This is a zoom series on the value of consciousness\, taking place every first Tuesday of the month at noon Eastern time in the US/6pm in Europe. The program is below. The zoom link is this:
\nhttps://riceuniversity.zoom.us/j/93096236283?pwd=s6SO6NqrM5mnGpqjFtKNfTNoxaHGUg.1
\nProgram:
\nSept. 2: Takuya Niikawa\, &ldquo\;Consciousness Aesthetics&rdquo\;
Oct. 7: Anna Giustina\, &ldquo\;Prospects for an Aesthetics of Consciousness&rdquo\;
Nov. 11: Emad Atiq\, ""Agency\, Normativity\, and Acquaintance"
Dec. 2: Lé\;a Salje\, &ldquo\;Feeling Like Oneself&rdquo\;
Jan. 6: David Builes\, &ldquo\;Four Views of the First Person&rdquo\;
Feb. 3: Adrià\; Moret\, &ldquo\;No Welfare without Sentience&rdquo\;
Mar. 3: Gwen Bradford\, &ldquo\;Dreams and Incommunicable Aesthetic Value&rdquo\;
Apr. 7: Enrico Terrone\, "The Type-Token Dilemma for the Aesthetics of Consciousness"
May 5: Leonard Dung\, &ldquo\;Varieties of Sentientism About Moral Standing&rdquo\;
Richard Linklater&rsquo\;s Slacker (1991) is a cult classic with a crucial role in the history of American cinema. The movie is unusual in many ways. It does not have a traditional narrative\; it follows 100 characters around the UT Austin area in a way that seems completely random. There is no protagonist\, no story\, no thread to the individual events\, yet somehow it is a completely coherent and engaging movie that sparks as many reflections as the number of scenes it has.
\nWe are looking for chapter proposals in the form of abstracts. Topics already included are work\, capitalism\, Buddhism\, film as a dream\, narrative\, episodic views of life\, and absurdity. Possible topics for new chapters include:
\n●Importance of the movie Slacker for Gen X
\n●Role of Slacker in Independent Film
\n●Oblique Strategies in the movie
\n●Possible worlds in the opening of Slacker
\n●Narrativity and anti-narrativity in Slacker
\n●The coffee shop as the Agora of Austin
\n●Non-Conformity in Slacker
\n●Slacker and embracing the absurd
\n●Individualism vs. Communitarianism
\n●Capitalism and Commodification
\n●Conspiracy Theories
\n●The Society of Spectacle
\n●Idleness and Creativity
\n●Other topics are also welcome\; please send your proposal!
\n\nSubmission Guidelines:
\n●Abstracts: 300&ndash\;500 words outlining the central argument\, theoretical framework\, and relevance to the volume.
\n●Author Bio: 100 words. Include affiliation and other relevant information.
\n●Deadline for Abstracts: May 1\, 2026
\n●Notification of Acceptance: Sept 1\, 2026
\n●Full Chapter Length: 3\,500&ndash\;7\,000 words (final chapters)
\nThis volume will be comprised of a mix of scholarly articles and articles that are more personal/casual in tone. We are accepting submissions from an array of research fields\, including philosophy\, film studies\, politics\, cultural studies\, sociology\, psychology\, etc. The volume should appeal to both academic and non-academic audiences.
\nPlease send abstracts and inquiries to:
\nsbizarro@uno.edu and melissa.remark@nicholls.edu
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260510T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260510T140000 SUMMARY:The F-word – Autofiction as Resistance to Patriarchy UID:20260503T132847Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Riga LOCATION:Saulkrasti\, Latvia DESCRIPTION:Feminism gives us a vision\, a framework\, and tools to upend systems. One of those systems is how we think of language and the self. Is it possible to say what is true\, when stories are always already framed by the world in which they take place? What role does autofiction play in our own lives\, in the process of resistance\, in the call for that which remains invisible? The poetic attention inherent in autofiction\, in escrevivê\;ncia\, that is inherent in the work\, is created for and by and to address the necessity of the impossible. Autofiction as an act of God\, of the transcendent that manifests itself in the real\, in lived experience\, and as such is aimed at resisting the patriarchy.
\nIn this symposium we aim to bring together people with whom this theme resonates\, and we ask people to share from their own life\, practise\, profession\, in order to create an ongoing conversation as a way to build resilience. We explicitly invite people to embrace the difference they bring in to contribute towards this shared endeavour. \;
\nAutofiction as Resistance as a method
\nDuring this week we aim to work together on exploring the themes that are central to this circle also in the way we participate. We explicitly invite people to share their insights\, artistic practises and theoretic understanding in a way that invites collaborative thinking. For this reason academic presentations are not accepted\, although a presentation can be a part of a larger workshop. Please indicate in your application how much time you would need for your intervention\, and a brief description on how you aim to use the time allotted to your session. First-time experiments are as welcome as tested concepts. \;
\nParticipants without workshops/sharing of their own personal project/ideas are also most welcome to collaborate during the week in the interactive program. \;
\nAbout Nordic Summer University (NSU):
\nNSU is a space for collaboration between disciplines/peoples/ideas. During the Summer Session several study circles\, each hosting their own program\, will come together &ndash\; participants are welcome to join different circles/programmes during the week. NSU is a horizontal organisation\, being present means you are a member and part of the organisation.
\nCosts
\nNSU offers a limited amount of grants and scholarships. If you are interested in receiving one (which means a reduced participation fee of only 100 euro for the whole week)\, please let us know while applying. \;
\nThis includes \;accommodation and all meals for the full week. The price also includes NSU membership\, so it is not necessary to purchase it separately. Those who have already attended a winter symposium and paid the membership will receive a discount code to deduct the membership fee &ndash\; please contact us before you register to receive the discount code. No refunds will be given if participants pay membership twice by mistake\, so please mention in your application that you already attended an NSU event this year\, to receive a discount code.
\nDeadlines
\nPlease send us a short text explaining your aim / topic / idea\, how much time you would need to host the experience\, and what materials you would require (paper/paint/bicycles)\, which we will try to accommodate. \;
\nPlease send us your application by April 5th. \;Especially if you would like to be considered to receive a grant/scholarship\, as decisions on grants/scholarships will be made at the end of April. Deadline to confirm and pay your spot as a grant/scholarship receiver is May 1st. \;
\nOther applicants are accepted on a rolling basis. Final deadline to apply: May 10th. By May 15th you will need to register and pay for the accommodation.
\nApplications and queries can be send to: nicole.nobyeni@nsuweb.org
\nPlease be aware that everyone involved at Nordic Summer University is collaborating on a voluntary basis.
\nAbout the Circle:
\nHow to think/write/be/inter-act without being limited by an already outlined goal/outcome/impact? How to explore what is messy/confused/embodied while accepting that exploration is always also taking place within philosophy/genre/language/life &ndash\; within what is. That is\, our attempt to explore\, to transcend our sites of speech happens in this world and is framed by the situatedness of our lives. Could it be otherwise? This study circle aims to take advantage of the network\, space and openness provided by the Nordic Summer University to raise questions that cannot be answered/grounded/voiced\, for philosophers/writers/feminists and/or/as-well-as those who are other(s/ed/ing). \;
\nThis study circle will explore the liminality of not belonging in a discipline/space/frame/ category/nation. Accepting language as the limit/tool/curse and an unavoidable starting point\, building upon the work of Irigaray/Arendt/Ettinger\, this state of exception of being-with/in/of language is not simple put aside\, but accepted as a reality which is &ldquo\;disturbing\, overwhelming\, and sometimes too close for comfort&rdquo\;. \;
\nThese tensions open up a liminal space &ndash\; how to think/write/be/inter-act within such a space\, while being an/Other\\not-I/(m)\\Other within feminist philosophy? How to write/create/live as a being that is more than the categories available to mark/describe/situate them? How to explore power as a temporary space\, a moment\, political and liminal? How to read and ground ourselves in feminist philosophy while also living/m-othering/PhD-ing? How to even ask/write/question these questions\, without falling prey to the linearity inherent in what/who/why it means to question? \;
\nMore information: \;https://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-4-an-other-not-i-m-other-in-feminist-philosophy/ \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Nicole Des Bouvrie: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260512T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260512T170000 SUMMARY:Aesthetic Judgment\, Criticism\, and Conversation UID:20260503T132848Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Foxhill House\, Reading\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:A one-day workshop on connections between aesthetic judgment\, the practice of criticism\, and accounting for our judgments in conversation.
ORGANIZER;CN=Nat Hansen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260515T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260516T170000 SUMMARY:Stanford-Hopkins 7th Annual Philosophy & Literature Graduate Conference UID:20260503T132849Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Athens LOCATION:Stanford University\, Stanford\, United States\, 94305 DESCRIPTION:The Philosophy &\; Literature Workshop at Stanford and the Alexander Grass Humanities Institute at Johns Hopkins welcome submissions for the 7th annual Philosophy &\; Literature Graduate Conference to be held in person on May 15&ndash\;16\, 2026\, at Stanford University. This year&rsquo\;s conference topic\, &ldquo\;Chrōnos\, Tempus\, Time: Temporality in Philosophy\, Literature &\; the Arts\,&rdquo\; brings together doctoral students and scholars that work at the intersection of philosophy\, literature\, the arts\, and media studies.
\nPhilosophy and Literature both take temporality as a subject of perennial interest. Philosophy has long concerned itself with the nature and metaphysics of time\, its phenomenology\, and the consequences of our apparent finitude. Literature has done much of the same\, while more substantially incorporating temporality into its formal characteristics\, e.g.\, in general narrative form\, in manipulations of linearity\, temporal perspective-shifting\, etc. Furthermore\, art forms such as music and cinema are acutely related to and defined by time-boundedness\, and are generally temporal forms of representation. This conference seeks to explore temporality and its myriad relations to central concepts or motifs in philosophy\, literature\, and the arts.
\nFor more information\, check the associated CfP.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260518T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Amsterdam:20260518T170000 SUMMARY:“Rethinking Anthropocentrism: New Technologies and More- than-Human Sensing" UID:20260503T132850Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Amsterdam LOCATION:Utrecht University\, Utrecht\, Netherlands DESCRIPTION:Call for Participation: &ldquo\;Rethinking Anthropocentrism: New Technologies and More-
\nthan-Human Sensing&rdquo\;
\nLeiden (NL)\, May 18th\, 2026
\nEmerging sensing technologies can access a variety of data that are beyond the reach of human embodied perception. Consequently\, such technologies trouble the anthropocentrism of human embodied perception as the model for experience per se. However\, the mediation needed to make the sensed data accessible for humans still needs to be targeted at human perception\, thus potentially reintroducing anthropocentrism. This workshop aims to discuss to what extent anthropocentrism consequently still characterizes the sensing in such more-than-human assemblages. In a collaborative and hands-on approach\, it will connect embodied\, theoretical\, and technological perspectives in order to address this question.
\nContributions from neuroscientist Marta Calbi\, choreographer Stefania Ballone\, and curator Bart Grob will provide impulses to discuss the epistemic\, aesthetic\, and performative dimensions of such more-than-human sensing. Participants will have the opportunity to engage with thermal imaging technology in an exercise guided by Stefania Ballone and will get access to historical sensing technologies from the archive of Rijksmuseum Boerhaave\, provided by Bart Grob. Marta Calbi will offer a consideration of the implications of more-than human sensing for scientific purposes.
\nAddressed at PhD Candidates\, early career researchers\, as well as artists\, the workshop aims to be a first step in building a research network to foster cross-disciplinary exchange around more-than-human sensing. Interested researchers are invited to send an application in the form of a brief cover letter (300 words) outlining how their work connects to the theme of the workshop\, as well as a short biography (250 words)\, to Giulia Andreini (giuliandreini.94@gmail.com)\, Giulio Galimberti (giulio.galimberti@unimi.it) and Jonathan Kirn (j.b.kirn@uu.nl). Applications are welcome until March 31\, 2026.
\nSpots are limited. A partial reimbursement for travel and accommodation costs can be provided.
\nThe workshop is carried out in cooperation with Rijksmuseum Boerhaave and the Descartes \;Centre for the History and Philosophy of the Sciences and the Humanities. It is supported by the \;Institute for Cultural Inquiry of Utrecht University and made possible through the financial support \;of the Descartes Centre and the van Oostrom Grant for young humanities scholars at Utrecht \;University.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260518T093000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Prague:20260519T170000 SUMMARY:EMW XIV: Aesthetic Attention UID:20260503T132851Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Prague LOCATION:Husova 4\, Praha\, Czech Republic\, 110 00 DESCRIPTION:We cordially invite submissions for the 14th \;Ernst Mach Workshop\, which will focus on the role of aesthetic attention in shaping aesthetic experience and cognitive engagement with the world. The workshop aims to explore how aesthetic attention works and how it influences the appreciation of art and nature\, examining its interplay with perception\, emotion\, and cognitive states. Particular emphasis will be given to modes of aesthetic attention across a range of artistic genres\, including painting\, sculpture\, photography\, literature and music\, as well as conceptual art and even AI-generated art. \;
\nContributions are welcome from scholars working in aesthetics and the philosophy of mind\, as well as from cognitive scientists\, experimental psychologists and neuroscientists. There is no registration fee for the event. \;
\nSubmission deadline: \;March 20\, 2026. Submission portal for anonymized 300-word abstracts: \;https://emw14.sciencesconf.org/
\nInquiries at \;emw@flu.cas.cz
ORGANIZER;CN=Juraj Hvorecky;CN=Tomas Marvan;CN=Tomas Koblizek: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260526T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Lisbon:20260527T170000 SUMMARY:Artificial Creativity in Theory and Practice UID:20260503T132852Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Lisbon LOCATION:Faculdade de Letras da Universidade de Lisboa\, Lisbon\, Portugal DESCRIPTION:What is creativity? How is it valuable? And how might it be harmful? This conference examines how recent developments in artificial intelligence affect our answers to these questions. It will take a broad look at the relationship between AI and creativity &ndash\; including creativity in the arts\, sciences\, and beyond. In addition to this\, the conference considers how AI is changing our creative practice. How are artists and people working in the creative industries incorporating AI into their working life? And what are the social\, ethical and political implications of this? \;
ORGANIZER;CN=James S. Pearson: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260527T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260527T180000 SUMMARY:Tod und Sterben als ästhetische Erfahrung UID:20260503T132853Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:Philosophischer Kunstspaziergang im KHM im Zuge der Nä\;chte der Philosophie 2026.
