Johannes Kepler University of Linz

Nächte der Philosophie

Lorenz O. Homolka (University of Vienna)

Topics: Epistemology, Aesthetics

30 May

CFP: (Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick

Humanities Research Centre's Events

Topics: Philosophy of the Americas, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

30 May

Conference: (Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other

Humanities Research Centre, University of Warwick

Humanities Research Centre's Events

Topics: Philosophy of the Americas, Aesthetics, Philosophy of Gender, Race, and Sexuality

31 May

Conference: Thinking the City: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Place

Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge

Topics: Epistemology, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

31 May

CFP: 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

31 May

CFP: CFP_Between Fear and Proximity: The Wolf and Contemporary Forms of Otherness

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

1 Jun

Conference: Hamburg Philosophy of Fiction Workshop 2026

University of Hamburg

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics

1 Jun

CFP: 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

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

10 Jun

Conference: 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

11 Jun

CFP: Styles of Appearing. Aesthetics and Phenomenology

Department of Philosopjhy, Université de Fribourg

Aesthetics&Critique IX

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics

11 Jun

Conference: Styles of Appearing. Aesthetics and Phenomenology

Department of Philosopjhy, Université de Fribourg

Aesthetics&Critique IX

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics

12 Jun

Conference: Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity

HybridKingston University

A PhD student-led symposium supported by the Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, European Philosophy, Aesthetics

15 Jun

CFP: 2026 Southern Aesthetics Workshop

University of South Carolina

Topics: Aesthetics

17 Jun

Conference: IDEepolis26

Institute for Digital Ethics (IDE), Stuttgart Media University

Topics: Aesthetics, Applied Ethics, Social and Political Philosophy

25 Jun

Conference: QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY

Faculty of Philosophy, Adam Mickiewicz University

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

30 Jun

CFP: ‘Impossible Architecture’ in: 'Universitas Gedanesis'

Topics: History of Western Philosophy, Aesthetics

30 Jun

CFP: The Cinema of Democracy – Event and Reinvention of the Mass (Special issue, JSTA – Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts)

Topics: Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

10 Jul

Talk: The Politics of Heritage

Department of Political Economy, King's College London

The PPE Society Annual Meetings

Jack Hume (King's College London)

Rasa Davidavičiūtė (LMU Munich)

Fred Matthews (University of Bristol)

Topics: Epistemology, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

10 Jul

Conference: American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Meeting

Topics: Aesthetics

15 Jul

CFP: “Magic and Critique” – Pólemos (2026/2)

Topics: Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy, Value Theory, Miscellaneous

24 Jul

Conference: Time Work: Debt, inheritance, and intergenerational practice

Nordic Summer University

Studies in Remoteness: Sensoria of absence, distance, and neglect

Topics: Epistemology, Aesthetics, Applied Ethics

24 Jul

Conference: The F-word – Autofiction as Resistance to Patriarchy

Nordic Summer University

NSU study circles

Topics: Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Meta-Ethics

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

31 Jul

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

Topics: Philosophy of Language, Aesthetics

1 Aug

CFP: Literature and the Body: The Relations Between Being and Writing

Topics: 20th Century Philosophy, Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics

3 Sep

Conference: Popular Arts Conference 2026

Popular Arts Conference

Popular Arts Conference

Topics: Aesthetics

30 Sep

CFP: Translation—Semiotics—Music

Topics: Continental Philosophy, Aesthetics, Social and Political Philosophy

9 Oct

Conference: 2026 Southern Aesthetics Workshop

University of South Carolina

Topics: 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

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