The Age of Danto

s without full papers, papers that are not prepared for blind review and papers that exceed the maximum length will not be considered. You may either submit a paper or be a member of a proposed panel, but not both. Submissions should be sent by email attachment in Word format to with the author’s name, affiliation, status (student or not) and contact details in the body of the email. Please also direct any questions to this address. Deadline: 15 February 2013 Paul Ricoeur: Thinker of the Margins? International Conference Amsterdam, Netherlands 18-20 September 2014 The conference will address topical philosophical, socio-political and religious issues, from a Ricoeurian perspective, but in conversation with other, more ‘radical’ thinkers. The organizing committee welcomes submissions that address any aspects of Ricoeur’s work. Nevertheless, we especially invite proposals on the conference’s theme Ricoeur: Thinker of the Margins. Please submit an abstract of approximately roughly 300-500 words (including the paper’s title, the author’s name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email address. Times New Roman typeface size 12, interspaced 1.5, justified paragraphs). Abstracts and papers may be in English or in French. There will be parallel sessions giving each speaker about 20 minutes to present and 15 minutes for discussion. Please mail to . Deadline for submission: 15 February 2014 Canadian Society for Aesthetics Annual Meeting Ontario, Canada 24-26 May 2014 The 2014 annual meeting of the Canadian Society for Aesthetics will take place in company with meetings of other Canadian associations, including the Canadian Philosophical Association, as part of the 83rd Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences. Submissions on any topic in aesthetics are invited. But special interest is expressed for papers in the following areas: 1) Aesthetics of food and wine (in view of our location in Ontario’s wine district); 2) Artistic performance: Cognitive and aesthetic issues; 3) Assessing borderline and outlier cases in art; 4) The logic of narrative; 3) Ethical issues in any of the arts. In the initial stage of consideration, preference will be given to completed papers of 10-12 standard pages, accompanied by a 150-word abstract and suitable for presentation in fewer than 25 minutes. Abstracts, if submitted alone, will be assessed later and only if vacancies occur in the program. Proposals for panels on special topics or recent publications are also invited, and should include names and affiliations of all participants plus an abstract of the subject matter. Participants selected for inclusion on the program are required to pay CSA membership and conference registration fees. For graduate submissions included on the program, there is the possibility of some funding to help support travel. Submissions must be sent as e-mail attachments (MS Word or .RTF files). Inquiries or submissions in English may be sent to Ira Newman; Philosophy; Mansfield University; Mansfield PA 16933 (USA) . Those in French to: François Chalifour; Département des arts, Cégep de l’Outaouais, Campus Félix-Leclerc, 820 boul. De la Gappe, Gatineau, (Québec) CANADA J8T 7I7 . Deadline: 17 February 2014 British Society of Aesthetics 2014 Essay Prize The British Society of Aesthetics is running an essay prize competition, open to earlycareer researchers in aesthetics. The winning author will receive £1,500 and an opportunity to present the paper at the Society’s annual conference. The winning essay will normally be published in the British Journal of Aesthetics. The amount of the Prize is £1,500. The Prize is intended to foster the development of the field of aesthetics. The competition is open to early career researchers, including postgraduate students, who are within three years of receiving a PhD. Persons in doubt about their qualifications are encouraged to consult the Administrator of the British Society of Aesthetics in advance. Entrants must include with their entry a statement indicating how they qualify. Entry is not limited to members of the BSA nor to residents of the United Kingdom. The essay may be on any topic in aesthetics or the philosophy of art. The essay should be a maximum of 7,500 words (about 25 doublespaced typed pages). The winning author will have the opportunity to present the paper at the 2014 annual conference of the Society. If the author is an enrolled student, they will be automatically eligible for a BSA postgraduate conference subsidy. The winner’s name will be announced in the British Journal of Aesthetics. Submissions should be clearly identified as entries for the BSA Essay Prize and be sent electronically to the Administrator of the BSA, Caroline Auty, at . Entries should be in English, and should not exceed 7,500 words in length (including footnotes and bibliography). Each entry should include an abstract not exceeding 150 words. Entries that are too long or without an abstract will not be considered. Essays should be prepared for blind review and should follow guidelines for submissions to the British Journal of Aesthetics. The file name should be the title of the essay. The covering email should include the name, institution and address of the author. Candidates should supply evidence that they are eligible for the prize. Essays will not be considered for the prize if they are currently under consideration by another journal or competition. No non-winning essay will be considered for publication in the BJA unless it has been separately submitted to that journal. The winning author will have a chance to revise the paper for publication after the annual conference. The deadline: 24 February 2014