\n27.05.26
16:00
KHM Kunsthistorisches Museum\, Wien
Eintritt: nur Museum
Im Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien spü\;ren wir dem Tod und dem Sterben als ä\;sthetischer Erfahrung nach.
\nIn einem philosophisch-dramaturgischen Museumsgang begegnen wir Kunstwerken\, die Vergä\;nglichkeit\, Endlichkeit und Transzendenz darstellen &ndash\; und hö\;ren zu\, was sie uns zu sagen haben.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260529T160000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Vienna:20260529T180000 SUMMARY:Die ästhetische Wende im Denken UID:20260503T132854Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Vienna LOCATION:Vienna\, Austria DESCRIPTION:Im Zuge der Veranstaltungsreihe Nä\;chte der Philosophie \;27.05. &ndash\; 31.05.2026
Host: Gesellschaft fü\;r angewandte Philosophie
https://www.gap.or.at/
Seit dem 18. Jahrhundert vollzieht sich eine ä\;sthetische Wende im Denken. Alexander Gottlieb Baumgarten stellt das sinnliche Denken als eigenstä\;ndige Form der Erkenntnis neben die Logik &ndash\; mit weitreichenden Folgen fü\;r die akademische Philosophie und Gesellschaft. Der Vortrag entfaltet diese historische Entwicklung und fragt nach ihrer gegenwä\;rtigen Bedeutung. Wenn Kü\;nstliche Intelligenz analytische und kombinatorische Denkprozesse zunehmend ü\;bernimmt\, kö\;nnte sich die Aufgabe des Denkens verschieben &ndash\; ä\;hnlich wie die Malerei nach der Erfindung der Fotografie: weg von bloß\;er Abbildung und dem Bemü\;hen nach Klarheit\, hin zu Stimmung\, Sinnstiftung und Selbstverwandlung.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T080000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T080000 SUMMARY:(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other UID:20260503T132856Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Gibbet Hill Road\, Coventry\, United Kingdom\, CV4 7AL DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
\nAbstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between \;July 7th\, 2025\, and \;October 15th\, 2025.
\nPlease include a short biography (100 words) and institutional affiliation with your submission.
\nApproved abstracts will be informed by \;December 2025.
\nThe final paper must be sent by \;May 1st\, 2026\, for internal circulation.
\nWe invite scholars to submit proposals for our upcoming conference\, which will examine how colonial and neocolonial powers have influenced representations of non-Western countries and their peoples in literature\, the arts\, and the media. This event seeks to investigate how these representations have been instrumental in constructing negative stereotypes\, enforcing cultural hierarchies\, and sustaining hegemonic narratives that marginalise indigenous\, local\, and non-Western communities.
\nColonial and imperial discourses\, as &ldquo\;a cultural domination from abroad&rdquo\; (Da Silva &\; Matheus\, 2024)\, have long employed literary and artistic productions of Other Non-Western subjects\, portraying them as exotic\, primitive\, or even barbaric. From the portrayal of Native Brazilian Indigenous peoples as cannibals in Early Modern Portuguese colonial literature to the transformation of \;One Thousand and One Nights \;through Neoclassical French translations that distorted its original Arabic cultural context\, such narratives have served to reinforce Western dominance and justify subjugation.
\nMore recently\, in a postcolonial context\, various productions continue to operate in the shadows of (neo)colonialism and (neo)imperialism\, often carrying colonial overtones (Qiao\, 2018). Neocolonial cultural productions\, such as the French-directed \;Emilia Pé\;rez (a film about Mexican drug cartels cast with American actors)\, continue to generate controversy over who has the authority to tell certain stories and how these depictions are received by the communities they claim to represent. Western agents (e.g. translators\, producers\, directors\, editors\, publishers\, and reviewers) stillreframe productions from the Global South through a (neo)colonial and (neo)orientalist lens\, constructing Western-centric narratives about these works\, their countries\, and their people. For example\, American and British agents often situate Chinese personal stories within Western dominant narratives of a &ldquo\;dark&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;dystopian&rdquo\; China\, translating them according to their hegemonic standards (Tan\, 2024).
\nThis conference will examine the mechanisms through which (neo)colonial powers have influenced literary\, artistic\, and media portrayals of non-Western subjects\, as well as their impacts on their self-identification. We seek to explore questions such as:
\nWe welcome proposals from a range of disciplines\, including but not limited to Literature\, History\, Film Studies\, Philosophy\, Translation Studies\, Cultural and (Post)colonial Studies\, \;Journalism\, and Media Studies. Papers may address historical cases or contemporary examples and may take a comparative\, theoretical\, or case-study approach.
\nRELEVANT DETAILS \;
\nAs an interdisciplinary conference\, it aims to capture the attention of scholars examining (neo)colonial representations and how perceptions of the Others are shaped through various media.
\nThis conference is tailored for national and international scholars\, students\, and early-career researchers interested in Literature\, Art\, Cultural Studies\, History\, Philosophy\, Sociology\, etc. As our conference will follow the \;Society for Latin American Studies&rsquo\; \;Climate Action Plan\, we also warmly invite colleagues to endorse the \;BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme \;and follow the \;BPA Environmental Travel Policy.
\nThe conference will take place in person at the University of Warwick on \;May 30th\, 2026.
\nWe look forward to your contributions and an engaging discussion.
\nPlease\, send your abstract to both emails: \;
\nGustavo Ruiz da Silva: \;gustavo.da-silva@warwick.ac.uk
\nXiaoyan Tan: \;xiaoyan.tan@warwick.ac.uk
\nNo fees will be charged for this conference.
\nPUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY
\nThe \;Warwick Series in the Humanities (with Routledge) \;publishes the varied and multidisciplinary outcomes of projects funded by the HRC. Following this tradition\, our conference will organise an edited volume based on the presented papers\, and offer its publication to Routledge.
ORGANIZER;CN=Gustavo Ruiz da Silva;CN=Xiaoyan Tan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260530T170000 SUMMARY:(Neo)Colonial Images and Literature: The Construction of the Other UID:20260503T132857Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Gibbet Hill Road\, Coventry\, United Kingdom\, CV4 7AL DESCRIPTION:SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
\nAbstracts of no more than 300 words should be submitted between \;July 7th\, 2025\, and \;October 15th\, 2025.
\nPlease include a short biography (100 words) and institutional affiliation with your submission.
\nApproved abstracts will be informed by \;December 2025.
\nThe final paper must be sent by \;May 1st\, 2026\, for internal circulation.
\nWe invite scholars to submit proposals for our upcoming conference\, which will examine how colonial and neocolonial powers have influenced representations of non-Western countries and their peoples in literature\, the arts\, and the media. This event seeks to investigate how these representations have been instrumental in constructing negative stereotypes\, enforcing cultural hierarchies\, and sustaining hegemonic narratives that marginalise indigenous\, local\, and non-Western communities.
\nColonial and imperial discourses\, as &ldquo\;a cultural domination from abroad&rdquo\; (Da Silva &\; Matheus\, 2024)\, have long employed literary and artistic productions of Other Non-Western subjects\, portraying them as exotic\, primitive\, or even barbaric. From the portrayal of Native Brazilian Indigenous peoples as cannibals in Early Modern Portuguese colonial literature to the transformation of \;One Thousand and One Nights \;through Neoclassical French translations that distorted its original Arabic cultural context\, such narratives have served to reinforce Western dominance and justify subjugation.
\nMore recently\, in a postcolonial context\, various productions continue to operate in the shadows of (neo)colonialism and (neo)imperialism\, often carrying colonial overtones (Qiao\, 2018). Neocolonial cultural productions\, such as the French-directed \;Emilia Pé\;rez (a film about Mexican drug cartels cast with American actors)\, continue to generate controversy over who has the authority to tell certain stories and how these depictions are received by the communities they claim to represent. Western agents (e.g. translators\, producers\, directors\, editors\, publishers\, and reviewers) stillreframe productions from the Global South through a (neo)colonial and (neo)orientalist lens\, constructing Western-centric narratives about these works\, their countries\, and their people. For example\, American and British agents often situate Chinese personal stories within Western dominant narratives of a &ldquo\;dark&rdquo\; and &ldquo\;dystopian&rdquo\; China\, translating them according to their hegemonic standards (Tan\, 2024).
\nThis conference will examine the mechanisms through which (neo)colonial powers have influenced literary\, artistic\, and media portrayals of non-Western subjects\, as well as their impacts on their self-identification. We seek to explore questions such as:
\nWe welcome proposals from a range of disciplines\, including but not limited to Literature\, History\, Film Studies\, Philosophy\, Translation Studies\, Cultural and (Post)colonial Studies\, \;Journalism\, and Media Studies. Papers may address historical cases or contemporary examples and may take a comparative\, theoretical\, or case-study approach.
\nRELEVANT DETAILS \;
\nAs an interdisciplinary conference\, it aims to capture the attention of scholars examining (neo)colonial representations and how perceptions of the Others are shaped through various media.
\nThis conference is tailored for national and international scholars\, students\, and early-career researchers interested in Literature\, Art\, Cultural Studies\, History\, Philosophy\, Sociology\, etc. As our conference will follow the \;Society for Latin American Studies&rsquo\; \;Climate Action Plan\, we also warmly invite colleagues to endorse the \;BPA/SWIP Good Practice Scheme \;and follow the \;BPA Environmental Travel Policy.
\nThe conference will take place in person at the University of Warwick on \;May 30th\, 2026.
\nWe look forward to your contributions and an engaging discussion.
\nPlease\, send your abstract to both emails: \;
\nGustavo Ruiz da Silva: \;gustavo.da-silva@warwick.ac.uk
\nXiaoyan Tan: \;xiaoyan.tan@warwick.ac.uk
\nNo fees will be charged for this conference.
\nPUBLISHING OPPORTUNITY
\nThe \;Warwick Series in the Humanities (with Routledge) \;publishes the varied and multidisciplinary outcomes of projects funded by the HRC. Following this tradition\, our conference will organise an edited volume based on the presented papers\, and offer its publication to Routledge.
ORGANIZER;CN=Gustavo Ruiz da Silva;CN=Xiaoyan Tan: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Asia/Nicosia:20260531T090000 DTEND;TZID=Asia/Nicosia:20260601T170000 SUMMARY:Thinking the City: Perspectives on the Philosophy of Place UID:20260503T132858Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Asia/Nicosia LOCATION:Clare Hall\, Cambridge\, United Kingdom\, CB3 9AL DESCRIPTION:This conference aims to establish a sustained and systematic philosophical engagement with the city as an object of inquiry within analytic philosophy. While cities profoundly structure our social\, moral\, epistemic\, and political lives\, there has been little comprehensive philosophical treatment of the city as such. With the notable exception of Quill Kukla&rsquo\;s recent work&mdash\;which opens an important line of inquiry while leaving significant conceptual territory unexplored&mdash\;there is as yet no coordinated body of research addressing the nature\, norms\, and lived experience of urban life utilising tools and concepts from within analytic philosophy.
\nThe conference seeks to address this gap by creating a dedicated forum for philosophical reflection on the city. We invite contributions that engage with the epistemological\, ethical\, metaphysical\, political\, and religious dimensions of urban life. The event aims to bring into dialogue work on adjacent themes&mdash\;including spatial justice\, collective agency\, identity\, trust\, public space\, and belonging&mdash\;and to situate these within the broader framework of a developing philosophy of the city.
\nA central goal of the conference is to help articulate the contours of this emerging field and to contribute to setting a research agenda for future work. The main conference will be preceded by a focused\, graduate-student-led workshop dedicated to identifying new research questions and directions for sustained inquiry. We welcome submissions that draw on or engage with political theory\, philosophy of religion\, social epistemology\, ancient philosophy\, and postcolonial thought. Please see Call for Abstract page for more details.
\nThe conference is funded by the Mind Association and Clare Hall\, University of Cambridge.
\nInvited Speakers
\nQuill Kukkla \;(Georgetown): The Architecture of Agency
\nDaisy Dixon \;(Cardiff): Aesthetic Justice &mdash\; a Cardiff City Impact Case Study
\nPilar Lopez Cantero \;(Antwerp): Care-washing in The Built Environment
\nAlice Roberts \;(Cambridge): Can Statues make values 'perceptible'?
\nHeba Raouf Ezzat \;(Ibn Haldun): Order and Disorder in the City - Reflections on Human Agency
\n\nPlease register your interest in attending through this form: \;https://forms.gle/ZEBsp2V4e57etMbE6
ORGANIZER;CN=Adham El Shazly;CN=Alice Roberts: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260531T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20260531T234500 SUMMARY:Phenomenology and Media: Mapping the Structures of Post-Cinematic Experience UID:20260503T132859Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Str. Matei Voievod 75-77\, Bucharest\, Romania\, 021452 DESCRIPTION:In the wake of profound technological and cultural transformations\, cinema no longer names a stable medium but rather a shifting constellation of practices\, dispositifs\, and experiential forms. The proliferation of streaming platforms\, algorithmically curated feeds\, immersive installations\, AI-generated imagery\, VR and AR environments\, conversational agents\, and multi-screen ecologies compels us to rethink the very structures of our lived experience. Under the still-contested but heuristically productive concept of \;&ldquo\;post-cinema\,&rdquo\; recent scholarship in film and media studies has sought to come to grips with this transformed media landscape in ways that are still waiting to be fully appropriated by phenomenological reflection.
\nThe present conference invites contributions that bring phenomenology into sustained dialogue with contemporary media theory in order to interrogate the \;manifold facets of our current \;post-cinematic situation \;and map the experiential\, affective\, embodied\, and critical structures that characterize our current media ecology.
\nBuilding primarily on traditions of film phenomenology associated with \;Vivian Sobchack \;and \;Jean-Pierre Meunier\, and drawing on the philosophical resources of\, among others\, \;Edmund Husserl\, \;Martin Heidegger\, \;Maurice Merleau-Ponty\, and \;Jean-Paul Sartre\, as well as Emmanuel Levinas&rsquo\;s ethics of the Other\, Hermann Schmitz&rsquo\;s New Phenomenology\, Don Ihde&rsquo\;s post-phenomenology of technology\, or Mark Coeckelbergh&rsquo\;s phenomenologically informed ethics of human-robot interaction\, we aim to extend phenomenological inquiry beyond the classical cinematic dispositif toward emerging &ldquo\;families of images&rdquo\;: algorithmic visuals\, deepfakes\, TikTok feeds\, immersive environments\, AI image synthesis\, and hybrid human-machine interfaces.
