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.

Virtual Summer Aesthetics Festival – May – August 2022

NEWS:

The American Society for Aesthetics, the British Society of Aesthetics, and the Aesthetics Research Centre at the University of Kent are pleased to announce the 2022 Virtual Summer Aesthetics Festival. The festival seeks to enable persons interested in aesthetics to share work-in-progress with other such scholars for dialogue and discussion.

For more details including submission eligibility/requirements please read more here.

SELECTED PAST RESEARCH EVENTS

Links to each session can be requested by contacting ARC directors;
m.s.smith@kent.ac.uk | d.declercq-324@kent.ac.uk

7th May 2022
BSA Symposium on Revaluing the Life Model in Art Practice
More information here

10 June 2021
Book Symposium on Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight: A Philosophical Exploration, edited by Hans Maes (University of Kent) and Katrien Schaubroeck (University of Antwerp).
Symposium programme here

12 May 2021
‘The Reality of Aesthetic Injustice.’
Aesthetics Research Seminar with Daisy Dixon (Cambridge University).
Abstract here

23 March 2021
ARC Book Symposium: Dieter Declercq’s Satire, Comedy and Mental Health
More info and recordings here.

10 February 2021
Kent Philosophy Work in Progress Seminar
‘The Paradox of Football’ – Presentation by Murray Smith
More info here

9 February 2021
Aesthetics Research Centre Postgraduate Work in Progress Seminar
Presentations by Claire Anscomb and Dr. David Brown

LIVE-STREAM: Thursday 28 May 2020
Associate Professor Jason Leddington (Bucknell University)
“Savouring the Impossible”
watch recording

28–29 February 2020
British Society for Aesthetics Postgraduate Conference. Beyond Human: Aesthetics of Nature and Technology
Keynotes: Glenn Parsons, Katja Kwastek.
Info here

7–9 February 2020,
British Society for Aesthetics Conference: Art, Aesthetics and the Medical and Health Humanities.
Keynotes: Rita Charon, Paul Crawford, Sheila Lintott, Jenefer Robinson.
Info here

Here you can find video, audio, and photos from past research events.
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2021

• Research Seminar: ‘The Reality of Aesthetic Injustice’ by Daisy Dixon (University of Cambridge)
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  Book Symposium – Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Before Midnight: A Philosophical Exploration, edited by Hans Maes (University of Kent) and Katrien Schaubroeck (University of Antwerp).
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  Book Symposium: Satire, Comedy and Mental Health by Dieter Declercq
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  Kathrine Cuccuru – From The Hypsous to The Bathous: The Problem of the False Sublime in Early Eighteenth-Century England
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  Murray Smith – The Paradox of Football

2020

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  Jason Leddington – Savouring the Impossible
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  Murray Smith – Remain in Light: Philosophical Naturalism, Aesthetic Value and, Cultural Crosstalk
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  James Shelley – What’s the difference between still pictures and motion pictures?
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  Nathan Wildman – A Moral Argument for Video Games

2019

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  Jonathan Friday – The Stillness of Pictures and the Representation of Movement
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  Elisa Caldarola – Exhibitions and Museums: When are They Art?
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  Nils-Hennes Stear – Is Aesthetic Immoralism Obviously True?
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  Reading group “Black Reconstruction in Aesthetics” – Paul C Taylor

2018

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  Julian Hanich – Why Film Studies Needs More Fine-Grained Emotion Terms 
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  Catharine Abell – The Norms of Realism and the Case of Non-Traditional Casting
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  Dan Cavedon-Taylor – The Causal Theory of Photography and Anti-Empiricist Evaluations