Call for Papers

20th Annual Conference, Dalhousie University and King’s College, Halifax

29-31 May, 2003

The CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR AESTHETICS invites papers and/or panel proposals for its annual conference, to be held at Dalhousie University and King’s College (Halifax) from May 29-31, 2003 at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences Federation of Canada. Papers on any aspect of aesthetics are welcome, particularly those related to the following themes:

(1) Representations of Justice; (2) History of Aesthetics; (3) Aesthetic Experience and Knowledge; (4) Definitions of Beauty; (5) Continental Aesthetics; (6) Myth, Fiction and Literature; (7) Philosophy of Architecture; (8) Cultural Theory and Aesthetics (9) Memorial Art – 11 September and beyond.

Presentations of papers (approximately 2500 words) should not exceed 20 minutes. Individuals submitting proposals for papers which will not be responded to must send a one-page abstract; proposals for papers which will be followed by a response must consist of complete papers. Those interested in organizing a panel (of 3 or 4 participants) on a special topic or recent publication should send a detailed proposal, including the names and affiliations of all participants and a general abstract of the topic. Bilingual panels are welcome. Papers and panel proposals may be submitted in hard copy or via e-mail (as MS Word or .RTF attachments).

Prior to submitting, participants must be fully paid-up members of the Canadian Society of Aesthetics. Papers and proposals must reach the program coordinators no later than February 14, 2003. All submissions and inquiries must be sent to the following program coordinator:

Anglophone Coordinator

Adrienne Dengerink Chaplin
Senior Member in Philosophical Aesthetics
Institute for Christian Studies
229 College Street
Toronto, ON
CANADA M5T 1R4
                                                       

achaplin@icscanada.edu

 

A PAPER AND A CALL FOR PAPERS

Eddy Zemach has volunteered his paper "Reference and Fiction"(version PDF) - (version Word), published here on this website for an experiment in electronic publishing:  papers are invited for a special issue of AE in response to or in association with Eddy Zemach's paper on the topics: "Reference and Fiction", "Reader Intentionality in Fiction", "The Aesthetics of Fictional Ontology". To give an integrity to the issue, all papers should allude, at least briefly, to Zemach's paper, which will be published again in the special issue.

Please send submissions before 1 March 2003 by attachment to the editor for this special issue of AE:

Victor Yelverton Haines,Ph.D.
Dawson College, Montreal
vyhvyh@cam.org

Please include an abstract (150 words) and a brief biobibliography (150 words), both to be published with the article. Your paper may be long up to 15,000 words, provided it is not long simply because you don't have time to make it shorter.


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