\nBy bringing together philosophers\, film and media scholars\, as well as artists\, we aim to foster a rigorous interdisciplinary conversation about how phenomenology can illuminate\, and be transformed by\, the evolving media landscape.
ORGANIZER;CN=Christian Ferencz-Flatz;CN=Alexandru Bejinariu;CN=Remus Breazu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260531T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260531T230000 SUMMARY:CFP_Between Fear and Proximity: The Wolf and Contemporary Forms of Otherness UID:20260503T132900Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Between Fear and Proximity.
\nThe Wolf and the Forms of Otherness in the Contemporary Imagination
\nPromoted by the \;Office for Culture of the Diocese of Gubbio
\nDeadline for submission: 31 May 2026
\n1. Objective of the Call
\nOn the occasion of the eighth centenary of the death of Saint Francis of Assisi\, and within the
\nframework of the project \;Francesco a Gubbio\, the Office for Culture of the Diocese of Gubbio
\npromotes a Call for Papers addressed to scholars\, educators\, researchers\, and enthusiasts\, with the
\naim of collecting original and unpublished contributions that reinterpret\, in an interdisciplinary and
\ncontemporary perspective\, the figure of the wolf and the encounter with Saint Francis.
\nThe story of the Wolf of Gubbio &ndash\; a Franciscan icon of the encounter with the Other\, a living symbol
\nof otherness\, threat\, and reconciliation &ndash\; still today offers a fertile path for questioning the way in
\nwhich the human being relates to what is different\, to what cannot be domesticated.
\nThe Call invites the exploration of these dynamics through the contemporary cultural imagination\, in
\nits multiple anthropological\, philosophical\, theological\, spiritual\, and educational dimensions.
\n2. Themes and fields of interest
\nContributions must offer an original reflection on the figure of the Franciscan wolf and on the theme
\nof otherness\, within one of the following areas:
\n&bull\; \;Theological/Spiritual: \;the wolf and salvation\, fraternity in Francis\, spirituality of peace and
\nreconciliation.
\n&bull\; \;Pedagogical/Educational: \;educational paths inspired by the Franciscan story\, formative and
\nschool experiences.
\n&bull\; \;Anthropological: \;the wolf as a cultural figure\, symbol of the stranger\, mediations between
\nnature and culture.
\n&bull\; \;Psychological: \;the wolf as an archetype\, fear and transformation\, inner dynamics of the
\nencounter with otherness.
\n&bull\; \;Philosophical: \;forms of encounter and coexistence\, the encounter with the different\, symbol
\nof reconciliation and meeting.
\n3. Target participants
\nThe Call is open to scholars\, teachers\, PhD candidates\, educators\, cultural operators\,
\nindependent researchers\, and enthusiasts\, without any binding academic requirements.
\n4. Submission guidelines
\nEach participant may submit only one contribution\, choosing one of the indicated areas.
\n&bull\; \;The text must be unpublished\, written in Italian\, with a maximum length of 30\,000 characters
\n(including spaces).
\n&bull\; \;The contribution must be accompanied by:
\no \;Title of the paper
\no \;Five keywords \;
\nThe submission must include \;two separate files:
\n1. \;2. \;The anonymous text\, with no reference to the author\, in .doc\, .docx\, or .pdf format.
\nA brief curriculum vitae (max one page) containing:
\no \;Author&rsquo\;s full name
\no \;Short biography (max 500 characters)
\no \;Chosen area
\no \;Email address and phone number
\nAll materials must be sent by 31 May 2026 \;to the following address:
\ncultura@diocesigubbio.it
\nEmail subject: \;Call for Papers &ndash\; Between Fear and Proximity
\n5. Evaluation
\nContributions will be evaluated by a committee of experts in the respective fields.
\nThe evaluation criteria will be:
\n&bull\; \;Consistency with the theme and chosen area
\n&bull\; \;Originality of the approach
\n&bull\; \;Cultural\, educational\, and spiritual relevance of the proposal
\n&bull\; \;Argumentative quality and clarity of exposition
\n6. Publication
\nA selection of particularly deserving contributions will be published in a printed and/or digital
\nvolume curated by the Office for Culture of the Diocese of Gubbio and publicly presented during
\n2026\, as part of the Franciscan celebrations.
\n7. Rights and Use
\nAuthors retain full intellectual ownership of their texts. However\, by submitting\, they authorize the
\nDiocese of Gubbio to publish the selected contributions\, in printed and/or digital form\, without
\nadditional compensation\, for cultural and dissemination \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260601T100000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260602T170000 SUMMARY:Hamburg Philosophy of Fiction Workshop 2026 UID:20260503T132901Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Berlin LOCATION:Hamburg\, Germany DESCRIPTION:Talks:
\nBahadir Eker: Fiction and Allovocal Speech
\nManuel Englert: Fictional characters exist\, but do not really exist
\nStefan Hinterwimmer: An analysis of fictional quotes in everyday conversation and in Internet memes
\nHannah H. Kim: Nonfiction is not (just) to be believed
\nTilmann Kö\;ppe: An "invincible" solution concerning truth in fiction
\nEliot Michaelson &\; Alex Radulescu: Artist's Intentions and the Problem of Novelty
\nDolf Rami: On the distinction between fictional characters and fictional objects
\nNadja-Mira Yolcu: Twisting the Tale: Narrators\, Authors\, and Insincerity
ORGANIZER;CN=Manuel Englert;CN=Emanuel Viebahn;CN=Bahadir Eker: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20260601T234500 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20260601T234500 SUMMARY:Another Sense of Earth at the End of Worlds: Environmental Humanities in the Face of Crises UID:20260503T132902Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:1704 W Mulberry St\, Denton\, United States\, 76201 DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers for the Fourth Philosophy and Religion Graduate Student Conference at the University of North Texas (UNT) \;
\nIn a time of crises overshadowed by impressions of the precarity and contingency of the plurality of worlds we live in\, we invite interdisciplinary\, critical reflection on the meaning and stakes of our senses of world and ending. While totalizing narratives of crises oscillate between techno-optimistic visions of geoengineering and dystopic pessimism\, this conference seeks to contextualize dominant understandings of endings to envision new conceptions of time\, relations\, and finality beyond the hegemonic imaginaries.
\nFor whom and what do the apocalyptic bells of the end of the world sound? What does it even mean to conceive of &ldquo\;our&rdquo\; world as ending? Who&rsquo\;s included and excluded from this sense of world? What does it mean for traditions in which the end of the world is inevitable\, cyclical\, or has already come to pass? What would this so-called &ldquo\;end of the world&rdquo\; even mean for people who&rsquo\;ve already endured innumerable ends to their ways of life? \;
\nTaking up the gauntlet thrown by Thomas Nail in Theory of the Earth\, we ask for submissions that problematize static\, dominant conceptions of world and think with him on what it means\, in the context of crises\, to imagine how &ldquo\;this stable ground is becoming increasingly unstable&mdash\;for some of us more than others.&rdquo\; In this spirit\, the conference seeks to engage with forms of thought that emphasize the radically plural character of sense-making\, ways of knowing\, and temporal existence. We welcome submissions that build upon these critical and marginalized perspectives to challenge assumptions of crisis and delimit what worlds are at stake. Within these broad thematic horizons\, we aim to bring together a diverse set of perspectives into dialogue and reconceptualize our relationship to planet Earth. \;
\nWe cordially invite graduate students from all fields and disciplines to submit their research and perspectives on the following themes:
\nIndigenous &\; non-Western conceptions of world-making\, cataclysm\, and/or time
\nFeminist/Queer theories on resistant subjectivities and spaces in the face of precarity
\nGeophilosophical approaches from traditions historically excluded from philosophy (ex. Sikhism\, Buddhism\, Hinduism\, etc.) \;
\nPhilosophies of science and normative theories that utilize a planetary approach \;
\nRelational ontologies\, specifically those with nonhuman and more-than-human beings
\nPhenomenological accounts of temporality\, &ldquo\;world collapse\,&rdquo\; and futurity
\nCritical theories on the &ldquo\;Anthropocene&rdquo\; and the role of capitalism in the ongoing environmental crisis
\nEcocritical perspectives on the role of technology and natural science in organizing our sense of the Earth
\nConference Details
\nThe conference will be held in-person at the University of North Texas\, Denton\, TX\, from November 13th-15th. This conference does not require registration fees. \;
\nThe conference will feature Thomas Nail\, a Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver\, as the keynote speaker\, whose materialist interventions in conceptions of earth and planet\, particularly in Theory of the Earth\, pose deep and transformational reflections on imaginaries of time\, space\, and world for our context of apocalypse and crisis.
\nSubmission Guidelines Prepare an abstract of 500 words to be submitted to prgraduateconferenceUNT@gmail.com by June 1\, 23:59 PM CST for review by the graduate conference committee. In the body of your email\, please include author affiliation including your current year and place of graduate study as well as your preferred email for conference communications.
\nEach accepted presenter will have the opportunity to deliver a 20-minute presentation\, followed by a 10-minute response from a UNT Philosophy and Religion graduate student\, culminating in a 15-minute Q&\;A session.
\nKey dates:
\nAbstract Submission Deadline: June 1\, 23:59 PM CST \;
\nNotification of Acceptance: July 31\, 23:59 PM CST \;
\nFinal Paper Deadline: October 1\, 23:59 CST
\nFor inquiries and clarifications\, please contact prgraduateconferenceunt@gmail.com. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20260604T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20261024T170000 SUMMARY:Stanley Cavell at 100. An International Centennial Conference UID:20260503T132903Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Paris LOCATION:Roma\; Paris\; Boston\, Italy DESCRIPTION:Stanley Cavell at 100 \; An International Centennial Conference \; \;
Paris: \;4-5 June 2026 \;| Organized by Sandra Laugier\, Université\; Paris 1 Panthé\;on Sorbonne \; Rome: 8-9 June 2026 \;| Organized by Piergiorgio Donatelli\, Sapienza Università\; di Roma \; Boston: 23-24 October 2026 \;| Organized by Juliet Floyd\, Boston University \; \; \;
In 2026\, we mark the centenary of \;Stanley Cavell (1926&ndash\;2026)\, one of the \;most original and wide-ranging American philosophers of the twentieth century. Cavell&rsquo\;s work traversed traditional disciplinary boundaries&mdash\;engaging deeply with philosophy\, literature\, film\, opera\, psychoanalysis\, politics\, and both American and European traditions of thought. In the spirit of his intellectual breadth and transnational sensibility\, we are organizing a three-part international conference to celebrate his life\, work\, and legacy in Paris\, Rome\, and Boston.
\nWhy This Conference Matters
\nStanley Cavell transformed philosophy into an act of acknowledgment&mdash\;of self\, of others\, and of the everyday. His writings on skepticism\, language\, film\, and the ordinary remain vital at a time when trust in both language and human connection faces renewed challenges. From \;Must We Mean What We Say? \;to \;The Claim of Reason\, from \;The World Viewed \;to \;Pursuits of Happiness\, and through his readings of Emerson and Thoreau\, Cavell helped redefine the scope and style of philosophical writing and teaching.
\nHis engagement with Wittgenstein and Austin reinvigorated the ordinary language tradition\, while his interests in modernism\, cinema\, and American transcendentalism forged a philosophical voice that responded to&mdash\;and often transcended&mdash\;the academic context.
\nThis centennial conference will bring together philosophers\, literary scholars\, and critics to reflect on Cavell&rsquo\;s legacy and extend the conversations he began.
\nThis call for papers concerns all three installments&mdash\;Paris\, Rome\, and Boston&mdash\;of the Cavell at 100 conference.
\nSuggested Themes:
\nWe welcome proposals that engage with the following themes or propose new directions for exploring Cavell&rsquo\;s thought.
\nConference Foci:
\nParis will focus especially on Ordinary Language Philosophy\, Film\, and Popular Culture.
\nRome will center mainly on Ethics\, Politics\, and Forms of Life.
\nBoston will treat primarily Philosophy and Literature\, Tragedy\, Music\, and the Idea of America.
\nSome themes&mdash\;such as skepticism\, modernism\, the ordinary&mdash\;cut across all three conferences.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260610T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T170000 SUMMARY:Fiction and Lies: the ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress UID:20260503T132904Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Edinburgh\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
-Professor Eileen John (Philosophy\, University of Warwick)
--Professor Pierre Bayard (Literature\, Université\; Paris 8 - Saint-Denis)
From Plato&rsquo\;s indictment of the tragic poets as misrepresenting the truth\, to Sir Philip Sidney&rsquo\;s famous claim in the Defence of Poesy that &lsquo\;the Poet\, he nothing affirms\, and therefore never lieth&rsquo\;\, to current debates about fictionality and factuality\, the relationship between \;fiction \;and \;lies \;has been a focus of scholarly attention. Both \;fiction-makers and liars make things up and misrepresent the truth. But it is traditionally assumed that with \;fiction\, the invention is non-deceptive. As Margaret Macdonald (1954\, 170) put the point\, &lsquo\;The conviction induced by a story is the result of a mutual conspiracy\, freely entered into\, between author and audience. A storyteller does not \;lie\, nor is a normal auditor deceived&rsquo\;. Macdonald proposed that instead\, \;fiction-makers engage in a non-deceptive pretence of assertion\; but other approaches also distinguish between fictionality and deception\, from philosophers who associate \;fiction \;with an invitation to make-believe rather than to believe to narratologists who treat fictionality as a rhetorical mode of communication that overtly signals fabrication. If \;lies \;are assertions aimed at deception\, perhaps \;fictions \;are incapable of \;lying.
