The Aesthetics Research Centre coordinates, enables and promotes research in philosophy of art and aesthetics at the University of Kent. ARC brings together faculty and postgraduate students from four different departments and three different schools and is characterised by a strong interdisciplinary ethos.
RESEARCH EVENTS AUTUMN 2018
Wednesday 3rd October 2018
5pm in Grimond Lecture Theatre 3, University of Kent
Dr Catharine Abell (University of Manchester)
The Norms of Realism and the Case of Non-Traditional Casting
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Monday 15th October 2018
5pm in the Lupino Screening Room, Grimond Building, University of Kent
Dr Julian Hanich (University of Groningen)
Why Film Studies Needs More Fine-Grained Emotion Terms…and Why Phenomenology Might Help
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Wednesday 24th October 2018
5pm in GLT3
Professor Semir Zeki (University College London)
The Neurobiology of Beauty
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Monday 12th November 2018
5pm in Darwin Lecture Theatre 2
Professor Sonia Sedivy (Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto)
Aesthetic Properties, History and Perception
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Wednesday 5th December 2015
5pm, venue tbc
Professor Martin Hammer (University of Kent)
“The Silent Kingdom of Paint”: Walter Sickert, Edward Hopper, and Virginia Woolf
