BSA, Final Call for Papers

Final Call for Papers
The British Society of Aesthetics 50th Anniversary Annual Conference

DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSIONS: APRIL 1, 2010
 
Heythrop College, University of London
17-19 September 2010
 
Please note the change of location from previous years. 
Heythrop College is located in Kensington Square W8, one of the oldest squares in London in one of the loveliest sections of the city.

Invited speakers:
BSA/ASA Wollheim Memorial Lecture: Noel Carroll (CUNY Graduate Center)
Keynote speaker: Jean-Marie Schaeffer (CNRS/EHESS)
William Empson Lecture: Geoffrey Hill, poet and critic. His Collected Critical Writings were published in 2008, and his three most recent volumes of poetry are A Treatise of Civil Power (2007), Selected Poems (2006) and Without Title (2006).

Papers on any topic in philosophical aesthetics should be submitted with a 200 word abstract and formatted for blind review (author's name, etc., on separate cover page). Papers should not exceed 3500 words (or 30 minutes reading time). Abstracts cannot be considered in lieu of papers.
 
In keeping with the 50th Anniversary of the BSA, we welcome papers addressing the theme ‘the next 50 years in aesthetics’. 

There are slots reserved for postgraduate papers (to be marked as such when submitted). Postgraduate papers should not exceed 2500 words (or 25 minutes reading time). Conference fees will be waived for postgraduate students whose papers are accepted. There will also be a prize for the best paper. The winner will receive £100 and a grant for travel to the conference.
 
Submissions should be submitted in Word format by email to Stacie Friend (s.friend@heythrop.ac.uk). 
 
Programme Committee: Emily Brady (Edinburgh), Stacie Friend (Heythrop), Dominic McIver Lopes (UBC), Kathleen Stock (Sussex)
 
Programme Chair: Stacie Friend
 
http://www.british-aesthetics.org/
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Dr Stacie Friend

Senior Lecturer in Philosophy
Convenor of the BA in Philosophy

Heythrop College, University of London