Yet a sharp distinction between fictionality and deception confronts numerous challenges. Scholars across disciplines have considered the many ways in which \;fictions \;can affect our beliefs\, for good or ill. Even if \;fictions \;cannot \;lie \;in some technical sense\, they can certainly mislead\, insinuate\, obfuscate and so on. Works of \;fiction \;may be instances of propaganda which misrepresent the facts\; think of Oliver Stone&rsquo\;s film JFK (1991) or Michael Crichton&rsquo\;s \;novel \;State of Fear (2004). And the distinctions between the \;fictional \;and factual are under increasing pressure in the current culture of disinformation and &lsquo\;fake news&rsquo\; &ndash\; a category not so easy to distinguish from &lsquo\;fictional \;news&rsquo\;.
This three-day international conference aims to explore the relationship between \;fiction \;and \;lies \;from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives\, including philosophy\, literary history and theory\, narratology\, film and media studies\, psychology and cognitive science. \;
In January 1907\, the founder of phenomenology\, \; Edmund Husserl\, wrote a letter to the Viennese Modernist playwright and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal\, suggesting that the phenomenologist&rsquo\;s and the artist&rsquo\;s methods are closely connected. Husserl&rsquo\;s suggestion remains provocative to this day\, as its full implications are yet to be fully grasped. Undeniably\, for more than a century now\, the tradition of phenomenology has cleared a path for philosophy that departs from argument-centric approaches in favor of firsthand corporeal experiences rooted in the lifeworld. This also entailed suspending or &ldquo\;bracketing&rdquo\; the question of whether our metaphysical\, ethical\, or aesthetic beliefs are justified\, focusing instead on the way things appear to us: phenomenology sets aside the &ldquo\;what&rdquo\; (the mind-independent nature of things) to home in on the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\;&mdash\;the mode in which things are given in our experience.
\nIf this is a valid characterization of the phenomenological method\, it aligns it closely with the discipline of aesthetics\, as founded by A.G. Baumgarten in the 18th century. Aesthetics too\, one might argue\, predominantly leaves aside the nature of what is being depicted or expressed to focus on the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\;: on how things are presented to us by artworks or other aesthetic objects and\, correspondingly\, on what it is like to sense them in aesthetic experience. Gü\;nter Figal even went as far as to claim that aesthetics could never be anything but phenomenological. Be that as it may: uncontestably\, what phenomenology and aesthetics have in common is a shared interest in the &ldquo\;style&rdquo\; of appearing.
\nAlthough Husserl himself hinted at this proximity in his letter to von Hofmannsthal\, his own writings on art and literature are remarkably sparse. While Husserl never wrote a formal work on aesthetics\, Jacques Derrida
\nmaintained that his thinking yields a &ldquo\;latent aesthetics.&rdquo\; This claim seems applicable to the phenomenological movement as a whole: while attempts to develop a systematic phenomenological aesthetics are surprisingly rare&mdash\;with Roman Ingarden and \; Mikel Dufrenne as the exceptions that prove the rule &mdash\;the aesthetic dimension however takes center stage in the work of numerous other authors\, from Eugen Fink\, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty through Erwin Straus\, Henri Maldiney\, and Bernhard Waldenfels. What happens\, then\, when we look at phenomenology through an aesthetic lens? And in turn\, what is the outcome of practicing aesthetics as a kind of phenomenology?
\nThe ninth iteration of the Aesthetics &\; Critique workshop will address the complex and layered relationship between aesthetics and phenomenology. Topics for discussion include:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What does it mean to ground aesthetics in phenomenological analysis rather than other approaches? Conversely\, could an aesthesiological approach&mdash\;as required by aesthetic objects and situations&mdash\;offer a refinement to phenomenology as a method?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What is the relationship between sensible experience and artistic experience\, and how does a phenomenology of art relate to the phenomenological analysis of sensible experience in general?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Can the concept of style help describe different modes of appearing (and of reacting to it)?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How is sense-making inextricably connected to corporeal sensing?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;What possibilities does the artist&rsquo\;s encounter with the world offer the phenomenologist&mdash\;perhaps a heightened sensitivity to the nuances of lived experience?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;How can aesthetic as well as aesthesiological categories help reconceptualizing the multisensorial mediascapes of our contemporary condition?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How can experimental aesthetic practices become test sites\, both individually and collectively\, for transformative embodied experiences?
\n\nConveners: Emmanuel Alloa\, Alessandro De Cesaris\, Masoud Olia
\n\;
\nInvited Speakers
\n\nCharles Bobant (Paris)
\nMauro Carbone (Lyon)
\nMaud Hagelstein (Liè\;ge)
\nAdnen Jdey (Louvain)
\nHarri Mä\;cklin (Helsinki)
\nMarcia Sá\; Schuback Cavalcante (Stockholm)
\nAlessandra Scotti (Torino)
\n\nHow to participate
\n\nParticipants are invited to send a proposal (max 400 words) and a CV to Alessandro De Cesaris (alessandro.decesaris@unifr.ch) by April 30th. Notifications of acceptance will be sent by May 5th.
\n\n\nTravel\, accommodation and meal costs will be covered for all speakers. \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Alessandro De Cesaris;CN=Emmanuel Alloa: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260611T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Zurich:20260612T170000 SUMMARY:Styles of Appearing. Aesthetics and Phenomenology UID:20260503T132906Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Zurich LOCATION:Avenue de l'Europe 20\, Fribourg\, Switzerland\, 1700 DESCRIPTION:In January 1907\, the founder of phenomenology\, \; Edmund Husserl\, wrote a letter to the Viennese Modernist playwright and poet Hugo von Hofmannsthal\, suggesting that the phenomenologist&rsquo\;s and the artist&rsquo\;s methods are closely connected. Husserl&rsquo\;s suggestion remains provocative to this day\, as its full implications are yet to be fully grasped. Undeniably\, for more than a century now\, the tradition of phenomenology has cleared a path for philosophy that departs from argument-centric approaches in favor of firsthand corporeal experiences rooted in the lifeworld. This also entailed suspending or &ldquo\;bracketing&rdquo\; the question of whether our metaphysical\, ethical\, or aesthetic beliefs are justified\, focusing instead on the way things appear to us: phenomenology sets aside the &ldquo\;what&rdquo\; (the mind-independent nature of things) to home in on the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\;&mdash\;the mode in which things are given in our experience.
\nIf this is a valid characterization of the phenomenological method\, it aligns it closely with the discipline of aesthetics\, as founded by A.G. Baumgarten in the 18th century. Aesthetics too\, one might argue\, predominantly leaves aside the nature of what is being depicted or expressed to focus on the &ldquo\;how&rdquo\;: on how things are presented to us by artworks or other aesthetic objects and\, correspondingly\, on what it is like to sense them in aesthetic experience. Gü\;nter Figal even went as far as to claim that aesthetics could never be anything but phenomenological. Be that as it may: uncontestably\, what phenomenology and aesthetics have in common is a shared interest in the &ldquo\;style&rdquo\; of appearing.
\nAlthough Husserl himself hinted at this proximity in his letter to von Hofmannsthal\, his own writings on art and literature are remarkably sparse. While Husserl never wrote a formal work on aesthetics\, Jacques Derrida
\nmaintained that his thinking yields a &ldquo\;latent aesthetics.&rdquo\; This claim seems applicable to the phenomenological movement as a whole: while attempts to develop a systematic phenomenological aesthetics are surprisingly rare&mdash\;with Roman Ingarden and \; Mikel Dufrenne as the exceptions that prove the rule &mdash\;the aesthetic dimension however takes center stage in the work of numerous other authors\, from Eugen Fink\, Jean-Paul Sartre and Maurice Merleau-Ponty through Erwin Straus\, Henri Maldiney\, and Bernhard Waldenfels. What happens\, then\, when we look at phenomenology through an aesthetic lens? And in turn\, what is the outcome of practicing aesthetics as a kind of phenomenology?
\nThe ninth iteration of the Aesthetics &\; Critique workshop will address the complex and layered relationship between aesthetics and phenomenology. Topics for discussion include:
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What does it mean to ground aesthetics in phenomenological analysis rather than other approaches? Conversely\, could an aesthesiological approach&mdash\;as required by aesthetic objects and situations&mdash\;offer a refinement to phenomenology as a method?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; What is the relationship between sensible experience and artistic experience\, and how does a phenomenology of art relate to the phenomenological analysis of sensible experience in general?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; Can the concept of style help describe different modes of appearing (and of reacting to it)?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How is sense-making inextricably connected to corporeal sensing?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;What possibilities does the artist&rsquo\;s encounter with the world offer the phenomenologist&mdash\;perhaps a heightened sensitivity to the nuances of lived experience?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \;How can aesthetic as well as aesthesiological categories help reconceptualizing the multisensorial mediascapes of our contemporary condition?
\n·\; \; \; \; \; \; \; \; How can experimental aesthetic practices become test sites\, both individually and collectively\, for transformative embodied experiences?
ORGANIZER;CN=Emmanuel Alloa;CN=Alessandro De Cesaris: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260612T170000 SUMMARY:Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity UID:20260503T132907Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:55-59 Penrhyn Rd\, Kingston upon Thames\, London\, United Kingdom\, KT1 2EE DESCRIPTION:Call for Contributions: Fragility and the Aesthetics of Sensitivity
\nKeynote Presenters: \;
\nAndrew Goffey (University of Nottingham)
\nBrigitte Hart (Sound artist\, Shortwave Collective)
\nWhen crisis becomes a permanent state rather than an exceptional rupture\, fragility assumes the form of an existential condition visible across social\, ecological\, and political domains. Under such circumstances\, the production of knowledge increasingly shifts toward anticipatory regimes&mdash\;risk modelling\, foresight studies\, and adaptive infrastructures designed to navigate instability. Contemporary problems appear as hybrid entities: complex issues that exceed the grasp of any single discipline and demand collaborative investigation capable of rendering them perceptible and registering fragile relations that cannot be stabilised or fixed.
\nIn this context\, the problem of disciplinarity&mdash\;of relations between disciplines and collaboration across them&mdash\;acquires renewed urgency. Contemporary ecological frameworks in the humanities further intensify this concern by grounding the crossing of boundaries in an existential condition. This expansion of the problematic invites a reconsideration of an older question: what do the prefixes inter-\, trans-\, non-\, or post- differentially signify when applied to disciplinarity? Which form of disciplinarity adequately captures our present condition?
\nWhile the laboratory has served as a central model&mdash\;a metonym for interdisciplinary collaboration\, anchoring the emergent mode of scientific praxis called &ldquo\;research&rdquo\;&mdash\;today research also unfolds across privately funded para-institutions\, hybrid platforms\, and transient project-based networks. However\, collaborations between artists and social theorists with natural scientists remain structurally asymmetrical: artistic practice is often reduced to the visualization of scientific data\, while social theory has long remained under pressure to imitate the methods of the hard sciences. In this context\, the symposium seeks to examine the tangible forms of contemporary cross-disciplinary collaboration and the conceptual frameworks that sustain them.
\nThe symposium approaches this question under the long shadow of post-1968 French philosophy\, whose insistence on the inherent intertwinement of politics and aesthetics continues to shape contemporary thought. As a guiding reference\, we take the framework developed by Bruno Latour\, approached here through the twin themes of \;fragility and the aesthetics of sensitivity. Latour may be seen as the synthetic inheritor of this philosophical trajectory\, insofar as his anthropology of laboratory science leads to a non-disciplinary\, transversal form of social ontology that immanently connects science\, aesthetics\, and politics. His model advances a form of collective pragmatism oriented toward the proposal of new entities for social existence&mdash\;entities defined relationally as fragile networks of attachments. Scientific instruments function as sensitive devices that inscribe and thereby render these entities visible\, thereby making them open to collective concern.
\nThe symposium is thus both a call for dialogue and an invitation to rethink disciplinarity under the increasingly urgent\, deteriorating\, and transitional conditions of the present. We are interested in contemporary artistic and theoretical practices\, particularly those that combine the two and critically reflect on their disciplinary\, institutional\, and methodological conditions. If\, as Fé\;lix Guattari reminds us\, &ldquo\;there is no general pedagogy relative to the constitution of a living transdisciplinarity\,&rdquo\; then where and how might such a transdisciplinarity be practiced today? \;
\nPossible contributions might focus on: \;
\nSubmission Guidelines:
\nAbstract: \;max. 300 words
\nPresentation length: \;20 minutes \;with time reserved for discussion.
\nPlease send an abstract (max. 300 words) and a short biographical note to: \; k2035920@kingston.ac.uk
\nDeadline for submissions: \;26 April 2026
Notification of acceptance: \;10 May 2026
The event is organised as a \;PhD student-led symposium supported by the Techne AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T000000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260615T000000 SUMMARY:2026 Southern Aesthetics Workshop UID:20260503T132908Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:University of South Carolina\, Columbia\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Southern Division of the American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce a two-day\, pre-read workshop at the University of South Carolina in Columbia\, SC\, October 9-10\, 2026. Each paper will have two commentators. The program will include a performance and keynote by a local artist.
\nWork in any area of aesthetics or the philosophy of art is welcome. We especially encourage submissions that explore issues of special concern in the South\, broadly construed\, and issues pertaining particularly to the southeastern region\, such as local food and food culture\, poetry\, music\, or sites of conflict. Scholars are welcome to submit no matter where they live or work\, and members of traditionally underrepresented groups in philosophy are especially encouraged to apply.
\nThe deadline for papers of no more than 3500 words (including footnotes\, excluding references) is June 15\, 2026. Decisions will be made by late July. Submissions should be prepared for anonymous review and sent to SouthernAestheticsWorkshop@gmail.com. Submissions will be reviewed by members of the SAW conference committee. Those who presented papers at the 2025 Southern Aesthetics Workshop are not eligible to submit papers to the upcoming event. Papers presented at the ASA Annual Meeting are not eligible for presentation at SAW. All presentations and commentaries must be in-person.
\nAll persons on the program other than the invited keynote&mdash\;including presenters\, commentators\, and chairs&mdash\;must have active ASA membership before the conference program is announced. Registration will be $30\; $15 for students. The workshop will be open to anyone registered. Presenters with no other access to travel funds may be considered for Irene H. Chayes Travel grants from the American Society for Aesthetics. To apply for travel funding\, please note in your submission email that you wish to be considered and include an estimate of your travel costs.
\nQueries can be sent to SouthernAestheticsWorkshop@gmail.com.
