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2022 in Tallinn
The ESA Conference 2022 is to be held on 28–30 June 2022 at Estonian Academy of Arts in Tallinn. The keynote speakers are Emmanuel Alloa, Jacques Rancière, and Virve Sarapik.
Call for Abstracts 2022
The European Society for Aesthetics invites you to submit an abstract of a paper for presentation at the ESA Conference. You can submit panel proposal. The deadline is January 15, 2022.
Essay Prize Competition
Submit your paper to the ESA Essay Prize for PhD students and early career researchers. The prize was launched in 2017 in memory Fabian Dorsch, a co-founder and the first secretary of the European Society for Aesthetics.
Newsletter 2/2022
You can download a new issue of the ESA newsletter, published on November 21, 2021. Enjoy!
Become a member of the ESA
After you register, your request will be sent to the site administrator for approval.You will then receive an email with further instructions. Membership in the ESA is free.
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ESA Conference 2020/2021 – online

The twelfth ESA conference took place on June 21 – 23, 2021 online and it closely followed the format of a real event. Please, download the full programme (pdf) and the book of abstracts (docx and pdf).

Keynote Speakers:

  • Professor David Davies (McGill)
  • Professor Bence Nanay (Antwerp)
  • Professor Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin)

VIDEOS

David Davies (McGill): Explananda for an Ontology of Multiple Artworks

Bence Nanay (Antwerp): Aesthetic Experience as Achievement

Erika Fischer-Lichte (Freie Universität Berlin): Transformative Aesthetics

Jeremy Page (Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize in 2020)

Nemesio García-Carril Puy (Fabian Dorsch ESA Essay Prize in 2021)

REGISTRATION (for those who do not present their papers at the conference)

To attend the conference, one needs to send an e-mail to the ESA Treasurer Adam Andrzejewski (a.andrzejewski@uw.edu.pl) expressing his/her interest in participating in the event and (preferably) including a receipt certifying paying the conference fee. The conference fee is 10 euro and the deadline for registration is June 17. 

The fee has to be paid to the ESA bank account: 

Account number: 91-281330-5 

IBAN: CH6509000000912813305 

SWIFT/BIC: POFICHBEXXX The Society’s address is: European Society for Aesthetics, c/o University of Fribourg, Department of Philosophy, Avenue de l’Europe 20, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland.

All papers presented at the conference are eligible for publication in the Proceedings of the ESA (details available at https://www.eurosa.org/proceedings/ )

All questions about submissions should be emailed to secretary@eurosa.org 

The European Society for Aesthetics was founded in 2008 at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland), where it has been based ever since

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