ORGANIZER;CN=Angela Sun;CN=Michael Dickson;CN=Kyle Kirby;CN=Jeremy Killian;CN=Zachary Weinstein;CN=Tyler Olsson;CN=Guy Rohrbaugh: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260625T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Warsaw:20260626T170000 SUMMARY:QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY UID:20260503T132909Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Warsaw LOCATION:Wieniawskiego 1\, Poznań\, Poland\, 61-712 DESCRIPTION:QUEER: PRESENT! VISIBILITY THROUGH THE BODY
\nInternational Conference
\n25-26 June 2026
\nAdam Mickiewicz University in Poznań\, Poland
\nFaculty of Philosophy
\nThe international conference Queer: Present! Visibility Through the Body aims to examine queer visibility in contemporary culture\, exploring it across a range of contexts. The title of the conference alone may serve as a catalyst for reflection on various aspects of queer visibility\, demonstrating that queer culture is present today in many forms. However\, queer people are constantly fighting to remain visible and gain access to more divergent visibility. This visibility often encounters strong resistance\; opponents view the queer body as imposing its presence\, disrupting social order and manifesting as unnecessary excess or exaggeration.
\nDuring the conference\, we will highlight the physical presence of queer genders\, sexualities and romantic relations and intimacies. This is why the title of our conference is provocative: queer is present and embodied\; it is expressed in the body.
\nDo queer bodies experience encounters with others and strangers differently when moving within cultural boundaries?
\nWhen writing about corporeality\, we draw inspiration from Sara Ahmed&rsquo\;s queer phenomenology. Ahmed reminds us that\, culturally\, the divergence of sexual orientation is equated with being outside the boundaries of heteronormativity\, as if initiating a discussion about it implied queerness. From a phenomenological stance\, sexual desire and gender identity shape not only the boundaries of our world and our experience of the body: our physicality is a lens through which the outside world could perceive our intimate visibility.
\nSilence\, secrecy\, hypocrisy and concealing one's sexuality\, desire and gender identity due to shame or fear or a culturally rooted habit are pertinent characteristics associated with the lack of queer visibility. A wider and more satisfactory presence can be achieved by creating one's own culture and by establishing better social attitudes and legal frameworks\, more accurate terms and rooting novel expectations or &lsquo\;novel tradition&rsquo\;\, although this could outrage apologists for the politics of silence. It is not easy to achieve visibility in the present moment! However\, new traditions are created and emerge before our very eyes: films\, literary works\, memorials to victims of persecution\, queer rituals and\, finally\, the concept and presence of Pride &mdash\; a joyful rejection of the humiliating concept of shame. The present allows us to document all cases of queer resistance against the politics of hatred. The goal of the narrative of hatred is to hide queer people once again and deprive them of visibility. It is an attitude that is contrary to science and is fed by invented harmful myths\, prejudices and superstitions.
\nQueer visibility is not only an emancipatory strategy based on the idea of equality. It is also the daily struggle of every queer person for dignity and visibility. Any attempt to hide queerness is deceptive\, as it creates the false impression that it does not exist or is not needed by anyone.
\nWe invite submissions from scholars\, PhD candidates\, and independent researchers.
\nTopics for suggested panels and papers may include (but are not limited to):
\n1. Cultural transformations that have shaped the contemporary narrative of queer visibility.
\n2. Changes in rooted attitudes\, social\, legislative and political moods often result in significant progress and emancipation\, but can also lead to regression and increased aggression towards queer individuals.
\n3. Tactics\, risks\, politics\, dramatics\, performance\, experimentations\, exploration of visibility in different areas of art and cultural products.
\n4. Queer visibility in performance\; Queer in Cinema\, Dance and Theatre.
\n5. The contribution of queer people to art\, from poetry to mass media.
\n6. Prospects for future visibility based on the present.
\nThe organisers are open to proposals for both individual presentations and panels. Keynote speeches are planned. Detailed information will be updated on the conference website https://queer.web.amu.edu.pl
\nConference language: English.
\nPresentation length: 15-25 minutes\, depending on the final number of accepted contributions. Format: on-site.
\nVenue: Collegium Minus\, ul. Wieniawskiego 1\, Poznań.
\nRegistration
\nDeadline for submission of abstracts is: for panels 20 February 2026 and for individuals presentations 28 February 2026. They should be sent by email to queer@amu.edu.pl (or marjed7@amu.edu.pl)
\nSubmissions should include a max. 200-word abstract with a 100 word author bio and the contact information gathered in a single PDF-FILE.
\nNotification of Acceptance: 10 March 2026.
\nRegistration fee: 150 EUR or 150 USD.
\nThe fee included a coffee breaks\, a two-course lunch to all participants (25 and 26 June) and a banquet (25 June).
\nImportant additional information:
\n- we plan to publish articles in 2027 (an edited collection).
\n- during the conference\, we will be hosting the management team from the Queer Museum in Warsaw\, the first queer museum in Poland and the third in Europe.
\nKeynote Speakers:
\nProf. Dan Healey\, University of Oxford
\nProf. Joanna Mizielińska\, University of Warsaw
\nDr. Kush Patel\, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
\nConference Organizers:
\nProf. Marek Jedliński (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
\nDocent Antu Sorainen (University of Helsinki)
\nDr. Krzysztof Witczak (Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań)
\nScientific Committee:
\nProf. Dan Healey\, University of Oxford
\nDr. Kush Patel\, Manipal Academy of Higher Education
\nDr. Efstratia Oktapoda\, Sorbonne University
\nDr. Tamas Nagypal\, Mount Royal University
\nDr. Jana Kantorikova\, Sorbonne University
\nDr. Iga Mergler\, Wilfrid Laurier University
\nDr. Agata Mergler\, York University
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Krzysztof Witczak;CN="Marek Jedliński";CN=Antu Sorainen: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T230000 SUMMARY:‘Impossible Architecture’ in: 'Universitas Gedanesis' UID:20260503T132910Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Jan Grzanka\, editor of the biannual scientific journal &lsquo\;Universitas Gedanensis&rsquo\;\, together with Roman Nieczyporowski\, invite you to contribute to the next issue of the journal entitled &lsquo\;Impossible Architecture&rsquo\;.
\nThe editors of the publication understand impossible architecture as an area of reflection situated at the intersection of idea and matter\, design and imagination\, revealing the boundaries and contradictions of contemporary architecture. The topics covered include both projects that have not been realised for technological\, economic or political reasons\, as well as visions that exist only in the form of drawings\, models\, narratives or virtual environments. Impossibility is treated not only as a structural problem\, but also as a social\, ethical and ecological category\, making architecture a tool for critical reflection on contemporary models of design and habitation.
\nThe editors plan to publish two issues of the journal\, which will then be followed by a book published by the Krakow Society of Authors and Publishers of Scientific Works &lsquo\;Universitas&rsquo\;. For several years now\, a series of publications has been appearing\, based on articles published in the Universitas Gedanensis journal\, supplemented with additional materials\, published under the common title Bibliotheca Culturae Scriptae (Library of Written Culture).
\nEach volume in the series is planned as a separate collective work\, edited by Jan Grzanka and an expert in the field invited to collaborate. Roman Nieczyporowski is the co-editor of the volume &lsquo\;Impossible Architecture&rsquo\;.
\nAll information about the journal (including back issues) and the series is available at: universitasgedanensis.com.pl. The tabs &lsquo\;For authors&rsquo\;\, &lsquo\;Reviewing policy&rsquo\; and &lsquo\;Publication ethics&rsquo\; contain detailed guidelines for publishing articles in Universitas Gedanensis.
\nPlease send any questions and correspondence to the following e-mail addresses:
\njangrzanka@onet.pl
\nEditor-in-chief of Universitas Gedanensis: Dr Jan Grzanka (SANS-Sopot)
\nroman.nieczyporowski@asp.gda.pl
\nCo-editor of the volume: Dr Roman Nieczyporowski (Academy of Fine Arts in Gdańsk)
\n\n\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T230000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260630T230000 SUMMARY:The Cinema of Democracy – Event and Reinvention of the Mass (Special issue\, JSTA – Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts) UID:20260503T132911Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Call for Papers: \;The Cinema of Democracy &ndash\; Event and Reinvention of the Mass
\nDeadline: June 30th 2026 \;
\nSubmit here: https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/about/submissions
Guest Editors: Diogo Nó\;brega (School of Arts\, Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts\; Nova Institute of Philosophy)\, Hugo Monteiro (Institute of Philosophy - University of Porto\; Centre for Research and Innovation in Education)\, Lucas Ferraç\;o Nassif (Nova Institute of Philosophy)
Abstract: \;In the essay Cinema as a Democratic Emblem\, Alain Badiou proposes that we understand cinema as a space for the irruption of a &ldquo\;purely democratic element&rdquo\;: the &ldquo\;mass&rdquo\;\, whose manifestation entails\, each time\, the undoing of any pre-existing model of itself. It is an intense &ldquo\;evental energy&rdquo\; that cannot be stabilised into a definitive form (2005\, p. 6). \;
\nBadiou&rsquo\;s concept of the emblem no longer functions to preserve symbolic or identitarian stability\; instead\, it serves as an imperative of movement\, exposing democracy to its own continual differentiation. Under these conditions\, democracy designates less a constituted political form than an openness that finds in cinema a privileged operator &mdash\; a regime of emergence that resists the crystallisation of the political. As Nicole Brenez observes\, the mass that manifests within cinema &ldquo\;creates itself in the name of a lack&rdquo\;\, finding in this original absence the catalyst of its figural metamorphosis (2023\, p. 85). \;
\nThe present call for papers operates within this problematic horizon\, encouraging research proposals that explore\, as cinema&rsquo\;s own generative force\, the emergence of a mass in flight\, continually exposed to its own reinvention. \;
\nGilles Deleuze&rsquo\;s thought constitutes a decisive precedent\, pointing out that cinema addresses a &ldquo\;people who are missing\,&rdquo\; making this absence the &ldquo\;new foundation&rdquo\; upon which modern political cinema is built\, dedicated to dissolving any entrenched framework at the heart of democracy (1989\, p. 216). \;
\nDeparting from approaches that reduce cinema to the construction of identifiable political subjects\, that is\, to a representational structure\, this proposal instead foregrounds cinema as an index of the &ldquo\;post-foundational&rdquo\; character of the demos of democracy\, whose manifestation never converges into a totalising figure\, remaining beyond any form of political capture (Marchart\, 2007). \;
\nRecent work\, such as that of Jun Fujita Hirose\, explores this perspective by highlighting the revolutionary becoming of images\, whose potentia does not lie in the actualisation of an idea of the nation\, but in the continuous production of the nation&rsquo\;s non-coincidence with itself: the people become &ldquo\;phantasmatic\,&rdquo\; finding in this spectral condition their &ldquo\;line of flight&rdquo\; (Hirose\, 2020\, p. 59). We find the same intuition in Jean-Luc Godard: &ldquo\;the voice of Mozambique. From what mouth does this voice emerge? What is its face?&rdquo\; (Godard\, 1979\, p. 93). The crucial point is to preserve a deserted\, problematic image\, akin to Hitchcock&rsquo\;s &ldquo\;emptied subjects&rdquo\;\; that is\, figures which\, while structuring and influencing the action\, remain a presence without content\, exposing not exactly an individual &ldquo\;I&rdquo\; but an anonymous\, always-to-be-formed &ldquo\;we&rdquo\; (Ling\, 2011\, p. 177). In this sense\, it becomes a question of &ldquo\;making of the image a common place (un lieu du commun) where the commonplace of images of the people used to reign&rdquo\; (Didi-Huberman\, 2012\, p. 159). \;
\nFor Claude Lefort\, democracy is bound up with this formless\, &ldquo\;empty&rdquo\; we (Lefort\, 1991). Rather than a lack to be remedied\, this emptiness functions as a positive criterion for cinema&rsquo\;s creative act and vision. From within this theoretical constellation\, the JSTA &ndash\; Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts invites researchers to submit original articles for the thematic dossier The Cinema of Democracy: Event and Reinvention of the Mass\, devoted to the study of cinema as a space through which democracy &ldquo\;can be thought\, experienced and enacted&rdquo\; beyond any normative framework (Kim\, 2023). \;
\nPossible research paths include: \;
\n- Cinema and the limits of the representational model
- Cinema and the deconstruction of sovereignty
- Cinema and Post-Foundational Political Thought
\n- Cinema and perspectives on democratic universalism
\n- Minor cinema and democracy \;
\n- Cinema as collective construction
\n- Cinema as the anarchic principle of democracy
\n- Cinema and Radical Democracy Theory \;
\n- Cinema and the meanings of being-in-common \;
\n- Cinema and the different figures of the demos: plurality (Aristotle\, Arendt)\, mass (Badiou)\, missing people (Deleuze)\, multitude (Negri\, Hardt)\, scatter (G. Bennington) \;
\n- Cinema and the tension between instituting and instituted demos
\n- Democracy and cinematic time
References \;
\nBadiou\, A. (2005). Du ciné\;ma comme emblè\;me dé\;mocratique. Critique\, 692-693\, 4-13. \;
\nBrenez\, N. (2023). É\;crits politiques sur le cinema et autres arts filmiques\, Tome 2 &ndash\; Jean-Luc Godard. de l&rsquo\;incidence é\;diteur. \;
\nDeleuze\, G. (1989). Cinema 2 &ndash\; The Time-Image. Athlone Press. \;
\nDidi-Huberman\, G. (2012). Peuples Exposé\;s\, Peuples Figurants &ndash\; L&rsquo\;oeil de l&rsquo\;Histoire\, 4. Minuit. \;
\nGodard\, J-L. (1979). Nord contre Sud ou Naissance de l&rsquo\;image d&rsquo\;une nation. Cahiers du ciné\;ma\, 300\, mai 1979\, 69-129. \;
\nHirose\, J. F. (2020). Il cine-capitale &ndash\; Il Cinema di Gilles Deleuze e il divenire rivoluzionario delle immagini. Ombre corte. \;
\nKim\, H. (2023). Celluloid Democracy: Cinema and Politics in Cold War South Korea. University of California Press. \;
\nLefort\, C. (1991). Democracy and Political Theory. Polity Press \;
\nLing\, A. (2011). Badiou and Cinema. Edinburgh University Press. \;
\nMarchart\, O. (2007). Post-Foundational Political Thought &ndash\; Political Difference in Nancy\, Lefort\, Badiou and Laclau. Edinburgh University Press. \;
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260710T104500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260710T121500 SUMMARY:The Politics of Heritage UID:20260503T132912Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:30 Aldwych\, London\, United Kingdom\, WC2B 4BG ORGANIZER;CN=Samuel DeCanio;CN=Geoffrey Sayre-McCord;CN=Kori Hensell: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20260710T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20260712T170000 SUMMARY:American Society for Aesthetics Rocky Mountain Division Meeting UID:20260503T132913Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Denver LOCATION:828 Paseo de Peralta\, Santa Fe\, United States\, 87501 DESCRIPTION:The 42nd Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Division of the American Society for Aesthetics will take place at the Drury Plaza Hotel in Santa Fe\, New Mexico\, July 10th&ndash\;12th\, 2026.
Manuel Davenport Keynote Address: \; Cynthia Willett Cynthia Willett is the Samuel Candler Dobb's professor of philosophy at Emory University. Her current book project\, A Musicology of Everyday Life\, is a study of the social dynamic of musical and vibrational atmospheres through New Phenomenology\, Resonance Theory\, and Attunement Theory. This study probes the nuances of tone\, rhythm\, vibration\, timbre for ethical cultures within and across human and non-human social groups. Her ongoing research focuses on three key areas: music/tragedy/blues\; transspecies cosmopolitanism\; and humor/irony. The research is anchored in ancient and contemporary concepts of eros and hubris\; call and response\; affective attunements and dissonances\; symbolic social space and its violations.
Michael Manson Artist Keynote Address: Liz Harris \; Liz Harris is an artist based on the North Oregon coast. She has recorded and performed since 2005 under the names Grouper\, Nivhek\, Raum\, Helen and Mirrorring\; and releases music and art editions on her imprint YELLOWELECTRIC\, as well as kranky records. Harris&rsquo\; project Nivhek has received various commissions and has been presented internationally\, including performances and installations in Bergen\, Murmansk\, Munich\, Krakow and London. Her most recent commission from Portland Institute of Contemporary Art\, ENGINE\, combines field recordings of drag races and train yards with string arrangements. The work began inside a decade-long obsession with engine noise. \;
You can find the Call for Abstracts at \;https://aesthetics-online.org/events/EventDetails.aspx?id=1869644 \;
This issue of \;Polemos \;aims to investigate the fertility of the concept of magic as a key to interpreting our contemporary condition\, starting from the recognition of its fundamental ambivalence. What is the aesthetic and political potential of magical dispositifs\, and what are the dangers of a &ldquo\;return to magic&rdquo\;? Is there such a thing as &ldquo\;good magic&rdquo\; and\, conversely\, &ldquo\;bad magic&rdquo\;? Or is it rather a matter of different ways of deploying its mechanisms and effects? From this perspective\, any serious and well-grounded inquiry into the concept of magic must necessarily be accompanied by a &ldquo\;critique of magic&rdquo\;: not a mere demystification\, but an analysis of the conditions\, implications\, and limits of its use as a philosophical category and as an aesthetic-political tool.
\nArticles (maximum length: 40\,000 characters\, including spaces)\, accompanied by an abstract of 1\,000 characters\, should be sent to \;cfp@rivistapolemos.it \;by July 15\, 2026 (in one of the following formats: .doc\, .docx\, .odt). Kindly submit the article and abstract in a single document suitable for anonymous review (double-blind peer review). Contributions directly addressing the suggested research lines are particularly welcome. Articles concerning related areas will also be taken into consideration. Submissions are accepted in Italian\, English\, French\, German\, and Spanish.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260724T140000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Riga:20260731T170000 SUMMARY:Time Work: Debt\, inheritance\, and intergenerational practice UID:20260503T132915Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Riga LOCATION:Minhauzen Unda\, Ainažu iela 74\, Saulkrasti\, Latvia DESCRIPTION:TIME WORK.
Debt\, inheritance\, and intergenerational practice.
Let&rsquo\;s call it &ldquo\;time work&rdquo\;: Those practices that negotiate the relations between the living and the dead. Time work is not merely conducted by archivists and historians\, but by grave diggers and undertakers\, documentary filmmakers and memoirists\, knowledge bearers\, politicians\, war journalists\, practitioners of living traditions\, speakers of dead languages\, as well as by any and all who keep something &ndash\; a story\, a trinket\, an heirloom\, a song &ndash\; holding onto it to remember. Time work is not easily done without feeling\; It is driven by the weight of mattering\, it is attention called by the fact that now &ndash\; this\, &lsquo\;our&rsquo\; now &ndash\; is in-part composed by the shadows of what and who came before. Time work is haunting work\, it whispers of recurrences (&ldquo\;this happened before&rdquo\;)\, and implicitly describes the present as a thing pushed to the surface of existence by the collective force of innumerable spent lives\, over centuries\, over millennia.
\nIn the summer 2026 Studies in Remoteness symposium\, we explore the ways that time work might destabilize the remoteness of history &ndash\; its absence\, distance\, and neglect. How might we describe the work that transforms time into a weighted force that accumulates\, persists\, and can be carried forward\, often across generations? Through what actions is one accountable to the past? What does it mean to hold or carry an inheritance? In what ways are people indebted to those who came before\, and how might the living &ldquo\;pay the debts&rdquo\; that have accumulated over generations? What kinds of temporalities do different approaches to time work produce\, and what social relations are then enabled or foreclosed? Through these questions\, the symposium reflects on the entanglement of debt and history\, exploring debt as an enduring paradigm that variously informs intergenerational relations\, systems of oppression\, and historical justice.
\nWe particularly invite proposals that engage with voices and worldviews often marginalized or erased in dominant knowledge systems.
\nThat place of bad debt\, the invaluable thing
Economy is one of the technologies that captures time. Timework (or Zeitarbeit) is also a term for wage labour. Since the early 20th century\, Taylorism maximized the efficiency of labouring bodies\, in part\, by transforming work into monotonous\, repeatable tasks. In &ldquo\;Time\, Work-Discipline\, and Industrial Capitalism&rdquo\; (1967)\, E.P. Thompson analysed the industrial imposition of precise\, clock-based time measurements on human labour. In models of industrial labour\, debt accrues around &ldquo\;wasted time&rdquo\;.
Within time-as-economy\, time work can also be rendered into the kind of labour that expedites and standardizes\, and thus administrates of the past as the debts and inheritances of the present. But what does it mean to account for history as countable value? In The Undercommons (2013)\, Stefano Harney and Fred Moten provide a model for thinking about remoteness as an anti-efficient site of refuge within the economic capture of time where the &ldquo\;debtor seeks refuge among other debtors\,&rdquo\; engaging in practices that work in time to accumulate indebtedness without resolution. They write that\, &ldquo\;[t]his refuge\, this place of bad debt\, is what we call the fugitive public&rdquo\;. Harney and Moten draw from a history of debt wielded a tool of oppression to argue that refuge from debt informs black study and other practices of fugitive planning that first emerged among self-liberated slaves\, or maroon communities. And yet\,
\n[t]o creditors it is just a place where something is wrong\, though that something wrong &ndash\; the invaluable thing\, the thing that has no value &ndash\; is desired. Creditors seek to demolish that place\, that project\, in order to save the ones who live there from themselves and their lives.
\nExtractive states\, corporations\, and developers claim that communities are indebted to them for progress delivered and infrastructures that too often devalue precisely what is invaluable to those communities. While the economising of the past as debt informs important reparations processes\, heritage work\, and protections\, remoteness can also point us in another direction &ndash\; following in the footsteps of the fugitive. \;
\nHistorical Remoteness: Marooned and unmoored
At the seaside fishing village of Saulkrasti\, Latvia\, the ruins of the 1960s modernist catering establishment Restaurant Vārava stands marooned amidst the trees in a seaside forest. World War II refugees from Pskov and Leningrad\, who settled around Saulkrasti after Germans had driven them out of their homes\, are shown in photographs digging trenches for the Nazis in that same forest in 1944. An EU-funded project on Baltic military heritage has identified a German WWII bunker in a farmer&rsquo\;s field\, built with timber cut by refugee hands. Excavations flooded the bunker with groundwater and were reversed.
Saulkrasti&rsquo\;s ruins are perhaps not so monumental as Latvia&rsquo\;s famous Karosta Northern Forts\, falling into the sea\, but they speak just as eloquently to histories of loss\, survival\, forced migration\, fascism\, war\, and economic struggle within Europe&rsquo\;s Baltic &ldquo\;peripheries&rdquo\;. Like many communities along the North Sea and Baltic Rim\, Saulkrasti has been historically shaped by movements over water and its beach has since time immemorial provided a thoroughfare for fish\, trade\, language\, culture\, violence\, exchange\, and upheaval.
How can our time work engage with Saulkrasti as a place where time work is already going on? Hosted within the Nordic Summer University\, a mobile institution which holds symposia for interdisciplinary research at different sites throughout the Nordic and Baltic regions\, Studies in Remoteness invites proposals from all fields to our summer 2026 symposium\, and explicitly encourages practice-based and community-inclusive research that takes up the challenge of engaging directly with the site and the seaside\, and thus to thoughts that slip into the water with the maroon to contemplate and critique historical narratives of moorage\, abandonment\, and the uncertainty of being unmoored. What poetic and material threads connect Saulkrasti and Latvian histories to wider emotional and material legacies of remoteness as they flow across time and partake in the patterns of dependency\, exploitation\, and exclusion structured by legal and economic systems? We are particularly interested in work that draws the site into relations with the long and layered histories of the Baltic rim through ruptures and disruptions and in pasts that remain present &ndash\; not as something stable or settled &ndash\; but as partial\, affective\, and unresolved.
DETAILED INFORMATION ON SUMMER SESSION PRACTICALITIES
Place: Minhauzen Unda\, Ainažu iela 74\, Saulkrasti\, Latvia
Dates: 24 July &ndash\; 31 July 2026
The 2026 Summer Session gathers all study circles of the Nordic Summer University.
Participants arrive in the afternoon/evening on 24 July.
Summer session prices include housing and food (full room and board) for the week.
Cost for participants without institutional support (full room and board\, July 24-31 2026):
100 &euro\;: \; \; NSU Scholarship price for full room and board for the week in shared 4-bed rooms
700 &euro\;: \; \; Full room and board\, bed in double room (shared with one other participant)
950 &euro\;: \; \; Full room and board\, single room (not shared)
500 &euro\;: \; \; Camping with access to shared bathrooms with showers + breakfast\, lunch\, dinner\, and
\; \; \; \; \; \; snacks for the week.
Studies in Remoteness is working hard to fund the participation of those with financial need. Participants who need funding support should send in their proposal as early as possible and express this in their applications. Nordic Summer University also offers limited scholarships (by application). Additionally\, there are a number of travel/conference grants we can recommend to participants to apply to independently.
Cost for participants with institutional support (full room and board\, July 24-31 2026):
900&euro\;: \; \; Institutional price for PhDs/any room type
1250&euro\;: \; Institutional price for employed scholars/any room type
Participants with families (full room and board\, July 24-31 2026):
1000 &euro\;: \; \;Full room and board in a double room for 1 adult and 1 child
1200 &euro\;: \; \;Full room and board in a family room for 1 adult and 2 children
1500 &euro\;: \; \;Full room and board in a family room for 2 adults and 1 child
1800 &euro\;: \; \; Full room and board in a family room for 2 adults and 2 children
Attending children aged 4+ are welcome to join the Children&rsquo\;s circle\, with two circle coordinators who plan activities for the kids running the course of the week.
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Read more about Study Circle 1:
Studies in Remoteness is coordinated as a study circle within the Nordic Summer University by dance historian Dr. Lindsey Drury and artist Helena Hildur W\, in cooperation with &ndash\; among others &ndash\; team members Theol. Dr. Shiluinla Jamir\, Essi Nuutinen and Tinka Harvard.
Studies in Remoteness does foundational theoretical\, artistic\, and historical work toward initiating a new field of interdisciplinary research in critical remoteness studies. To unpack the geopolitical\, environmental\, and cultural dimensions of &lsquo\;remoteness&rsquo\; &ndash\; particularly\, in the circumpolar North &ndash\; we will center Indigenous scholarship and critiques of extractive colonialism\, as well as artistic and embodied approaches\, in a series of six symposia across the Baltic rim between 2026-2028.
The project turns its attention to the notion of &ldquo\;a place far away&rdquo\;&ndash\; be it the regional peripheries or cartographic borderlands between nation states\; the residential areas of Indigenous/minoritized communities\; historical testimonies and lacunae\; sub-cultural meeting spots or your neighbour&rsquo\;s kitchen. Theorizing modernity by turning to its so-called outskirts\, the project inquires sensoria of absence\, distance\, and neglect that have blossomed along the frontiers of colonial empires and sedimented among the margins of modern infrastructures of &ldquo\;global connectivity&rdquo\;. With lingering attention\, Studies in Remoteness intends to unsettle conditions of obscuring or exoticising &ndash\; resolutely acknowledging histories\, topographies and epistemologies with an eye to how these might come into &ldquo\;intense proximity&rdquo\;\, as coined by Okwui Enwezor. \;
As a three-year collaborative research project\, Studies in Remoteness brings together a network of scholars\, artists\, and activists to engage in community-based research practices. By establishing a co-creative space for community building and artistic practices &ndash\; open for the sharing of facts\, questions\, concerns and practices &ndash\; we believe that our work will prove enduringly relevant.
Studies in Remoteness Userblog at Freie Universitä\;t Berlin:
https://userblogs.fu-berlin.de/remoteness/
Feminism gives us a vision\, a framework\, and tools to upend systems. One of those systems is how we think of language and the self. Is it possible to say what is true\, when stories are always already framed by the world in which they take place? What role does autofiction play in our own lives\, in the process of resistance\, in the call for that which remains invisible? The poetic attention inherent in autofiction\, in escrevivê\;ncia\, that is inherent in the work\, is created for and by and to address the necessity of the impossible. Autofiction as an act of God\, of the transcendent that manifests itself in the real\, in lived experience\, and as such is aimed at resisting the patriarchy.
\nIn this symposium we aim to bring together people with whom this theme resonates\, and we ask people to share from their own life\, practise\, profession\, in order to create an ongoing conversation as a way to build resilience. We explicitly invite people to embrace the difference they bring in to contribute towards this shared endeavour. \;
\nAutofiction as Resistance as a method
\nDuring this week we aim to work together on exploring the themes that are central to this circle also in the way we participate. We explicitly invite people to share their insights\, artistic practises and theoretic understanding in a way that invites collaborative thinking. For this reason academic presentations are not accepted\, although a presentation can be a part of a larger workshop. Please indicate in your application how much time you would need for your intervention\, and a brief description on how you aim to use the time allotted to your session. First-time experiments are as welcome as tested concepts. \;
\nParticipants without workshops/sharing of their own personal project/ideas are also most welcome to collaborate during the week in the interactive program. \;
\nAbout Nordic Summer University (NSU):
\nNSU is a space for collaboration between disciplines/peoples/ideas. During the Summer Session several study circles\, each hosting their own program\, will come together &ndash\; participants are welcome to join different circles/programmes during the week. NSU is a horizontal organisation\, being present means you are a member and part of the organisation.
\nCosts
\nNSU offers a limited amount of grants and scholarships. If you are interested in receiving one (which means a reduced participation fee of only 100 euro for the whole week)\, please let us know while applying. \;
\nThis includes \;accommodation and all meals for the full week. The price also includes NSU membership\, so it is not necessary to purchase it separately. Those who have already attended a winter symposium and paid the membership will receive a discount code to deduct the membership fee &ndash\; please contact us before you register to receive the discount code. No refunds will be given if participants pay membership twice by mistake\, so please mention in your application that you already attended an NSU event this year\, to receive a discount code.
\nDeadlines
\nPlease send us a short text explaining your aim / topic / idea\, how much time you would need to host the experience\, and what materials you would require (paper/paint/bicycles)\, which we will try to accommodate. \;
\nPlease send us your application by April 5th. \;Especially if you would like to be considered to receive a grant/scholarship\, as decisions on grants/scholarships will be made at the end of April. Deadline to confirm and pay your spot as a grant/scholarship receiver is May 1st. \;
\nOther applicants are accepted on a rolling basis. Final deadline to apply: May 10th. By May 15th you will need to register and pay for the accommodation.
\nApplications and queries can be send to: nicole.nobyeni@nsuweb.org
\nPlease be aware that everyone involved at Nordic Summer University is collaborating on a voluntary basis.
\nAbout the Circle:
\nHow to think/write/be/inter-act without being limited by an already outlined goal/outcome/impact? How to explore what is messy/confused/embodied while accepting that exploration is always also taking place within philosophy/genre/language/life &ndash\; within what is. That is\, our attempt to explore\, to transcend our sites of speech happens in this world and is framed by the situatedness of our lives. Could it be otherwise? This study circle aims to take advantage of the network\, space and openness provided by the Nordic Summer University to raise questions that cannot be answered/grounded/voiced\, for philosophers/writers/feminists and/or/as-well-as those who are other(s/ed/ing). \;
\nThis study circle will explore the liminality of not belonging in a discipline/space/frame/ category/nation. Accepting language as the limit/tool/curse and an unavoidable starting point\, building upon the work of Irigaray/Arendt/Ettinger\, this state of exception of being-with/in/of language is not simple put aside\, but accepted as a reality which is &ldquo\;disturbing\, overwhelming\, and sometimes too close for comfort&rdquo\;. \;
\nThese tensions open up a liminal space &ndash\; how to think/write/be/inter-act within such a space\, while being an/Other\\not-I/(m)\\Other within feminist philosophy? How to write/create/live as a being that is more than the categories available to mark/describe/situate them? How to explore power as a temporary space\, a moment\, political and liminal? How to read and ground ourselves in feminist philosophy while also living/m-othering/PhD-ing? How to even ask/write/question these questions\, without falling prey to the linearity inherent in what/who/why it means to question? \;
\nMore information: \;https://www.nsuweb.org/study-circles/circle-4-an-other-not-i-m-other-in-feminist-philosophy/ \;
ORGANIZER;CN=Nicole Des Bouvrie: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260727T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Athens:20260823T170000 SUMMARY:School of Materialist Research Summer Institute 2026 UID:20260503T132917Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Athens LOCATION:Olympiada Halkidiki (near Stavros\, ancient Stagira)\, Thessaloníki\, Greece\, 57014 DESCRIPTION:&ldquo\;Political&rdquo\; in the contemporary sense\, and as bound by its disciplinary definitions in political science and political philosophy\, assigns societal categories\, forms of law and moralities to the edges or beyond the limits of what is political. Yet again\, these excluded categories are both legislated by the Political within its limits of &ldquo\;discursive legibility\,&rdquo\; in Judith Butler&rsquo\;s parlance\, and relegated to the realms of the pre-political (including anti-political\, non-political). The &ldquo\;beyond political&rdquo\; serves to constitute the political as its Other\, to be subjugated or negated by it\, but also to be kept at bay as the source of elemental revolt\, i.e.\, &ldquo\;prepolitical.&rdquo\; (27 July-31 July 2026)
\n"Realism\, Materialism\, Epistemology: What is Living and What is Dead in Contemporary Thought?\," is the title of a summer school\, part of the SMR Summer Institute in Stagira/Olympiada (Greece)\, scheduled for August 17&ndash\;23\, 2026. It will explore the 21st century provocations and challenges to the dominance of the poststructuralist epistem across the humanities\, social sciences\, political philosophy\, and beyond. \;
\nThe School of Materialist Research is pleased to announce the third edition of its Advanced Design Practices Summer Institute\, Living Design: Ontological Design Redux. The program is aimed at graduate students (Master&rsquo\;s and doctoral) and early-career researchers who wish to expand their creative and critical research on questions related to design\, calling for a fundamental rethinking and redoing of design praxis. The school is taught by internationally renowned faculty in design and the arts from Goldsmiths\, University of London (UK)\, Politecnico di Milano (Italy)\, Arizona State University (USA)\, and Sandberg Instituut (Netherlands).
\n ORGANIZER;CN=Katerina Kolozova;CN=Adam Nocek: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260731T090000 SUMMARY:The Aesthetic Aspects of Metaphor: Philosophical Perspectives on an Interdisciplinary Dialogue UID:20260503T132918Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:CALL FOR PAPERS
\nAESTHETIC ASPECTS OF METAPHOR
\nItinera\, 32 (2026)
\nhttps://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/itinera/cfp
\n\nThis special issue aims to explore the aesthetic aspects of metaphor within contemporary discourse.
\nThe aim is to revive a philosophical perspective capable of integrating the sensory\, emotional and creative dimensions of metaphor\, examining its role in interpretative processes\, concept formation and expressive practices.
\n\nTopics (selection)
\n&bull\; Metaphor and perspective shift
\n&bull\; Metaphor\, intuitive perception and insight
\n&bull\; Embodiment and conceptual metaphors
\n&bull\; Metaphorical creativity and semantic innovation
\n&bull\; Metaphor and symbolisation in the arts
\n&bull\; Visual metaphors: immediacy\, emotional impact\, interpretation
\n&bull\; Metaphor and aesthetic and epistemic emotions in learning
\n\nDeadline for article submission: 31 July 2026
\nLength: 25\,000&ndash\;40\,000 characters
\nLanguages: IT\, EN\, FR\, ES
\nExpected publication date: December 2026
\n\nEditors:
\nAlice Giuliani &mdash\; alice.giuliani@unimore.it
\nFrancesca D&rsquo\;Alessandris &mdash\; francesca.dalessandris@unimore.it
\nMarco Franceschina &mdash\; marco.franceschina@unimi.it
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ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260801T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260801T234500 SUMMARY:Literature and the Body: The Relations Between Being and Writing UID:20260503T132919Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Submissions open: \;June 15\, 2026 &ndash\; August 1\, 2026
\nNesir: Journal of Literary Studies \;welcomes submissions for its October 2026 issue\, which seeks to reconsider how literature translates bodily experience into writing and visibility\, and how the body\, in turn\, discloses and shapes literary meaning.
\nContemporary cultural forces\, which we both shape and endure\, demand a renewed examination of the body through literature and of literature through the body. The loss of physical touch during the pandemic has intensified the body&rsquo\;s alienation from its social and emotional milieus\, while a digital culture governed by speed\, distance\, and surface erodes the possibility of tactile meaning and embodied encounter. Current debates on identity\, gender\, and representation have heightened corporeal visibility\, yet they seldom foreground literature&rsquo\;s power to reinscribe the body or the body&rsquo\;s unique role in shaping literary sense and experience. Meanwhile\, thinkers from Nietzsche and Foucault to Merleau-Ponty and Kearney reaffirm the body as a privileged locus of meaning\, perception\, and interpretation.
\nLiterature&rsquo\;s varied portrayals of the body\, and its own material dimension\, both mirror and challenge the ontologies and cultural norms of their historical moments. In ancient tragedy\, the body serves as a threshold to the divine\; in medieval narratives it is sanctified and purified through suffering\; in Renaissance texts it becomes an ideal of visibility and measurability. In the modern novel the body is frequently rendered as disciplined and gendered\, whereas contemporary narratives present it as displaced\, proliferating\, and fluid\, prominent within posthumanist and transhumanist discussions. We therefore invite essays that not only engage with current debates on corporeality but also trace the historical trajectories through which meanings\, representations\, and theories of the body have been fashioned across the diverse epochs of literary and cultural history.
\nOnly a renewed attention to the body can meaningfully address literature&rsquo\;s most pressing crises\, including the loosening bond between language and world\, the erosion of sensory immediacy\, and the growing disembodiment of reading. This issue therefore welcomes essays that conceive literature as an ontological threshold\, poised between meaning and sensation\, writing and life\, word and world.
\nThis issue accepts research articles and book reviews in Turkish or English. Contributions should be prepared in accordance with Nesir&rsquo\;s submission and citation guidelines and must be submitted through the journal&rsquo\;s online submission system: \;nesirdergisi.com
\nSubmissions may address\, but are not limited to\, the following topics:
\nNesir&rsquo\;s submission and citation guidelines: \;https://nesirdergisi.com/index.php/nesir/about/submissions#authorGuidelines
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\nNesir: Journal of Literary Studies \;is an international\, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to literary theory\, historiography\, and comparative literary studies. The journal is indexed in major international databases including DOAJ\, MLA International Bibliography (EBSCO)\, Linguistic Bibliography Online (Brill)\, TR Dizin\, and EBSCOhost databases. All submissions undergo a double-blind peer review process.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260903T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20260907T170000 SUMMARY:Popular Arts Conference 2026 UID:20260503T132920Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:Atlanta\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Popular Arts Conference (PAC) is an annual academic conference for the studies of the popular arts\, including science/speculative fiction and fantasy literature\, film\, and other media\; comic books and graphic novels\; anime and manga\; tabletop and video gaming\; etc.\, presented to a mixed audience of scholars and fans. The mission of PAC is to promote scholarship on popular culture and to encourage engagement between scholars and fans in order to deepen our understanding of the popular arts. PAC presentations are peer reviewed\, based on scholarly research.
\nPAC talks are presented to a mixed audience of academics and fans\, and take place in conjunction withDragonCon\, a large multi-media\, popular culture convention. Presentations should be prepared with a general audience in mind. Presenters mustregister for DragonConif their paper is accepted in order to present. PAC is an in-person conference.
ORGANIZER;CN=Matthew J. Brown;CN=Johnathan Flowers: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20260930T234500 SUMMARY:Translation—Semiotics—Music UID:20260503T132921Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London DESCRIPTION:Title:
\nTranslation&mdash\;Semiotics&mdash\;Music
\n\nGuest editors:
\nAnna Rędzioch-Korkuz (University of Warsaw)
\nMałgorzata Grajter (The Grazyna and Kiejstut Bacewicz Academy of Music in Lodz)
\n\nJournal:
\nStudia Semiotyczne (Semiotic Studies)
\n\nhttp://studiasemiotyczne.pts.edu.pl/
\n\nDeadline for submissions:
\nthe 30th of September 2026
\n\nDescription
\nStudia Semiotyczne (Semiotic Studies) invites submissions for a special issue of the journal. Papers should be written either in English or in Polish and prepared for blind review.
\n\nThe field of translation and music has been attracting increased attention recently: this is evident in numerous monographs\, research papers\, and conferences focused on the complex relationship between words and sounds (see also Bennett\, 2025: 1). As Susam-Sarajeva (2008: 189-190) has noted\, this relationship appears at best challenging\, since translation scholars are &ldquo\;more comfortable dealing with written texts\,&rdquo\; and consequently\, &ldquo\;end up sliding into a predominantly textual analysis.&rdquo\; Similarly\, Desblache (2019: 58) argues that the two fields\, which are genuinely interested in that relationship &ndash\; namely\, translation studies and musicology &ndash\; remain separate because both are practice-oriented disciplines that primarily focus on either verbal translation or music.
\n\nAgainst this backdrop\, we would like to bring the two fields together through semiotics-based research on musical texts\, believing that this perspective has the potential to create resonance for general translation studies. It has been argued that semiotics is good for translation studies (Stecconi 2007\; Marais 2019\; Kourdis 2023)\, which means &ndash\; at least potentially &ndash\; that there is a good deal of methodological and theoretical capital that can be utilized. Research on translation and music can definitely espouse a movement away from words\, verbal artefacts and textual research towards the understanding of the performative\, enacted\, embedded and embodied nature of meaning making within translation\, i.e. towards a deeper understanding of material processes of cultural practices\, which necessitate moving beyond the verbal fixation and concentrating on more semiotically-informed approaches.
\n\nIn the special issue\, we would like to see how the actual go-between of semiotics bridges the fields of translation studies and musicology. We encourage scholars from across the academy to explore and provide their unique insight within the suggested thematic focus of translation\, music and semiotics. We welcome both conceptual and empirical research. Possible topics include\, but are not limited to the following questions:
\n\n● Can (and if yes\, then how can) semiotics contribute to solving the conceptual confusion within translation studies as exemplified by translating musical texts?
\n\n● How can translation and music capitalize theoretically on various theories of semiotics and vice versa?
\n\n● Can we (and if yes\, then how can we) apply conceptual frameworks developed by various schools\, e.g. the Moscow-Tartu School of Semiotics\, Paris School\, Eco&rsquo\;s interpretative semiotics\, Groupe &mu\;\, Peircean semiotics\, etc. to the study of translating musical texts?
\n\n● What methodologies can we use to research the synergy of semiotic systems in musical texts?
\n\n● How can the concept of &ldquo\;textuality&rdquo\; be rethought when applied to musical compositions as texts to be translated?
\n\n● How can the study of translating musical texts through semiotics help to challenge the traditional hierarchy between linguistic and non-linguistic forms of meaning-making?
\n\n● How can semiotics challenge the literal and the human in translating musical texts?
\n\n● How can semiotic approaches account for the performative\, enacted\, embedded and embodied dimensions of musical translation?
\n\n● How can semiotics bridge the disciplinary gap between musicology and translation studies?
\n\nIn order to submit the paper\, one is kindly asked to submit the manuscript by sending it to:
\nannaredzioch@uw.edu.pl\, malgra@amuz.lodz.pl and studiasemiotyczne@pts.edu.pl
\n\nAll submitted papers will be double-blind peer-reviewed.
ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20261009T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20261010T170000 SUMMARY:2026 Southern Aesthetics Workshop UID:20260503T132922Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/New_York LOCATION:University of South Carolina\, Columbia\, United States DESCRIPTION:The Southern Division of the American Society for Aesthetics is pleased to announce a two-day\, pre-read workshop at the University of South Carolina in Columbia\, SC\, October 9-10\, 2026. Each paper will have two commentators. The program will include a performance and keynote by a local artist.
\nQueries can be sent to SouthernAestheticsWorkshop@gmail.com
ORGANIZER;CN=Angela Sun;CN=Michael Dickson;CN=Kyle Kirby;CN=Jeremy Killian;CN=Zachary Weinstein;CN=Tyler Olsson;CN=Guy Rohrbaugh: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20261113T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:20261115T170000 SUMMARY:Another Sense of Earth at the End of Worlds: Environmental Humanities in the Face of Crises UID:20260503T132923Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:1704 W Mulberry St\, Denton\, United States\, 76201 DESCRIPTION:Another Sense of Earth at the End of Worlds: Environmental Humanities in the Face of Crises
The Fourth Philosophy and Religion Graduate Student Conference \;
at the University of North Texas (UNT) \;
In a time of crises overshadowed by impressions of the precarity and contingency of the plurality of worlds we live in\, we invite interdisciplinary\, critical reflection on the meaning and stakes of our senses of world and ending. While totalizing narratives of crises oscillate between techno-optimistic visions of geoengineering and dystopic pessimism\, this conference seeks to contextualize dominant understandings of endings to envision new conceptions of time\, relations\, and finality beyond the hegemonic imaginaries.
For whom and what do the apocalyptic bells of the end of the world sound? What does it even mean to conceive of &ldquo\;our&rdquo\; world as ending? Who&rsquo\;s included and excluded from this sense of world? What does it mean for traditions in which the end of the world is inevitable\, cyclical\, or has already come to pass? What would this so-called &ldquo\;end of the world&rdquo\; even mean for people who&rsquo\;ve already endured innumerable ends to their ways of life?
Taking up the gauntlet thrown by Thomas Nail in Theory of the Earth\, we ask for submissions that problematize static\, dominant conceptions of world and think with him on what it means\, in the context of crises\, to imagine how &ldquo\;this stable ground is becoming increasingly unstable&mdash\;for some of us more than others.&rdquo\; In this spirit\, the conference seeks to engage with forms of thought that emphasize the radically plural character of sense-making\, ways of knowing\, and temporal existence. We welcome submissions that build upon these critical and marginalized perspectives to challenge assumptions of crisis and delimit what worlds are at stake. Within these broad thematic horizons\, we aim to bring together a diverse set of perspectives into dialogue and reconceptualize our relationship to planet Earth. \;
\n\nWe cordially invite graduate students from all fields and disciplines to submit their research and perspectives on the following themes:
\nIndigenous &\; non-Western conceptions of world-making\, cataclysm\, and/or time
\nFeminist/Queer theories on resistant subjectivities and spaces in the face of precarity
\nGeophilosophical approaches from traditions historically excluded from philosophy (ex. Sikhism\, Buddhism\, Hinduism\, etc.) \;
\nPhilosophies of science and normative theories that utilize a planetary approach \;
\nRelational ontologies\, specifically those with nonhuman and more-than-human beings
\nPhenomenological accounts of temporality\, &ldquo\;world collapse\,&rdquo\; and futurity
\nCritical theories on the &ldquo\;Anthropocene&rdquo\; and the role of capitalism in the ongoing environmental crisis
\nEcocritical perspectives on the role of technology and natural science in organizing our sense of the Earth
\nConference Details
\nThe conference will be held in-person at the University of North Texas\, Denton\, TX\, from November 13th-15th. This conference does not require registration fees. \;\nThe conference will feature Thomas Nail\, a Distinguished Scholar and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Denver\, as the keynote speaker\, whose materialist interventions in conceptions of earth and planet\, particularly in Theory of the Earth\, pose deep and transformational reflections on imaginaries of time\, space\, and world for our context of apocalypse and crisis.\n ORGANIZER: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261119T090000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/Bucharest:20261121T170000 SUMMARY:Phenomenology and Media: Mapping the Structures of Post-Cinematic Experience UID:20260503T132924Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/Bucharest LOCATION:Str. Matei Voievod 75-77\, Bucharest\, Romania\, 021452 DESCRIPTION:In the wake of profound technological and cultural transformations\, cinema no longer names a stable medium but rather a shifting constellation of practices\, dispositifs\, and experiential forms. The proliferation of streaming platforms\, algorithmically curated feeds\, immersive installations\, AI-generated imagery\, VR and AR environments\, conversational agents\, and multi-screen ecologies compels us to rethink the very structures of our lived experience. Under the still-contested but heuristically productive concept of \;&ldquo\;post-cinema\,&rdquo\; recent scholarship in film and media studies has sought to come to grips with this transformed media landscape in ways that are still waiting to be fully appropriated by phenomenological reflection.
\nThe present conference invites contributions that bring phenomenology into sustained dialogue with contemporary media theory in order to interrogate the \;manifold facets of our current \;post-cinematic situation \;and map the experiential\, affective\, embodied\, and critical structures that characterize our current media ecology.
\nBuilding primarily on traditions of film phenomenology associated with \;Vivian Sobchack \;and \;Jean-Pierre Meunier\, and drawing on the philosophical resources of\, among others\, \;Edmund Husserl\, \;Martin Heidegger\, \;Maurice Merleau-Ponty\, and \;Jean-Paul Sartre\, as well as Emmanuel Levinas&rsquo\;s ethics of the Other\, Hermann Schmitz&rsquo\;s New Phenomenology\, Don Ihde&rsquo\;s post-phenomenology of technology\, or Mark Coeckelbergh&rsquo\;s phenomenologically informed ethics of human-robot interaction\, we aim to extend phenomenological inquiry beyond the classical cinematic dispositif toward emerging &ldquo\;families of images&rdquo\;: algorithmic visuals\, deepfakes\, TikTok feeds\, immersive environments\, AI image synthesis\, and hybrid human-machine interfaces.
\nBy bringing together philosophers\, film and media scholars\, as well as artists\, we aim to foster a rigorous interdisciplinary conversation about how phenomenology can illuminate\, and be transformed by\, the evolving media landscape.
ORGANIZER;CN=Christian Ferencz-Flatz;CN=Alexandru Bejinariu;CN=Remus Breazu: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T170000 DTEND;TZID=Europe/London:20261215T170000 SUMMARY:Fiction and Lies: the ASIFF/SIRFF Fourth International Congress UID:20260503T132925Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:Europe/London LOCATION:Edinburgh\, United Kingdom DESCRIPTION:Supported by the British Society of Aesthetics and the Scots Philosophical Association
\nKEYNOTE SPEAKERS
\n--Professor Eileen John (Philosophy\, University of Warwick)
--Professor Pierre Bayard (Literature\, Université\; Paris 8 - Saint-Denis)
From Plato&rsquo\;s indictment of the tragic poets as misrepresenting the truth\, to Sir Philip Sidney&rsquo\;s famous claim in the Defence of Poesy that &lsquo\;the Poet\, he nothing affirms\, and therefore never lieth&rsquo\;\, to current debates about fictionality and factuality\, the relationship between \;fiction \;and \;lies \;has been a focus of scholarly attention. Both \;fiction-makers and liars make things up and misrepresent the truth. But it is traditionally assumed that with \;fiction\, the invention is non-deceptive. As Margaret Macdonald (1954\, 170) put the point\, &lsquo\;The conviction induced by a story is the result of a mutual conspiracy\, freely entered into\, between author and audience. A storyteller does not \;lie\, nor is a normal auditor deceived&rsquo\;. Macdonald proposed that instead\, \;fiction-makers engage in a non-deceptive pretence of assertion\; but other approaches also distinguish between fictionality and deception\, from philosophers who associate \;fiction \;with an invitation to make-believe rather than to believe to narratologists who treat fictionality as a rhetorical mode of communication that overtly signals fabrication. If \;lies \;are assertions aimed at deception\, perhaps \;fictions \;are incapable of \;lying.
Yet a sharp distinction between fictionality and deception confronts numerous challenges. Scholars across disciplines have considered the many ways in which \;fictions \;can affect our beliefs\, for good or ill. Even if \;fictions \;cannot \;lie \;in some technical sense\, they can certainly mislead\, insinuate\, obfuscate and so on. Works of \;fiction \;may be instances of propaganda which misrepresent the facts\; think of Oliver Stone&rsquo\;s film JFK (1991) or Michael Crichton&rsquo\;s \;novel \;State of Fear (2004). And the distinctions between the \;fictional \;and factual are under increasing pressure in the current culture of disinformation and &lsquo\;fake news&rsquo\; &ndash\; a category not so easy to distinguish from &lsquo\;fictional \;news&rsquo\;.
This three-day international conference aims to explore the relationship between \;fiction \;and \;lies \;from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives\, including philosophy\, literary history and theory\, narratology\, film and media studies\, psychology and cognitive science. Proposals may address fiction in general\, or any historical period or cultural tradition. We also encourage studies of fictional works in a variety of media (including video games\, comics\, film\, and television series).
Possible topics include but are not limited to:
\n&bull\;The possibility of lying in/through fiction
\n&bull\;Other modes of deception and dissimulation in fiction (in particular works\, in different media\, etc.)
\n&bull\;Fiction and fictionality as (tools for) propaganda
\n&bull\;The relationship between fiction and fake news
\n&bull\;Differing historical or cultural conceptions of the relationship between fiction and lies
\n&bull\;Representations of deception within fiction (e.g.\, unreliable narrators\, lying protagonists\, forgers)
\n&bull\;Fictions that (seem to) deceive about their own status (e.g.\, mockumentary)\, and more generally\, questions of &lsquo\;framing&rsquo\;
\n\nPlease note: There may be a conference registration fee (discounted for students) depending on the outcome of grant funding applications.
\n\nSubmission guidance
\n&bull\;All submissions should be sent by attachment in Word or pdf to fictionlies2026@gmail.com by 15 December 2025. \;
\n&bull\;Papers: Abstracts should be no longer than 350 words\, in English or French. Bear in mind that sessions scheduled for paper presentations will be 30 minutes (20 minutes presentation\, 10 minutes questions and answers). \;
\n&bull\;Symposia: Proposals\, in English or French\, should be no longer than 500 words and should include a description of the topic/theme\, the names/affiliations of participants and brief abstracts of the papers. Sessions for symposia will be 1.5 hours or 2 hours depending on the schedule and thus should typically have no more than three speakers. \;
\n&bull\;We encourage submissions from\, and symposia including\, members of groups underrepresented in their disciplines\, including women in philosophy. Symposia in philosophy should ensure that the proposal follows the Good Practice Policy of the British Philosophical Association and the Society for Women in Philosophy (see bpa.ac.uk/resources/women-in-philosophy/good-practice). Please also take note of the BPA&rsquo\;s Environment/Travel Guideline Scheme (bpa.ac.uk/policies).
\n&bull\;Funding may be available towards the cost of arranging childcare for speakers who may require it. Please ask for details.
\n&bull\;Participants in the conference will be expected to become members of the Association if they are not already (www.fictionstudies.org).
\nEarly career prize
\nThe ASIFF/SIRFF will offer a prize for the best paper by an early-career scholar (doctoral student or scholar who has received their PhD within the last 3 years)\, to be presented at the conference. The winner will receive a monetary award of &euro\;1\,000 (euros). If you would like to be considered for this award\, please submit your completed conference paper (no more than 3\,500 words/20\,000 characters) by 28 February 2026 to fictionlies2026@gmail.com. The article must be unpublished.
\n \; ORGANIZER;CN=Stacie Friend: METHOD:PUBLISH END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20260501T051228Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:29990101T033000 DTEND;TZID=America/Chicago:29990201T120000 SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Creativity and Improvisation in Thought\, Practice\, and Mind: An Interdisciplinary Conference UID:20260503T132926Z-iCalPlugin-Grails@philevents-web-6b96c54f56-bljdq TZID:America/Chicago LOCATION:6001 Dodge Street\, Omaha\, United States\, 68182 DESCRIPTION:*Please note that this event has officially been postponed. More information will be made available asap in the near future*
\nMany human cognitive capacities and processes may be deployed creatively\, from unique choices made for oneself up through novel cultural shifts. Similarly\, large swaths of our daily lives are taken up with performing spontaneous\, on-the-fly\, and unplanned activities that are\, in a word\, improvised. \; Charting out the nature of both creativity and improvisation\, taken individually or together\, remains an open and pressing issue. In this conference\, we will delve into various philosophical\, theoretical\, empirical\, and interdisciplinary issues that are related to creativity and improvisation. A non-exhaustive list of related questions and themes for this topic include:
\n- What is the relationship between improvisation and creativity?
\n- What is the relationship between creative activity and well-being?
\n- What is the best way to model individual and collective creativity?
\n- Is creativity in the arts the same thing as in other domains\, such as in science or business?
\n- What are the pros and cons of different scientific operationalizations of creativity and improvisation?
\n- Provide a conceptual analysis of creativity and/or improvisation.
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